The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-04-26
Yours truly,
II. e. RIDENHOUR,
Chief of Fire Department.
"What the Preachers And Bishops in
the Church Say About the Bible"

"What the Preachers And Bishops in
the Church Say About the Bible"
The tendency of good Christian peo-
pie to lie for the glory of God, and
sometimes manufacture whole stories,
may be learned from the following
from Bishop Heliodorns: "A false
hood is a good thing when it aids the
speaker and does no injury to the
hearers" Our Christian writer's
strengthen our faith in the record they
have handed us, in the following man
|ner:
Bishop Marsh says: 1T is a cer-
tain fact, that several readings of our
common printed text are mere altera-
|tions made by Origen, whose author
|ity was so great in the Christian
church, that emendations which he
proposed, though, as he himself ack-
nowledged, they were supported bv
the evidence of no manuscript, were
very generally received" And Origen
himself. speaking of the gospels, says;
There are things contained therein.
which, taken in their literal sense,
are mere falsities and lies. HON. 6,
in Isaiah, fol- 107, D.
Gregory Nazianzen says, "A little
jargon is all that is necessary to i'm
pose on the people. They less they
comprehend, the more they admire"
Not only has the Bible and its history
passed through a great many hands,
and thus been subject to the mistakes
of transcribers and translators, but it
ihas been in bad hands. The following
testimonies from eminent Christians
Twill let the reader somewhat into the
light as to how far those who have
handed us the stories we are expected
to believe can be trusted: Ignatius
| CA. d. 107) says Now the yirginity
lof Mary, and he who was born of her,
was kept in secret from the prince
of the world, as was also the death
Iof our Lord three Of the mysteries
most spoken of throughout the world
lyet done in secret by God" # this
historical fact, stated by an apostolic
father. can be believed, it is doubtful
whether Mary was a virgin, or any OF
1.-THE miracles of esus were ever
wrought
Eusebius heads the thirty-first chap
tier of his Evangelical Preparation
with the following query: How faI
may it be proper to use falsehood as
medicine, and for the benefit o.
those who require to be deceived u
another place he takes occasion tt
land himself thus: 81 have related
/, whatever might rebound to the glory
and I have suppressed all that coult
t tend to the disgrace, of our religion.
; Mosheim (Vol. !, P. 12O) says, The
j authors who have treated of the limo
: Icence and sanctity of the primitive
t Christians. have fallen into the erro
. of supposing them to have been un
/ spotted models of piety and virtue, AM
4 gross error indeed it is, as tn
t strongest testimonies too evidentl.
t prove"
: On p. 1913. Vol. l., he says, In tn
3 fourth century it was an almost uni
j yersally adopted maxim. that it wa
f an act of virtue to deceive and lie
t when. by such means, the interests 0
s the church might be promoted.
/. DR.. Whitley says, Papias an
{ Iraeneus have handed down the az
$ tions of the apostles and their d.
i ciples from paltry r1mors and dubiou
f reports, and as having scandalousl
e deluded the world with fables and !.
X ling narrations DE Script, Int
S preted, P. 7o.
e st. Hermas exclaims, % Lord,
e never spoke true word in my lie
but | have always lived in dissimul
. tion. and affirmed lie for truth to a
d linen. and no man contradicted me
ri Daille, on the use of the father
n saws. Neither ought We to wond'
e. that even those of honest, innocer
he primitive times made use OF those d