Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-02-07
Justice Faville Delivers
Speech on Need of Spirit
of Universal Broth
erhOOd.
TALKED ON BIBLE
Urges Practice of Religious
Principles in Daily
Life.

Practical applications of the princi..
pies of brotherly love and fair dealing
were urged as remedies for social and
Industrial evils Of the day by Justice
+. +. Faville Of the Iowa supreme
court, speaker at the Methodist church
right services Thursday night.
Judge Faville traced the religious
History of the Bible, starting with the
days when the book was written on
papyrus, slab of stone, or cylinders Of
clay. This book is easily the great
est in the world" said he. I'm its pages
cne finds legends, philosophy, history,
law and religion, yet its wondrous pages
were INSCRIBED with a language which
is now not spoken in its original form.
1t has come down to us from men who
writing that we might some day have
this great book. We can only trace the
writings back to The tenth century, al
though one fragment of the original
work was found to date back to the
third century after Christ. Yet is it
written with wonderful accuracy and
fidelity to fact. Few changes have
been made in the book in translating it.
In the age Of ignorance along about
ton into Latin. In $50, Augustus
brought the Christian teachings to
England after the Romans had left the
tight little island and it was over run
with Jews, Angles and others. Onr
ancestors of whom we proudly boast
were at this time worshipping Thor
and Wooden from whose names we, de-
rived Thursday and Wednesday.
When Augustus and his band OF mis-
sicnaries brought the religion there,
the people were taught by the church
rather than directly by the Bible.
Bcde. the Monk, made translation of
the book about the time that the
Danes made their conquest in 1O6G.
This was time of turmoil when feu-
dalism was reigning menace. The
larons held their estates under the
king and treated their tenants like
chattcls. About this time King Henry
established a court and trial by jury
and the battle Of Runymede was
fought, nearly cOntemporaneOus with
the war between England and France.
4. this time the knight was the prin-
cipal figure in warfare and we see him
leading the crusaders to Jerusalem
where the streets ran knee deep in
human blood, and yet they said it was
done in the name of the Prince OF
Peace. However. the sturdy churl with
his cross-bow supplanted the knight
and we see the lower classes rising
against the expressions of caste and
see the feudal system tottering on its
feet. Serfs cried out against low
wages and bad working conditions and
from that hour we have men question
ing the right Of others to shape their
dcstinics and grind away their lives"
Further Rise Of People.
A further description of the growth
OF class independence and the move for
freedom of the working classes was
given by Judge Faville in telling OF
Watt Tylers struggle for the better
mcnt of the peasantry who began to
ask, when Adam delved and Eve
span, who was then the gentleman?'
This had in it the flavor of socialism.
At this time young English clergy
man named Wycliffe took sides against
the pope in court and with band OF
priests travelled through villages
preaching the doctrine Of justice and
reaching far beyond ecclesiastics.
spreading the doctrine of the right of
the people which has become the fOun
dation of the English people in their
struggle for progress. William Tindal
then tried to translate the Bible into
English for the people and was accused
OF hercsy. He was charged with max
ing the Bible accessible to the common
people and those found reading it
were forced to forfeit their homes and
cattle. He was chOked to death. on the
theory that u moral principle can be
destroyed by destroying its sponsor.
Forty years later they disinterred his
h,,nn- h,,rpnl nd thrnvU fhn
ashes in the river but his doctrines had
already spread across seas. He had
distributed $1,000 Bibles through Eng
land. These were hand made, as the
Gutenberg printing press had not yet
been discovered. Constantinople was
captured at this time and the Greeks