Publication date
8/1/05
Volume
26
Number
15
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ZION'S 
WATCH 
TOWER 
ALLltGHltNY, 
PA. 
and 
denominations 
have 
so 
earnestly 
prayed, 
yesterday 
gave 
the 
following 
statement 
to 
The 
North 
American: 
About 
a 
year 
ago 
a 
number 
of 
gentlemen 
representing 
dif­ 
ferent 
churches, 
officially 
connected 
with 
movements 
for 
Chris­ 
tian 
union 
and 
eo-operation, 
met 
in 
the 
City 
of 
New 
York 
and 
decided 
to 
undertake 
a 
movement 
whose 
purpose 
should 
be 
the 
bringing 
together 
of 
regularly 
appointed 
representatives 
of 
the 
American 
Christian 
and 
Protestant 
churches, 
with 
a 
view 
to 
considering 
their 
common 
interests 
in 
connection 
with 
the 
moral 
and 
religious 
welfare 
of 
the 
American 
nation. 
A 
committee 
was 
constituted, 
with 
the 
Rev. 
Dr. 
W. 
H. 
Rob­ 
erts, 
of 
Philadelphia, 
as 
chairman 
and 
the 
Rev. 
Dr. 
E. 
P. 
San­ 
ford 
as 
secretary. 
Dr. 
Sanford 
has 
been 
for 
years 
the 
secretary 
of 
a 
voluntary 
organization, 
with 
headquarters 
in 
New 
York 
city, 
known 
as 
the 
National 
Federation 
of 
Christian 
Workers, 
and 
Dr. 
Rob­ 
erts 
is 
the 
stated 
clerk 
of 
the 
Presbyterian 
General 
Assembly 
and 
American 
secretary 
of 
the 
Pan-Presbyterian 
Alliance. 
THE 
NEWER 
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS 
"Our 
forced 
draft 
pace 
relieves 
us 
of 
the 
super-abundanC'e 
of 
energy 
that 
demands 
an 
explosive 
outlet. 
Spasms 
of 
violent 
feeling 
go 
with 
a 
sluggish 
habit 
of 
life, 
and 
are 
as 
out 
of 
place 
today 
as 
are 
the 
hard-drinking 
habits 
of 
our 
Saxon 
ancestors. 
Weare 
too 
busy 
to 
give 
rein 
to 
spite. 
The 
stresses 
and 
lures 
of 
civilized 
life 
leave 
slender 
margin 
for 
the 
gratification 
of 
animosities. 
In 
quiet, 
side-tracked 
communities 
there 
is 
still 
much 
old-fashioned 
hatred, 
leading 
to 
personal 
clash; 
but 
else­ 
where 
the 
cherishing 
of 
malice 
is 
felt 
to 
be 
an 
expensive 
lux­ 
ury. 
Moreover, 
brutality, 
lust, 
and 
cruelty 
are 
on 
the 
wane. 
In 
this 
country, 
it 
is 
true, 
statistics 
show 
a 
widening 
torrent 
of 
bloody 
crime, 
but 
the 
cause 
is 
the 
weakening 
of 
law 
rather 
than 
an 
excess 
of 
bile. 
Other 
civilized 
peoples 
seem 
to 
be 
turning 
away 
from 
the 
sins 
of 
passion. 
"The 
man 
who 
picks 
pockets 
with 
a 
railway 
rebate, 
murders 
with 
an 
adulterant 
instead 
of 
a 
bludgeon, 
burglarizes 
with 
a 
'rake-off' 
instead 
of 
a 
jimmy, 
cheats 
with 
a 
company 
prospectus 
instead 
of 
a 
deck 
of 
cards, 
or 
scuttles 
his 
town 
instead 
of 
his 
ship, 
does 
not 
feel 
on 
his 
brow 
the 
brand 
of 
a 
malefactor. 
The 
shedder 
of 
blood, 
the 
oppressor 
of 
the 
widow 
and 
the 
father­ 
less, 
long 
ago 
became 
odious; 
but 
latter-day 
treacheries 
fly 
no 
skull-and-crossbones 
flag 
at 
the 
masthead 
. 
. 
. 
. 
. 
