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BLUE GRASS BLADE I
THE RETREAT
OF ORTHODOX
BY JOSEPHINE K HENRY
Another retreat of orthodoxy has
been made In a sermon preached b
Rev J Klnsey Smith at the Fourth
Avenue Presbyterian Church Ioul
vllle Ky on March 21
Rev1 Kinsey Smiths subject was
Jonah The subject Is not a new
one The Bible gentleman Jonah and
the Bible character the whale whom
he was most Intimately associated
with have been stars on the theoloj
cal stage for centuries rivaled only by
Adam and the talking snake who la I
the foundation stone of theology Jo
nah was an Indispensable and able as
slstant In perfecting the scheme oC
salvation for If Jonah had not re
mained In the whales belly three day
and then been thrown up on dry lam
how could It be proven that Christ lay
dead In the grave three days accon
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lug to the Bible Christ lay In the grave
and then
1two nights and one day
J came up from the grave alive and
with strength to leave the sin curse
earth and ascend to his Father In
Heaven How can any credulous
M
r mind fall to see that each of these
k miracles proves the other It has al
ways seemed strange to me that the
Inspired writer In giving the hlstor
i of Jonah did not plainly state that
Jonah being swallowed by a whale
and turning against the whales stom
ach came to earth again was a typ
of a crucified Savlor of the race win
should be put to death by Gods chosen
people sleep three days In the bowel
of the earth and then come to earth
again If this had been done It might
Ii not have added tothe prominence am
t immortal fame of Jonah but it might
L have resulted in a general acceptance
F of Christ without the devices design
and pleadings of orthodoxy for 200
yearsNo matter how this fish story Is
disposed of Jonah Is a gentleman that
orthodoxy cant keep down any mon
I ban the whale could The LouIsville
y rimes said that Dr Smiths sermon
on Jonah was Interesting Why not
Any human being who had passed
I through such experience as Jonah Is
A
I tinteresting both In or out of a ser
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IL 7mob
7r mobDr
Vi Dr Smith said that the Book of Jo
JI nah had been a storm center for
I t hen and unfriendly criticism and by
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andbrf
h This should not trouble the orthodox
kj for the only thing on this earth that
7JtI1nnot be ridiculed Is the TRUTH
iE Dr Smith proceeds in his sermon as
1 followsVarious
Various schools of thought have
j applied themselves to the book One
holds that It is a pure work of fiction
another that the story of Jonah is al
legorical after the manner of the par
ables of the New Testament and In
tended to Instill the lesson of Gods
goodness forgiveness and mercy
The evangelical school however
explained Dr Smith held to the strict
line of the Inspiration and truth of the
Book of Jonah It teaches that Jonah
was actually swallowed by the great
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flsh and lived within it until cast up
It Is no more difficult to believe that
Jonah was swallowed by the fish con
tinned the preacher than to believe
that Christ expanded the loaves and
fishes Into enough to feed the multi
tude or that he turned water Into wine
The acceptance of a miracle Is an act
or faith Why is It harder to accept
one miracle than another
f One tnlng Is certain the story of
Jonah is a pure fiction an allegory or
a FACT Fiction and allegory are
twins A parable Is defined as a moral
fable an allegory like a parable Is al
so a fable so both are pure fiction
The Bible abounds In parable arid
1 allegory They ride roughshod over
truth common sense natural law his
tory arithmetic geography and as
tronomy The Bible allegory Is recog
nlzed at once because It Is always pre
posterous impossible and incredible
yet we are taught that it is but an am
huscade for the truth
Strange that the Divine Author
should not bring poor mystefied hu
manity face to face with the truth up
on the questions on which It Is claimed
the Immortal destiny of the race
hangs
Bible writers albne employ meta
phor allegory and parable to puzzle
Ibe reader
fEven in Esop the Arabian Nights
Munchausen Josephus and Confucius
