The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-11-05
TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES.
It is a satisfaction to us to find articles from
our columns copied widely in other papers
When due credit is given, we are glad. When
it is not, we make no complaint Our lesson
helps. as well as other material are freely quoted
from by our contemporaries The latest issue OF
the Earnest Worker contains various excerpts
from this department of our paper although
at second hand, through the columns of the
Central Presbyterian As the theology OF
neither the Central Presbyterian nor the Earn
est Worker has been counted fully 4" sound by
many OF our readers, we are glad to have the
columns of these journals enriched by the sterl-
ing exposition of Professor Kendrick and others
of our corps of ENTHUSIASTICALLY School Times.
There is an implication in the above
that the CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN had
published from the Sunday School Times
Philadelphia "the sterling expositions
of Professor Kendrick and others with
out due credit. We deny the allegation,
and call for the proof. We have not
published any of the expositions of Pro-
fessor Kendrick. We have not publish
ed any of the expositions of any body.
And yet the Sunday School Times is
glad to see our columns enriched with
these uncredited "lesson helps" be-
cause the CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN "has
not been counted fully sound by many
of our their readers
This is most remarkable state of
things. We.have not published any "leS-
son helps" since we took charge of
this paper Gin June) and we do not
know what the Sunday School Times is
talking about.
We did this: some two months ago we
published communication from Pres
byterian clergyman of high standing,
criticising the theology of the Sunday
School Times. The article was headed,
is the Sunday School Times Safe
Guide?" and called attention to an expo
sition in the Sunday School Times of
July 10Th, 1879, p. ass, of 2 Corinthians,
14-2l. The criticism of our CORES
pondent was, in our opinion, just, and,
taken in connection with another lesson
given in previous number of the Sun
day School Times, satisfied us that the
SUNDAY School Times is unsound, and
quite unsound. This other lesson to
which we refer was that amazing exposi-
ton Of the ffy-third chapter of Isaiah
by Professor Toy, which was published
in the Sunday School Times, and which
cost Professor Toy his place in the Bap-
list Theological Seminary at Louisville,
and which ought to have cost the Sunday
School Times the loss of all its subscribers.
1t gives us no pleasure to writes these
lines; for the Sunday School Times is in
many respects very fine paper; its edi-
torials are not surpassed in any paper
that we receive at this Office; and we
have enjoyed them and profted by them.
But this makes it, perhaps, worse, that so
able and pleasing paper should go forth
to the Sunday Schools of the land, with
false views of the atonement of our Sa-
viour, and teaching that the glorious
fifty third chapter of Isaiah, the greatest
of the Messianic prophecies, is nothing
but prophecy about the Hebrew people,
and is no adumbration of the suferings
of Jesus.
All this were bad enough; but the
Sunday School Times now adds that it
considers the CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN
unsound" If so, still SO much the
worse for the Sunday School Times. We
have no desire to be thought sound by
any one who cannot find Christ in the
Old Testament prophecies If he is not
in the ffy-third chapter of Isaiah, where
is he? Now, we trust that the children
of the Presbyterian Church, at least, will
never be familiarized with paper teach
ing such doctrines as these. We do not
see much difference between this and the
New York Independent.
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