The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-06-18
THE NEW PRESBYTERIAN CREED.

THE NEW PRESBYTERIAN CREED
The Brief Statement OF the Reform
ed Faith" adopted by the Presbyteria
General Assembly was not actual
substituted for the Westminster Cor
sesslon bot was left TO make It's va
somewhat In the manner Of the new n
vision OF the Bible. II cannot be Gale
\ radical departure from the old sy'
TEN OF faith which. framed In 1874. en-
braced many OF the crude theolostc'
ImaSinlngs OF the times; but IL Is
step In the right direction The rus
xed. fierce and uncompromisins phras'
ology OF the Confession new comes
W smoothed and emascuiated. ;aSin
the Kulse In which II will eventually 8
from u without regrets Just ho~ n
,onire- DOWN process has been wrougf
appears In the following parallel e,
tracts:
From tn West ICF-rom the Revise
minister Coates Creed-l
.IonD The Lord Jesu
There ~ no 9TH Christ - the onl
er head OF the h c a q OF tn
church but the Church. and IN
Lord Jesus Christ lciaim OF any ma
Sor can the Pope Ito be the vicar q
OF Rome In any Christ and IN
sens. be head head OF. the Churc
thereof: but Is that unscriptofal
antlchrist, tina without warrant "
man OF SIN. and fact. and is q
-on OF periition. Iusurpation dishon
that exaiteth him Ioring To the Lor'
80 - ,bs chure n Jesus Christ"
against Christ and
an That Is called -l
by the decree OF "of Election
CD Tor the mani I'VE believe tina
frstatlon OF his God from the be
glory. rome men SHINING. IN hi
and angels are own sood pleasure
Dredestinated unto gave 10 his Son
@veriastinG life, people. an innum
and others foreor- cradle muitltude
ined to everlaSting CHOSEN IN Cnris
death These an unto holiness. ser
gels and men. thus lvice. and saliva
predsstinated and tion' We oehes'
foreordaIned- are THAT all who com.
particularly and 70 years OF discre'
de- tion can receive
signed The this salvation only
rest OF mankind Through faith and
God was pleased 'lrep-ntance-
to pass BY.
and TO ordain them
TO dishonor and
wrath We believe that
Works done by God requires OF ev-
men. cry man TO do
although for the Justly. TO love mer-
matter OF them Icy. and TO walk
hey may be things humbly with his
which God com God: and that only
nands. and OF good Through this har-
use both TO them mony with the win
selves and others. OF God shall be full
pet are Allied that brother
sinful and cannot n ood OF ma n
please God. or wherein the king
make a man meet dom Of God Is to
% receive grace be made mani
rom God" fest
Theological creeds are becoming OF
mall value and are doubtless hind
rance TO the work OF the church. not
My In the missionary field. for the
lvalries they provoke. but among men
{ independent thought. for the mental
they create. In the max
ig Of them were wars and bitter con-
roversies: and they have In this day
riven great and good men from Chris
an puipits. accused as were the saints
old OF ''heresy." II has been n the
logical crime TO revolt against the
ogrna' OF infant dannation and Is yet.
speaking: while those who
ave resoiutely refused TO believe that
ne Lord OF the perfected Universe
'ouid deliberately ordain n human
allure such as a man must be who is
ondemned beforehand TO everlasting
re. were classed among atheists and
gnostics. Is IL any wonder. with II
II. that the pulpits of Protestant
are asking in their anxi-
~: why Will not men come to
when the church abandons the the
logical creeds and subserlbes simply
, the ten commandments and to the
iving power OF Christ-eschewing all
lse--it ought TO become again the pow
r II was in the old apostolic days be-
're theological weeds had eholsed the
arden OF religion