Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-09-27

! evangeIists who travel from place to
/ place to form new associations and 10
stimulate associations previously or
gained They also hold evangelistfc
services with after-meetings for peni-
tents somewhat like "the inquiry meet
ings' of Moody and Sankey.
/ Men of the ripest culture and most
thorough education have identified them
selves with the movement. who devote
their efforts to work among the students
of the universities and other intellectual
l classes.
| The movement has given rise TO a lit
erature of it's own in the form OF weekly
and monthly periodicals which report the
| progress of the work and advocate its
principles and methods. 1t has also es-
tablished fourteen training schools to pre-
pare men for the work
| For the housing of the movement build
ings have been Observation-Disclosures more
] churchly than our Young Mems Chris
tian Associations and less ecclesiastical
than the parish churches. This fact dis
closes that the new movement is not al
ways at home in the churches. and that
it. therefore, seeks buildings suited to its
own spirit and methods.
! Its principles may be summarized from
statements made by its leaders as fol-
lows:
Cd 1t is an intensely biblical movement.
| One leader says, I'VE stand upon the
ground of the entire Holy Scriptures,
which we acknowledge as the sole au-
thority in doctrine and life" Another
declares, 1.-THE Holy Scriptures are our
highest authority, our only form Of faith
and life. They are to us the whole rev.
elation of God, and are therefore iner-
rant. Our associations can no longer en-
dure preaching in which the unbelief OF
modern theology finds expression. They
simply refuse any longer to hear such
preaching.
CD The movement emphasizes the deity
of Christ and His vicarious atonemenG
There is no pairing down this great and
essential truth. These men are not going
Ito lost world with a bleached and i'm
potent gospel of mere ethics and philos-
ophy
| CD The movement demands of all to
whom it brings it's appeal that they shall
surrender their wills to Christ, renounce
sin, eschew every form of worldliness,
and consecrate themselves to the service
of the kingdom of heaven. It's leaders are
as strict as Wesley or the English Puri-
tans in their opposition to worldly diver
sions and indulgences. They oppose
1 ''pomps and vanities" with the zeal of
the apostolic fathers.
90 Justification by faith, as an ex-
! perience of the heart and as opposed
to all ritualistic dissolution or justifca-
ton, is strenuously insisted upon.
| C5) The demands of the gospel are en-
| forced by an appeal to the doctrine Of
| eternal rewards and punishments in the
future life.
In a word, the movement is entirely
| and uncompromisingly orthodox, as has
, been every great evangelical movement
| I'm the world from the days of the Apos-
| ties to the present hour. The theories
| of rationalism and liberalism seem quite
| plausible to certain types of mind, but
| II Is a fact that such teachings seem to
| have no power to renew the lives Of in
| dividuals or to regenerate society. Bish-
| op Ryle, the Lord Bishop of Liverpool.
| at the close of his interesting and edify-
| ing book entitled, 1.-The Christian Lead
ers of the Last Century" says. There
! never has been good done in the world
excepting by the faithful preaching Of
! evangelical truth. From the days of
| the Apostles down to this time, there
| have been no victories won, no spiritual
successes obtained, except by the doc
trines which wrought deliverance hum
dred years ago. Where are the conquests
of neologians and tractarianism over
] heathenism, irreligion, immortality?
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/ TANNED, the parishes they have evan
! gelzed, the towns they have turned from
/ darkness to light? You may well ask
| where? You will get no answer. The
! good that has been done in the world.
however small, has always been done
| by evangelical doctrines; and If men
| who are not called evangelical have had
successes, they have had them by using
/ evangelical weapons. They have plough
/ Cd xyifh haifor thew would never
| have had any harvest to show at all"
| These words are true
In the sIums of christendom and in
| the darkness of heathendom nothing but
| evangelical christianity works with any
| power We can not conceive of high
! err critic standing by Jere Macaulay
! and Sam Hadley in Water Street rescu-
, ing the outcasts of the Bowery neigh
borhood, nor can we imagine one OF
| them going as a foreign missionary, or
| doing any good in pagan lands, II he
/ went But can that be gospel at all
| which is impotent for good at those
| points on the planet where a gospel is
most needed, viz: in the slums and In
| heather lands? Has not old General
| Booth of the Salvation Army done more
to save the lost world than have all
the rationalists and liberalists who have
poured out their pretty and petty notions
for a century?
These young German laymen. with the
evangelical pastors who sympathize and
| cooperate with them, have done more
for the religious life of Germany In
three years than have all the German
| critics in a century.
1t is quite time that evangelical men
in all lands should give the pretentious
llberalists to understand that they are
! wholly disqualified to advise on serious
! religious interests. Why should lot OF
! religious bankrupts assume to teach the
| Christian Church how to carry on its
| great business of saving the world? 1t
| will be time enough to pay attention
to these vain pretenders when they have
done something more than talk. They
dearly love to prate about the narrowness
! Of orthodox, evangelical men; but they
would do far better to consider for
season their own spiritual steriiity. Men
, who have never made a crop ought not
| to lecture successful farmers about the
best methods of agriculture.
Evangelical Christianity is marching
on in all lands. 1t is the hope Of the
world. 1t is stirring Germany now as
it stirred England and America more
than a hundred years ago. 1t will
! awaken the human race i'm the end, cry
| ing to all mankind, Behold the Lamb
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