in their ornate decorative style made
the meaning of their allegories per
fectly clear If the whale really swal
lowed Jonah to give to the world a
type of Christ lying In the grave
I hard on the whale
1threeday It was
1
+ harder on Jonah and the haziest alle
gory ever presented to the human
mind I
mindDr J Kinsey Smith in his sermon I
said he believed that Jonah was actu
ally swallowed by the great fish and
rived wtudQ1t until cast up Dr j 1
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Smith fuither said that It is no more
difficult to believe that Jonah was
swallowed by the fish than to hellen
that Christ expanded the loaves and
fishes Into enough to feed the multi
tude or that he turned water Into
wine It is in fact very difficult to
believe either of these so difficult that
the world at large rejects them and
they are believed or preached only by
the unevoluted clergy and their cred
bus flocks But It is more difficult
to believe the Jonah story than that
Christ multiplied the loaves and
fishes and changed water Into wine
Neither Jonah nor the whale were
God and it is claimed that Christ Is
God and the Christian teaching Is
that all things are possible with
God Certainly It cannot be claimed
that the man Jonah and the big fish
could perform such wonders as God
The Rev Smith says the accept
ance of a miracle Is an act of fait
Why hg It harder to accept one mira
cle than another It Is not to those
who accept on faith all that la preach
ed torn the pulpit as truth A big
miracle or a little one Is entirely ac
ceptable to the mind that Inherits Its
belief
A book on Jonah has been written
by a noted theologian and in It he
says that while Jonah was a guest at
the marine hotel he could hear the
seaweed scraping the sides of the
grdat fish and a picture has been
painted showing Jonah sitting at
luncheon with a mermaid In one of the I
private dining rooms of the ocean hot
telry And this it Is claimed forecast
the Last Supper of our Lord held in an
upper room at Jerusalem
Do we believe these things Why
not It Is all a matter of faith as
Dr Smith truly says Could the most
obtuse mind fall to recognize that Jo
nah while In the whales stomach tak
Ing lunch with a mermaid is a type of
the risen Savior Instituting the Eu
charist
Certainly not if faith Is strong
enough The Bible teaches that faith
can remove mountains It never has
done so up to date Old Ararat and all
the other mountains are just when
they were when Moses was In the bull
rushes Earthquakes may have giver
them a shaking but the combined faith
of the ages has never moved one ol
them Of course we dont know what
faith may do hereafter as it is young
yet only a few thousand years old
But now listen to DrJ Kinsey
Smith In his Jonah sermon and here
Is where he beats an ungraceful re
treat fJ 1nlilelnCall1bI1lt and Pies
byterlan orthodoxy He says i
tuut In the spirit of cai tlQ5 Bld
frankness desire to say that I should
not attempt to read a man out of the
church who after consideration and reo
flection came to the conclusion that
the story of Jonah is an allegory That
Isa matter for his own conscious No
man can prove or will ever be able to
prove from evidence outside of the
Bible whether the story of Jonah is
really history It is an act of faith and
belief whether you accept It as his
tory
torySo
So a person does not have to believe
the Jonah part of the Bible to be ad
mitted to Dr Smiths church Poor
old Jonah after his rough experience
if being evicted by the Whale now or
thodoxy knocks him out of the Bible
Ike Noahs weary dove he can find no
lace to rest If conscience can re
ject the Jonah miracle how about the
other miracles of the Bible The
birth and resurrection of Jesus are stu
pendous miracles and as Dr Smith
says of the Jonah story No man can
prove or will ever be able to prove
hem outside of the Bible can con
science decide these things by reject
Ing them along with Jonah and fet
the rejector not be read out of the
church If not why not
The truth Is the church does not
are what men or women believe or
refuse Co believe so they put their
lames on the church roll fill the pews
amI cast In the coin
I wish Dr J Kinsey Smith or some
ther learned divine would preach
a sermon on the 37th chapter of Eze