"How 
decent 
are 
the 
pale 
slayings 
of 
the 
quack, 
the 
adul­ 
terator, 
and 
the 
purveyor 
of 
polluted 
water, 
compared 
with 
the 
red 
slayings 
of 
the 
vulgar 
bandit 
or 
assassin 
I 
Even 
if 
there 
is 
blood-letting, 
the 
long-range, 
tentacular 
nature 
of 
modern 
homicide 
eliminates 
all 
personal 
collision. 
'What 
an 
abyss 
between 
the 
knife-play 
of 
brawlers 
and 
the 
law-defying 
neglect 
to 
fence 
dangerous 
machinery 
in 
a 
mill, 
or 
to 
furnish 
cars 
with 
safety 
couplers 
I 
. 
. 
. 
. 
"The 
stealings 
and 
slayings 
that 
lurk 
in 
the 
complexities 
of 
our 
social 
relations 
are 
not 
deeds 
of 
the 
dive, 
the 
dark 
alley, 
the 
lonely 
road, 
and 
the 
midnight 
hour. 
They 
require 
no 
nocturnal 
prowling 
with 
muftled 
step 
and 
bated 
breath, 
no 
weapon 
or 
offer 
of 
violence. 
Unlike 
the 
old-time 
villain, 
the 
latter-day 
malefactor 
does 
not 
wear 
a 
slouch 
hat 
and 
a 
comfor­ 
ter, 
breathe 
forth 
curses 
and 
an 
odor 
of 
gin, 
go 
about 
his 
ne­ 
farious 
work 
with 
clenched 
teeth 
and 
evil 
scowl. 
In 
the 
su­ 
preme 
moment 
his 
lineaments 
are 
not 
distorted 
with 
rage, 
or 
lust, 
or 
malevolence. 
One 
misses 
the 
traditional 
setting, 
the 
time-honored 
insignia 
of 
turpitude. 
Fagin 
and 
Bill 
Sykes 
and 
Simon 
Legree 
are 
vanishing 
types 
. 
. 
. 
. 
. 
The 
modern 
high­ 
power 
dealer 
of 
woe 
wears 
immaculate 
linen, 
carries 
a 
silk 
hat 
and 
a 
lighted 
cigar, 
sins 
with 
a 
calm 
countenance 
and 
a 
serene 
soul, 
leagues 
or 
months 
from 
the 
evil 
he 
causes. 
Upon 
his 
gentlemanly 
presence 
the 
eventual 
blood 
and 
tears 
do 
not 
ob­ 
trude 
themselves." 
"The 
same 
qualities 
that 
lull 
the 
conscience 
of 
the 
sinner 
blind 
the 
eyes 
of 
the 
onlookers. 
People 
are 
sentimental, 
and 
bastinado 
wrongdoing 
not 
according 
to 
its 
harmfulness, 
but 
according 
to 
the 
infamy 
that 
has 
come 
to 
attach 
to 
it. 
Undis­ 
cerning, 
they 
chastise 
with 
scorpions 
the 
old 
authentic 
sins, 
but 
spare 
the 
new. 
They 
do 
not 
see 
that 
boodling 
is 
treason, 
that 
blackmail 
is 
piracy, 
that 
embezzlement 
is 
theft, 
that 
specu­ 
lation 
is 
gambling, 
that 
tax-dodging 
is 
larceny, 
that 
railroad 
discrimination 
is 
treachery, 
that 
the 
factory 
labor 
of 
children 
is 
slavery, 
that 
deleterious 
adulteration 
is 
murder. 
It 
has 
not 
come 
home 
to 
them 
that 
the 
fraudulent 
promoter 
'devours 
widows' 
houses.' 
that 
the 
monopolist 
'grinds 
the 
faces 
of 
the 
poor,' 
that 
mercenary 
editors 
and 
spellbinders 
'put 
bitter 
for 
sweet 
and 
sweet 
for 
bitter.' 
The 
cloven 
hoof 
hides 
in 
patent 
leather; 
and 
today, 
as 
in 
Hosea's 
time, 
the 
people 
'are 
destroyed 
for 
lack 
of 
knowledge.' 
