Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-16
ASSAILS THE CREED.
Parkhurst's Hot Attack OF
Westminster Confession.
SIMPLE DECLARATION NEEDED.
Wrists Words to Nicodemus Greed
Enough For Him-The Doctrine of
REORGANIZATION, He Declared, Burden
to the Presbyterian Church.

NEW YORK, April 16.-Rev DIR. Chas.
Fl. Parkhurst, speaking in his pulpit in
Madison Square Presbyterian church,
made vigorous assault on the West
minister confession of faith He said:
1--WE ought to have new confession
Of faith. 1t is surprising that the Pres
byterian church is able to do as much as
it is doing with such an ineumbrance
strapped upon us as we are lettering un-
der IN our present confession. In the
first place the thing needed is not sys-
tenn of theology, for that is wb Tt our
present confession is, but a simpl.l. brief
Saxon statement of a half dozen or SO Of
the vital ingredients of Jesus Christ 5
message to the world. | could get along
with a confession Of faith containing
but the little that Jesus said when he
was trying to make Christian of Nico-
demns; God 50 loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son, that whose
ever belleveth in him should not perish,
but have eternal life.
Of. That gives us the doctrine of God s
unlimited love, human guilt. the Di-
vlnlty of Christ salvation through
Christ, faith III Christ, Immortality;
every word Saxon, three-quarters OF
the words monasyllables, profound
enough for any elder, simple enough for
any four year old.
AT any rate we want new creed.
Amending this one will not meet the
necessities of the case. Better give it
dignitied place in the museum for
what it is than hack it to pieces and re-
yamp it for what it is not.
"And then, once more, If there We're
among rs the distinct feeling which the
gospel SO wonderfully guarantees, that
everything III this great Christian mat
ter plvots on the absolute and uncondi.
toned love Of God, we should be intol-
ant toward everything that states Oh
even suggests anything like partial on
arbitrary love on Gods part, loving
some because he chose to and damnine
the rest III order to show what he could
do and how just he was.
CHOW that is our book, the Presby-
terrain confession of faith in the third
chapter. If we are thorough Presby-
terlans and believe what our doetrinal
prospectus advertises US as believing
we believe it probable that some of the
children III your homes, little children,
perhaps the baby of your bosom is
damned, already damned, damned be-
fore it was born, damned from everlast.
ing to everlasting and then you are in,
vited to come into church and say 'Oul
Father Why, any man who should be-
come a father for the sake of the joy
and glory he would use in racking his
own offspring, deliberately creating q
child with a view to the agony into
which he was going to torture it, would
be chased from the earth as a friend and
as an ebullition.
1T does not meet the case to say that
it is only i'll the book, and that no.
body breaches it. 1t is true that no
badly breaches it and equally true, !
doubt not, that nobody believes it,
nevertheless it is printed on the flag be
meath which the Presbyterian army is
marching, and it hurts us as denomi-
nation. Men are staying out because it
is there and men are going out because
it is there. -