Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-14
The Baptists and the Inter- Church
 Movement.

Movement.
 { Mir. Editor: I am not a controvers- ialst and I think have never before | written to any paper. But I felt that MT. Briggs statements in his letter of today should not remain unchal- lenged. MT. Briggs does not stand alone in his position among the min isters of the Northern Baptist Con vention, but he surely is in a very small ministry. think he has mis-
 taken bitterness for conviction and hearsay for truth.
 First with regards to aristocracy.
 In our annual convention in Den yer with 1000 delegates from all ot
 the states of our convention, there
 were only five opposing votes to the alignment of the Northern Baptist convention with the tnterchufch
 movement.
 pr. Aitehison was unanimously
 chosen as director of our national board of promotion by delegates from every state and every cooperating society of the Northern Baptist con- vention. We are fortunate in having
 a leader big enough to be the unani-
 nous choice of all these states and societies. These two facts are not aristocracy. In fact the only thing
 for true believer in democracy to do is to abide by the will of the ma jority. If he can't keep sweet about | it he ought to go where the will of
 the majority suits him..
 | The board of promotion of the Nor.heEn Baptist convention has
 underwritten one million dollars of the
 expenses of the interchurch move ment or one per cent. of our cam
 paign fund. If the interchurch cam paign for funds fails, we shall pay our share, without a whimper. If it
 succeeds it will take care of its own 1 expense.
 i Enemies of any reat movement al- ways attack the movement on the basis of extravagance and luxury. The anti-saloon league and the I. M. c. A. are examples of this. Now comes the interchurch movement 1 They have all made their mistakes many of them serious. But their mistakes have not consisted in sittin still, or in findin fault with oth CTS who were trying to do their best They have gone forward to mighty achievement So may it be with the
 interchurch movement.
 I am among those who believe thai the Baptist faith is the purest New ] Testament faith in existence. But ,l surely my heart leaps for joy when r Korea bows before Christ under l5resbyte1han leadership or great
 mass movements in India sweep hun
 dreds of thousands into the kingdom under our Methodist brethren or
 when the students in China turn te
 Christ says: Rejoice with Me, for
 Mott and Sherwood Eddy. I heal | fN1- E0,, have found the sheep that was lost cannot find it in my heart to say ! anything but God to send to all whS preach Jesus Christ as the Saviour of Sinners.
 ? I have minor conviction and { $ major conviction. My minor convic ton is that the Baptist churches art : organized, more than any other de
 nomination on the New Testamen basis. I am second to none in III! conviction of this.
 But my major conviction is tha : every follower of Jesus Christ is brother of mine in brotherhood tha ' is genuine and real. Every organi zation on earth that reaches Christ a
 the Redeemer and Saviour of mer q shall have my unbounded sympath f and love without any reservation. a say God bless all genuine Christia churches.
 In time like this when the force = of hell are so tremendous, when tn t needs of humanity are so fearful an a so tragic, when the great denomina a tions are facing their tasks togethe S without in any way losing their con
 victions or creed or denominations s identity, when the churches of tn .s living Christ are for the first tim E facing seriously the command ( p Christ to give the gospel to the whol n world, to me it is past all compre e hension how any man can stand n our midst and stick his knife in ol
 back when we are striving sincerel .- and honestly to do the will of ol If Lord.
 '- REV. A. F. PURKISS,