Life — January 12, 1893 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- to be an authority in ecclesiastical matters, and speaks as if with the expectation of being heard. “Mhile there's Life there's Hope.” VOL, XXI. JANUARY 12, 1893. 28 West Twesty-Tirp § No. 524. t, New York. Published every Thursday. $5.00.a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Caion, $1.04 a year, extra. Single copies, 10 cents. Back numbers can be had by applying at this office. Single copies of Vols. 1, and II. out of print. Vol. ‘IL, bound, $30.00; Vol. Ths bound $15.00. Back numbers, one year old, 25 cents per copy. Vols. IIT. to XVi., inclu- sive, bound or inflat numbers, at $10.00 per volume. Subscribers wishing address changed will greatly facilitate matters by sending old address as well as new. Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and dtrected envelope. T! New York Presbytery, which has been sitting on the case of Professor Briggs, has refused to sit upon the Pro- fessor. Dr. Briggs was accused of teach- ing that the reason and the church were sources of divine authority, that there are mistakes in the Bible, that Moses did not write the Pentateuch, that Isaiah didn’t write all of Isaiah, and that sanctification is progressive after death. The Presbytery dis- missed all the charges, thereby, as we understand it, recording its con- viction that a man may believe all the things Dr. Briggs was accused of teaching and still be a tolerably serviceable Presbyterian. In congratulating Dr. Briggs on his discharge, LiFE does not hesitate to assure him that it can affiliate just as cordially with the Presbyterian Church with him left in it, as it could if he had been cast out and condemned to tar and feathers. and public exposure on the steps of Dr. Hall's church. doe UR neighbor, the Su, who hates a to see the machine beaten either in politics or religion, is doubtless a good deal broken up over Dr. Briggs’s escape. Its feelings, however, are no excuse for the ignorance which, in the report of the trial in its issue of December 30th, caused it to describe the Rev. W. M. Smith as the young pastor who was on the college foot- ball team when he was at Princeton. Foot-ball was not invented when Dr. Smith was in college, and he laid the foundation of future usefulness in the pitcher's box on the Yet in the face of such blunders the Sz claims H od. FN diamond. . T is amusing to hear the backers of Mr. Murphy enumerate among his qualifications for the senatorship the cir- cumstance that he is a college- graduate. One almost expects to hear them add—" But it was only a small college and it was a good while ago.” Young men who have commencement orations to prepare on “ The College Man in Politics” will do well to make use of Mr. Murphy's case, and point out that no college education that he ever got has been in any way detrimental to his progress in practical politics. Mr. Cleveland once made a speech at Ann Arbor in which he extolled political aspirations in college men. Neverthele: he is not in favor of Mr. Murphy, and has even had the in- discretion to say so. Mr. Cleveland thrives on indiscretions and this one is not likely to hurt him. Whether it will hurt Mr. Murphy or not is more doubtful, for there is still a fair prospect that Mr. Hill will have a Me-Too colleague. Every- thing considered, it looks as though Mr. Cleveland was serv- ing notice that he will have enemies in the Senate. . . . poss “Te people at Three Rivers, ty wre) Canada, demanded the recall of « Col. Nicholas Smith, late U. S. Consul there, be- cause he had reported the town to be.in bad sanitary condition. Col. Smith de- clares that the Three Riv- ers people only saw part of his despatch, and that if they had known of the tributes he had paid to their morality and domes- tic virtues they would have wanted him to stay. All the same Col. Smith has now gone to Liege, but his experience has been wasted if he has not learned that this is a gen- eration in which good morals are considered highly desirable, but good sewerage is sable.“ You may say what you like of my grand- says the modern, “but if you say my sewers don’t work you must prove it or retract. That is an allegation no man can be quiet under.’ comicbooks.com