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WITHOUT DOCTRINE. R E L I G I O U S ORGANIZATION WITHOUT A PARALLEL. R e ligion That W a lks A m o n g Com m on P e o p le the Need o f the T im e s — T rans cendentalism anil M ystery IJavo Had T h e ir Day- and Generation. E. Howard, an associate stone church He is now First Presbyte CHURCH actually without a declara tion of doctrine is under the leader ship of a young preacher who is now with his wife touring the country in search of con verts. They work together. The min ister is Rev. Burt not many years ago pastor in the old on the public square, the pastor of the rian church of Los An geles, which has a membership of near ly 1,000, after a fight and a transition which attracted wide attention to the church and pastor. The name of the church is now nom inal, for it is an entirely independent organization, even more distinctly so than a Congregational society. It withdrew from the presbytery fourteen months ago, and has been growing more vigorously than before. In most churches the attendance is largely con tributed by women, but In this church the majority of the members are men. Some have said that men are more crit ical in their thought, while women are more confiding and less apt to chal lenge a form of belief. The doctrinal position of the Los Angelei church may have something to do with this peculiarity of its membership. • In answering questions propounded by a reporter, Mr. Howard told many Interesting things about his Church and the new religious motemeni. which its declaration of ecclesiastical independ ence inaugurates. The by-laws of the transformed church are now being prepared. Vir tually every Presbyterian and most other churches have incorporated in their organic law some provision for adherence to a system of doctrine. The declaration of the First Presbyterian church of Los Angeles will simply state that it is organized \for religious •purposes” The name it retained for the reason that the title Is that under ¡which the church society was incor porated in accordance with the state laws. \ Mr. Howard is an interesting young man and a bright reprerentative of “ the new theology.” He preached just as ,lie thought in addressing the congrega tion from the pulpit of the Los Angeles church. Ho remarked yesterday that ¡\the pew is usually in advance of the !pulpit,\ and perhaps he was thinking ;of his fellow ministers of the Los An- 'geles presbytery, for they did not be lieve that a Presbyterian minister should express the views which he ex pressed. But they did not wish to ,have a doctrinal dispute become pub lic. When, therefore, a movement was ,on foot in the society to have the church moved “ up town\ and a minor ity opposed the plan, adiantage was .taken of the opportunity for a deter mination in presbytery to have the so ciety disbanded. The society paid no attention to the dictum, and Mr. How ard continued to preach, his congre gation upholding him. The presbytery tried and found the pastor and elders guilty of insubordination. Tim whole society withdrew from the presbytery and won In the contest for control of the property. “I believe that nine-tenths—at least a large proportion of the members of REV. BURT E HOWARD. our congregations, cannot accept the old creeds,” said Mr. How-auk “ Many do not wish to withdraw from the churches on this account, but they do not at heart-stand with the nominal position of their churches, ami would welcome a church with a religion free from doctrine. Yes. 1 believe that the movement which came to start in i.-as Angeles will grow rapid!} and power fully, though in what form I cannot say. If we formed a country wide or ganization, we might lie said to have simply another denomination To what extent othgr congregations will with draw from ecclesiastical bonds I do not know. Force is at work for the sim plification of the creeds of the denom inations, hut such changes are hard to make. See how much contention arose over the mere propose! tc itvise the Presbyterian confession. “I believe in a religion that walks. It is time to quit flying with doctrinal wings through the air and come down to the earth, where we can help men of the present day. I believe that we should each live according to the best ideals that are in us. God will then take care of the hereafter.’ My work is in the present world, and the bliss of heaven and the blister of hell is not my present concern. Tfcebe « « things about which we know nothing. There is a great movement of transi tion, of intellectual unrest, of the tear ing down of old things preparatory to the building of new in this day. It is noticeably so in the sociological and industrial field and in the religious field. These influences are converg ing, and a climax is approaching. “In religion men may not believe a great many things they did, but they will believe a few essential things with all their hearts, so that their lives will be powerfully moved by them. This is the age of a religion that will take hold of the condition of men here on earth, which will bring the kingdom of God in this world and not make men wait until the arrival in heaven for its enjoyment. \.Men think more closely now than they did in former years, and they can not accept what was taken for granted in the ages of intellectual bondage. The church, by holding to untenable viows, is losing her hold on thinking people. I do not believe it is right to teach doctrines to a child which he will re ject when he comes to think for him self. My child knows no catechism. A church without doctrine, but full of practical Christianity, is the churt’h for this day.” In answer to questions as to h!