Show nE DR DH X I WRONG We grieve e to no note noto to that the tile Reverend Dr Pa Paden en of ot the First t Presbyterian church of this tills eft city is not tho the scholar we have been a assured surd he is lie Ie ma made mado o so HO careless care care- loss less a u use of or the term Devils iDe advocate In his address at the Metropolitan Methodist l church in Washington last Sunday Sunda evening e that we wo must must hereafter regard Ute the claims claIm of oC his friends 19 and ancl the assumptions of or himself a as sadly affected by the tho quality called pretense With Hh all his libraries he has made a grievous mistake mistake and an and ono one attile of or the tile sort that Dr Paden never should have hn made The Tho Tribune omits nn any extended report of or Dr Paden's Padens Padens Paden's Padens Paden's Pad- Pad was clever cr wisdom wis ens en's Washington sermon There was a ve very loin dom om in that But Dut it was of or course cOUlSe not clover or enough to I omit the tile ono essential and embarrassing error Quoting very ver- briefly from Crom Dr I Padens Paden's address w which thunders a good deal in th tile the Index the Tribune puts these words in tile the mouth of or the Presbyterian divine But nut can It be bo possible that Senator Knox nox Is In harmony with his constituency In Penns Pennsylvania In harmony harmon with the tho moral and religious will of oC the tho people of the tile United States when WhICH he ho becomes the devils devil's advocate before the tho senate Any student of books s knows that tho the Devils Devil's advocate advocate cate Is a n man inca of oC quality quality and an and not a 0 personage to be despised Wo We quote from one ono of or the many man dictionaries i and antI any of them will give he tile the same definition I I. I Devils Devil's A Advocate A Roman floman ecclesiastic I whose office It Is to urge whatever objection ma may exist to the canonization of or an any proposed saint Possibly the tile term Devils advocate uttered with the deliberate speech and snarling Intonation of or Dr Paden ma may have Impressed the Washington audience with some vor 11 very vitriolic picture Those District of Columbia Colum Colum- bia pitchers mn may have brought their big oars cars to the Metropolitan Methodist church read ready for lot vituperation and anti may have mistaken that passage In Dr Padens Paden's address address ad ad- dress as the refinement of oC the cruelty they lIl like e to see in- in on others But nut men inca of learning know what Dr DI Paden should know that there Is nothing sassy in his us use of that term as applied to Senator Knox Unless this tills Is the alternative e unless Dr Is trying to canonize Senator Smoot and amI therefore resents the address of the Penn Pennsylvania senator Is la hn hardly lly a suppo lc ca ca case oj t arid aiti yet it fl Is is the tha only view In which Dr DI Pulon Paden be acquitted of or an error which no scholar would make And AntI of course the Metropolitan church au audience lence could not have caught the lie meaning of oC Dr Paden IC If this was his meaning Here I 1 Senator Smoot declared IJ by Dr Dl Paden to be a candidate for canonization Tile The reverend purveyor of or spiritual food rood for members of oC the First Presbyterian is trying to secure for COI the tile senior senator er ator from flom Utah that halo which shall send solid him hini down hlo history as a saint Indeed in In- In deed And Senator Knox rises In his place and urges the reasons why t that halo should not be delivered I In Ill no flO other case cisO can the tile senator from Pennsylvania bo ho dubbed a a. Devils Ils advocate It If he careful man Is standing In tho tIle circle of or cardinals fronting the tho pope lope applying shrewd analysis to the tho alleged actions of oC a Joan of Arc or a Borgia or a Father Fathel some some good and some bad Lad and antI stripping sentiment and anti romance from from tho the cold facts of historical truth seeks to havo the tile church know Just what hat it Is doing then thou he lie Is a Devils advocate If he lie is II seeking to make sure by hy truth the virtues virtues vir vir- tues the candidate Is I supposed eI to possess and anti so save the church t the tho embarrassment of ot havin having the discrediting Information in information In- In formation given later b by enemies then thon he Is a Devils Ils advocate Ir If Dr Paden Is trying to mal make makO a saint of Senator Smoot and Senator I Knox nox Is telling to tho the world the Iho reasons reasons rea rca sons why h j should not be bo bestowed then th lieu ll Senator Sena Sean tor tOl Knox I N is a Devils advocate Otherwise the term does docs not fit and Dr Paden trading on the tho ignorance of oC his Washington ton audience employed an an expression which he lie thought would inflame their hatred against KnOx x and help to prevent the defeat de tic- feat teat of oC the pending resolution re If Jr Dr Paden Pallen Is the expulsion of oC Senator Smoot Smoot- Smoot and and ho lie has been suspected of or it anti it-anti and Senator Knox is opposing that action then Senator Knox can cannot cannot not hot at nt all be dubbed clubbed a n Devils advocate The rIle term does not apply appl The rhe odium does docs not attach aunch And either cither tho the speaker who employs It Is uninformed or ho is Imposing Imposing Im im- Im- Im posing on his audience Dr Paden laden should have the frankness of or his asperIties asperities asperi aspen ties nn and admit either that he didn't know what hat Is meant that ho knew his by the tIle term Devils advocate or he hearers rel's didn't know know and and purposely took tool advantage of or oft t. t them t h em |