Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-03-19

teachings Of Gods Word. which. in the
dark past we al seemingly misunder
stood aud misrepresented Already the
most intelligent one-fourth Of Meth
odism not only rejects Brotber Yves
ley's theory. but alas. repudiates tn
Bible also, II accepts instead of Sal
walton that most dangerous form Of
infde1ity known as Higher Criticism
md that most un-Scriptnral proposi
ton Of human Evolution. which denies
the fall of our race and makes void
Christ $ redemptire work and the glori-
Gus result thereof-human restitution
LActs 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
SOlIt 1t&io hSO Y a hVDiN tA"AhR'N ~
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 o 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 wiDding-sheet
They assuredly declare that it is not
q substitute but merely "A representative
statement. Hence every time we read
the re-statemeut. we must hold Il
| 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 T. 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 suppoSitlon
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 he 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 o 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 i'm 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-
tions.
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 il
some who have gotten awake during
the past thirty years had slumbered
longer. Those long awake have prin-
cipany gone off into Darwinism and
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Disci-
pie schools and Colleges and Theolog-
ical S~emina-ies. like those Of other de
nominations, are manned with the
brightest minds Of the denominations.
and all with one accord teaching High
er Criticism, lnfdelity and Darwinian
Evolution. 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 inconsist.
encies of their creeds these scholarly
men. concluding that the creeds truth
fully represented the Bible. abandoned
faith in the Scriptures 10 the same de-
gree that they hav abandoned faith
in the creeds which their intellects
have repudiated Now they are seek
ing 10 gradually help Christian people
Of all denominations to what they con
slider the higher plane of Truth. What
they havc-almOsr anything in fact
is better than the "creedS' they have
r%epudiated. 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