Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-26

,ior +hoorv These sincere men are to be found
in the faculties of all of the colleges. 10 tne
highest pulpits throughout the land and IN tne
most promipent positions in business and social
life Their loss of faith In the Bible mas not
made them murderers or thieves Ihelr noDle
inheritance from the past preserves TO tnem an
unrigbtneSs Of character which the loss of a
fear of hell torment has not undermined Wmie
they are no longer Christians from the bioie
standpoint-no longer believers IN Jesu sas :
standpoint-no longer believers In Jesus as
great teacher and noble leader OF men They
fail to discern the fact that IL He posed as the
Son of God and the Redeemer OF men. ana was
not such instead of being noble example, HIS
life and teachings were most sIupendous frauds
and receptions
BAPTISTS AND DISCIPLES AWAKENING.
When we say that this awakening is also
reaching Baptist and our Disciple brethren:
let 1t not he understood to mean That all OF
these have been asleep until now. Perhaps IL
would have been better for them III some VINO
have gotten awake during the past 30 years had
slumbered longer. Those long awake have prln-
cinaly gone off into Darwinism and Higher
Criticism. Baptist and Disciple schools and col
leges and theological seminsries. like those OF
other denominations. are manned with me
brightest minds OF the denominations and all
with one accord teaching Higher Criticism. inf
deity and Darwinian Evolution. With one ac-
cord all are engaged In overthrOwing the Chris
tain faith of the rising generation. They are do
ing this inteligenty wisely. cunningly. but not
with evil motive. Having gotten awake to the
Inconsistencies of their creeds these scholarly
men, concluding that the creeis truthfully repre-
scented the Bible. abandoned faith in the Scrip
lures to the same degree that they have sban-
doned faith In the creeds which their fntellects
have repudiated Now they seeking to
gradually help Christian people Of all denomina-.
tions to what they consider the higher plane
Of truth. What they have-almost anything In
fact-is better than the ''crPeds' they have
repudiated They working hard and succeed
ing well in introducing their faith-destroyfng
theory into the minds Of the rising generation
through the school books From these they not
onlv eliminated everything sVmDafhptsH
with Bible faith. but In the stead have intro
duced the subverslve doctrine Of Evolution.
As for the rank and file of Baptists and Dis
ciples. probably three -fourths of them still hold
vaguely and indefinitely to the Bible and their
Confession of Faith. though both of these de-
nominations in their innocency Of mind think
that they have creeds-that they take the
Rible only. As these dear friends awaken tn
the Inconsistencies OF their Confession and
their leaders into repudiatiOn Of everything
pertaining TO the past-into Higher Criticism
Infidelity snd Darwinism.
CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY WHOM YE WILL
SERVE"
Joshul's words to the Israelites. after they
had come into Canaan. constitute our text.
Joshua perceived that the Israelites were In
irving position and that IL YVES their duty to
decide promptly and thoroughly which course
they would take. So we may see today that
Christians Of all denominations are in trying
position and that a nronpt decision to stand
nv God and the Bible is the necessary thing for
those who would be delivered fEom the dark
of the past and avoid falling into the
Adverssry's great deception Of the present
into which their leaders guiding them. I'm
less thev heed speedy. 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 way-the Bible way. Many
Baptist and Disciple ministers becoming
awake. TO the Inconsistencies OF their positions
and drifting without foreknowledge OF where
their course will end. For instance, I have be-
fore the words Of the Rev. DR.. Macdonald.
Of my city. BROOKLYN. on February a.
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sion Of Faith as these swaddling clothes Of an
ancient dogmatism." And respecting the Bap