Idel It contains the champion mIra
cle of the Scriptures Jonah and the
whale have to retire in disorder be
fore this miracle Wonder It the
evangelical school hold to the strict
line of the inspiration and truth of the
37th chapter of Ezekiel or will it
How conscience to accept it in a
ickwlcldan sense as Dr Lyman Ab
bott says he accepts the book of Jo
nah The position of Dr J KInsey
SmIth Is that belief In the Inerrant Bi
ble Is not necessary to obtain memI
ersbip in the church If that is not
and orthodoxy retreat what Is It
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A CHRISTIAN
WHO IS ASHAMED TO fclGrUH
NJHISNAME
NAMEt
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St Louis Mo April 14 1102
Charles C Moore Editor Lexlngtc
Kentucky
I picked up a copy of the Blue Grass
Blade a few days ago and upon exai
inlng Its contents I found It to bo so vile
that I cannot believe it emlnated CIom
a man the noblest work of God
from a man In his right mind Sur
ly you are one of Satans most zealous
emlsarles I cannot understand why
you are permitted to publish and dis
tribute such a sheet
You are a very wicked and Immor
person and It Is absurd for you to claim
to edit your paper In the Interest of
good morals
You are evidently not student of the
Bible Of course you do not believe that
the Bible is the word of God neither do
you believe that there Is a God You are
not a Heathen but you are worse thnn
a Heathen for they worship the un
known OodI think that you worshl
Chas C Moore
Ignorant and egotistic you are greatl
to be pItied and my prayer to our
Heavenly Father Is that you may be
brought to a knowledge of the truth
May the Holy Spirit enlighten yonI
mind in the knowledge of God and re
new your will and enable you to em
brace Jesus Christ who Is so freely of
fered in His Gospel
I hope you will stop In your wild
career and consider what you are do
ing against the interest of good moral
and that your eyes may be opened to be
hold the beauty of the Lord
In your tirade against Inconsistent
Christians why do you condemn all
who claim to be ChristiansIn such
harsh terms
Will you please publish In your pape
some facts concerning the Ilvesnnd
deathbed confessions of some of the
most prominent Infidelsand s6 the
grand results and blessings upon the
world by the Christian religion Am
what has Infidelity done for mankind
State all facts no lies
Will you publish this communIcation
In your next issue if the Lord wilt
spare your Improfitable life to do so
In Him you live and have your being
May He have mercy on your soul
If you turn from your wicked way
and live and become a follower of the
Saviour I will then make known to
you my name It
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V ANSWER
If a m reputation food n tntt
and Intelligence Is good he is a ways
glad to sign his name If its bad he
wont sign It
You write a beautiful hand and spell
right
For a good while they did try to
keep me from publishing this sheet
fined meput me In jail and In the pen
itentiary threatened to kill me as
saulted me with fists stick pistol and
other little Christian attentions but fin
ally gave It up not enough of them of
your way of thinking
How did you find out I was Immoral
You ought to give the specifications
Such indefinite statements from a man
who Is ashamed to give his name dont
aunt
ountSome
Some pretty solid old theologians pro
lounced me a scholar In the Bible and
ordained me to the ministry when I was
only about 21 years old
As to by worshiping Charles 0 Moore
It Is true that a good many people have
said I was egotistic but It has never In
jured my health Your abuse of me
nixed up with your prayers for me
ound like you are a hypocrite
All that racket about Jesus anil the
Holy Ghost and the Gospel dont count
I dont believe In Ghostsholy or un
holyand think that nobody but a very
Ignorant man does believe In them
All that rot about my eyes being op
ened to see the beauty of the Lord has
been wasted on me many times before
GIve us something fresh or give us a rest
I do not condemn all Christians J feel
sorry for some of the very Ignorant
ones because I think It possible that
they do not know any better But I
despise all people as Intelligent as you
are who claim to be Christians for they
