The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-07-18

Having now spoken thus briefly
If the ten great religions, among
wb,ch are the Catholic or Universal
and ktnnlc race faiths, It only re-
MAINS to very briefly refer to some OF
the more prominent TRIBAL religions
nose OF the Canaanites, Phoenicians,
,yr,ans, ETC., were ldolatrous, deDased
and cruel. Baal worship, which was
so common among them, seems to be
corrupted ottshoot OF the Persian
t,re-worsnlp, as tire always played SO
large a part IN it. fire on hign noun
tau-tops, such as Hermon IN Syria,
and the terriDle Molech worship, In
wn,cn devoted ones must pass the or
deal OF walking through names, and
IN which sweet infants were offered
in the red-not arms OF the great, hid
eous monster, were a part OF Its Wor-
snip. M y
lean Indians are, as rule, very SIM
Die. and almost all recognize su-
preme goa, spiritual deity. SUCH
nouler human qualities as the req
man mas are never found among those
RACES WAl(h aAS ASD9S~o AA ANSA We
ship, or VINO have COMPOUNDED moral
dIsunction OF the sexes.
Inc religion OF most OF the jewellers
on the Island groups OF the great
oceans is generally very low in the
scale. AS have before intimated,
those who are tarthest away from up
land central western ASA, believed to
be the starting "lace OF the human
race-farthest away in distance. or in
the time It must have taken to &c,
where they now are--are the most
deDased, and their religion very I'm
like that OF the One supreme Spir-
itual God. The religions OF the races
T OF Africa, outside OF Egypt, are most
ly tetish-worship, the worship, bru-
tlshly and superstitiously, OF some ma.
ter,al thing, inanimate, or living, mar
or animal. How / nity the poor Afri
can, who has been hunted almost a:
wild animal tor slavery tor many
many centuries. No wonder he is de
based and ignorant and sunerstitious
In the pictures on the walls OF thu
very oldest Egyptian tombs the Afri
can is depicted exactly as he now
looks, with the task-master standing
over him with the uplifted lash, show
ing that at time as remote as Noah
by Usher's chronology, he was hell
in bondage. No wonder he did no
wish a religion which bore any re
semblance to that of white men.
The only other people who had re
ligions that needed to be special.
mentioned were the ancient Mexicans
When the Spaniards reached tina
land they found the Aztecs were wor
Slippers of cruel god, with mos
unpronounceable name, to whom mul
titudes of human sacrifices were OF
tered But everywhere the Spaniard
found the sacred symbol of the Chris
tian cross, and some religious rite
Of worship similar to those of tn
Roman Catholic church. 1t was foun
that all of the resemblance were rem
nants of the religious worship of tn
Ioltecs, who had been conquered
What to make of it the Spaniards di
not know, and eraveiy concluded tha
it was the work of the devil, who ha
thus deliberately attempted to deceiv
the souls Of men. But the Toltec
had left distinct tradition that Ger
turtles before good men came to thei
shore in boats made of skins, whic
had white wings, meaning sails, an
had taught them these things, whic
they had followed many years. A
tention has recently been called
the fact that story in manuscriI
is found in many European librarie
which has had eo extensive circulate
in the past as to have been write
in Latin, French, Romance, Iris
Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish ar
Portuguese, which shows that at OF
time it must have made considerab
stir in the learned world. which WI
then the religious world also.
This story professed to be the a
count Of an Irish missionary, who,
the fervid are of Irish missions, abo
A. D. $50, before the Irish chur,
had become Roman Catholic, h,
sailed away to the west, found Ian