The Archive · 1924

HAVE WE A BIBLE OF AUTHORITY?

To-the Editor of the "NonrH-Cama Datty News."

Sm—Mr. Rowland, in his letter! which you published'on the 15th, olds that "the solution of the controversy between Fundamentalist and Modernist lies in a cleat apprehension of the seat of spiritual aulooting of the richest countryside in Europe. "Ecrasez V'infame, Voltaire in a later age, but there: was no appeal against the triple-crowned tyrant in the far off days when a beautiful edifice of tion was thus wantonly destroyed.

The terrible atrocity described in these lines was the result of the Pope's definition of the meaning of scripture. Paul will have to turn back the wheels of tim turies before men will themselves to be enthralled by a ind ecclesiasticism.

Wherein lay the authority of! scripture when it was first delivered by the lips of our Lord to the peasants of Gallilee? It lay in the hearts and consciousnesses of the is there that its author-ill. "If any man willeth to said Jesus, "he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God." He shall know without the intervention of Pope or priest. The Master says s0._

Tam, ete,

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