The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-03-19


ton Of numau Evolution. which denies
the fall OF oui race and makes void
Christ ; rcdcmFfue work and the glort-
Gus result thereof human restitution
facts Iii. 1873,
Bury the Dead Past.
God forbid thai We should bury any
Of the doctrines Of Christ aud 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 a 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. | 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 brlefer and better
Confession atop the winding-sheet.
They assuredly declare that 1t is not
a substitute but merely a 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 intelll-
gent Presbyterians are being rapidly
driven not only away from Calvinism,
but. alas, away from the Bible also.
because Of their erroneous superstition
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-Biblical 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.
rlghtness 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 a Re-
deemer-they are still believers In
Jesus as a 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-
tons.
6aptists and Disciples Awakening.
When we say that this awakening
is also reaching our Baptist and our
Disciple brethren, let 1t not be under
stood to mean that all of these have
been asleep until now. Perhaps 1t
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-
cipally gone Off into DarYinism and
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Disci-
pie schools and Colleges and Theolog-
ical Summaries, like those Of other de-
nominations. are manned with the
brightest minds Of the denominations.
and all with Il accord teaching High
er Criticism, ~ln6delity and Darwinian
Evolution. With one accord all are
engaged in overthrowing the Christian
Faith Of the rising generation. They
are doing this lntelligently, 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 intelIects
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 faith-Gestroying 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 rhe sub
versive doctrine OF Evolution.
As for the rank and bic Of Baptists
and Disciples. probably three-fourths
Of them sun hold vaguely AID Inden-
nitely to the Billie and their Confess
sions Of Faith Though both Of these
denominations IN their %inuucency Of
mind think that they have no creeds-
that they take the Bible only. As
these dear friends awaken 10 the In
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