Life, 1909-10-28 · page 12 of 36
Life — October 28, 1909 — page 12: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two distinct sections: **"Business Men Protest"** discusses Dr. John Fox of the American Bible Society leading a protest against the Presbyterian Church admitting three young men to ministry whose Biblical interpretation reflects "higher criticism" (scholarly analysis of scripture rather than literal interpretation). The article satirizes this as an overreaction—suggesting the Bible's influence won't be harmed by theological modernism. **"General Grant and the Canteen"** features an illustration captioned "There's old Spookleigh coming home from a haunt" showing a ghostly figure, accompanying text about General Frederick Grant's advocacy for army canteens serving alcohol, contrasting with temperance movements. The cartoon satirizes Grant's position through supernatural imagery, though the specific joke's intent remains somewhat unclear from the visible text.
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580 Business Men Protest R. JOHN FOX, secretary of the American Bible Society, leads in wanting a protest made to the Presbyterian Synod (which meets at Johnstown, Pa., on October 19) against the recent admission by the New York Presbytery to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of three young men whose belief in certain things in the Bible had been affected by the “higher criticism.’’ Dr. Shearer, secretary of the American Tract Society, is his chief abettor in the protest. A good many other ministers have signed it It is 10 smile. Will the Bible lose influence and its market be impaired, and will some of the tracts become obsolete, if the New York Presbytery is too indulgent to modern thought? The protest seems a little too much like agitation of vested interests, General Grant and the Canteen NERAL FREDERICK GRANT has come out strong for total abstinence. He was quoted the other day as saying that nobody could drink in ation. If he really said that he was mistaken. Alcohol may not be safe for him; it was not safe for his father. There are a great many people who are tempera- mentally unfit to dally with it at all. But that hundreds of Ghost of Convirial ntleman ; (T'S SUIMPLY GREAT BEIN’ ABLE T’GRT IN ’THOUT A LACH KEY thousands of people in this country do drink it in moderation is matter of common observation Complaint was made to the War Department because in his zeal for abstinence General Grant lately took part in full uniform in a temperance parade in Chicago. The De- partment replied that it had no fault to find with him even if he did. It will be seen that he is unusually fervent aga rum And yet, though an abstainer and a conspicuous inculcator of abstinence, he is in favor of the army canteen, because he has seen how it works and what has happened in the army since it was closed. He would have no soldiers drink intoxi cants at all, But since they will drink, he would rather have them drink in the canteen, which he calls “a protected circle into which no vice or degradation can enter.”” Probably General Grant does not like to have our army have the highest hospital record of any army in the civilized world. He can connect cause and effect. That is what the W. C. T. U. ladies have not the mental power to do. HERE are two kinds of kisses—those which constitute con- tracts and those which are merely contacts “TUPRE’S OLD SPOOKLEIGH COMING HOME FROM A HAUNT. “Mercy! WHAT A START HE GAVE ME! FOR A MOMENT I OSSIBLY the world would be better off if we all had to THOUGHT HIM A WUMAN,’? pay as we entered. comicbooks.com