Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-22

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tor used various Scriptures, any one of
which might have served for text.
Once the colleges Of the world repre-
sented, not merely secular education,
but the faith, the hope, the religious
sentiment Of their founders, who were
generally religious people, A great
change has taken place. Today col
leges are ashamed to acknowledge any
religious affiliations; and although they
stand for moral principles Of n high
order and represent form Of godli-
ness, nevertheless they are hot-beds Of
nfidelity-disbelef in the Bible as the
Divinely-inspred Revelation.
This condition Of things, the Pastor
declared, is deplorable. In his opin-
ion the great institutions of learning
throughout the world, so well equip
ped for the incubation Of faith in God,
are, as a matter Of fact, doing more to
overthrow faith than are all other in
fluences combined. He declared 1t not
strange under such circumstances that
the cry of graft is going up in every
civilized land.
The increase Of knowledge, of late
spread abroad among the masses Of
mankind, the Pastor believed to be
accountable for the increase Of vice,
which Is so great that If II were not
for our inventions and police arrange
ments, this would be the most inse-
cure time in the worlds history, He
explained that the undermining of faith
in the Bible as the Word of God, and
the inculcation of the Evolution theory,
tend to destroy faith in personal God,
and In rewards and punishments from
Him upon the just and upon the un-
just. One of the most peculiar things
to him was that the very wealthy men
OF the world have richly endowed its
leading colleges, thereby destroying
faith and unintentionally leading man
kind to social revolution, and more, to
the precipice Of anarchy.
Sympathy For Higher Critics.
Nothing in the Pastors words indi.
Gated condemnation; but on the con-
trary, he manifested deep sympathy
for those who are entangled in the
snare Of 0ccultism and Evolution. He
had once been entangled himself, he
said. He had gotten free in time,
thank God! Had his experience gone
so far as to lead him to doubt the ex'
istence of the Supreme Creator, he be-
lieved that he would have been as ir-
revocably lost In Evolution as are
many Of the noble specimens Of our
race who are in college chairs.
The Pastor knew well that the pri-
mary difficulty is that they cannot be-
lieve the Bible to be the inspired Rec
ord. SO also he had once rejected 1t,
because he thought II to be In harmony
with the creeds Of the Dark Ages
whose absurdtles are more and more
apparent to all intelligent, thinking
people Now, the Pastor pronounced
himself a most firm believer in the In
splration Of the Bible. He had rea.
son for the faith within him, which he
also explained. He said:
One OF the surprising things my Bi-
BILE study revealed was that the Bible
supports the teachings Of none of the
sects, none OF the creeds; and that
none OF the creeds and sects care for
or use all Of the Bible Each has
made selections OF doctrines from the
Word OF Gsd Each uses these In Its
own defense and each finds In the Bi'
bic other teachings supported by other
texts, which do not flt in with It's own
creed. Evidently none Of the differ
ent sects manufactured the Bible, Had
the Calvinists made II up, they would
have left out all the texts which teach
Divine Free Grace. Had the Armin-
ians-the Methodists, etc.-made up
the Bible, they would have put In more
Free Grace texts and would have left
out those which mention Election
Had the Catholics made the Bible,
they would have added something to
teach the immaculate conception OF the
Virgin Mary, and to prove that she
should now be prayed to and worship
ed. They would have put in some
thing about indulgencies, high mass
low mass, holy water, holy candles
etc. They would have had 1t mention
St Peter as the FIRST Pope. They would
have had II support their theory OF
Apostolic succession-that all the bish'
ops are holy apostles, as well as the
original Twelve. They would have
put in, as would most Protestants' a
number Of texts telling about the doc
trine Of the Trinity. -.
Both Catholics and Protestants would
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