The 
mob 
lynches 
the 
redhanded 
slayer, 
when 
it 
ought 
to 
keep 
a 
gallows 
Haman-high 
for 
the 
venal 
mine 
inspector, 
the 
seller 
of 
infected 
milk, 
the 
maintainer 
of 
a 
fire-trap 
theater. 
The 
child-beater 
is 
forever 
blasted 
in 
repu- 
tation, 
but 
the 
exploiter 
of 
infant 
toil 
or 
the 
concocter 
of 
a 
soothing 
syrup 
for 
the 
drugging 
of 
babies, 
stands 
a 
pillar 
of 
society. 
The 
petty 
shoplifter 
is 
more 
abhorred 
than 
the 
stealer 
of 
a 
franchise, 
and 
the 
wife-whipper 
is 
outcasted 
long 
before 
the 
man 
who 
sends 
his 
over-insured 
ship 
to 
founder 
with 
its 
crew."-Atlantio 
Monthly. 
LUTHBR'S 
SUPPRESSED 
UTTERANOE 
A 
Council 
of 
the 
Lateran, 
held 
A.D. 
1513, 
under 
Pope 
Leo 
X., 
pronounced 
the 
immortality 
of 
the 
soul 
to 
be 
an 
orthodox 
article 
of 
Christian 
faith. 
The 
following 
is 
a 
translation 
of 
the 
rule 
which 
was 
adopted 
by 
this 
council, 
as 
given 
by 
Caranza, 
p. 
412, 
1681. 
"Whereas, 
some 
have 
dared 
to 
assert 
concerning 
the 
nature 
of 
the 
reasonable 
soul, 
that 
it 
is 
mortal; 
we, 
with 
the 
appro­ 
bation 
of 
the 
Sacred 
Counoil, 
do 
condemn 
and 
reprobate 
all 
those 
who 
assert 
that 
the 
intellectual 
soul 
is 
mortal, 
seeing 
that 
the 
soul 
is 
not 
only 
truly 
and 
of 
itself 
and 
essentially 
the 
form 
of 
the 
human 
body, 
as 
is 
expressed 
in 
the 
canon 
of 
Pope 
Clem­ 
ent 
the 
Fifth, 
but 
likewise 
immortal,· 
wnd 
we 
strictly 
inhibit 
all 
from 
dogmatizing 
otherwise, 
and 
we 
decree 
that 
all 
who 
ad­ 
here 
to 
the 
like 
erroneous 
assertions 
shall 
be 
shunned 
and 
pun­ 
ished 
as 
heretics." 
Martin 
Luther 
visited 
Rome 
during 
the 
reign 
of 
Lec 
X., 
and 
the 
profligacy, 
corruption 
and 
licentiousuess 
that 
he 
wit­ 
nessed 
at 
the 
Papal 
court 
destroyed 
forever 
his 
former 
reverence 
for 
the 
sacred 
authority 
of 
Popes 
and 
Councils. 
For 
the 
decree 
of 
the 
Lateran 
Council 
he 
seems 
to 
have 
entertained 
a 
special 
contempt. 
In 
his 
Defense, 
prop. 
27, 
"Adversus 
Ezecrabilem 
Antichrist 
Bullam," 
(Luther's 
Works, 
Vol. 
2, 
folio, 
107, 
Wit­ 
tenberg 
1562) 
published 
in 
1520, 
he 
said: 
"I 
permit 
the 
Pope 
to 
make 
articles 
of 
faith 
for 
himself 
and 
his 
faithful-such 
as 
'thE' 
soul 
is 
the 
substantial 
form 
of 
the 
human 
body,' 
'that 
the 
soul 
is 
immortal,' 
with 
alI 
those 
monstrous 
opinions 
to 
be 
found 
in 
the 
Roman 
dunghill 
of 
de 
cretals." 
SPIRITISM' 
S 
ONWARD 
MAROH 
The 
day 
is 
near 
when 
the 
world 
will 
accept 
the 
belief 
that 
~pirits 
importantly 
participate 
in 
terrestrial 
life 
and 
exercise 
mfluences 
on 
our 
minds 
and 
acts. 
I 
am 
giving 
the 
study 
of 
spirit 
possession 
or 
obsession 
of 
insane 
persons 
most 
profound 
attention.-,Bishop 
SarrlllltCl 
Fallows. 
