The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-18

honesty and scholarship TO New England; IL
your letter rnisrepresents you, and you have
either one of these excellent New England
traits, you know that the place 70 look Tor such
language az you have sscrtbed 20 me Is not
in the writings OF men who believe in
Jesus Christ as the Savior Of the world. but In
the writings of such men as that same Theodore
Parker, of whom you speak. The enlightened
Christian world knows. If you do not, that men
like Parker, under the guise of "building spir-
itual religion by divesting 1t ofits cerements IN
which It had been wrapped" and many IKE
unloading expressions, have left lew hard
things TO be said about Christ the Lord, and the
cause he planted in the earth. You write as II
were to blame for the attitude toward Christ
which Emerson and Parker and his school saw
fit to take.
wish to call your attention 70 the fact that
all have done was to call public attention 70
the fact of their true position by quoting their
own words and their deeds which bore upon
this matter. I cannot even claim to have said
new thing; the world knows the position OF
these men. ! have simply been claiming that
men should be allowed to occupy the place
which they chose for themselves while living.
You say that Emerson was a Christian
Emerson refused to be called by that term after
he became an apostate from the faith and sur
rendered the ministry. Your fight and your
hard speeches should be with Emerson, and not
matter. You being New Highlander. and such
q devout follower of Emerson. should not have
been in the dark as TO the fact that when Emer-
SON was pressed almost out OF measure 10 take
the place he wished to hold with ref
erence to Christianity, he only conceded that
his friends might call him Christian just as
they would class him with the heather. This
is not my fault Now, II Emerson and Parker
need no one to vindicate them at the present,
they certainly will be sadly in such need If men
like you, and others who have been writing
about them, continue to force them to positions
which were so Objectionable to them while liy-
ing. Imost heartily say "Amen" to the fact
that Jesus Christ needs no vindication. When
He told ungodly men that their
sins would take them to the
place where the fire 10 not quenehed, and
where their worm would never die, unless they
should repent of their sins and believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and bring forth fruits 70
attest this fact; when He saw ut to make the
standing OF men for all ages to depend upon
what they should do with the crucifed and
risen Christ; when He saw ft to make the blood
of the everlasting covenant which was shed at
Calvary to be the only hope OF salvation for all
ages and classes, and the rejection Of this to be
their enternal condemnation, He put on record
unchanging truths for which He needs no
vindication, and for which He wants no race
of Parkers or Emersons to rise to apologize. And
When sucu men 10 rise anu cApldtn away IAs
gospel and teach that there Is some other way
of being saved, they have thereby become the
enemies of Christ. Not because / have said 1t,
please bear this in mind. but, on His own au-
thority. See Gal. i:S and Rev. xxii:1S, 10.
Now, Mr.. Crosby, If you have any further war
to make along this line you can at least better
understand the task before you. ! have uttered
not one syllable against Mr. Parker and Mr.. EN-
erson. / only called attention to their true
place, sought by themselves by making war
upon the law of God. and as you lift your hand
against that same word, be that in whatever
form it may, remember
"rhafs a perilous shot out of an elder gun,
that poor and private dispeasure can do
against monarch. You may as well go about
to turn the sun to fee with tanning in his face
with peaeock's feather"
Yours respectfully, G. J. BURCHErT.