Telegram-herald., 1890-02-24

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Bap1ist - harch, New York saws. III l.
admitted that there Is tendency in the
church to-dsY toward fayorlng future
probation it Is dincuIt however. L
see on what such hope Is based
III ~e righuy denne failure punish.
menL We need not feas that any inius-
Tee viii bs done the Ssathen. Neither
in thls world nor ia tne world 10 come
can al innocent man be panlshed God
sends no nan lntO perditlon Hell Wa
not prepared for man. ban for rho devil
and his angels. Ne say II deliberately.
no man plll 20 70 he'll but the man
10 wishes - g0-who he's made that
his hnsl choice. No man can be con
demned for rejecting . Christ Of whom
he has never heard
III would not be dihieult 70 show by
the most careful and authoritative exc
gesis that the punishment Of tho i'm
penitent is endless Every true man
shrinks from accepting this doctrine
The Bible does not teach that suffering
in the future world is intended 70 work
out the redemption of the soul. Nc
such ray OF hope falls across the path OF
the lost
There is no logical place for infant
baptism, SO called. IL any evangelical
system OF religion, even as there is ne
place for infant baptism in the word OF
God Baptists DO not believe that any
who die in infancy are lost.
Let the creeds go Let the church
stand in its primitive beauty, symmetry
and glory. There are in ali our churches
to-day indications Of turning away from
some OF the old creeds. NAa.cyer leads
the church OF God near 20 the word oi
God is a blessing.
TRADITIONAL BELEFs VANISHING.
Rev James ii. Wilton Congregation
alist, the editorial associate Of Rev.
Lyman Abbott, says:
The tendency is toward hesitation il
drawing line at which probation ends,
whether here or hereafter.
~.
dency is toward the belief that they s-e
saved on the same principle as people
in Christian lands, VINO live according
To the light given them
The church of to-day, at least among
non-Catholics, has wholly abandoned
the idea that any who die without bap-
tism are at all the worse forit. A large
and growing body Of Christian opinion
now regards eternal punishment az
meaning punishment az eternity, not
through eternity.
Evolutionary science is fast revolu-
tionizing theology, SO far as its form is
concerned. 1t is also displacing here
and there some traditional beliefs, as
about Adam and the infallibility Of
every word of the Bible-which are no
part of the Gospel, or of ehe Catholic or
universal faith"
THE ATTITUDE OF PRINCETON.
Princeton, next 10 AndOver, the
stronghold of American theology, has
been a center Of activity in the present
fight. Many of its professors and sem
inarians have become involved in it.
Rev. Theodore /. Cuyler, of the Lafay-
cite Avenue presbyterian Church,
Brooklyn, says on this point:
II am an oldfashioned Presbyterian
and complain that Princeton has gone
back on its former teachings. When !
was there they taught no such nonsense
as they do now about the damnation OF
infants. As FOR the damnation of the
heather, / leave that in the hands OF
Cod"
The Andover idea Of a second proba-
tion, it is claimed by the Conservatives,
has been the means of stirring up the
whole controversy in this country.