Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-18
SCORES THOSE WHO
TONE DOWN BIBLE
Rev. Dr. G. E. Mccartney Ad-
dresses Jersey Synod Of
Presbyterians
FIND FLAPPER DAYS GONE

sosc1ai Dispofch to Evening Public Lsdoer
Atlantic City, Oct. 1S.-The follow.
ing is nm EXCERPT Of an address delivered
here before the Presbyterian Synod Of
New Jersey this morning, BY the Rev.
DR.. Clarence Edward Mccartney, Of the
Arch Street Presbyterian Church. Phil
adelphia. on the subject: "How to Re-
store the Authority Of the Bible In Re-
lisious Education"
NO one can doubt that the author
ity Of the Bible In religious education
and everywhere else has been impaired.
This Is not due to the saults from
every quarter upon the Bible. Those
assaults themselves, conceived In bitter
ness and born in unbel!ef, could never
have weakened the authority Of the
Bible, This loosening Of the hold OF
the Scriptures in religious education and
all moral in truction is due to the
shallow. urlearned and self stultifying
| attitude Of many teachers and preach
| ers within the Christian Church. who
have been more anxious to please the
world of unbeief than 70 declare the
| oracles of God.
"They have been more concerned over
| toning down the Bible so as TO make It
acceptable to the modern mind than
they have been over bringing the modern
| mind into reconciliation with the re-
vealed will of God. The modern,
mind is just as alienated from the mind
of God as the ancient mind or the me-
lieya, mind. The tragic thing. so far
as Christian faith IS concerned. has
been the disposition on the part of n
school within our churches to accept
wholesale, without the least question :
conclusions of the hostile school OF
criticism, and many of which are as
! contrary 70 common sense rs they are
contrary to historical fact.
"In trimming off the Bible to make
room for modern thought the pseudo
defender Of 1t has cut away his own
platform. The most pitiatle object on
the whole religious horizon today is
the man who wanted to 60 along with
the world, accept everything they had
to say about the Bible, and yet contrive
to keep it, but who now stands on the
brink of utter unbelief and material
less chasm, yet unable to go back to
the house Of faith and belief. laughed
at by those whom he has followed to
his discontinue and righteously con-
.rmned by those whom he sought to lead
away with him.
THE present day methods Of taking
the Bible, particularly the Old Testa.
ment, are fatal to its authority. The
popular idea Of progressive revelation
under close examination is discovered
to be nothing les tnan that in some
strange way there has happened what
Job said never can happen, that Is, q
r1 nf
clean; out Of Il crude, tribal worship,
little, IL any better, than that of the
licentious and degraded Canaanitish
tribes about them, there has been
evolved the pure monotheism of Israel,
the religion Of the Holy One Of Israel,
upon which Jesus Christ took unreserr-
edly His stand.
I'VE might as we'll face the fact that
If the Bible, in what It has TO say about
the universe, is a tissue of lies and
crude guesses as to whence the universe
came and how it developed, the grand
authority which the Scriptures once had
is forever gone. Therefore. to re-
establish and preserve the authority Of
the Bible we must take pains to show
"w no science whatsoever has proved
the Bible, correctly interpreted, TO be
in error. We must show the marvellous
congruity Of the first chapter Of Genesis
with the. findings Of the best established
SCIENCE
The fapper has had her fling and will
not come back during present genera
ton. according to statements made YES
terday before the centennial meeting Of
the Presbyterian Synod Of New Jersey
in session here.
Women are fundamentally and
morally sound, but there viii! always
be found small minority that will 90
to extremes. declared the Rev.
Charles +. Bazata, of Newark. former
moderator. The so-called fapper
should not be associated with this mi
nority. for she was only one Of the
manifestations Of the new woman with
her new found freedom. Flappers are
now becoming a thing of the past, and
it is doubtful if we will ever witness
their return, IN this generation at
least"