The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-01-15
The Judges Musings
"THE INSIDE OF THE CUP.
w INSTON CHURCHILL's lat lonly
wv est work, "The Inside of the rect

: only his personal view of how sue
2 a reconstruction can be approaches
r Evidently he has feeling that hi
J view is not likely to receive wide az
ceptance; and this telling is just
fled. His attempt to restore dog
matically what has been destroye
critically seems to give some farci
cal results. The least satisfactor
part is Holders restatement of tn
old dogmas. Few people are ikel,
to be soothed by being told that "a
tenement may be pronounced atone
ment"; that the virgin birth was in
vented to accommodate the minds Of
those who were accustomed to like
conventions in the pagan mythol-
ogies; that the incarnation merely
means that there is a spark of divin-
ity in all men; or that the ascension
only signifies that Christ's work is
to continue. These CLOSES will not
satisfy either the believer or the un-
believer. The first class will say that
the doctrines were never so under
stood in the beginning nor during
nineteen hundred years of history;
and the second class will say that they
decline to build up new conceptions
with the old bricks of supernatural
ism, even though the bricks are chip
ped into an unrecognizable shape
and labeled by the old names.
This last view has been expressed
by the leading nationalist journal in
England, "The Literary Guide", in the
following language:
"Mr. Churchilps main position is
hat of the theist; and we find no in
iication that he realizes, or even sus-
'ects, the difficulties of that position.
from internal evidence, we should
rather that he has never studied the
looks which give the modern scien-
ific view of the universe. Nor has
e examined the history of religion
o as to give Christianity its proper
lace as an incident in lengthy and
omplex evolution. He has immersed
imself among the trimmers and the
biologists. His idea is that the
hurch will regain its power by an
Christianity in terms of
lodern thought. Deeper reflection
nd wider survey of modern know
'dge may lead him to appreciate the
nportant fact that the more the
hurch has struggled against that
npossible Interpretation, the more it
as lost its grip upon the conscience
nd intelligence of the people. Mr..
In word, has gone only
alf way to salvation. If we urge
m EDWARDS, it is to some extent be-
use his book is written with undeni-
lie power and has a wide circulation.
he will retire for a year, with the
OBLIGATIONS of the nationalist Press
ssociation for company, he would
rtalnly give US sequel which would
a little less like forlorn attempt
the salvage of the Church..
From the orthodox side Mr. Church.
has likewise thrown himself open
some disconcerting thrusts. 1t is
inted out, for instance, that the au-
Or has been unfair in his selection
types; that the church of st. Johns
a very unfavorable example not
!rranted by the law of average:
1T orthodox Christianity does not
never did, sanction the point of
w or the methods of men like Eldon
RI; that it does not encourage or
I'd to produce the church's attitude
society as depicted in the story;
It the interpretations are not less
'pted for effective philanthropy and
lal service than those Mr.. Holder
lily adopts; and it is further point
out that Unitarianism, which is
far removed from Mr.. Holders
Il attitude, has never demonstrate
itself to be any more efficient in =
lal regeneration than the older
ms of faith.
hese criticisms, coming from the
extremes of opinion, were to lie
ected; and yet, after all has been
!, the residuum of truth r,,m?ins
Mr.. Churchhill has w.itten the
It thought-provoking novel of the
r. The books chief valve lies in
fact that it is in form and style
will command wider circle of
lers than the books on the sub
that do not wear the Disguise of
on. The undercurren. of romance
the story form of narrative have
been utilized with good effect.