The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-03-16
PULPIT.
Choose re ThfsDay
Between Truth
and Error.
Choose You This Day Whom
Ye viii Serve. :. If Jehovah Be God,
Serve Him" Joshua XIV. 80.

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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 inteili-
gent Presbyterians are being rapidly
driven not only away from Calvinism.
but, alas. away from the Bible also.
because of their erroneous supposition
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 antiBiblical 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 hell-torment has not under
mined. 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 n great Teacher and noble
Leader of men. They fall to discern
the fact that il he posed as the Son
of God and the Redeemer of men, and
was not such, instead Of being noble
example, his life and teachings were
most stupendous frauds and decep-
tons
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 II
some who have gotten awake during
the past thirty years had slumbered
longer. Those long awake have prin-
cipally gone OF into Darwinism and
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Disci
Pile schools and Colleges and Theolog
ical Seminaries, like those of other de-
nominations. ore manned with the
brightest minds OF the denominations.
and all With one accord teaching High
er Criticism Infidelity and Darwiniar
Evolution. With one accord all are
engaged In oyerthrewing the Christian
Faith of the rising generation. They
are doing this inteligentiy, 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 III the Scriptures 10 the same de-
gree that they ba,e abandoned faith
In the creedS which their lntellects
have repudiated Now they are seek
Ing TO gradually help Christian people
OF all denominations Ia what they con-
slider the higher plane Of truth What
they havc-almosI anything in fact
is better than the "Creeds" they have
repudiated fbey are working hard
and succeeding well IN introducing
their faith destroying theory into the
minds OF the rising generation through
the school hooks. From these they
not only have eliminated everything
sympathetic With Bible faith. but In
the stead have introduced The sub
verslve 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 Comics
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 denr friends awaken to the In
teachings they are III great danger or
Ioiiowihg theif leaders INTO fepndia-
tioh OF everything pertaining 10 the
past-ihte h'sher 'rl''clSin- ihnaeht
ana par"ihishh
Choose YOU ms Day whom 70 VIII
Serve
Joshua 3 words 10 the Israeiites, ar
er they Ind come INTO Canaan consti-
tn'e our text 'osinia perceived tnat
the isiaeiites were IN trying position
and that II was their duty to decide
promptly and thoroughly which course
they would take. So we may see to-
day that Christians OF all denomina-
tons are in trying position and that
prompt decision to stand by God and
the Bible Is the necessary thing Tor
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 ministers are be-
coming awake to the Inconsistencies OF
their POSITIONS and drifting without