The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1908-09-02
Unitarian Faith.

ious political and religious temper
aments. Our purpose was to set
some facts before our readers.
which they. as Republicans or
Democrats, have a right to know
and since some plagiaristic CARRIERS
have viciOusly assailed us, we arise
to a point of personal privilege
under the God given and inherent
law of self-defense.
In Webster's unabridged diction-
airy we find Unitarian defined as
follows:
'One who denies the doctrine of
the trinity and ascribes divinity to
God the Father only"
Now it doesn't take much of a
lOgician to see how the Unitarians
look upon Christ. The doctrine of
the trinity-the Father, Son and
Holy Ghosts denied, and divin-
ity being ascribed to the Father
alone, of course cuts Christ and
the Holy Ghost out of their creed.
The Unitarians acknowledge
Christ as a kind of religious leader,
but not possessing any supernat-
ural power. They deny that he
performed the miracles recorded in
the New Testament.
The American Unitarian Associ-
alton of Boston, publishes a book
let written by Rev. E. E. Hale,
one of their ablest preachers, in
which he sets forth their articles
of faith as follows:
The Fatherhood of God, The
Brotherhood of Man, The Leader
ship of Jesus, Salvation by Char
acter, The Progress of Mankind,
onward and upward forever"
These articles of faith are all
right for a church that believes in
Salvation by Character" and not
by the atonement made on Cal
vary's Cross.
Rev. j. T. Sunderland another
noted Unitarian preacher of the
East, in pamphlet issued by the
same Association and entitled, rs
the Bible Infallible ?" says:
1T requires only a very slight
examination of the way in which
the Bible came into existence and
of the manner in which it has come
down to us, to see that any claim
of infallibility for it can be only
words without meaning"
On page % of the pamphlet,
Mr.. Sunderland hits the Bible a
hard lick. He says:
There is no use trying to evade
it; the Bible contains errors of
many kinds. 1t contains incredible
stories, as for example those of the
talking serpent, the speaking ass,
and Jonah living three days in the
fish,"
If this fish story is false, then
they had Jesus fooled, for in Mat
thew 1910, He says: For as
Jonah was three days and three
nights in the whales belly, so shall
the Son of Man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the
earth" What pity that some
good Unitarian brother or some of
Pikeville's learned defenders of
the faith, were not present to set
Jesus right in this matter.
Mr.. Sunderland doesn't take
much stock in prophecy, for on
page 20 of his book he says:
There are predictions in the
Bible that have never come to pass
and some which in the nature of
the case, can never come to pass. !"
But this is not the worst of it.
This good brother, one of the lead
ing lights of Unitarianism, after
denying both history and prophecy
in the Old Bible and discrediting
Jesus Christ, again dips his pen in
ink as black as styeian midnight
and at one swoop wipes the Old
Bible and New Testament from
their creed. He says:
The simple truth is there are
two Bibles. One is the old and
outgrown Bible of tradition, Gre
dulity and ignorance. The other
is the new, fresh living, imperish-
able Bible of inquiry, scholarship
and intelligence"