description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1892 ... CHAPTER XI. LATER YEARS. PERSONAL SACRIFICE. WHY did Mr. Brown resign his connection with the London Baptist Association and the Baptist Union? From the standpoint of many Christian people, such a step no doubt appeared to be very narrow-minded or uncharitable; but when the case comes to be understood in all of its bearings, it is difficult to see how a man of Mr. Brown's uncompromising views could have acted otherwise. He believes in the full, plenary inspiration of Scripture, and to talk to him about 'the moral view of the Atonement,' is to suggest a one-sided view of the Atonement altogether. The following extract from The Christian, of October 5th, 1888, explains the situation at that await with considerable interest the result of the deliberations of the five or six leading ministers who have been appointed by the London Baptist Association, to define the meaning of the word Evangelical. We are quite disposed to agree with those who think that the phrase is becoming a little too elastic. For illustration of our meaning we need not go beyond the very meeting to which we allude. One of the speakers announced himself as " one of the most evangelical brethren in the London Baptist Association," and proceeded to advocate the moral theory of the Atonement, and the larger hope. Certainly neither of these would have been accepted twenty years ago as being within a hundred miles ot evangelicalism. And in our judgment they are not admissible for a moment in any right definition of this venerable term, which has played so important a part in the history of religious discussion and controversy.' 'Evangelicalism ' was defined, but when a declaration was drawn up merely for people's information, and not to be binding on anyone who disbelieved it, and yet ...
language: English
title: The Life & Work of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
titlecomplete: The Life & Work of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
publisher: Banner of Truth