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most learned tneoiOSIdns WIN lIIe-long
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Veal.
THE Christ" is title of Office and
refers GO the Work Oh Jesus as "A oay,o.r
from SIN and from death. "Ihe Son
of the living God" describes the person
OF Jesus, his nature stated by John in
the expression The only begotten OF
the ather." This creed therefore re-
lates To the person ana WORK Oh Jesus.
Necessarily he who accep.s this propo-
sItion as true and commits MS destiny
to Jesus does receive joyfuliy the teach
ing of Christ on all subjects as infal-
lible. From the mount Oh transfigura-
.lon the voice came from the cloud to
the listening disciples. This Is my be-
loved Son In whom l am we'll pleased I;
hear we hi l." The disciple reverently
learns from Christ the lessons of faith
and duty in blessed confidence that He
is the divine Teacher through whom
the rather has spoken.
Original Christianity as it Is recorded
on the pages OF the New Testament
Scriptures was ineligible, rational,
simple and amazingly powerful. Its
successes during the first three CEN
turtles of its existence have never been
paraileled. Judaism sought to crush Ii
in its infancy; Paganism resisted; the
vast power of imperial Rome in ten
bloody prosecutions struggled to pre-
vent its onward march. But in vain.
Christianity accomplished it's peaceful
and Ulfan 20 ~ n
baptized in the year 325 A. d., as one
has described it, christianity put on
the royalpurple, went up and sat down
on the throne of the Caesars
Today with a prestige unknown at
the beginning, with a great host of edu-
Gated ministers acquainted with all the
languages of the earth, with a magnif-
icent equipment of Christian schools
colleges and universities; with Chris
tian journals and journalists of highest
grade, with varied and rich Christian
literature and with missionary institu-
lions already established within
heather territories and wealth beyond
computation twenty-five years of such
labor as the apostolic church put forth
ought, humanity speaking, to bring
about the conversion of all nations to
the Lord Jesus Christ. What is the
chief hindrance? 1t is the confusion
which characterrizes present day Chris
tianity. Divisions, rivalries and an
tagonisms must give way to unity
brotherly-love and cooperation. The
Ecumenical Conference of Missionaries
w..ch assemblies in New York city on
the 21st OF this month is declaration
of worldwide Protestant Christians OF
the necessity for delIverance from this
obstruction to progress.
The road out of the confusion was
clearly pointed out by John Wesley
when he wrote: Would to God that all
the party names and all the unscript-
ural forms and phrases which have
divided the Christian world were for
gotten and that we might all agree as
humble. loving disciples of our common
Master to sit down at his feet hear his
word, imbibe his spirit and transcribe
his life in our own. "UnscripturaI
phrases" Wesley Justly asserts to be one
of the principal causes of divisions
a ais refers particularly to unscripturaI
creeds. Peters confession of faith Is
Scriptural. All Bibles in all languages
contain II.
Would 1t not be well for the church
universal and SO for all mankind II
that ancient confession of faith were
restored?