Religion: Brisbane

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Arthur Brisbane, Hearst chief, writes daily for a constituency estimated at 30,000,000, nearly one-third of the U. S. What does he consider to be the most pertinent remark yet made in the theological controversies ? Last week he dismissed the subject by quoting Benjamin Franklin's reply to a President of Yale.

"As to Jesus of Nazareth, I have with most of the present dissenters of England some doubts as to His divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, never having studied it and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon the opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I sec no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making His doctrines more respected and more observed."

The words are Mr. Franklin's; the typography is Mr. Brisbane's.