Evening star., 1924-05-28
BAPTISTS GUARDING
AGAINST MODERNISM
Plan to Hush Voice of Radical
Ideas Should It Be Raised
in Convention.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE,. Wis, May 2S.-The
annual Northern Baptist convention
opened today with delegates to the
Baptist Bible Union organized,
through two days of pre-convention
sessions, to hush the voice of modern
ism should it be raised In the con-
vention. Withdrawal from the Fed
eral Council of the Churches of Christ
adoption of Baptist confession of
faith; correction of the reading course
for young ministers, and disfranchise-
ment of salaried servants of the con-
vention were among the principal
questions before today's session.
C. s. Shanks of Seattle, Wash, presi-
dent of the convention, is head of a
group which is expected to seek adop-
tfon Of a resolution deploring the
action of Congress in excluding
Japanese immigration.
When America turns it's back upon its
ancient friend Japan and forces the race
question to the fore it becomes RESPONSE
BILE before God and the world for setting
in motion influences the extent Of which
no man can measure, Mr.. Shanks de-
clared, in opening the convention.
Raps Exclusion Clause.
a
practical exclusion would have been ac-
complished, and vet Japan would have
been free from the ignominy of having
been singled out as dangerous to the
safety of America and this fact painted
on the face of the heavens" Mr. Shanks
said.
Japan is, therefore. seeking to un-
xr-1o N cyS nf
this action. Japan does not question the
right of America to close its doors to
all immigrants, but it does ask by what
reasoning America, with it's pretensions
of Christian idealism and friendship,
with it's vast material resources and a
population of 10Q,000,000 Of people can
justify its apparent position that her
civilization is in jeopardy by the small
number of Japanese immigrants that
would be allowed on a quota basis.
Mr. Shanks characterized the &C
ton of Congress in excluding Japan
ese as an act "of losing poise and
descending to status or a petulant
debating society.
The majority of the American
schools are lost to God and the gos-
pei, and today are the seats of un-
sound eaching and the prolific mothers
of modernist preachers all because Sa-
ever busy, was the assertion made
here late today by the Rev. w. B.
Riley, Minneapolis, before the Baptist
Bible Union, a fundamentalist organ
i3ation.
Schools named by DIR. Riley as hav-
ing deviated from the course of
orthodox teaching are. Harvard
Princeton and Rochester Universities,
Andover College and Union Theologi-
cal Seminary. Among others, which
fall in line, DR.. Riley said, were
Crosier, Newton, Center, Brown, Col.
gate and University of Chicago.
when today you call the roll OF
these schools you name the captains
of the hosts of hell, who marshall
their forces to fight the authority of
the Book, the deity of Christ, the
blood atonement and every Christian
fundamental" DR.. Riley declared.
Turning to the principal issue be-
fore the union sessions, that of mod
ernistic attack on fundamentals, the
speaker declared that the Baptist de-
nomination is passing through one of
"those spasms of doubt to which the
Church of God has been subjected
since it's birth"
Other speakers before the union
| were DR.. ]. w. Porter. Louisville,
and Pastor William Fettler, Chicago