Moses and the Right to Kill
By Editor
NEWSPAPERS that deal largely in gossip and sporting news usually make bad work when they venture to make a statement on a subject connected with the Bible. The S. F. Chronicle, speaking of the liberation of Freeman, the Pocasset child murderer, says: “A head of a family who adopts the Mosaic doctrine that he has the right of life or death over his offspring, is better behind bars.” We fully agree that a man who thinks he has a right to kill his children, is a dangerous man to be at large; but we would like to know whereabouts in the writings of Moses there is any such doctrine as that a father has the right of life or death over his offspring. People hold the Bible accountable for a good many things that exist only in their own brain.