Life — January 3, 1924 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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JANUARY 8, 1924 While is Life re's Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISH Cuartes Dana Gtasox, P $98 Madison Avenue, N English Offices, Rolls House Protesta about what beliefs essential is pleas Parks’ defiance of dry Bishops of — the Ep lately met in Texas copal Church whe and of the proposal to y a clergyman there for deficiency e of the aviction about th doctrine of the Virgin Birth The yman, Mr, Heaton, is accepted as «© impor cler: ative of the more lib 1 good represen! eral party among the clergy of th Episcopal Church, and the leaders of that party announce to the Bishops that in trying Mr. Heaton for heresy they will be tryin pout five hundred other clergymen, including the Bishop of Massachusetts and doubtless other Bishops not enumerated. Some clergy- men think the story of the Virgin Birth is true to fact; others do not, but that is not what Dr. Parks discusses What he thinks about it himself he Joes not disclose, but he says that the Bishops who met in Texas had no power to declare that the Virgin Birth is 3 Joctrine of the Episcopal Church, and he is ready to fight them for going beyond their powers and pro n essenti posing to prosecute a minister whom they have no right to touch. We detail in a de that is needed now at every. turn Half-baked people, urged by that half id. It is a good that is splen se of liberty of op knowledge which is so dangerous a thing, crowd in nowadays to prescribe rules of thought and conduct to their brethren. It is in the churches as it is in politics and everything else. — One hears that in one of the Northwestern gt are forbidden to send their children to states, Oregon or Washi mts ING COMPANY Le Koy Mutter, Sec'y and Trea w York Jon, E. ( Breams private schools. In Kansas folks are forbidden to sell cigarettes. In New York City an effort is on to revise school histories in the interest of Irish d to the disadvantage of the any large group nowadays t it wa English, ar with an idea s to put over f. an and ctices to incorporate it in ana ment of the Constitution. his colleagues propose that legislatures shall settle wh shall teach colleges and) schools Somehow the Western people, very good people in the m: perhaps the best in the country, have lost sense the value of human freedom. They scem to want to put chains on the mind and make rules as to what pe le shall think, as well as what they shall drink. Any fight is timely pany of Bishops in Texas say to a ainst that spi lf a com. shall believe in the Virgin Birth, or at least say you do, or clergyman, “Y you are fired.” and if four or five hundred clergymen in J standing Bishops who met in Texas You are exceeding your powers. You shall not lay a finger on that man that is a nice fight ND remember, the truth or the un- truth of the doctrine of the Virgin Birth has nothing to do with t That will take care of itself so as the text of the Bible is left un- changed except as accepted scholars may correct translations. The Bible is portant. Bishops are not—at least not very. Neither are the Modernists They come; they go; and others suc- ceed them. Nothing should happen to for the next generation, with such new knowledge of make it less convenient spiritual things as may come it, from forming its own conclusions about Bible stories, and chucking most of — the novelties of this generation out of the w if so dispose in the Rible is not going to diminish, but to increase; not, however, by compulsion, but by increase of understanding. Dr ‘arks, valiant and righteous defender of the about-to-be-oppressed, doubts that the axe-head fl that Balaam’s ass talked back at him But quite likely the best intelligence of the next generation, in the light of accept both ted for Elisha, or fuller knowledge, v stories. Pe be lieve as much as is so. They only be- ple nowadays don't be lieve what they know enough to under- stand. That's all one should expect of them. MASSACHUSETTS man seems to be master of Foreign Affairs for this country, but which of them is he? Is he Calvin, or is he Cabot Mr. Coolidge wants a world court Mr. Lodge endorses his desire in prin- it the Senate unless conditions that seem ciple, but points out that it can’t pass impossible are joined to it. That is an old story, isn't it? To accept in principle has come synonym for refusal Mr. Lodge is perplexing. Why is it that he has been given power over us? Why is it that he is able under the Constitution to block repeatedly the ity of the American people and their governmental servants? Is he a wise master who knows better wishes of the majc than we do, and practices to keep vs out of mischief? Or is he such a minister as Townshend was to George Third, who serves a purpose he does not know and is the tool of a greater intelligence than his own or ours? Townshend's and, quite unknown to him, was to accomplish the lependence of the American colonies. In doing so doubt- less he served destiny. But what is Lodge's errand? What is he destined to accomplish by keeping us i Europe? Something imp doubt; but something probably that he does not in the least inten: or foresee. E. S. Martin, comicbooks.com