The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-03-29

Serve Him Joshua XIV, Isl.
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
rightness of character which the loss
of fear of hel-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 be 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 aud 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-
cipally gone off into Darwinism and
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Disci-
pie schools and Colleges and Theolog-
icai Summaries. like those of other de-
nominations. are manned with the
brightest minds of the denominations,
and all with one accord teaching High
er Criticism. Intdelity 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-
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
inc fn ORE AI1o w hnln hric
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 we'll 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 indeti-
nitely to the Bible and their COMES
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 Inf1delity
and Darwinism
"choose You This Day Whom We VIII
Serve"
Joshua's words to the Israelites, aft
er they had come into Canaan, consti-
iute Our text J..,...a perceived that
the Israelles were in Il trying position
and that it Uas their duty to decide
promptly and thoroue hly which course
they would take. So we may see to-
day that Christians Of all denomina-
tons are in 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
AL elN1 To-.
Baptist and Disciple ministers are be-
coming wake to the Inconsistencies of
their positions and drifting without
fOreknowiedge 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 9th. This gentleman speaks OF
the Baptist Confession of Faith as
these s,0addling clothes of an ancient
dogmGtiSnl. And respecting the Bap-
fist doctrine which recognizes only i'm
mersed persons as members of the
Church of Christ and heirs Of saliva
ton. be says. 'Henceforth 1t can be re-
0drded to be as dead as the cities OF
Sodom and GoRa0TTGh. and as toorthtLy
buried" The gentleman rejoiced that
recently a Baptist minister had been
ordained to the Sixth Avenue Baptist
Church 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
received into Baptist communions
without imposing baptism upon
them"
This courageous brother fails to see
wherein the course be advocates is
illogical. What he needs to see is the
real teaching of the Bible on the sub
ject of Baptism-that it is baptism into
Christ's death. and thus into the real
Church of Christ-not the Baptist
Church, nor any other human organiza-
ton, but the Church of God-"The
are written In heaven" That roll con-
tains the names of all the sanity,
faithful, consecrated believers In the
Redeemer-of all denominations and
outside of all denominations.
"Sanetify 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 viii 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