-s per sonal conceptions on familiar orthodox views, Mr. Howard said he took the sermon on thé mount to contain the core of the whole Christian religion. The writings of the apostles contained, to his view, the seeds of denomina tional dissension, because the apostles developed individual and divergent the ologies. He thought it probable that early Christian writers were driven to REV. MRS. HOWARD. certain positions by the logic of their positions, and so the New Testament developed. He has seen similar in stances in the cases of modern min isters and Sunday school teachers and he supposed that the assertions might have been made in what the doctrin aire supposed to he all honesty ol mind. Christ to him was a man as full of divinity as a man in the flesh could be, but a son of God only as any other man might he. He viewed him as a man affected by his human education, and partaking of the views of his time. Thus the Jews and other Mediterranean peoples, thought of the dead as going into a nebulous, vague existence-—that they became what have been called shades. Punishment was not a fea ture of this conception. Christ’s idea of the resurrection, in Mr. Howard’s opinion, was that he thought of those souls which had a larger spiritual life, and a greater abil ity to correspond with a spiritual en vironment, pushing up out of the in determinate state to a glorious life. The Greek text, says Mr. Howard, is dis tinctly \the resurrection from among the dead,” not \of the dead.” While ho admits that in a scientific sense he does not know even that there will be a life everlasting, though he believes in it, lie conceives it as possible that the resurrection will not come for all who may happen to have a bodily hu man form. He conceives it as being in store for those whose evolution brings them to the point of soul de velopment‘which permits, them to have vital relations with what may be called the spiritual. The process of evolu tion is one of Mr. Howard’s .best sug gestions that there is another life. As in each successive state of development ,a fefa more vigorous individuals pushed up to a higher plane, so he viewed the rising, or resurrection, into the eternal life, with its infinite possi bilities of -development. à FIEND OE FIENDS. BONS GLOATS OVER RECITAL OF HIS CRIME. CHILD STEALING IN LONDON. Mute Ones Spirited Away for tlio Sake of tholr Clothes. - Child stealing in London is still car ried on. What the person who steals a child wants is not the child Jiut its clothes, and, having got them, the child turns up again safe and sound, but iftay be a bjt frightened and very hungry, as a rule, says the Loudon Weekly Telegraph. The kidnapers are generally womon. A woman can go about with a child without attracting attention os a man would. 'i f a child is stolen to be kept it is in most cases sent down into the coun try. In the first place it is not so easi ly discovered and reclaimed there and in the next it can be more profitably employed. The making it an offense to expose children of tender years for the purpose of gain in the streets has done a lot to make them of less value to these people. Before that poor folk used to hire out their babies to the beggars for six pence or something like that a day. Some of .hem do so now, but the busi ness it not what it was. A baby would in that way almost clear the rent of the parents—until it died. . H a r d e r e r R e turns, L ike E o c e n e Arana, to View B o d y o f Pearl M o r r ison— Seeks to Secare R e w a r d aud T e lls o f Many O ther Crimes. ¡r DON’T care If the soul of that girl is burning in hell; she’s dead an d can’t harm me.” Such were the brutal words spok- ¡PL en to a detective by Peter Bons, a 19- year-oid tramp, in the county jail at Crystal Falls, Mich The girl of whom he spoke was Pearl Morrison, whom Bons had assaulted and murdered. Pearl was about 20 years old, retir ing in disposition, liked and respected by the community. July 23 she left the home of her father, Captain Will iam Morrison, a mining man of wide acquaintance in the iron regions, for the Great Western mining location, three miles from her home. She left the house at 1 o’clock, made several calls at the Great Western and start ed on her return home. She had spoken before leaving home to her mother of intending to pick berries on the following day, and it is presumed that the reason for her turning from the main road on her way home was to examine the bushes in the vicinity of Blaney creek, a rich spot for red raspberries. She was last seen at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon by some neighbors on the main road. As she did not return for supper her parents became anxious, and her father spent the night searching for her. Meeting with no success and becoming serious ly alarmed, Captain Morrison secured the assistance of several neighbors Saturday morning and at noon a gen eral alarm was given. Large search ing parties were formed, which began searching the country for several miles In all directions. Saturday afternoon Peter Bons, who had reached Crystal Falls the previous day, appeared at the