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on the back by the tobacco men and lauded by all the cigarette smokers 'and cud chewers of the country. Rev. C. H. Dutton of Troy, N. Y., gets his sermon in the Albany Telegram and then in the Tobacco Record because he argued that the anti-tobacco reform wave should be killed by the churches and laughed out of court. Tragedy—Yes, Comedy! A great scientist once said, “What a tragedy it is to see a perfectly beautiful scientific theory knocked out by a single hard fact!” Yet Darwinism has been struck squarely on the nose by a hundred hard facts that have never been over come, and a lot of teachers and preach ers refuse to let it die. It takes a little time for some of these fool theories to breathe their last, but Darwinism will go in due time like a hundred other such guesses of the past. Bryan Charged with Believing Bible Dr. W. J. Holland, an ex-Presbyterian preacher, now with Carnegie Museum, has made the proposal that William J. Bryan should be arraigned before an ecclesiastical court and charged with denying the power of Almighty God. He states that no man with any brains could believe that God formed man’s body from clay and then breathed into him the breath of life. Mr. Bryan, therefore, should be tried on the charge of believ ing the Bible and thus belittling God. Oh, for some Mark Twain or Josh Billings to review the wise utterances of these wise gentlemen. Coving Memories of Tom Paine Newspaper item: “ The memory of Thomas Paine, author of ‘The Age of Reason,’ was honored today in exer-
A New Orleans paper advances a most welcome suggestion: Why not have a “No Observance of Anything Week?” This would be most agreeable to many preachers, giving them a chance to get in a Gospel sermon or two. Spiritual Ides One of our friends, in a personal letter makes the following observation: “Those who have not spiritual eyes find much in the Bible which they must spiritualize, which often results in spiritual lies." Songs of Victory A Boston paper, reporting the North ern Baptist Convention and the victory of the rationalists over the fundamental ists, tells how a company of the rational ist pastors got together and sang a new version of an old song, “Massee’s in the cold, cold grave,” Not too fast! Massee may have a resurrection. Anyway, it may be significant that the-leader of the rationalists in the convention was a man named “Wolf-kin.” (Matt. 7:15). John B. Mott Said It. The Christian (?) Register, which is being boomed by many of the liberalists at the present time, is the organ of the Unitarian Church. Its sentiments accord perfectly with papers occasionally sent us by free-thinkers. This Unitarian in fidel sheet prints recommendations from well-known (supposedly) evangelical men. Here is one: “The Register is one of the three best religious publications in the world.”—Signed “John R. Mott, President International Y.M.C.A., New York.” Very Popular Preacher When a preacher says a word in favor of the filthy weed he is sure to be patted
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