The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-03-17
PEOPLES PULPIT.
Choose 2e This Day
BetaOeen Truth
and Error.
Choose You This Day Whom
Ye VIII Serve. II Jehovah Be God.
Serve Hum" { Joshua XIV. l5).

the fall of OuI race aud makes void
Christ redemptlDe work aud the glori-
ous result thereof human restitution
(Acts Ill. 1923,
Bury the Dead Past.
God forbid that we should bury any
of the doctrines of Christ aud mis-
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 noble example to
all ChrlstendOm IN the burial of their
Confession of Faith and their substitu-
tlon instead of much simpler and
much more rational statement
But. No. must correct myself here,
This is what they should nave 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 briefer and better
Confession atop the winding sheet
They assuredly declare that IL Is not
a substitute but merely representative
statement. Hence every time we read
the rc-statcmCut, 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 intellI.
gent Presbyterians are being rapidly
driven not only away from Calviulsm.
but. alas. away from the Bible. also.
because of their erroneous suppositiOn
that the teaching OF Gavin and the
teachlngs.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-
tion of antiBiblical teachings. They
are engaged In pulling down the Bible
and substituting for Its teachings Dar-
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 I'm 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-tormpnt 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 great Teacher and noble
Leader of men. They fail to discern
the fact that II he posed as the Son
of God and tine Rrdeener of men, aud
was not such. instead of being noble
example. his life and teachings were
most stupendous frauds aud decep-
tions
Baptists and Disciples Awakening.
when we say that this awakening
is also reaching our Baptist aud our
Disciple brethren let IL not be under
stood 10 mean that all of these nave
been asleep until now. Perhaps 1T
would have been better for them II
some who have gotten awake during
the past thirty years had slpmbered
longer Those long awake have prin-
cipally gone off into Darwinism and
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Dlsci-
pie schools and Colleges and Theolog-
ical Seminaries. like those of other de-
nominations, are manned with the
brightest minds of the denominations.
and all with one accord teaching High
er Criticism. lnfidelity 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 have abandoned faith
In the creeds which their intellects
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-destroying 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 fle OF Baptists
and Disciples, probably three-fourths
Of them still hold vaguely and indef-
nitely to the Bible and their Confes-
sions of Faith though both OF these
denominations In their lnnocency of
mind think that they have no creeds-
that they take the Bible only AS
these dear friends awaken TO the In
consistencies of their Confession and
teachings they are in great danger OF
following their leaders into a repudia-
ton OF everything pertaining to the
past Higher Criticism Infidelity
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