residence of William Brooks, on the road leading to the Great Western mine, and showed a small brooch to the two girls there, the elder people being absent. Bons said he hi.d taken the pin from the body of •! dead girl lying in the bushes a half mile dis tant. Despite their timidity the girls went with Bons, and in a clnarip of bushes, lying in a depression partially concealed by a pine stump, the .body of Pearl Morrison was found. J.t was only thirty feet from the road and about 500 feet from the stream, but was so cleverly concealed that the girl’s father, who had passed twice over the road, searching carefully, had been unable to discover it. The girls immediately gave the alarm, and mem bers of one of the searching parties and a physician were on the spot in a short time. Before the body was removed a careful examination was made by Dr. Darling, but there was little need of the trained eye of a medical man to determine the cause of death. The gloves which the girl had worn were hanging in shreds, showing that the victim had made a brave fight for life. About the wrists were discolorations, indicating that she had been grasped with a vise-like grip by her assailant, while about her throat were the tell tale finger marks left by the murderer. Most terrible of all, blood sic.wly oozed from the mouth, ears ajid nostrils, while the swollen anil discolored tongue protruded, half bit in twain by the set teeth. The girl’s remains war« brought to her late home, and the anguish of her The population of Rome; Italy»-1«, hv the census of last September, 477,- 272. PETER BONS... father, mother and sisters was heart- rerfding. Fierce indignation burned in the hearts of all who had seen the girl’s cruelly maltreated body, and it was perhaps well for Peter Bons that he was quickly taken in hand by Sher iff Waite. Bons’ story was a cleverly prepared one, but Ills attempted ex planation of his whereabouts oet'veen 3:30 and 6 o’clock on the previous day, between which hours the murder was committed, was not a satisfactory one. He was locked up on suspicion. A con ference of the authorities was held, and •while it was seen that there was no di rect evidence against Bons, the offi cials and others who had scanned his sinister features were morally certain of his guilt. Attorney Moriarity was sent to Chicago with unlimited powers to engage the bent detective talent that could-he secured. Within ten day» af ter the detective’s arrival the whole tangled skein had been unraveled and Peter Bons stood -the self-confessed murderer of Pearl Mori Ison. After arriving the detective spent, a day covering the territory about the village and acquainting himself with the details of the crime as then un derstood. On the following day he se cured admission to the county jail and introduced himself to Bons as an at torney from Iron River, a neighboring town, explaining that he was much In terested in the case. Bons told him the story of the affair which he had given when first arrested. The detec tive sympathized with the prisoner and told him that he would like to help him out, and would defend him with out fee if it were not for the feeling against the prisoner, which was so strong that it would result in driving out of the county any attorney who took his case. The detective explained that in this case he could not well take the chances of defending a man accused of such a crime, as he had a great many enemies, who would be only too glad to drive him away, and that he was at that time under indictment. This seemed to interest Bons. The detective then unfolded a tale of an imaginary crime at Iron River, which he had cleverly escaped the con sequences of. At subsequent visits he told Bons that it would be impossible to clear him in the state of public feel ing then existing, and that the only way to get out was to break jail. He detailed plans for smuggling in tools with w,hich the prisoner could saw his way out, and related a highly colored narrative of a jail delivery in another part of the country in which he had been the star actor. By deft touches here and there the bogus Iron River attorney and crook earned first the confidence and then the envy of the prisoner. Incited by the tales of ras cally deeds told by his visitor, Bons narrated a few of his own criminal exploits, notably certain deeds in the highway robbery line, when, as a mem ber of “ The Forty Hoboes,” a criminal organization operating between Chi cago and Buffalo in 1893 and 1894, he had participated in several \hold-ups PEARL MORRISON. In emulation of a cleverly constructed tale told by the detective, setting forth the success of a criminal plot, Bons stated that he had begun business by setting fire to a store at Norway, Mich., in 1893, the building being owned by a man named Swanson, and that the pro ceeds of this first essay in crime took the incendiary to Chicago at the age of 15. Investigation of this story show ed that the store was actually burned, under suspicious circumstances, at the time named. Upon hearing this story the detective told Bons that he guessed the latter was the sort of a man he could use, and unfolded a plot for the dynamiting of a big safe at Iron River containing several thousand dollars, which was to immediately follow Bons* escape from jail. He agreed to furnish the prisoner funds for his escape from the country. After concluding an agreement for