The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-19
HoOsE We THIS DAY BETWEEN TRUTH ERROR.

educ time" for it to be made known
to Gods people had not yet come in
the eternal torture Of all mankind, ex-
cept the sanctified believers in Jesus
the Savior. But in his preachings of
the love of God he was used of the
hearts of Christendom for the broader
message of the Bible now due to be
seen and understood. Wesley's gos-
pei of the love of God has mellowed
was frigid under the cold teachings
of REORGANIZATION, predestination, ETC..
of the Westminster Confession of
Faith-once the basis of nearly all
Protestant communions.
If we and our Methodist brethren
could maintain the same degree of
spiritual warmth that Wesley and their
forefathers enjoyed We might do with
out further instruction. But we can.
not do thisi None can stand still!
Christians today are losing their holt
ness, their sanctification-their zeal
for God is giving place to zeal for
sect.
The light of the millennial morning
which for a century has been gradual
ly breaking upon the world, stimulat-
ing thought IN every direction, makes
it necessary for our Methodist breth-
rem, as well as for US all, to awaken
to the wonderful privileges of our day
for Bible study; to ascertain the real
teaching OF Gods word, which, in the
dark past we all seemingly m1sunder-
stood and misrepresented. Already the
most intelligent one-fourth of Meth
odism not only rejects Brother Wes-
ley's theory, but alas. repudiates the
Bible also! 1t accepts instead OF sal
walton that most dangerous form OF
and that most unscriptural PROPOSE
ton of human evolution, which denies
the fall of our race and makes vold
Christ's redemptive work and the glor-
ious result thereof-human restitution
(Acts iii, 19-23)-
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
some wears ego set a noble example to
all Christendom in the burial of their
confession of faith and their substitu-
ton instead of much simpler and
much more rational statement.
But, no, I must correct myself here.
This is what they should have done
but did not do. Instead of burying the
old creed, not only from sight, but also
from odor, they have merely covered
dead and placed the briefer and better
confession atop the winding sheet.
They assuredly declare that it is not
substitute but merely representa-
tive statement Hence every time we
read the restatement, we must hold our
noses to avoid contamination from the
odors of the carcass beneath. Not
all must do this, for. as the apos-
tle suggests. all have not their senses
Exercised TO discern. But all intelli-
gent Presbyterians are being rapidly
driven not only away from Calvinism,
hut 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.
lost to the Christian forces They be-
come active agents IN the promulga-
tion of anti-Eib1ica1 teachings. They