Show ED E editorials D IT OR O R I 1 A LS RECOVERY OF AN f 1 record confide considerable rable RADLE interest has hns been excited in religious circles over the reported dib dih covery of what is announced as a fifth gospel it is a book said baid eald to be olden older than writings of st matthew and is palled the gospel according to the hebrews it existed exi exl I 1 in 33 83 fragment sand has translated annotated and an alez ed Nichols onil A of trinity college oxford it it is said bald to have been weli weil known in the early christian church WO wa written in aramaic and was translated ns by jerome into both greek and latin it ia Is io by subscription at gf go ad gil gin per copy by regan kegan paul co of lon london don as boon soon as subscriptions ha havo have d 1 been beon een eon obtained this gospel hasi haa been frequently referred to by tile the christian fathers Papi rapi capias asand and quoted from it in tile the second century later on speak of it and clement of alexandria origen Euse eube eusebius bius bias and theodoret Theo deret also alao and in more modern times itis cited as genuine scripture it was left out of the canon because it i was supposed to be an edition of st matthews 61 gospel in aramaic ray M D conway writing from london to the cincinnati commercial on this matter says saya this recovered gospel will pre bent some bome remarkable phenomena it atia Is entirely different from the apocryphal gospels having none of their marfo Marlo latry or of the puerile and fariel fanciful fau fal miracle miracles it runs parallel to matthew to a certain extent bul but presents peculiarities which can oban hardly baraiy fall to excite much discussion the appearance of jesus to james his brother alluded to by paul faul in I 1 cor con xv the only miracle ho he mentions but lost out of the gospels in the century which followed him ia is here rated in detail and when the lord had given his linen cloth to the servant of the priest he went to james and appeared to him for james had sworn that be he would not e eat it bread from the hour wherein he had drunk the cup of the lord until he saw him rising agam again from the dead hla hiatus hia tuse tuso bring a table tabie and dring wing hiatus ciatu hia hla hi atu tup 0 he took up tip the bread and blessed and broke broko and afterward gave to james the just and said eaid to him ny my brother eat cat for the son at af man ia Is risen from them that th at duleep 2 it appears that when this was written the efforts to make out that mary had no other children but was a virgin had not geen been yet made this recovered gospel also ays says that jesus asked all his hid disciples to handle him and see that be wab was not an incorporeal demon and not Thom thomas asalone alone nione Inthe in the fourth go goa 3 pal the moral of this incident seems pointed against a growing skepticism which would not believe unless it saw but here it seems directed against that denial by barnabas and simon magus magas of christs genuine flesh and blood humanity which paul withstood one of these fragments gives a very peculiar and significant account of the bap baptism tiam of jesus his mother and brethren having proposed that he and they should go together and be baptized by john jesus answered wherein therein Where ld have I 1 sinned that I 1 should go and be baptized of him except pei pel perchance chance this very thing that I 1 have said la is ignorance after baptism as he went out of the water the heavens opened and he be saw the holy spirit of god in the form of a dove descend and enter him and a voice was heard from heaven saying I 1 rhou thou art my beloved son in thee X J am well welt pleased 1 and again this day have I 1 begotten thee and immediately a great light shone in that place then the spirit or dove also saying my son in all the prophets did I 1 await thee that thou might est cst come and I 1 might lightest esh est rest in thee for thou art my rest thou art my first born son that reig nest forever the first people likely to nind find comfort will be the anabaptists and the anglican believers in baptismal regeneration for it conveys the idea ef of the new creature the second man begotten wd and created in the act of baptism mr conway con way further bays Imay add thit mr Nichol sofa means meana to include among his notes twenty three timm tradition traditional ij sayings of jesus which there is some som e reason to suppose may way be referred to the gospel to the hebrews it appears to bo be a work awaiting him im or some other bibliographer to collect also such utterances from other fragments and nie mem memoirs oira olra for the gospel of nicodemus 1 which thel thor learned tischendorf ascribes to the beco seco second nd contu century fy has hag in it this very suggestive addition to the narrative tivo tive of jolin john pilate says to 16 him bim what la Is truth jesus r ease ayi asi truth la Is from heaven beaten pilate baye say Is not there truth ti upon oa earth jesus says to pilate eee hee how one igho speaks truth is by tho i ae who have power owai upon earth of ot course wo we do not xen ito r to 1 18 forthcoming in any way of endor endorsement gement ve we on can lve glye ive no opinion of it until it has been closely examined ned and by the test of modern reve revelation ladon we know