this little piece of villainy and foreseeing his speedy escape from the very tight place in which he was then situated, Bons felt the need of unbosoming him self freely, and narrated to the officer the full story of the crime, which the prisoner alleged had been committed by a man wearing a straw hat and white trousers. This man, according to the story, met Bons at the rai’way station Friday night, and told the full particulars of the crime. He had arranged to meet Bons at Aurora, 111. The atrocious de tails were told in a manner so brutally truthful that the detective was assured of his man, for no story at second hand could have depicted the crime sc vividly, beside which the utter improb ability of a stranger confessing such a crime to a casual hobo acquaintance stamped the personage with the straw .hat and. white trousers as mythical. On the following day tfcfe detective visited the prisoner’ once more, set a definite date for the jail delivery and; narrated to Bons the full details of a shooting scrape at Iron River, a town he had never visited, in which the supposed lawyer and criminal had’shot and killed a prominent citizen, and had escaped suspicion by a series of clever ruses. From a long detective experience the officer selected details for this tale, and in the interest of justice lavished upon the guilty wretch enough cleverly mingled truth and ’fiction to have sup plied the average writer of detective tales with material for a dozen dime novels. In an ecstasy of delight al hearing of the triumph of the crime and believing that he had fount a superior in crime and cun ning, Bons approached to tht front of his cell, and, squeezing hie face against the bars, whispered: “ Thai fellow, you know; that fellow with the straw hat and the white pants; well, there wasn’t any such man. I did ii myself.” He then repeated his story of the previous day, with fuller details gloating over the most atrocious feat ures. The Passamaquoddy (Me.) Indians are leaving for the summer resorts where they make large money selling their baskets, chairs, etc. Verdi, according to the London Dally Chronicle, is amusing himself ai Montecatini by writing the requiem foi bis own funeral. MOUNTAIN - CLIMBING. s GROWING IN ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY, Dangers A t ten d in g the Sport— Difllcnlt As I t Is to Clim b Up, I t ’ s N o t a Cir cum stance to G e tting D o w n A g a in — No N eed to L e a y o tlio Country. But In the higher portions of ns con tains that rise above the snow line the difficulty of climbing is immensely in creased by snow and ice, for the rocks become covered with a coating as smooth as glass, and even when an apparently sure foothold is found the- climber is liable to slip when no ice is present, the rock being wet, and, there fore, presenting an insecure footing. Difficult as may be the ascent, descend ing is even more dangerous than going (Special Letter.) HE recent acci dents in Washing ton, California, and one or two other states have put a temporary* damper on the spirits of the Mazama society, a Western A l p i n e club, organized for the purpose cf mountain climbing, but there is every reason to believe that the discouragement will be only tem porary, for the craze of mountain climbing is said to be growing, not only in the west, but throughout the coun try.’ The perils of mountain-climbing are by no means despicable. In the first place, when a difficult mountain is to be ascended there is always danger, at one point or another, of the traveler missing his foothold and getting a fall. Of course, the higher precipices are, as far as possible, avoided by the climbers, and only in cases of extreme necessity and the impossibility of find ing another road will the climber at tempt the side of a cliff. It is a maxim among members of Alpine clubs that any precipice can be scaled or crossed unless it is as smooth as the wall of a room, and even in that case passages have been effected by driving. spikes into, the crevices which here and there present themselves on the surface, and using these as steps from one point to another. The piountain cliff which from beneath seems to be as smooth as a wall, upon closer inspection pre sents many irregularities, jutting points, cracks and ledges by means of which an experienced climber can ef fect a passage. . Of course a fall from one of these precipices means instant death, but, during the ascent of an or dinary mountain there are many places of great danger where a slip signifies a fall of only 15 or 20 feet, a mere trifle in comparison with which might hap pen, but still sufficient to disable or kill outright an incautious climber. Slips and falls, sprained ankles, broken limbs and necks are of common occur ence among the members of the Alpine clubs, but these are not the only dan gers to which such adventurers are ex posed. The tops of mountains are ele vated many thousands of feet above the level of the sea, and in the upper regions of the atmosphere the air is so rarefied that persons unaccustomed to mountain-climbing find breathing ex ceedingly difficult and active exertion almost impossible. Men who have the slightest tendency to heart disease subject themselves to serious peril in attempting the ascent of a high moun tain, for they are liable at any moment to fall dead from heart failure. The upper portions of the Swiss and Tyrolean