I 
often 
see 
the 
spirits 
who 
cause 
insanity 
in 
my 
patients 
and 
at 
times 
I 
even 
hear 
their 
voices. 
Persons 
who 
are 
spoken 
of 
as 
helplessly 
insane 
are 
frequently 
simply 
lost 
under 
the 
over­ 
whelming 
control 
of 
a 
spirit 
or, 
at 
times, 
a 
crowd 
of 
spirits. 
We 
frequently 
find 
by 
post-mortem 
examinations 
that 
no 
physi­ 
cal 
disorder 
exists 
in 
the 
brain 
or 
nervous 
systems 
of 
such 
in­ 
sane. 
A 
large 
percentage 
of 
the 
insane 
are 
persons 
who 
have 
attempted 
to 
become 
spiritualistic 
mediums 
and 
who, 
by 
lay­ 
ing 
themselves 
open 
to 
spirit 
influence, 
have 
found 
the 
wrong 
or 
an 
evil 
spirit 
taking 
advantage 
of 
their 
susceptibility 
for 
the 
purpose 
of 
giving 
vent 
to 
spiritual 
desires 
and 
ideas 
through 
an 
earthly 
medium.-Dr. 
Edgar 
M. 
Webster, 
member 
of 
the 
Mental 
Section 
of 
the 
American 
Medical 
Association. 
THE 
NEW 
OHRISTIANITY 
The 
Rev. 
Dr. 
Francis 
L. 
Patton, 
President 
Emeritus 
of 
Princeton 
University, 
addressing 
the 
students 
of 
Washington 
University 
Medical 
Department, 
said:- 
"Some 
of 
the 
symptoms 
of 
the 
new 
Christianity 
are 
found 
in 
the 
studied 
avoidance 
of 
doctrinal 
statement, 
in 
the 
dispo­ 
sition 
to 
deal 
very 
prominently 
with 
sociological 
topics 
and 
to 
treat 
even 
doctrinal 
subjects 
exclusively 
from 
their 
ethical 
side. 
"Underlying 
the 
movement 
is 
a 
new 
conception 
as 
to 
what 
Christianity 
is. 
"The 
old 
view 
of 
Christianity, 
of 
course, 
is 
that 
it 
is 
a 
piece 
of 
supernatural 
information 
respecting 
the 
way 
of 
salvation 
through 
a 
crucified 
Redeemer. 
"The 
new 
Christianity 
is 
the 
direct 
denial 
of 
this. 
Accord­ 
ing 
to 
one 
form 
of 
that 
denial, 
Christianity 
is 
simply 
a 
stage 
in 
the 
great 
progress 
of 
development. 
This 
form 
of 
denial 
bas 
been, 
in 
a 
measure, 
superseded 
by 
another, 
which 
10l)ks 
upon 
Christianity 
as 
the 
revelation 
of 
God 
in 
Christ 
and 
claims 
at­ 
tention 
as 
being 
a 
return 
to 
the 
historic 
facts 
of 
the 
gospels. 
It 
is 
a 
return, 
however, 
which 
is 
distinctively 
associated 
with 
the 
repudiation 
of 
metaphysics 
in 
theology 
and 
an 
uncertain 
attitude 
with 
reference 
to 
the 
real 
deity 
of 
Jesus 
Christ. 
"The 
logical 
result 
of 
either 
form 
of 
the 
new 
Christianity 
is 
the 
elimination 
of 
doctrinal 
statement, 
and 
the 
placing 
of 
the 
emphasis 
altogether 
upon 
the 
ethical 
teachings 
of 
Jesus. 
It 
must, 
however, 
be 
constantly 
remembered 
that 
Christianity 
must 
be 
more 
than 
ethical 
in 
order 
to 
be 
even 
ethical. 
If 
we 
are 
to 
uphold 
the 
ethics 
of 
Jesus 
we 
must 
uphold 
the 
authority 
of 
Jesus, 
and 
to 
uphold 
the 
authority 
of 
Jesus, 
we 
must 
main­ 
tain 
the 
supernaturalism 
that 
enters 
into 
his 
life. 
