Show JUDGE ZANES THEOLOGY DISCUSSED wu WE have occasionally commented on the rulings of courts affecting citizens of this territory under the impression that we had the right to do so and that the press may criticize a judges opinion as freely as a lawyers plea piea ea some people have objected to this but have not given any reason or cited any acknowledged knowledg ged authority showing why i the decision of a judicial tribunal ori orl original ginar or appellate should be above dispute we take the ground that adges are public servants as much as legislators legislators or presidents and there i fore their public acts and uter uces aces are proper subjects for pubic pub ic k emment eminent m and dpn to dissent as ab much as to assent but if u any worshipper wor shipper of the judiciary wao is shocked at an exposure of the ignorance or error of a court takes i exception to a ne newspaper shaper argument against a eudicia judicial ruling inq on a question ol 01 ot law he surel surely cann cannot ot rationally object to such criticism when the decision treats on a question of theology for however sacred the bench may be in its lawful sphere it is certainly outside of proper limits when it assumes to io settle points of rel rei relious redious ious lous doctrine and Is then a fair mark forthe for fon the shafts oan 0 an opponent judge zane y in Ms his ruling against the motion to strike out tain talu allegations of the compliant com plant nt in the seventh school district tax cae cac ca ac enunciated th the proposition ro that a religion wrose whose prophets and seers have gone outside of the bible and reached the tile saine same original source from which the communications m 1 icat leat legations tons ions were made recorded in that t hui hii t book cannot be the christian religion ilg on 11 we cewill will spy in passing pass ug that it is not the province of af judge or court in tile the united states to pass on this question nor lor indeed of any department part ment of we tae government Covern ment of the united state but be that as it may the proposition on Is cf certainly incorrect indeed the converse a s tiie tile true position tion we bay huy without hesitation that a rella reli reil n mat does not go outside of the bible and reach ahe iha th original source from which lne communications were made recorded in that book is not the christian religion that is taught in the bible from rom beg beginning inning luning to end that sacr sacred d record teaches mankind to strive to reach tha source from which the prin cipley it contains bave have emanated no man inan is a christian in ane biblical sense unless he and imitate d chri chr b 1 jesus did nording but that was commanded of the eather rather he went outside of the holy books now incorporated in the bible and all other writings sacred and secular and received inspiration and revelation dl reu relt he taught his followers to do the same ile he said all thugs are delivered unto me of the fahrer r and no man the son but the father neither any man the father save the son and he to whomsoever the 7 son will reveal him 11 matth matthel xa 27 the apostle paul says noman no man can say that jesus is the lord but by the holy ghost the office of the holy ghost as described by jesus christ himself is to reveal and bear wit witness wittiest riess of the father and the son and to guide into all ali truth therefore unless people go outside of books and seek to tile the same source from which divine communications communicators recorded in sacred books has come they cannot be chi chlis chils s fians except in the modernized sense welch is one altogether different from the bible sense th bible would have no exist existence noe nce but bat for the fact that men approached the great source of 11 liht ht and received communication from him film whenever mankind have ceased to do this and to listen to men who have done this or have placed their dependence on books alone no matter if they were written by the pen of inspiration they have lu in variably gone into darkness and dissension become divided into sects anit anft lost their ray way vay from the straight and narrow path of life revelation from god direct to each individual soul that seeks for it in the appointed way and communication f from rom god through appointed men to his church and people in an organized capacity are the only methods taught in the bible by which we learn divine things and while scripture is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction and instruction in righteousness and other good purposes the letter kelleth kil leth and it is th spirit that mabeth alive the testimony of jesus he rie spirit of prophecy and as person llo no is truly a christian who has not that testimony no man can be a christian who does not go outside of the bible bibie and obtain communication from the same louice from which the revelations in the bible emanated A rel rei religion on which substitutes a book or a collection of books for direct communications from god and that puts in the place of seers and prophets and other divinely authorized ministers of the living word of god men who draw their authority from that part of a book abood which mere relates how authority was conferred upon men hundreds of years ag ago is but a traves travesty tv on the religion of the bible and is altogether and essentially different from the christian religion wehen when judge zane has considered and digest digested ed th this Is proposition which is the antipodes es of that enunciated in his bis school tax decision we may have other points to presen present t touching on the same subject for the present this may sum suf suffice mlee flee |