To the Editor of the Norrn-Cuina Datty News Sir—There was a certain famous ecumenical gathering of fully ordained people not so very long ago, in a city hoary with pagan and other sorts of dust, convened by order, to decree the infallibility and exclusive right to teach, as pertaining to the Chief Executive of their particular communion.—Relentless history records, not only that certain earlier infallible Chief Executives had previously and unequivocally condemned such a dogma, but that there was considerable dissension among these fully ordained and empowered delegates themselves as to whether the Bible, which they each and all could alone interpret correctly, really taught such a dogma. Whereupon one very persistent dissentient, who was in the habit of wearing a Bolshevist-coloured hat (though scarcely as a gesture) proposed to examine certain passages held to concern the point. But it was actually found that the reverend delegates were one and all so sure of their own powers in Scripture exposition that not a man among them had brought a Bible with him. There was not a single copy of the Book te be found in the conference hall or its precincts, and the august disputants were reduced to borrowing one from a compassionate British embassy. But, of course, the testimony of the Book and its artless champion, cap not withstanding, was turned down, and the decree duly went forth to an incredulous world.
have carefully camouflaged all distinguishing terms in this short historical narrative, as I am only discussing principles, not. sects. Should any _perfervid partisan, therefore, claim the narrative as describing history in his own denomination, he will only have himself to blame.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.