Alps, and, to a large extent, of the Rocky mountains also, are com posed almost altogether of the primi tive rocks—granite, basalt, porphyry and the like—and these have a ten dency to crystallize in columns and surfaces which, at a distance, appear up. Mountaineering in parties Is the saf est method, for when several are pres ent precautions can be taken which are impossible when the climber is alone. The outfit of a mountaineering party consists of ropes, b” which the various members may be fastened one to an other; of ice picks, one end shaped somewhat like a mattock, the other be ing sharp-pointed; of provisions, cor dials, blankets, shoes, the soles of which are studded with sharp pointed nails, a plentiful supply of spikes or wooden pegs to drive in the crevices of the rocks, and thus afford a foot hold where it otherwise could not be gained, and, above all, abundant mus cle and never failing nerve. The United States has many mountains, and will undoubtedly pre sent attractions to the Alpine socie ties of this country when such become more general. We are commonly dis posed to ignore the Alpine attractions of the United States, but there is no country in the world which has more mountains or more mountains above a given height than our own. The high est mountains in the world are those of Asia, the great peaks of the Roof of the World towering from 25,000 to 30,000 feet above sea level. A number of these have never been scaled, and there are some mountains in South America which, on account of their height present insurmountable diffi culties to climbers. The roof of the United States is Colorado, and in that state there are said to be 180 peaks, each more than 10,000 feet above sea level; Utah has 56 exceeding that height; Wyoming, 44; California, 40; New Mexico, 30; Nevada, 27; Montana, 11; Arizona, 10. and Idaho, 3. Our new territory of Alaska is said to have but four peaks of greater height than 10- 000 feet, but it is probable that whpn the territory is better known more will be discovered. Mount St. Elias is believed to be over 19,000 feet above sea level, and the other three peaks named in the books are of very consid erable altitude. A Fam ous Olil Irish A b b e y . The Muckross estate in Ireland, which, according to the London ca.Wes, has been selected as a site for a £ y a l residence, is one of the most charming spots in the Emerald Isle. The ques tion of a regal seat in Ireland has long been the subject of much discussion. Her British majesty is not loved in Ireland, and her neglect to visit the country, to say nothing of her discrim ination against it as a place of resi dence, has not served to soften the asperity of Irish sentiment queenward. The political effect on the Irish of the establishment of a regal abode among them remains to be seen. The Muck- ross estate, including the famous ab bey, is, or was, the property of Henry Arthur Herbert. The grounds about the ancient ruin are among the most exquisitely beautiful landscapes in Ire land. They touch the Middle Lake of the Lakes of Killarney. If the queen decides to build there she will be sur rounded by the most charming scenery in all her kingdom, Mr. Herbert not long ago built a modern palace upon these grounds to replace the old house. This building contains a portrait of the old Countess of Desmond, whose an cestor, Donald McCarthy, Lord of Des- ipond, founded the abbey as long ago as 1440. The abbey became the last resting place of the O’Sullivans, the McGillicuddys and the O’Donoghues. It was restored in 1626 and is a favorite sight of tourists. IVlres a F r o toctlon Agalnfit Lightning “People living in cities are prone to believe that the increasing number of telephone, telegraph and trolley wires increase the danger from electric storms,” writes Edward W. Bole in the Ladies’ Home Journal. “On the con trary, the maze of wires is a protec- ' MUCKROSS ABBEY. smooth, but’ upon closer inspection are found to be full of irregularities. The Giant’s Causeway in North Ireland, the basaltic formations along the Irish and Scottish coasts, and at several points in.our Western states, are ex cellent illustrations of this style of formation. A basalt cliff, while seem ingly unscalable, is really easier to as cend than a limestone' bluff of. one- fifth its height, for -the crevices’ formed by the crystallization of the material offer to the climber holds for hand and foot which enable the expert to go up one of these cliffs with surprising ease. tion, and lessens the danger, since it it shown that where the wires attract th« electricity they hold it, and discharg« it only at the end of the wires In th< central station. The fact is that of the two hundred lightning accidents every year only an average of forty occur in the cities. The trees in the country are a far greater danger; they account foi the proportion of four cases in th« country to one in the city.” Chicago harbors about sixty thou sand Hebrews.
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(Choteau, Mont.), November 12, 1897
Teton Chronicle
(Choteau, Mont.), November 12, 1897
Teton Chronicle
(Choteau, Mont.), November 12, 1897
Teton Chronicle
(Choteau, Mont.), November 12, 1897
Teton Chronicle
(Choteau, Mont.), November 12, 1897
Teton Chronicle
(Choteau, Mont.), November 12, 1897
Teton Chronicle
(Choteau, Mont.), November 12, 1897
Teton Chronicle
(Choteau, Mont.), November 12, 1897