tho the doctrines in the bible to be bo true because of their correspond once to the truth truthy manifested from heaven iu in our own times t mes meb and the barno earno gauge must be applied in the guw on case as in the other but whether the gospel according to the hebrews proves to be an authentic record or not it is certain that in these times of tiie tile the restitution of all things tho the word of the lord that has been written in former lost will be recovered in his due lime time it will all be brought forth and made plain to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear bear and by its aid the work of god will be accelerated and the way bo prepared for the end of misrule and the universal reign upon the earth of the king of kings and the lord of lords hea POPE AND RELIGIOUS MATRIMONY THE letter of the pope to the arch bishops of turin and genoa in relation to tome tolle me marriage bill bili which has lifts been passed by the ital lan ian chamber of deputies has created quite a flutter aflutter in italian circles and caused considerable discussion elsewhere the tho new law requires a civil marriage marriaga to bo p par pai formed before the religious rite and imposes heavy 1 penalties for forthe 1 the tho violation of its provisions the pope ppe asserts that the state has no right whatever to interfere in matters connected with marriage and bays says it is necessary to deny the fundamental da principles of christianity and even the elem elementary 1 centary ideas of national law to affirm that matrimony is a creation of the state and nothing more than a vui vulgar garcon contract the connubial union is not the work or invention of man god himself the supreme author of nature from the beginning commanded by this union the propagation of the human race the constitution of the family wherefore matrimony in what concerns the substance and sanctity of tho tools tio tie Is an act essentially sacred and religious the regulation of which naturally belongs to the religious power not by delegation of the state but by mandate of the divine founder of if christianity Christiani tys and the author of the sacraments the pope argues that the tho new enactment has been dictated rather by a desire to cause new tribulations to the church and the clergy than bya by a wish to maintain or order derand and social rectitude the position of the head of the catholic church who authoritatively represents the whole body on this subject is the same as that taken by the latter day saints and his estimate of the spirit J in which the italian law was enacted is the same as deput we put on the passage of tho the act of 1862 against our religious marriages that marriage is a sacrament has been held by christians fyr many centuries and its degradation into a it mere civil contract is the work of extremely modern times and exceedingly persons matrimony isa is a divinely appointed relation and is therefore properly to be governed by regulations if the state under the comparatively ively despotic system of european politics poll poil tica has no right to interfere with church ordinances relating to marriage how much less rightfully ean can the government of this free republic eo so interfere particularly ticul arly when its written aution expressly forbids such action the motive for the tho he pils passage sage sago of ofalie act of 62 was in wo the language langua D of the pope to cause new now tri trl ema ewa i lions to our church rather than to maintain social order and rectitude 11 for it it was not dired directed tod too against the illicit cohabitation of the sexes it was net aimed almed against lust and those gensu sensual ai vices which the divine law has bag alwa alwn always yb denounced as crimes it struck ab nb DI blow at social disorder or fhe the infraction of marital obligations b u it was intended to crush a religious ordinance and institution which aids in promoting social order and rectitude and is a preventive of many of the worst evils of christian society and was passed to bring new tribulations upon n a church that had be been on persecuted i sunni suffering ering the vengeance of are and sword alir sympathies are w with ith the pope and his people an this question which reaches tha the very root of the trea of liberty we claim no more for ouri ourselves elvis than va are ale willing to accord to I 1 others and in standing up for religious freedom for the latter day saints we will help to obtain and maintain it for the catholic and aud the protestant the hindmo and tho infidel and fully expect to see the time when all laws that affect the conscience and obstruct the free exercise of religious observances will either be expunged from the statute books of civilized nations or fall into desuetude and derision deni deri alon aion like the obsolete blue laws of new england the offspring of puritanism and Phar lealo leale bigotry 0 0 a GLASS MADE FROM SLAG A NEW discovery has been made in england of a method to utilize the refuse refuge from blast furnaces commonly known as slag in the manufacture of glass chiefly of glass bottles this waste mat mut material erial has hai heretofore been regarded as almost almot teless telesa but bul by this ibis t h Is p process r 0 ce ie as it is rendered very valuable the company which has been formed wilh