"The 
tendency 
to 
reject 
the 
teachings 
of 
Paul 
is 
one 
that 
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(227-249) and denominations have so earnestly prayed, yesterday gave the following statement to The North American: About @ year ago a number of gentlemen representing different churches, officially connected with movements for Christian union and co-operation, met in the City of New York and decided to undertake a movement whose purpose should be the bringing together of regularly appointed representatives of the American Christian and Protestant churches, with a view to considering their common interests in connection with the moral and religious welfare of the American nation. A committee was constituted, with the Rev. Dr. W. H. Roberts, of Philadelphia, as chairman and the Rev. Dr. E. P. Sanford as secretary. Dr. Sanford has been for years the secretary of a voluntary organization, with headquarters in New York city, known as the National Federation of Christian Workers, and Dr. Roberts is the stated clerk of the Presbyterian General Assembly and American secretary of the Pan-Presbyterian Alliance. THE NEWER UNRIGHTEOUSNESS “Our forced draft pace relieves us of the super-abundance of energy that demands an explosive outlet. Spasms of violent feeling go with a sluggish habit of life, and are as out of place today as are the hard-drinking habits of our Saxon ancestors. We are too busy to give rein to spite. The stresses and lures of civilized life leave slender margin for the gratification of animosities. In quiet, side-tracked communities there is still much old-fashioned hatred, leading to personal clash; but elsewhere the cherishing of malice is felt to be an expensive luxury. Moreover, brutality, lust, and cruelty are on the wane. In this country, it is true, statistics show a widening torrent of bloody crime, but the cause is the weakening of law rather than an excess of bile. Other civilized peoples seem to be turning away from the sins of passion. “The man who picks pockets with a railway rebate, murders with an adulterant instead of a bludgeon, burglarizes with a ‘rake-off’ instead of a jimmy, cheats with a company prospectus instead of a deck of cards, or seuttles his town instead of his ship, does not feel on his brow the brand of a malefactor. The shedder of blood, the oppressor of the widow and the fatherless, Jong ago became odious; but latter-day treacheries fly no skull-and-crossbones flag at the masthead..... “How decent are the pale slayings of the quack, the adulterator, and the purveyor of polluted water, compared with the red slayings of the vulgar bandit or assassin! Even if there is blood-letting, the long-range, tentacular nature of modern homicide eliminates all personal collision. What an abyss between the knife-play of brawlers and the law-defying neglect to fence dangerous machinery in a mill, or to furnish ears with safety couplers! .... “The stealings and slayings that lurk in the complexities of our social relations are not deeds of the dive, the dark alley, the lonely road, and the midnight hour. They require no nocturnal prowling with muffled step and bated breath, no weapon or offer of violence. Unlike the old-time villain, the latter-day malefactor does not wear a slouch hat and a comforter, breathe forth curses and an odor of gin, go about his nefarious work with clenched teeth and evil scowl. In the supreme moment his lineaments are not distorted with rage, or lust, or malevolence. One misses the traditional setting, the time-honored insignia of turpitude. Fagin and Bill Sykes and Simon Legree are vanishing types... . . The modern highpower dealer of woe wears immaculate linen, carrics a silk hat and a lighted cigar, sins with a calm countenance and a serene soul, leagues or months from the evil he causes. Upon his gentlemanly presence the eventual blood and tears do not obtrude themselves.” “The same qualities that lull the conscience of the sinner blind the eyes of the onlookers. People are sentimental, and bastinado wrongdoing not according to its harmfulness, but according to the infamy that has come to attach to it. Undiscerning, they chastise with scorpions the old authentic sina, but spare the new. They do not see that boodling is treason, that blackmail is piracy, that embezzlement is theft, that speculation is gambling, that tax-dodging is larceny, that railroad discrimination is treachery, that the factory labor of children is slavery, that deleterious adulteration is murder. It has not come home to them that the fraudulent promoter ‘devours widows’ houses.’ that the monopolist ‘grinds the faces of the poor,’ that mercenary editors and spellbinders ‘put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.’ The cloven hoof hides in patent leather; and today, as in Hosea’s time, the people ‘are destroyed for lack of knowledge.’ The mob lynches the redhanded slayer, when it ought to keep a gallows Haman-high for the venal mine inspector, the seller of infected milk, the maintainer of a fire-trap theater. The child-beater is forever blasted in repu ZION’S WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, Pa. tation, but the exploiter of infant toil or the concocter of a soothing syrup for the drugging of babies, stands a pillar of society. The petty shoplifter is more abhorred than the stealer of a franchise, and the wife-whipper is outcasted long before the man who sends his over-insured ship to founder with its crew.”—Atlantic Monthly, LUTHER’S SUPPRESSED UTTERANCE A Council of the Lateran, held A.D. 1513, under Pope Leo X., pronounced the immortality of the soul to be an orthodox article of Christian faith. The following is a translation of the rule which was adopted by this council, as given by Caranza, p. 412, 1681. “Whereas, some have dared to assert concerning the nature of the reasonable soul, that it is mortal; we, with the approbation of the Sacred Council, do condemn and reprobate all those who assert that the intellectual soul ig mortal, seeing that the soul is not only truly and of itself and essentially the form of the human body, as is expressed in the canon of Pope Clement the Fifth, but likewise immortal; and we strictly inhibit all from dogmatizing otherwise, and we decree that all who adhere to the like erroneous assertions shall be shunned and punished as heretics.” Martin Luther visited Rome during the reign of Leo X., and the profligacy, corruption and licentiousuess that he witnessed at the Papal court destroyed forever his former reverence for the sacred authority of Popes and Councils, For the decree of the Lateran Council he seems to have entertained a special contempt. In his Defense, prop. 27, “Adversus Execrabilem Antichrist Bullam,” (Luther’s Works, Vol. 2, folio, 107, Wittenberg 1562) published in 1520, he said: “I permit the Pope to make articles of faith for himself and his faithful—such as ‘the soul is the substantial form of the human body,’ ‘that the soul is immortal,’ with all those monstrous opinions to be found in the Roman dunghill of de cretals,” SPIRITISM’S ONWARD MARCH _ The day is near when the world will accept the belief that spirits importantly participate in terrestrial life and exercise influences on our minds and acts. I am giving the study of spirit possession or obsession of insane persons most profound attention.—. Bishop Samuel Fallows. I often see the spirits who cause insanity in my patients and at times I even hear their voices. Persons who are spoken of a8 helplessly insane are frequently simply lost under the overwhelming contro] of a spirit or, at times, a crowd of spirits. We frequently find by post-mortem examinations that no physical disorder exists in the brain or nervous systems of such insane. A large percentage of the insane are persons who have attempted to become spiritualistic mediums and who, by laying themselves open to spirit influence, have found the wrong or an evil spirit taking advantage of their susceptibility for the purpose of giving vent to spiritual desires and ideas through an earthly medium.—Dr, Edgar M. Webster, member of the Mental Section of the American Medical Association. THE NEW CHRISTIANITY The Rev. Dr. Francis L. Patton, President Emeritus of Princeton University, addressing the students of Washington University Medical Department, said:— “Some of the symptoms of the new Christianity are found in the studied avoidance of doctrinal statement, in the disposition to deal very prominently with sociological topics and to treat even doctrinal subjects exclusively from their ethical side. “Underlying the movement is a new conception as to what Christianity is. “The old view of Christianity, of course, is that it is a piece of supernatural information respecting the way of salvation through a crucified Redeemer. “The new Christianity is the direct denial of this. According to one form of that denial, Christianity is simply a stage in the great progress of development. This form of denial has been, in a measure, superseded by another, which looks upon Christianity as the revelation of God in Christ and claims attention as being a return to the historic facts of the gospels. It is a return, however, which is distinctively associated with the repudiation of metaphysics in theology and an uncertain attitude with reference to the real deity of Jesus Christ. “The logical result of either form of the new Christianity is the elimination of doctrinal statement, and the placing of the emphasis altogether upon the ethical teachings of Jesus. It must, however, be constantly remembered that Christianity must be more than ethical in order to be even ethical. If we are to uphold the ethics of Jesus we must uphold the authority of Jesus, and to uphold the authority of Jesus, we must maintain the supernaturalism that enters into his life. “The tendency to reject the teachings of Paul is one that [3602]

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