Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-03
REv,I,M, HAL LDEMAN
BLAMES DEVIL FOR
|NTERCHURCH PLAN
Former Wilmington Pastor Ap-
plauded by Big Congregation
in New York Church.
"HELL SIGHTED" BY
AUTHORS OF MOVEMENT"
From Today's New York World.

u
ing denunciations and sharp criticism.
the Rev. DIR. |. Nj. Haldeman, pastor of
the First Baptist Church, Broadway
and 10Th street. fiayed the Interchurch
Werld Movement last night. branding
it as an instrument of the devil and urging
his pensioners not to contribute one
dollar toward its support. He character
lied modern theological minari as
clearing houses of infdelity."
The title of his sermon was ''The In
terchurch Movement Is 1t of God or the
Devil?" More than 500 persons. who
filed all the seats in the auditorium and
balcony and stood four and five deep on
the rear, applauded with cries of amen"
and hand clapping the more denuncia-
tory parts of DIR. Haldeman's sermon.
The cries of "Amen" resounded most
vigorously when DIR. Haldeman, his
voice trembling with earnestness, de
clared:
I'VE will stand for God and truth #
| am the only preacher and this church
is the only church in the land that does
So"
LiKENs LEAGUE 10 BABEL.
DIR. Haldeman began his sermon with
the story of the flood and told how after
the flood the people tried TO build the
tower of Babel and the Lord nulified their
efforts. This marked, he declared, the
end of the first world league. Six years
ago. he said the world has subjected TO an
other flood this time q flood of blood
shed. and again the people had tried to
form world league known as the League,
nf Nations Through Divine Providence,
ne declared. we had been kept out of IT
thus far. He said the Interchurch World
Movement was another sign Of the same
movement and intended to regenerate the
world
'"Thev are so occupied with reforming
the world he said, "that they do not
mention the glorles of Heaven and seem
to have forgotten to say anything about
the woes Of hell. They do away with the
doctrine of atonement altogether. They
say we are all sons of God, that God would
not send his own sons to hell that there
fore there will be no Judgment and no
atonement. 2
They preach the resurrection of
Christ. but they do not mean a resurrec-
ton of the body of Christ, but rather Of
His spirit. They have only two pictures
of God. Jesus, the carpenter, pushing
the plane, and Jesus as ghost.
'tThev substitute the kingdom OF
Christ for the Church of Christ by de-
claring that the church is the kingdom
of Christ, whereas IT is only the spiritual
home of Christ The kingdom of Christ
will not be established until Christ comes
again and establishes 1T.
SECOND COMING IGNORED.
''The Interchurch World Movement |
docs not believe in the second coming |
of Christ. They preach that He came |
and was present at the destruction of /
Jerusalem; that He GENES every time |
a powder mill explodes; that He has |
come thousand times already. The |
second coming of Christ is mentioned /
800 times in the New Testament. which.is |
hardly more than pamphlet IN length. |
They declare that the Bible contains |
some of the words of Christ. but that not |
all the words therein are the inspired or
infallable words of Christ. If the resur-
rection of the body is fiction, the book
of st. Luke should be torn out and the
whole New Testament destroyed.
why should we give any money to
these modern theological institutions
that are preaching and instilling such i
doctrines in the minds of our young men2
They are clearing houses of rnhdelity. We
don't need to contribute money TO make
unbelievers of ourselves. That is a ten
dency that is all too strong in us naturally, |
Those back o. this movement deny /
the virgin birth and make Christ out /
an illegitimate child. We say we ought not /
to give the money. That is not enough. j
We ought to get down on our knees and |
pray that lightning will strike them dumb |
and that the true God will render their |
teachings nugatory.
WILL STAND ALONE. !
We will stand for God and truth if
i am the only preacher and his church
is the only church in the land that does SO.
These people are talking of estab-
fishing Christian universities. Where in
history will they take up the virgin birth?
At what point in biology will they dis
cuss the resurrection of the flesh that was
the body of Lazarus? Where in science
will they have their students explain the
resurrection of Christ In the body? There
is only one way-skip the doctrine and
teach the ethicals of religion. The ethic-
ais are not worth a pieayune because the /
ethics OF Christ are linked up indissolubly /
with His every utterance and act.
"The whole movement is modern theol- /
ogy in disguise. 1t has the hands of Esau |
but the voice of Jacob, Jacob, you will /
remember, was smooth of tongue and /
never lost his reputation. These hysterical, /
evangelical appeals which they make to /
come to Jesus say are the hands of Esau |
but they are uttered in the voice of Jacob
"This movement, if 1t continues, will /
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