are all mean just like you are
If you could put me in the penlten
tlary or roast me at a stake because
I dont believe as you do you Would
do It
ItYou
You are a dangerous bad citizen and
Its my job to knock out fellows of
your kind and I am going to do it You
are almost certainly known to be o ras
cal arid thats the reason you dont sign
your name You would probably steal
and lie and seduce a woman If you
midI
I dont know of any deathbed con
isslons of any prom lent Infidels I
know that Ingersoll died with a smile
on his face Idolized by his wife and
iHdren I know he was a kind man
cause I experienced his kindness He
was not ashamed to sign his name to
anythIng he wrote even to a hundred
dollar check to help the poor Ii dont
know of any grand results and bless
Ings from the Christian religion r know
about Torquemada and Phillip 2nd and
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St Bartholomews Eve and the Inquli
tlon and the burning of llypntlu a till
Bruno and the wars with China and the
Philippines and the Hoers all result
of the Clitrstlau religion but not cun
sldered blessings by good people
To tell the good that Infidelity has
done for mankind would take u wholll
book
I will give you only some samples oC
men of modern times that Infidelity hns
produced Abraham Lincoln who de
stroyed the Christian Institution of
slavery Ingersoll the greatest omtm
that America ever produced Mm
Twain the greatest humorist who eer I
lived Edison the greatest scientist I
who ever lived Carnegie the greate
giver of money and patron of learning
that ever lived
Infidelity gave to the world 1lclthe
greatest patron of astronomy hoe fol
stay the greatest philanthropist who
ever liven LI Hung Chang and WII
Ting Fang the greatest combinations of
flnnnco statesmanship morals alld
learning of modern days Kentucky In
fidelity gave to the world May L Co
tins hte most wonderful girl ever born
In America except Hellen Keller and It
I gave James Lane Allen the most bear
tlful of American writers
The leading Christians of the world
one of them In the last few days has
gone to hell and another one Is aboij
to go thereare Leo XIII Talmogt
Sam Jones Edward VII Emperor Will
lam and Czolgosz If your God had sent
us a rattlesnake In place of each of theRe
he would have done a better job than
1
lie commonly does
I have Just gotten another letter fror
St Louis your town The writer was
a poor boy and I had money and mad
great sacrifice to help him He Is now
very rich and for years has expressed
great admiration of me I lately wrot
him that I was hard run for money and
wanted assistance to buy a linotype
He wrote me the most abusive letter I
ever got He Is a good Methodist
You are really a Christian or a mnr
ovum A Infirlel who has written tfils let
tit to hear my reply No genuine In
fidel Is willing to pose as a Christian
for the purpose of perpetrating a jolo
that would cause me loss of time I1IHI
muney
MISS STONE
The MissionaryWhy the Heather
Didnt Eat Her
I am a heathen and I have seen man
a pretty woman here In Kentucky that
I could eat like strawberries with su
garland cream but darned If I wouldn
hove to be awful hungry before I comic
aaUa steak off that Stone woman the
we paid the heathen 75000 to get back
Tbere4p picture Of heir In they Nov
York World representing her as she
stepped oft the ship onto this country
Shes got her eyes turned heavenwon
ID look like a saint and all she lacks Is
sidewhiskers to make her look like ok
Oom Paul Kruger
The Somerset County Democrat 1
ilont know what state says
Miss Stone theAmerlcan missionary
ind her companion Rime Tsllka havi
been released again This time the
story is true the Bulgarian brigands
lave our ransom money and the
women have their freedom The start
ing part of It Is the announcement that
Mme Tsllkas husband who by tile
way Is a preacher was the principal
lu the plot to carry the women off II
this story turns out to be true well have
to vote Itev Tsllka a very bad preach
er but a very longheaded rascal II
le should get his share of the big tulle
of ransom money he would demon
strate that It Is perhaps better to
teal ones own wife than another
nans
nansThe Ohio Penitentiary News that I
used to edit and by the way Its n
good little paper has this item about
