The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-06-20
s2,1so,ooo FOR THE SEMINARY.

1t is not for the Apostolic Mission
House, but for the Theological Semi
nary of the Presbyterian church a
Princeton, New Jersey. The generou!
donor is Mrs. Mary j. Winthrop Sht
inherited the greater part of he
wealth from her husband, Henry r
Winthrop; and while she lived she
enjoyed the pleasure of giving t.
charitable purposes, and at her deatl
she arranged that her entire estate
with the exception of some small gifts
would be given to the Presbyterian
Theological Seminary for the eXten
sion Of the Church of Christ upoT
earth and the promotion of the glory
of God"
We certainly do commend the good
lady for a generosity that nowadays
is altogether rare. But we cannot
help thinking of the spending of two
millions in their relation to the re-
Gently revised creed of the Presby.
terian church, because the donation
of the money and the revision of the
Greed have occurred at the same mo-
ment.
laid down that:
by the decree of God, for the man.
Hesitation Of His glory, some men and
angels are predestinated unto ever
lasting life and others preordained to
everlasting death. These angels and
men, thus predestinated and preor-
dained, are particularly and un-
changeably designed and their num-
Der is SO certain and definite that it
cannot be either increased or dimin-
ished.''
But declaratory statement is add
ed in the revision that mo man is
condemned except on the ground of
sin" As all men are sinners, who
can tell but he is one of the throng
''preordained to everlasting death"
The declaratory statement practically
defines that this or that man who has
sinned, by that very fact presumably
puts himself in the category of those
who bear the mark of eternal damna-
tion. Two millions of dollars are Civ
en- to disseminate this horrid doctrine
among our American people.
Again, in the old form Of the West
minister Confession, the statement in
regard to the Pope was as follows:
There is no head of the Church |
but the Lord Jesus Christ. nor can
the. Pope of Rome in any sense be
the head thereof, but is the Antichrist, |
that man of sin, and son of perdition, |
that exalteth himself in the Church
against Christ and all that is called
God"
But this language was a trif1e impo-
lite. 1t called names, and that was
not in accord with the canons of re-
fined society, so the language must
be changed without relinquishing one
iota of the strength Of the denuncia-
ton against the Pope. The revised
creed now reads:
''The Lord Jesus Christ is the only
head of the Church, and the claim of
any man to be the vicar of Christ and
the head of the Church is un-Scrip-
tural, without warrant in fact, and is
a usurpation dishonoring to the Lord
lesus Christ"
To educate ministers to demon
strate that the good old Leo XIII,
whose every breath is for virtue and
integrity, is "the man of SIM and
the son of perdition," two millions of
lollars have been given. DR.. Van I
Dyke, who is the spokesman of the
Creed unanimously revised at Los 6
Angeles, declares 'fthat this revision :
ioes not mean that the Presbyterian !
church has changed her base one
nch." They still believe that the
White Shepherd of Christendom, the {
aintly Leo, is Antichrist, the ap- l
beast who utters blasphe- I
MES and destroys the saints of God; I
hough, as becomes gentlemen as they S
re, they say it in language of parlor I
nd not Of the scullery. 1t takes v
len learned and proficient in the Q
Iospel teachings to demonstrate this [
act to the American public, and hence v
wo millions of dollars have been Civ
n for this purpose by the good lady q
Garden City. 1t would have been Q
Infinitely better for her to have bur-
I'd her treasure like Captain Kidd un-
few more generations pass away, a
nd then there will be no Presbyterian G
1urch to defend g
In the meantime the work of dis o
the sweet and wholesome Il
octrines of the true and real church n
Christ will go on. We may not v
ave two millions to spend to assist u
this work. If we had how we s.
light flood the country with litera- >
Ire, and how many earnest mission p
les of the truth we might send out n
to the highways and byways to per- W
lade the people of the true teachings IL
Christ! 1t is to accomplish this
ork that we are looking not for two
but for but quarter of one
illion. S,