Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-26
Such evil forces called forth ar

Such evil forces called forth are
not easily put down again. Organ
izations live and prosper today tor
the express purpose of cultivating
racial and religious hatreds and
antagonisms. The need Of charity
is great, perhaps as great as it was
in the days when the Apostle Paul
warned the Christian church at Cor
NTH against hatreds and intoier-
ance. Men have been tortured
and killed for conscience sake.
They did not think as the majority
thought about God and their duty
to Him and to man, SO they were
called heretics and burned at the
stake, the churches that the Apostle
Paul founded giving full approval.
The age of the death penalty for
heretics has gone by in this and
most civilized countries, but the
heresy is still punished by Jealous
partisans so far as they have pow
er. Listen to this account of the
latest hereto and what the church
has to say about the sinner. It
is taken from the Springfield Re-
publican.
with the decision of the execu-
tive commission of the Presby-
terian church to call him before the
general assembly in Indianapolis
next May, the case of Rev. DR..
Harry Emerson Fosdick takes its
place formally among the important
doctrinal and disciplinary controA
versies within the group of pro-
testant denominations.
"There are a number Of unusual
features to this case. DR.. Fosdick,
who is professor of practical theol-
ogy at Union Theological semi
nary, is pastor, though a Baptist,
Of the First Presbyterian church OF
New York city. The charges against
him have been brought by the
Philadelphia presbytery, not by the
church of which he is pastor, as
would have been the customary
procedure. The particular cause
of complaint appears to have been
a sermon preached recently in New
York entitled Shall the Funda-
m~entalists VIM" In this sermon
DR.. Fosdick commented on the
bitter intolerance of the funuda-
mentalists and urged the propriety
of accepting in Christian fellow
ship those whose views on the
fundamental doctrines of the viz
gin birth, the inspiration of the
bible, the atonement and the sec
ond coming Of Christ differ from
the orthodox position.
THE appearance OF sympathy
With which he set forth the dis
senting position seems to have
raised the question whether or not
it is his own These passages may
be quoted:
There are within the evangel-
ical churches large groups Of peo-
pie whose opinion about our Lords
coming would run as follows:
Those first disciples sdored Jesus
as we do; when they thought
about his coming they were sure
that he came specially from God
as we are; this alteration and con-
v~iction they associated with Gods
special influence and intention in
his birth-as we do; but they
phrased it in terms of biological
miracle that our modern minds can
not use 80. Here in the Chris
tan churches are these two groups
of people, and the question which
the fundamentalists raise is this {:
Shall one Of them throw the other
out?
"The fundarnentalists are partic-
ularly strong and active in the Bap-
fist church; 50 it may be that there
is in store for DR.. Fosdick the ex-
ceptional experience of facing the
authoritative challenge of his pull
pit u%tterances by two denomina-
tons. The vigorous discussion
which his case is receiving within
the church reflects the existence
of the two groups to which he has
referred"
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