The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-03-17
PULP T..
Choose You This Day Whom
Ye viii Serve. >. II Jehovah Be God,
Serve Him" Joshua XIV, Isl.

lion of human Evolution, which denies
the fall of our race and makes void
Christs redemptiUe work and the glori-
Gus result thereof-human restitution
(Acts iii, 1928.
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
some years ago set a noble example TO
all Christendom IN the burial of their
Confession of Faith and their substitu-
ton instead of "a much simpler and
much more rational statement
But. No, 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
the corpse which is admitted to be
dead and placed the briefer and better
Confession atop the wnding-sheet
They assurcdly declare that it Is not
a substitute but merely a representative
statement. Hence every time we read
the re-Statcmeut We must hold our
noses 10 avoid contamination from the
odOrS of the carcass beneath Not
all must DO this. for as the Apps
tie suggests. All have not their senses
exercised TO discern But all inteln-
gent Presbyterians are being rapidly
driven not only away from Calviulsm
but, alas. away from the Bible also.
because Of their erroneous suppoSluon
that the teaching of Gavin 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 promuga-
ton of anti-Biblical teachings. They
are engaged in pulling down the Bible
and substituting for its teachings BAR
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 10 them - Gp
rightneSs Of character which the loss
Of a fear Of hell-tormpnt has not under
mined. While they are 10 longer
Christians from the Bible standpoint
no longer believers in Jesus as Re
deemer-they are still believers in
Jesus as a great Teacher and a noble
Leader Of men. They fail to discern
the fact that if ne posed as the Son
of God and the Redeemer of men, and
was not such. instead of being a noble
example. his lie 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 Eave
been asleep until now Perhaps it
would nave 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 off into Darwinism and
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Disci-
pie schools and Colleges and Theolog
ical Semiuaries. like those of other de-
nominations. are manned with the
brightest minds Of the denominations.
and all with one accord teaching High
er Criticism. lntidelity and Darwinian
Evolution. With one accord all are
engaged in overthrowing the Christian
Faith of the rising generation They
are doing this intelhgently. wisely,
cunuingly but not With evil motive.
Having gotten awake to the inconSist-
eucieS OF their creeds these scholarly
men. concluding that the creeds truth
fully represented the Bible, abandoned
faith in the Scriptures to the same de
gree that they have abandoned faith
in the creedS which their lntellects
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-almosJ anything in fact
Is better than the "creedS' they have
repudated They are working hard
and succeeding well in introducing