The New York herald., 1922-07-03
STRATON SAYS: 0|JST|
MFIDELS MCOLLEGES
Professors in Baptist Insti-
:, tutiOns Called Worse
Than mgersOll.
SEES BIBLE FLOUTED
Tedder in Grocer Seminary
Said to Link Marx and
Christ in His Book.
OLD TENETS DESERTED
Prominent Theologians Ac-
cused of Upholding Evo-
luton to Students.
OLD TENETS DESERTED

Declaring that the Baptist faith
faces the danger of dissolution by the
encroachment of infidelity in the theo-
logical seminaries where the principles
of Christian religion are supposed to
be taught the Rev. John Roach
straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist
Church, in a sermon last night called
upon Baptists throughout the country
to turn upon men who, he said, are
departing from church tenets and cast
them out of the denominational col
,e-es.
Some of the most prominent theolo-
CLANS Of the Baptist church were
named by DR.. Straton, who said he
made the charge with the greatest
reluctance and only because he felt it
was necessary to unite these who be-
lieved in the old tenets of religion.
He suggested that the accused men
resign and form a separate faculty
and institution rather than continue
to be supported by Baptists "who gave
their money in order that the Bible
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Among those mentioned by DR.. Straton
were Prof. Henry c. Vedder, Pro-. Spen-
ser Byron Meeser and Prof. Frank G.
Lewis. all OF the Grocer Seminary
Prof William Newton Clarke of Colgate
Theological Seminary, DIR. w. III. P.
Faunce, president of Brown University,
Prof. William +. Bade of Berkeley Di-
v.nity School, Prof. c. B. Smith of the
divinity school of the University of Chi
cago. and Prof Shailer Mathews. dean
OF the divinity school of the University
OF Chicago.
Done with the school.
$50 far as am concerned, said Dr.
Straton after reading from the works
cf each of the aforementioned professors,
~ announce here and now that / am
done with the schools that countenance
and continue these false and destructive
teachings, and as an individual I will
never give a dollar of money to them.
ror will I encourage the members of
the church TO give 20 their support nor
will / encourage young men to go as
students to them
The excerpts quoted from writings
and talks oc those under fire dealt
r1ainly with denials OF the supernatural
attributes of the Bible and attacks upon
the credibiity of certain parts of the
New Testament. DR.. Straton declared
that these te0chers are infidels in the
manner of Paine, Voltaire and Ingersoll
and that their teachings were infinitely
more subtle and seductive than the old
oltspoksh, sneering infideity of the
past"
'If the Baptists lose their faith in the
Bible" re said, then they have nothing
else We have no pooes or bishops or
priests or synods or councils TO hand
down from above what we must do and
believe. We have only Gods word to
show us what we should do, ami IL we
lrse our faith In that. everything we
stand for is gone by the board.
Two Ideas That Conflict.
Involved in this issue are two funda-
n,entally ntagonistic conceptions Of
God and religion. One is the modern
conception, wllicn is founded on the
philosophy OF evolution. 1t holds that
nothing is fixed or final but that all
things are in n state of 'flux and change
Under this conception the Bible is re-
gsrded as a product of evolution. 1t is
regarded as an historical document, and
IN this conception there is no place, of
course, for what we call the supernatural
or the miraculous"
Opposed to this, DR.. Sraton went on.
was the old fdShlcned conception OF the
Bible embraced by the Fundamentalists.
Lotween whom and the Radicals there
has become a marked line OF division
He continued:
The real secret of the threatened
trouble within our ranks to-day is this:
Many of those who are in position of
leadership and influence have unques-
tionably departed from the historical
Baptist faith. have rejected the Bible
and all the other great truths for which
we have stood as people,
Quoting from Prof Vedders recent
book. Socialism and the Ethics of
Jesus DR.. Straton spoke as follows:
"On the very last page OF his book he
links Socialism with Christianity.
Socialism and Christianity are not
alternatives between which one must
choose; still less antagonists of
which II we love the one we must
hate the other, but allies, since they
avow the same essential ethics and
seek In great part the same ends.
And in his final conclusion and rec
ommendation he says:
christianity and Socialism can
join hands in common effort
TN other words we are to look to
Jesus Christ and Karl Marx to redeem
the world
Would Force Ont vedder.
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