The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-03


building. and through reverence is IN
willing to alter a shinSle on the roof /
or log in the foundation. 1 love it so
much that 1 want to repair the Old
Homestead, in order to save it; to take
off the old shingles where the old roof
leaks: take out the timberS that are
threatened with decay, that the struc
turc may be handed on intact to our
from the Old Homestead because L be-
iieve in repairing it2 Is not that which
I received from mine fathers mine Own2
loft it seems so, but contrariwise no
teacher of Jesus Christ should be
source of irritation and annoyance, and
if the Presbyt terry of Chicago find my
present membership among them
matter of embarrassment, l shall, of
course. put aside my personal affections
and my old ties and go out from them.
DIR HILLS ULTIMATUM
1T is the penalty that every man
who believes in liberation and charity
must pay. He stands for nOn-resist-
ance: he cannot, if he wish and he
would not if he could, try for heresy
those who teach the doctrine OF the
retributiOn and foreOrdinatiOn of GER
tain men 10 everlasting death Nor can
he resist when others attack him for
choosing the gospel of love and inter
preting the di. inc government as par
entail, or penalties as medicinal, and
rejecting that passage in the Greed end
ing with these words:
angels are fore ordained to everlasting
death. And these are particularly and
unchangeably designed, and their num-
Der is so certain and definite that it
cannot be either increased or diminish
ed
Il know not how others may feel, but
having conceded liberty to my old in
structors to teach that. I do not pro-
pose to lose my own liberty in denying
it Inndeed, for years have encouraged
the hope that these gentlemen had
ceased to teach the tenet of retribution.
That a great theological seminary
should have $50 students in its class
rooms and that men should be teaching
such a doctrine, IS a source of peril TO
American Christianity, and explains
how the wheels have been taken from
our chariots; and so long as ] I've I
shall continue to make my protest
against this doctrine that libels the
Gospel of Jesus Christ. misrepresents
the divine government, and is calcula-
ted to turn men away from Jesus Christ
the worlds Saviour. regenerator and
redeemer as we'll as its Judge and
King
Although now pastor of the Plymouth
Congregational church, DR.. Hills is sciil
a member of the Chicago PreShytery
and his old professors in Mccormick
Theological seminary were shocked by
the words he used last Sunday. They
charge their former pupil with incon-
sistency and insinoerity, if not dishOn-
GSlN, III MS SutlQ6A CnduSe u I6llSs tOQS
tenets.
Among those who criticise DR.. Hills
are DR.. Herrick Johnson, head of the
! seminary; the Rev. DR.. A. G. Zencs,
professor of Biblical theology, and the
Rev. Dr. Willis G. Craig, of the chair Of
! systematic theology.
! PLYMOUTH CHURCH STANDS BY
PASTOR.
The opinion prevails among the mem
/ bers of Plymouth church that even if
/ action is taken against their pastor for
4 his utterances it will not affect his
4 standing in the Congregational church.
Those. Shearman one of the deacons
! of the Plymouth church and chairman
! of the committee which went to Chicago
! to secure DR.. Hills for its pulpit, said,
1t makes no difference what the
/ Presbytery or any one else thinks of DR.
| Hills views on predestinatiOn nor wha1
| action they may take against him be-
/ cause he has risen above the fOgyiSns
| and antiquated ideas by which they Il:
! guided, he viii remain our pastor, The
| talk of mis- expulsion from the church
is all nonsense. Let them eXpel him
am sure that he will not mind and we
| certainly win not.
In mis- sermon he dug deeper into the
truths of the Gospel than any of hi:
/ former cOllea CUES had any idea it Wa!
possible to go, and unearthed thing.
that none of them has been able to d.
before MIN.
A few of the passages in his sermon
would probably offend a radical, bu
never thinking man who could chang
his nina and his views when he saw
that he was in the wrong. DR. Hill
came 30 us with the understanding tina
he was to speak what he thought and
can assure you that we will congratulat
him rather than censure him"
THE SERMON THAT OFFENDED
DR.. Hills topic last Sunday was ~Th
Automatic Judgment Seat in Man; a.
outlook on the Problem Whether The
istic Evolution Throws Any Light Upo
/ ChristS View of Future Punishment
Among other things the preacher said
Nv nen We read ChTist's statement
! regarding future penalties and reward
and interest them in the light of evolu
} tiOn, how fra gmentary seem the oil
teachings. Here is the Inferno of Dant
and the Last Judgment of Miehae
Angelo. Passing over all other teach
, ings of the Bible. they select the draper
and imagery of Christ and John, an
adClng the Jewish stories about th
burning flames of Sodom. they pictuf
forth a coming abyss of flame.
Hell is a huge caldrOn of fire Bil
2 lows of flame rise and fall, lost spirit
5 in their agony drift on the waves an
through the flame stretch implorin
: hands toward horned devils. who wit
L pltchforks push the tOrmented back i.
to their abyss Christ stands forth
y superb athlete, glorified Achilles, e9
I hltAAlE H. his power To aNenRe f1lInSe
upon these transgressOrs of law.
Later on Jonathan Edwards and til
Calvinistic theologians came forwar
$ with their partial conceptions. aThe
= took the words of Solomon, where brai
I ana nerve and stomach speak Sayin
q to the glutton and the drunkard. I wi
y laugh at your calamity, 1 will mos
n when your fear cometh and construc
h ed form of future punishment Their,
To- from. Adam and Eve represented II
: race. For their sin all mankind WEI
n doomed to eternal punishment: Chri,
: came IN with a lifeboat to save a fe
I of the lost wretches; as Edwards saiC
t The bigger part of men who have die
- heretofore have gone to he'll: the who
n heather world is hopelessly doomed
+ against the non-elect the wrath of &C
+ IS burning, the furnace hot, the fam,
V rage and glow, and devils are waitir
for their coming like lions restraint
e and greedy for their prey. On one pas
1t EdMards saws: God holds the uncM