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OLD AND NEW SCHOOL PREsBfTERI.


OLD AND NEW SCHOOL PREsBfTERI.
- a~ ANS.
Mr.. EDIToR: VIII you allow me tC
notice through your valuable paper, g
someuhes. rarderfnl book. entitled Dit:
ference Ssfreea Old and New School
Pres6yeridns, By Rsv. Lesris Chszseman,
sUith an introductory Essay By @hn C.
Lord, d. d., which I find has beer
given to the world.
The book charges the New School
with all the heresies that ever sfflicted
the church or the world except1hat oi
Universalism; and the peculiar bitter
ness which runs through all itspages,
reminds one continually of the lencient
proverb, at is natural to hate those
whom we have injured"
In the Introductory ehaptel, page
8, Mr.. Lord says "The Theological con-
test between the Reformers and she Ro-
manists in the sixteenth century is the
same now waged between the Old and
New School Presbyterians," andof the
New School he says "The doctrnes Of
all the reformed churches have Ven re-
jected by them for the tenets of The pa
pacy" The reader should re1ember
that this is the same John G. Lord OF
Buffalo, who, having been warm New
School man for ten years, and lad him.
self liable to discipline by immoHl con-
duet in his own presbytery, got cut the
difficulty by hastily making tracks to the
Old School. In the practice of the law
before he entered the ministry, he had
evidently learned to take both sides Of
a question.
Mr.. Cheeseman devotes one chapter
to the division of 1897, and here, con-
scious that he has to manage the labor
ing oar, he endeavors to lead thezfeader
away from the facts. and feebly iapolo-
gizes for what he cannot ignorf. He
then proceeds through some ivy hun
dred pages to the discussion kf the
differences" which according = him,
pertain chiefly to the doctrines of
Atonement, Depravity and Resenera-
ton. In regard to the first of thfse, he
says-page 78 and 70, "Tbc New
School do not really believe that Christ
died for any man,-Indeed they speak
in most depreeiating style Of hisdeath
They deny that he died for anyfnan."
Pape 81, "They limit it (the atom. n.ment)
because they take from it every ingre-
dient which could make it eithe.a suffi-
cient or efiicacious." Page 81 "The
New School then do not extend the
atonement, they limit it, they dest,eyi it."
And page 81, "They array tht S<elves
against all those passages (of the Bible)
which represent Christ as Redeeiner,"
And so he goes on reiterating the same
thing, page after page, and chapter after
chapter. On the subject of Regenera-
ton he says page 1875, "The New
School, by their views of ability and
depravity, make the Spirits dispensation
void" Page 1856, "We repea. the
charge, that the entire doctrine Of re-
generation is abandoned and rejected by
the New School definition of itS and
page 144, "The New School then deny
the necessity of the work of the Holy
Spirit in regeneration, and make that
work improbable and superfiuous--They
treat the Holy Spirit as the papi3s do
the Son, they occupy his place with a
strange God"
Finally, Mr.. Cheeseman closes with
a lugubrious chapter on "wars and fight
ings" and "plea for Union! What
Union with heretics who make void the
death of Christ, make void the dispen-
sation of the Holy Spirit, and rejest all
the doctrines of grace? o no, not by
any means. He will have us come
hats in hand, to him and DR.. Lord, co7-
tesS and retract these errors, and ask to
be taken into ecclesiastical standihERnd
the communion of the church!
We have not the least dispositios to
reply to such charges as those cited
above. We only advertise the book and
leave an intelligent public who have
heard the preaching and are acquauied
with the literature of the New School
divines, to judge whether Mr.. Cheese
man is or is not slanderer of his breth-
ren.
We hope however that the readers of
this book will not take all our Old
School brethren to be such men as Mr..
Cheeseman and DR.. Lord. They may
differ from us as to the propriety and
constitutionality of the excision act
Of 1897, and also as to the best modc of
prosecuting the work of Home and fsr-
eign Missions. But it is impossiblcto !
believe that the strong prejudice and
the malignant spirit of those sindiyid-
uals, pervades the entire body OF lat
great branch Of the Christian church.
We had proceeded thus far, when
our eye fell on the following paragraph
in the Presbyterian Quarterly RevieT,
which fully explains the vioienes of
temper manifested throughout this f.
nous book by Rev. Lewis c. Cheese
man, with an Introductory essay BY
John G. Lord D. D.
Our readers may mark that evciy
sxcinder who is forced up to this. party
work, loses his temper before he has
finished. 1t is the rebellion of his bet-
.er nature. He is angry with himself
or having doubts; he has made up Ms
mind to go through; but first his intG- |
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