The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-06-13


praise that will lift his people to the Mercy
Seat.
1t IS both fair and desirable that the popular
reader shall be informed as to the kind of tLeo-
logical training given to students for the min
1stry in certain institutions of learning in orr
country This knowledge will have the double
value OF being warning against the influence
OF such institutions and the young ministers
that they send out, and of increasing our apnro-
cation OF the value of institutions under orr
own control, and therefore having the approval
Oh the Church. Some weeks ago the FOLLOWING
appeared In the Philadelphia PRESBYTERIAN:
Ihe journal and Messenger" tells of tbeoTooi
cal student, who had been under the teaching of
capable but decidedly liberal teacher 1t saws erbe
examination was stirring one, and caused consid
eI"pIe comment The young was asked if he he
eNeo that the Bible is infalibe rule of faith and
practice He answered No He was asked if he no.
heVed In the resurrection. He said Not as Il is oen
orally believed by Baptists.' What then about PauIs
argument Answer: We'll, Paul made mistake,
lie said there difference between the insnio
tloh OF the prophets and that of Shakespeare and
Milton etc. In fact, he said: "Tennvsons "Crossip
the Bar means infinitely to me than MANY of
the Psalms. These only samples of what he
SAID and many of us felt sick at heart at the tbouqb
VI T1tbo
W0rtd" comments: owe should say So too IT. &c
enough to make sick at heart when vounq mon
OF such views being indicted into the ministry
Inc preaching OF such views in Germany in the eioh
teenth century emptied the churches Wbv sbonld
it not?" ~
1he BIBLE Student gives account of a similar
case reported by a ruling elder on his return
from 'Presbytery, where he had witnessed the
examination of a candidate for the minstrv
He says:
a young man about to graduate from a tbeolooicaI
seminary applied for license to preach He would
graduate i'll June and he wished TO oo to vvorl, a.
once When this young man came TO state his views
he explained that he did not believe in state Of in
n0eence or in any fall from that state on the mart
OF our First Parents. He did not believe several
mugs which are stated facts in the Bible TIE
dd not believe that Jesus Christ was born If q
Vngin He was the son of Joseph in a natural and
physical sense.
II was pitiable to see this young mans unbo1iof
and his confidence that nevertheless tbo proshta
would license him to teach the peopc in tbo ,a,o IS
the Presbyterian Church.
1T was equally ptiable to see The ,vav in which
une Presbytery treated this case. The Presbvterv
representing the Presbyterian Church in This ro
gon ana not stand up like men to tell this seminary
student that such views disoualifv him for t6o ,or
OIL the Church. Some of the members of the Presbv-
terry seemed to wish decision reserved as if tboro,oro
ProoaDhty That the young mans views might some
cay turn out to be true! Finally instead of de-
Gliding the question the facts before it, the Pres
bytery voted to postpone action until the next moet
ing, and assigned members to labor with tbo
young man III order to smooth things over and
straghten out some of his kinks Some even nraisod
the young fellow for his sincerty" as if that trait
was rare enough to expiate many faults! 1t was
ptiable spectacle
The third case is also reported in The Bible
St"de"L and is well authenticated as are the
others:
Before an important Ministerial Association +boro