Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-02-25
ReU. Charles =. Aked'S Views on the
Virgin Birth

n EV DIR. CHARLES f. AKEp,
* one time pastor Of Fifth Ave-
nuc Baptist church of New York
CITY ana now pastor ~ the First
Congregational church of San Fran
CISCO sends 10 the Philadelphia Pub
We Ledger the following explanation
of hia belief regarding the virgin
birth Of Christ
There is nothing original la my
views. They are the common prop
erty Of educated men and women IN
an tie Protestant churches Of the
world There Is nothing new IN them
An the people who write books and
al the people who read books havt
for long been familiar with them u
is only the people who are opening
their eyes No wide,
Sensational reporting started the ais
cusslon Roman Catholicism Is
vigorous and Influential IN this city
Persons familiar with the phrase
"The immaculate Conception" iRnor-
ant Of Tie fact that IL is a Roma
Catholic dogma, proclaimed officially
hy Pope Plus lN. IN 1854 and made
authoritative by the council Of 1870
which declared ox-cnthedm utter.
anees OF "a pope hnvo the same valid
ity as The derrccs of a council mud.
dled this with the Sew Testament
stories of the virgin birth Of Jesus
The competency of the persons b.
question to discuss theological ques
lions may be Judged from this oonfu
sion. Persons who cannot distinguish
between Tie birth OF woman and ths
birth of hor own son arc not exactl,
those 90 whom philosophical theolog
! ical on critical questions should be rc.
ifcrrei
Origin Of Controversy,
/ Interest aroused this way. some OBJ
IscWe Presbyterian ministers tool
I upon themselves 90 protest against my
election to the chair 81 the local Fed
GRAFTON ~ Churches / did not know
uny one III the four J had not st
much us heard the names OF three OF
them and ala not know of their OK
istenco
one OF them was Installed as pastor
Ola little church ON the sunday, and oi
the Monday signed this protest 1 con
voueh for hiH zeal. onlg b. is not zca
1 With knowledge the fact that ] hav,
tnken some little part la social am,
civic reform has made the protest in
terestiug TO the newspapers,
n had never assaulted the narnarl
Const you would never have heard
word about my alleged horesies Thes
men of themselves could not have
broken into The trent page Of thl
daily newspapers with au axe. Ia it
sclf the whole business is trivial 1
Is not blk ennugh to Doe called tenn
7 post in "a teapot Ne Is only huui
cane IN demasse am IN entire
/ harmony witch the denomination q
which belong nm at one with M.
/ brethren IN the ministry and amonl
the hity There is no difficulty
have preached ON the Congregations
oreet accepted with such ov6rflowinl
enthusiasm at Kansas city, last Ooto
/ her. have eypounded &c TO the Con
gresatioual minister's meeting In san
Francisco. ! accept 1t wholly. with
out reservation, accept IL with my hca,
and with my hert
A Presbyterian divine. one Of tn
most influential theologIans an IN
/ laeIflc coast heard the sermon which
gaze rise go inc discussion lie az
not Gat his ideas "f 81 from lhe sen
sailenai reports BE was iu my con
sreeation tie Nys that the Prcsby
terians ~ this city some years ag
/ ordained 40 The ministry "a Young ma
/ Whe had professed doctrines which he
I the professor in question. could mo-
distinguish IL amy important partlcu
lar from mime
tnchallenged Ia New York.
What Is really strange is that thcs
views oi mine passed unchalenged b
The more orthodox circles IN No,
York haptisis Some pages Of IN
sermon those that deal with the Ne,
Z Testament stories of the birth Of Je
sos arc taken bodily. without IN
change of a syllable from a sermo
preached Doe che Fifth avcnne Baptls
4 church New York happen to re
member that Mr. John II. Roekefellcl
sr- WAS present because MI John /
Rockefeller Jr, talked 90 me ahot
% afterwards and told me what NJ
/ father had said. I cannot rememhe
/ whether pr Conant one OF the dea
3 rens editor ID The Baptist orsan. th
I Examiner. WIS present But the ia'
is that Tor four years ! preached
thar church. and no such silly cor
traferN as thia developed
My view of the birth stories 5,
+ forth ln THESE paragraphs ffem nj
/ published aermon
The story 81 ihe VIRGIN birth &
Jesus has priceless value for ~
I ,ha4.A 4, i.as laaas ils eay in,
our ffanle ntff HYMNS Our Christina