The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-03-17
PEOPLES PULPIT.
Choose Ie ThHDay
Between Truth
and Error.
Choose You This Day Whom
Ye Will Serve. =. If Jehovah Be God,
Serve Him" Joshua XIV. l5).

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ton Of human Evolution, which denies
the fall Of our race and makes void
Christ's redemptipe work and the glori-
Gus result thereof-human restitution
, (Acts iii, 1929.
Bury the Dead Past.
! God forbid that we should bury any
! Of the doctrines of Christ and his
twelve apostles! On the contrary let
us strive to resurrect these from the
rubbish OF human traditions which
eighteen centuries have piled upon
them. Let us instead bury our man.
made creeds. of which we are all
ashamed. Our Presbyterian friends
some years ago set noble example to
all Christendom in the burial of their
Confession of Faith and their substitu-
ton instead of a much simpler and
much more rational statement.
But. No. l must correct myself here.
This is what they should have done
but did not do. Instead of burying the
old creed, not only from sight, but also
from odor, they have merely covered
the corpse which is admitted to be
dead and placed the briefer and better
Confession atop the winding-sheet.
They assuredly declare that it is not
a substitute but merely representative
| statement. Hence every time we read
the re-statement, we must hold our
noses to avoid contamination from the
odors of the carcass beneath. Not
all must do this. for, as the Apos-
| tie suggests. All have not their senses
| exercised to discern. But all intelli-
| 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-
| ton of anti-Biblica teachings. They
are engaged in pulling down the Bible
and substituting for it's teachings Oar
wins Evolution theory. These sincere
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 fear of hell-torment has not under
mined. While they are no longer
Christians from the Bible standpoint
| no longer believers in Jesus as a Re-
deemer-they are still believers in
Jesus as great Teacher and a noble
Leader of men. They fail to discern
the fact that if he posed as the Son
of God and the Redeemer Of men, and
was not such, instead of being a noble
example. his life and teachings were
most stupendous frauds and decep-
, lions.
,, Baptists and Disciples Awakening.
/ When we say that this awakening
is also reaching our Baptist and our
Disciple brethren. let it not be under
stood to mean that all of these have
been asleep until now. Perhaps it
would have been better for ithem if
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. Infidelity and Darwinian
| Evolution. With one accord all are
engaged in overthrowing the Christian
Faith of the rising generation. They
are doing this inteligently, wisely
cunningly, but not with evil motive
Having gotten awake to the inconsist
encies Of their creeds these scholarly
men, concluding that the creeds 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
repudiated. They are working hard
! and succeeding well in introducing
their Misunderstanding 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 in
the stead have introduced the sub
versive doctrine of Evolution.
AS for the rank and file of Baptists
and Disciples, probably three-fourths
of them still hold vaguely and indefi-
nitely to the Bible and their Comics
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 a repudia-
ton of everything pertaining to the
past-into Higher Criticism-Infdelity
and Darwinism.
"Choose You This Day Whom We Will
Serve"
Joshua's words to the Israelites, aft
er they had come into Canaan. consti-