iei
terMy whole aim now Is to pay the
ransom This debt Is more important
ban saving souls said Miss Stone and
his point of view does honor to herself
und raises the credit of missionaries
yen among the opposition
STOLE A BIBLE
A Deaf Mute Given Ore Year In the
Penitentiary
LOUISVILLE KY April 2 James
fason a deaf mute has been sentenced
to one year In the penitentiary after en
terIng a plea of guilty to the unusual
charge of stealing a Bible
The fact that at the time of Ute theft
he had concealed the sacred book In
some bed clothing belonging to Nancy
pears the owner of the volume and
had forgotten to send the clothing back
added to the severity of his sentence
Judge Shackelford Miller after sen
tencing Mason made a subscription of
I to a fund which was speedily collect
cd and the prisoner left for Frankfort
bearing with him a Bible presented to
hIm by the Judge and the officers of
the court
conntCHARGED
CHARGED WITH HERESY
Lebanon 111 April 10Because of
tlie authorship of a book advocating
the doctrine of reincarnation of souls
l1ud offering scriptural reference In
ipport thereof Rev Columbus Brad
ford has been removed from the pas
torate of the Methodist Episcopal
Church at Okawvllle to which he was
appointed Last year and at the next
meellngof the Lebanon District Con
ference be will be called on to answer
the charge of heresy
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ARRESTED ON SERIOUS CHARGE
C J Joines Peddler and Evangelist
Said to Have Assaulted a Child
C J Joines a peddler and Itlncran
evangelist is In jail charged wltl
criminal assault upon Sarah Reigel
an 11yearold girl The girl says the
assault dbguffgUTiietjlay at She 1 b Y
and Mlain streets wiere Joines some
times gave talksto hose whawltend
ed services the Echo MissIon It
was only after much persuasion that
the child told her mother of the alleg
ed assault She said that Jolne
threatened to kill her if she told Hi
denies the charge brought by the
chi IIICourlerJ ou rna t
APPROPRIATE NAME
Eckmansvllle Ohio
MR C C MOORE
SlrI wrote you some time ago ask
Ing you to send no more of your oh
noxious publications to my address Dut
they still come I think you will see
the folly of sending them here when I
tell you that I neither read them mypel I
or 1 permit any one else to As soot
as they come out of the office I burr I
them and shall continue to do so wltl
every copy that comes
comesL GREENHORN
Comment Your name comes might
near sizing you up You are a Green
horn Your childish rage dont hurt me any
Some body has paid for the paper and
sent It to you The gentlemanly wa
If you dont want It Is to < ask your post
master to notify me that the paper Is
Refused He Is paid to do that Your
Illtempered card simply exposes you
and your religion and makes Infidels
WILSONS LECTURES
The two lectures by Dr Wilson
hl hare now published In paniplets
hIs the Christian Immortality a normal
desire of the human mind and Im
perialistic Ecclesiastic and Economic
Tyranny the cause of Anarchy are
meeting with ready sales Their pop
ularity Is attested by the fact that all
fxtra editions of Blades In which they
acre both published were snapped uv
In ordersof tens twentys and bun
Ireds We can offer our readers no
letter propogandlc literature the one
heologlc and the other < socialistic
The vital question discussed In these
cctures should bo put into the hands
or every one You can all afford to
> ass a few of these around
I have placed myself In debt by pub
halting a large quantity of these pamph
ets and I hope the readers will an
1st and relieve me by purchasing them
tit once You will not only be helping
ne but help forward the goodwork
The prices of the pamplets on litiw
mortality is 15 cents or 8 for 1 On
the Causes of Anarchy 10 cents or
12 for f L J E HUGHES
A FAITHFUL FRIEND
Grand Junctlon Col April 10 1902
Please ghange J W Sawyer 35C East
Inrket Louisville Ky to this place
Mulligan Is wrong the sunshine Is
the brightest hi Colorado but ihels
Ight about politics tin Kentucky
Yours truly J W SAWYER
Comment Old thne renders fthe
Hade will 1 remember with pleasure
1110 Sawyers name He was formerly
dltor of the Southern Journal In
oiilsvllle a Prohibition paper He Is
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