The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-14

exercised to discern. But all intellis |
gent Presbyterians are being rapidly |
driven not only away from Calvinism |
but, alas. away from the Bible also
because of their erroneous supposition |
that the teaching of Calvin and the
teachings of the Bible are one and the
same.
These bright minds are not merely
lost to the Christian forces. They be.
come active agents in the promulga-
tlon of anti-Bibical teachings. They
are engaged in pulling down the Bible
and substituting for its teachings Oar
wins Evolution theory. These sincere
men are to be found In the faculties of
all of the Colleges, In the highest pull
pits throughout the land and in the
most prominent positions In business
and social life. Their loss Of faith In
the Bible has not made them murder
ers or thieves. Their noble inheritance
from the past preserves to them an up
rightness of character which the loss
of a fear of hell-torment has not under
mined. While they are no longer
Christians from the Bible standpoint
no longer believers In Jesus as Re-
deemer-they are still believers In
Jesus as a great Teacher and noble
Leader of men. They fail to discern
the fact that If he posed ms the Son
of God and the Redeemer of men, aud
was not such, instead of being a noble
example, bis life and teachings were
most stupendous frauds and decep-
tions.
Baptists and Disciples Awakening.
When we say that this awakening
is also reaching our Baptist aud our
Disciple brethren. let 1t not he under
been asleep until now. Perhaps il
would have been better for them IL
some who have gotten awake during
the past thirty years had slumbered
longer. Those long awake have prin-
cipally gone off into Darwinism and
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Disci-
pie schools and Colleges and Theolog-
ical Seminaries. like those of other de-
nominations. are manned with the
brightest minds of the denominations.
and all with one accord teaching High
er Criticism. lnlideity and Darwinian
Evolution. With one accord all are
engaged in overthrowing the Christian
Faith of the rising generation. They
are doing this intelligeutly, wisely,
cunningly, but not With evil motive.
Having gotten awake to the inconsist-
eucles of their creeds these scholarly
| men, concluding tha; the crPeds truth
| fully represented the Bible, abandoned
faith in the Scriptures TO the same de-
| gree that they have abandoned faith
in the creeds which their intellects
have repudiated. Now they are seek
| ing to gradually help Christian people
of all denominations to what they con
slider the higher plane of Truth. What
| they have-almost anything In fact
| is better than the "creeds" they have
rcpudiated. They are working hard
and succeeding well I'm Introducing
! their faith h.destroying theory into the
minds of the rising generation through
the school books. From these they
not only have eliminated everything
sympathetic with Bible faith. but I'm
the stead have introduced the sub
verSive doctrine OF Evolution.
AS for the rank and tile OF Baptists
and Disciples. probably three-fourths
Of them Sun hold vaguely and indef-
nitely to the Bible and their Confes-
sions of Faith though both of these
denominations In their innocency of
mind think that they have no creeds-
that they take the Bible only. AS
these dear friends awaken to the in
constituencies of their Confession and
teachings they are in great danger of
following their leaders into repudia-
ton of everything pertaining to the
past--into Higher Criticism.lnfidelity
and Darwinism.
".hoose You This Day Whom Ye VIII
Serve"
loshua's words to the Israelltes, aft
er they had come into Canaan. consti-
tute our text. Joshua perceived that
the Israelites were in trying position
and that 1t was their duty to decide
promptly and thoroughly which course
they would take. So we may see to-
day that Christians OF all denomina-
tions are in a trying position and that
a prompt decision to stand by God and
the Bible Is the necessary thing for
those who would be delivered from the
darkness of the past and avoid falling
into the Adversary's great deception OF
the present-lnto which their leaders
are guiding them. Unless they heed
speedily, the blind leading the blind
will fall into the ditch of Darwinisnl
4 and the mlre of Higher Criticism
There are not many ways to escape
This threatening calamity! There is
only one way-the Bible way. Many
Baptist and Disciple ministers are be
coming awake to the Inconsistencies OF
their positions and drifting without
foreknowledge of where their course
will end. For instance, | have before
me the words of the Rev DR. Mac Don
aid of my own city, Brooklyn. on Feb
ruary 27th. This gentleman speaks ol
the Baptist Confession of Faith al
these siuaddliilO clothes OF an ancien
dogmatism." And respecting the Bap
list doctrine which recognizes only i'm
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