The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1884-10-15
For the Central Presbyterian.
20 Him That Hath an High Look
and a Proud Heart Will
Not I Suffer"

Immediately after the war the people
If the Southern Presbyterian Church-in
great humility and poverty-contribut
to the spread of the gospel OF Jesus Christ
with great iberality according to their
ability. Very soon the Devil, with great
adroitness, stirred up spirit of pride in
them and set them to Dragging over this
good work and to comparing themselves
with others who gave less literally.
Then followed period of stinginess that
stopped the expansion of the work at
home and abroad, and brought US even
to contemplate the necessity of contrac-
ton in the foreign fields. We are just
recovering from the evil effects of our
"high looks and proud hearts" in re-
gard to this work.
At one time our young men focked
" like doves to the windows to our the
illogical seminaries, and at once we began
to boast of the superiority of our Church
in this respect. This too has been fol.
lowed with distressing dearth of candi-
dates for the ministry.
We have been in the habit, for years,
of landing our Church for the high cul.
ture of our ministers and for her superior
orthodoxy, and prided ourselves as hav-
ing the model Church of all the world
And none have done more of this sort OF
Boosting than those in the vicinity of Co
lumbia Seminary. And 10 through
pride of intellect and of high culture, SO
called, we have taught at Columbia a
strange and irrational theory, that the
body of man was not created out of the
dust of the earth, into which God breath
ed the breath of life and he became a
living soul, as the Bible teaches but that
his body was evolved from that of brute
(Which they call organic dust) and per
sattun1 converted into rational, immortal
man. And this strange and illogical
teaching at this uper-conservative centre
of conservatism, is permitted to be taught,
and it's teacher is Landed and endorsed
by the much boosted conservatism of the
States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
and Alabama, as represented by their
Board of Directors
1t is time for us to cease our "high
looks" and proud hearts," and walk
humbly before Cod. Pride of intellect
and pride of culture and pride of supe-
rior orthodoxy, have already chilled our
religious enthusiasm and curtailed our
gospel work to an alarming extent
While we have required all of our
young men who want to preach the Cos
pei to be conjugating Latin verbs and
studying Greek propositions and par
ticles, others have been preaching the
gospel Of Jesus Christ to the destitute
and perishing and saving souls from
eternal ruin. While the great Perkins
Professor, through the pride of intellect,
and Of culture so called with the APP
proval Of the Board Of Directors, has
been distracting the Church with his wild
and fanciful theories about the evolution
of man out Of beast-organic dust 30
called-and about his having been made
by God out Of some unknown and I'm
movable dead brute, into which God
breathed the breath Of life, the Moodys
and MEALS have been preaching Jesus
Christ and him crucifed to perishinp
multitudes, and compelling them to come
in from the highways and hedges to the
marriage supper Of the Lamb. Oh for