The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-01
FRON O7EER PENS
BIBLE STILL UNsHAKEN

Following up an eastern professors
declaration that the Genesis story of
Adam and Eve is a myth, a Chicago
rabbit puts the Noah's ark story in the
| same category. Similar declarations
have been made regarding the stories
of Jonah and the great fish, Joshua
and the sun and the various Biblical
miracles, and even the book of Job
has been pronounced work of fiction.
There Is nothing new, therefore. in the
branding of a Bible story as myth.
legend, or an imposture; from time
to time in the past such declarations
have been made. and it is entirely
probable that they will be made from
time to time in the future. Yet, not
withstanding such pronouncements by
scoffers and men processing to be in
structors and scientists, faith in the
Bible remains mistaken, so far as the
great bulk of mankind is concerned.
When the averaging thinking man
sees a miracle in every blade of grass,
every leaf and every flower, he un-
hesitatingly accepts as true the stories
of miracles as recorded in the Scrip
lures. Paines and Ingersolls, atheists,
agnostics and scoffers, come and go,
for a time attracting attention by their
attacks on what is considered sacred,
and then passing into the oblivion of
forgetfulness. They go, and the place
that once knew them know them no
more forever, but the Bible remains as
the light of the world. Higher criti-
cism hurls it's darts against accepted
truths, but the darts fall in shattered
fragments. The humble faith, like that
of a child, continues to prevail, and 1t
is bound to prevail until time is
merged into eternity. Mankind wants
to believe in these Bible stories, and
will believe in them in spite of all the
shouts of myth" and in spite of all
the higher criticisms. - Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
ABANDONING BRITISH ISLANDS.
Some of the outposts of Britain's
"far-flung'' empire are in danger of be-
ing abandoned to the sea fowl which
were their only population when first
discovered. St Helena, which for ages
was a sort of halfway house in the
days of the British East India COM
pany, when sailing vessels rounded the
Cape, and which afterwards was the
prison of Napoleon, and later of Cronje
and his Beers, is no longer of sufficient
Importance to maintain a garrison.
The lovely island with its beautiful
climate now contains but a handful Of
inhabitants, and the removal of the |
garrison means that they, too, will
probably emigrate.
Another post doomed to the same
fate is Tristan da Cun1a, the nearest
inhabited neighbor of St Helena. A
garrison was stationed there in 1916 for |
fear France might use it as a place |
from which to send expeditions for
Napoleon's rescue. Three of the gar
rison remained, and from these and
shipwrecked sailors. are descended the |
present inhabitants of less than 100 !
They have considerable live stock and |
their orchards prosper, but rats destroy !
the grain. The government proposes |
to send the inhabitants to Cape Colony |
but they object. The British warships |
have ceased their annual visits to St |
Helena and Tristan da Cunha, and the |
South Atlantic whalers go there but |
seldom, but even a rock in midocean is |
a home to some one, and these island |
ers cannot be blamed for loving it,
Chicago Tribune. |