| Show JOAII AND fill WHAII llrljuiKU Aljlioll UC16164181114 VISIT 9 lions N111111 I NEW 101tics Jan EUUelerrlng lo tbu I iiholullou passtd I by tile Manhattan Manhat-tan Congregational asaoclnllon objosl I lug to bid treatment of Ihe uuJocl 01 Job arid the nualoMu I a Secret ealldsafeerislourt Dr Lyman Abbott In an Interview last night said l I rile resolution dm l not ilednutlir t store of the objection Which tht ministers took to tile ourae of the Bucday evening lectures 11 their objection ob-jection it I leveled toward the uplru tl irreverence which was Irnpuud me roe by some of the morning papers im Monday I I agree with tile rltlclw but as a matter of fact I do nut ibluk Ibo Sarcoma 01 tiUndRY night was lack lug III reverence either to UoJ tub tory ol Jonah or Ibu relkloua lann ol Ibo who believe It to bo history 1 did not comiarelt to the Pickwick papers anJ the aermon was not settled wlib friqueul laughter Ibare was laughter KI one point and thai was duo A to the Incongruity I of I tile ttory Wells ni toll l In 1 pictorial lanuuagr Whether IbIIk ot Jonah la I hi to regarded aa a history or n satirical It lure leveled ajnlnn Ihe t I I stre writ nd rdnets ol the religious teachers of tile Jewish people and lo leach the universal univer-sal I mercy of God la n question to be determined by tha elmIn examination examina-tion ot Ihe biok Itself Oi view Nan reverent aud as consistent with billet in Inspiration aa llio otber10 Anuui the ministers of Unolilyn many feel thai ties aiaoclatlon was jualinr I In Intel Ibo action it did rto It vlJr If F < llehrenda of the Central C rigruuatlonal church wild What tto did vi nut to attaok any ono but lo cot Lila association right bo fare tile community Dr Abbott peaks many ihluRj at rctileJ by modern biblical schilarj which lit ve been In controvorsy for years null iinon which opinions ale still dlvldoJ With no rrtjudlro I against literary criticism I the arguments do I not prj Jut positive conviction That the bookl ol Jonah belongs to aarcaatlc literature la I certainly a novel claim There la I hardly an Ill statement state-ment which Dr Abbott boa uad whloh should nut bo compelled aerl DUlly to qiollfy and there are atnu uieuta from which I should emphatically emphati-cally dissent A leading Brooklyn pastor who cons his rolhoulsoolation followed the flight course but who auroei with Dr Auboll viea all Jonah Is I Hov bamllel Liters a on ot ltol Eliot 01 Harvard OliO or IWo members 01 Plymouth oourch protest Ibm solve very decidedly oil the resolution of the Manhattan ateoclatlu r th 0 I U Sherman and Jen Rotation King eaylniWe t We can get along at Plymiuth church elation without the Manhattan data |