with a capital of to manufacture glass bottles from slag with other othen materials has its works in northam is doing an extensive and successful business running day and night an and d turning out an average of four hundred gross per week the ingredients nee necessary necess essary ury for the composition of bottle glass are silica lime magnesia alkali and oxide of of which are found in slag and an dare daru are the therefore refon j obtained almost without cost and sand soda barytes manganese clay and a little more lime than is contained in the slag the necessary quantity of slag amounts amounting ng to nea nearly ly 50 per cent of the whole massy mass is made ready the other ingredients aro arc wei wel weighed glied out an aud and d placed in front of the furnace the slag is cast in followed immediately by the rest of the tho prepared materials these are melted together and the compound when it runs out is rolled blown biown finished and the battles are annealed in an oven ovell the manner in which the furnace receives its heat is thus explained by a correspondent of a new now york nirta firm who has investigated the matter ratter immediately adjoin adjoining ing log on the left of the building in front is the coal oven which is i s air light and fed at the top by what they term two boxes which are no more than two receptacles for the coals the coals being ance in the boxes closed gas is consequently formed which passes into two immense airtight chambers finally converging into one into the glass furnace being a continuous stream of hot air far more intense anda great deal steadier than the heat derived from coal this after circulating itself ite its elf eif around in the furnace a lurid white flame which one can see when abo doors are down passes into another chamber connecting itself with the immense ggs gas as rece reee receivers ivers that run aiom the blast furnaces the same game gentleman who hadan had sn opportunity to examine the com banys books gives the following figures of the proportions of ingredients used on the day of othis hwi visit sand ibs lbs soda 45 11 to I 1 I 1 alig r 10 11 clay cay 60 tc 19 lime limo I imo ap pp u umi ual 10 oua 1 rr ta FA ka K 1 totals 0 al coubs J bs j slag sing if with ith a 16 oil the tho whole hole holo averal averaging ng about 60 50 per cent of slag blag the tho following la is also the tho proportion for champagne claret and other wine bottles 7 t 7 J gand i 1 ibe ibb bs soda SOCIA i 0 Baryt barytes cs 25 Ilaya manganese gEc geo 8 i olny cloy r not A arsenic r berlie berdie 5 A J Li irime meI j 6 5 0 r i i total tofal V lbs ibs sla sia slag athis if this can dan he be do done no in england lucaa 16 can caa he be done much better in america we do not say this because this country is beati beating the old country in the marke markets ta of the world in its manufactures manufacture a as well aa ala product products sr but because the sand lime and slag on this side of the atlantic are much better than those on the other wd hope to see the time when glass works will be established in utah and under thief new process the tho extensive manufacture of iron may be the tho forerunner of the manufacture of glasa not only of the crude material from which bottles are formed but all kinds that are needed for general use if any of our enterprising mechanics and live capital capitali i ista have an eye to the glass business nesb ness thoy they should preserve for future uba usa the facts and figures which wo we have havo given above THE all I 1 thi tite following statement in jn re gard regard t to 6 tho hel loi insatiable efko of rocky bocky mountain vegetation is made by prof riley eiley the famous entomologist after extensive researches into the subject 1 to I have received report reports 6 from the extreme northwest from montana dakota and utah where the locusts are aye V permanently located that they i are hatching out now scattering schools schoola are being h our out further to the southeast in ram kam kansak al and Ne nebraska bimka but hut in limited proportions these la last st bre are re the progeny of the scattering flights known to have passed over the temporary re refon region relon fon lon last fall I 1 I 1 am of the opinion that they fly to the southeast every autumn froin from the permanent region these scattering fligl ts bring forth a small progeny but ag as a rule in no such numb numbers eis bis asto to alarm any one Every autumn the ilie winds and other causes carry them to the southeast but they caifano cannoe cannot perpetuate themselves in this lower country they either die off or naturally return to the northwest northwest pr the perman penman permanent 0 nt region lying two 0 or three degrees on either elther side of the boundary line between the united states and british america except when they become a prodigious multitude in the tho northwest they will never do serious harm barm in the 1 lower awer countries as they did in 1875 and such Is Js not the case this year though the season has been boon favor ablo abio hitherto to their develop development men t it takes several beveral favorable seasons to multiply them into dangerous numbers in 1876 they were depleted by going too far south and not getting back again as they always try to do in 1875 when they were so bad they |