The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-19

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
uprighttness of character which the |
loss of the fear of hell torment has not |
undermined. 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 great teacher and noble |
leader of men, They fail to discern |
the fact that if he posed as the Som
of God and the Redeemer of men, and |
was not such, instead of being a noble |
example, his life and teachings were |
most stupenduous frauds and decep- |
tionS.
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 them if |
some who have gotten awake during |
the past thirty years had slumbered |
longer. Those long awake have prin-
c1pally gone off into Darwinism and |
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Disci- |
pie schools and colleges and theological |
SeminarieS like those of other denomi- |
nations, are manned with the brightest
minds Of the denominations, and all |
with one accord teaching Higher Criti- |
cism, Infidelity and Darwinian Evolu-
ton. With one accord all are engaged |
in overthrowing the Christian Faith of
the rising generation. They are doing |
this intelligently. wisely, cunningly. but
not with evil motive. Having gotten
awake to the Inconsistencies of their
creedS these scholarly men, concluding
that the creeds truthfully represented
the Bible, abandoned faith in the Scrip
lures to the same degree that they
have abandoned faith in the creeds
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Now they are seeking to gradually help
Christian people of all denominations
to what they consider the highest plane
Of Truth. What they have-almost
"creeds' they have repudiated. They
are working hard and succeeding
well in introducing their faith-destroy-
ing theory into the minds of the rising
generation through the school books. |
From these they not only have elini- |
mated everything sympathetic with |
Bible faith, but in the stead have in
troduced the subversive 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 Confess
sions of Faith through 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
teachings they are in great danger of
following their leaders into a repudia-
ton of everything pertaining to the
past-into Higher Criticism-Infidelity
and Darwinisn1.
"Choose You This Day Whom We Will
Serve.''
Joshuas words to the Israelites,
after they had come into Canaan, con-
stitute our next text. Joshua per-
ceived that the Israelites We're in a try
inc md no hnfT 6t1fx-
to decide promptly and thoroughly
which course they would take. So We
may see today that Christians of all
denominations 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-into which
their leaders are guiding them. Unless
they heed speedily, the blind leading
the blind will fall into the ditch of
DarwiniSm and the mire 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 min
listers are becoming awake to the in
constituencies of their positions and
drifting without foreknowledge of
where their course will end. For in
stance, I have before me the words
of the Rev. DR.. Macdonald of my own
city, Brooklyn, on February 27th.
This gentleman speaks of the Baptist
Confession of Faith as these swad-
ding clothes of an ancient dogmatism."
And respecting the Baptist doctrine
which recognizes only immersed per-
sons as members Of the Church of
Christ and heirs of salvation, he says,
"Henceforth it can be regarded to be
as dead as the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah. and as worthily buried
The gentleman rejoiced that recently
a Baptist minister had been ordained
Of Brooklyn who affirmed in advance
that he would invite all to communion
and Church membership who loved
the Lord Jesus. He urged that
associate members" should be re-
ceived into Baptist communions with
out imposing baptism upon them
This courageous brother fails to
see wherein the course he advocates
is illogical. What he needs to see is
the real teaching of the Bible on the
subject of baptism-that it is baptism
into Christ's death, and thus into the
real church of Christ-not the Bap-
fist church, nor any other human or
ganization, but the church of God
The church of the firstborns, whose
names are written in heaven" That
roll contains the names of all the
sanity, faithful, consecrated believers
in the Redeemer-of all denomina-
tions and outside of all denominations.
''Sanctify Them Through Thy TRUTH
1t is not sufficient that we get rid
of the errors and superstitions of the
past. We must supplant those with
the Truth, that I'VE may be able to
Withstand in this evil day" (Ephesians
vi, 49,. 1t alone will constitute the
armor of God. Christian people hold
much precious Truth, but hold it in
so illogical and confused a manner
that it fails to give them the needed |
strength. God permitted us to come |
to this very hour and has permitted |
f11n MT f0Gtc For. he Of