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Title: The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
Author: Various
Editor: B. O. Flower
Release Date: August 27, 2007 [EBook #22419]
Language: English
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THE ARENA.
No. XXII.
SEPTEMBER, 1891.
[Illustration: Geo. C. Lorimer. (signed "Yours' Respectfully, Geo. C. Lorimer")]
THE NEWER HERESIES.
BY REV. GEO. C. LORIMER, D. D.
It is a good thing that the Inquisition, Star-chamber, and other compulsory institutions of the dark past have departed from Europe, and have never been tolerated in America. Were it not so, at the present time there would be much excellent work for the rack, the thumbscrew, and the faggot. Heresy is in the air, especially in the northern latitudes of the United States. We inhale it with the morning breezes, it stimulates us to mental activity during the noon hour, and at times stifles us as by the sultry atmosphere of a blistering day. Everywhere it is being discussed, and by every kind of individual, qualified or unqualified for such high contentions. Daily journals, hitherto never remarkable for orthodoxy, have suddenly grown anxious as to