Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-07

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rived both its color and
conformation. and those beliefs have been
most briefly and clearly stated in the credal
facts and truths set forth in what is COM
monty called 1.-THE Apostles Creed" That is
the most universally accepted form Of faith
in our times and such it has been for centu-
ries. There have been periods during which
its light has been dimmed for a time by the
prevalence of contradictory tenets over wide
areas, as, for example, when the ArIanlsm
which the faithful Athanasius resisted caus-
ed that able and incorruptible theologian to
cry, "It is Athanasius against the world"
But no candid man who knows what are
the tenets of Arianism would now say 1t was
the faith of the Church of Apostolic times.
It is in .antagonism to the teachings of the
New Testament, and, if it had prevailed per-
manently over Christendom, real Christianity
would have persisted, Christians would have
disappeared from the churches, and Arians
would have taken their place. Whatever
might have been the type of religion issuing
been that which led the people of>Antioch to
call the followers of Christ in that city
"Christians.'
Well Arianism with various notifications
Of the tenets of Arius, although in the main
the same has been revived by speculative
theologians and eccentric sects many times
since the days of Athanasius, who wounded it
sorely with "The word of God which is the
sword of the Spirt;'' but it has always failed
of general acceptance and has never attained
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AS soon as men see that it does not accord
with "The faith once for all delivered by the
Saints" or, in other words as soon as they
perceive that it is not "Christian," they turn
away from it. Such has been the case of
Arianism in the past and such will be the
outcome Of its present manifestation In the
form of what is called Modernism"
Already men are beginning to discern it's
real nature and natural tendencies. They
have discovered in it the unmistakabl fea-
lures and form of Arianism, although it is
somewhat disguised by rouge made of mod
ern color, words and raiment woven from the
fbers of modern materalism.
The Editor of the Christian Century even
perceives that modernism" is in irreconcil-
able conflict with the fundamental principles
Of the Christianity which our fathers knew
and which they transmitted to their poster
ity! That periodical is the most influential
weekly organ of liberalism published in the
United States, and in a. recent issue of his
modernistic publication, its editor says,
"Christianity according to fundamentalism,
is one religion. Christianity, according to
modernism is another religion. Which is
the true Christian religion, is the question to
be settled in all probability by our generation
for future generations. Christianity is
hardly likely to last much longer half funda-
mentalist and half modernst. 1t is not
merely the aggressiveness Of fundamentalism
that is forcing a choice it is the inherent
Of I ho ;cc,,
1.-TWO worlds have crashed, the world OF
tradition and the world of modernism. One
is scholastic, static, authoritarian, individual
istic; the other is vital, dynamic, free, social
There is a clash here as profound and as
grim as that between Christianity and Con-
fucianism Amiable words can not hide the
differences. Blest be the tie may be sung
until doomsday, but it can not bind these two
worlds together. The God of the fundamen-
taist is one God; the God of the modern1st
is another. The Christ of the fundamentals
is one Christ the Christ Of modernism is an
other The Bible Of fundamentalism is one
Bible; the Bible OF modernism is another
The church, the kingdom, the salvation, the
contamination OF ali thlngs-theSe are one
thing to the modernists. Which God is the
Christian God, which Christ is the Christian
Christ which Bible is the Christian Bible,
which church. which kingdom, which saliva
ton, which cOnsummation, are the CHRISTIAN
church, the Christian kingdom, the Christian
salvation, the Christian contamination? The
future will tell. But that the issue is clear
ind that the inherent incompatability of the
two worlds has passed the stage of mutual
tolerance is a fact concerning which there
hardly seems room for any one to doubt"
The editor speaks truly in nearly all he
says. but when he says 1.-THE future will tell"
ne is mistaken; the past has told already.
The New Testament and all church history
have settled the issue. One need not wait
for the future to show the end Of a specula-
tive rationalism which eXalts itself above the
Apostles and Martyrs and Saints OF all the
Christian countries, and proposes to displace
the Christianity, which they believed and pro-
claimed, with a religion which consists for
the most part of theological novelties manu-
featured out of the relics of Arianism. The
propagandsts of these innovations have no
reason for turbulence and the adherents of
historic christianity have no occasion for
trembling.
In this connection, it is pertinent to the
issue to quote the following extract from an
editorial of the National Republican, Wash
ington, D. c.: 3
lone of the New York religious radicals
declares that the time has come when the
American people should cease planting one
foot in the first century and one in the TWEEN
From the other side of the room Mrs.
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