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1 D. W. Dennis, Capital Punishment: What the Scriptures Teach regarding It: An Address 1 (1886)

handle is hein.death/cpwhste0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0D INDIANA 8TATE NORMAL LIBRARY CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: WHAT THE SCRIPTURES TEACH REGARDING IT. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR D. W. DENNIS, AT FRIENDS' SOUTH EIGHTH STREET MEETING HOUSE, RICHMOND, IND., AUG. 15, 1886. [ROM THE RICHMOND DAILY TELEGRAM. THE LAW. Gen. IX; 1 to 6. Exodus XXI; 23 to 25. Leviticus XXIV; 17 to 21. THE AMENDMIENT. Deut. XIX; 1 to 10. THE REP.EAL. Matt. V; 38 to 41. My Friends, I invite your attention first this evening to the candid con- sideration of a little scripture which if it had not been scripture would long since have been worn threadbare. Men have thought they understood it; but it should always be borne in mind that the wisest and best of all past times have been sometimes mistaken as to what the Scriptures teach. Shakes- peare says: 1n rlgion What error but some sober brow W In hiss. it and appiove it with a text, Hin its grossness with fair ornament? Theres s no vice PO simple hut aaumies some marks of virtue on his outward parts. The learned and great Blackstone was mistaken as to what the Scripture teaches on one point at least, unless the world at large is mistaken to-day. Hear what he says: To deny the possibility nay actual existence of witehcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passaes both of the old and new Testaments.' The world owes a debt of gratitude to the zealous and pious John Wesley, which it can never pay, but he, in 1768, wrote on the same question : It is true, likewise, that the English in general, and, indeed, most of the men of learn- ing in Europe, have given up all ac- count of witches and apparitions as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it, and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment which so many that believe the Bible pay to those that do not believe it. I owe them no such service. I take knowledge that these are at the bottom of the outcry which has been raised, and with such inso- lence spread through the land in direct opposition not only to the Bible, but to the suffrage of the wisest and best men in all ages and nations. They well know (whether Christians know it or not) that the giving upof witchoraft is in effect giving up the Bible. Henry, the VIIIth, wanted a new wife, and applied to the leaders of the Reformation for permission to get one. Martin Luther and Melancthon signed the following: In certain cases there is room for dispensation. If any one detained cap- tive in a foreign country should there take unto himself a second wife, we know not by what reason a man could be condemned who marries an addi- tionkl wife with the advice of his pastor. In fine, if your highness be fully and finally resolved to mar yet another wife, we judge that this ought to be done secretly as has been sail above

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