Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-16

driven not only away from Calvinisia,
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 anti-Biblical teachings. They
are engaged in pulling down the Bible
and substituting for it's 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 a 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 he posed as the Son
Of God and the Redeemer Of men, and
was not such, instead of being a 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 If
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 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, Infdelity 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 to the same de-
gree that they have abandoned faith
n the creeds which their intellects
nave repudiated. Now they are seek
ng to gradually help Christian people
If 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 we'll in introducing
their Misunderstanding 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 file of Baptists
md Disciples. probably three-fourths
Of them still hold vaguely and indefi-
nitely to the Bible and their Confess
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~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-into Higher Criticism nfdelity
and Darwinism.
"Choose You This Day Whom We Will
Serve"
,Joshua's words to the Israelites, aft
er they had come into Canaan. consti-
tute our text. Joshua perceived that
the Israelites were in trying position
and that it 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 a trying position and that
prompt decision to stand by God and
the Bible is the necessary thing for
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
ere guiding them- Unless they heed
speedily. tbs blind leading the blind
will fall into the ditch Of Darwinism
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There are not many ways to escape
this threatening calamity! There Il
only one way-the Bible way. Many
Baptist and Disciple ministers are be
coming awake to the Inconsistencies OF
their positions and drifting wtthout