New Britain herald., 1924-10-28

sss-gs -g and was an , r-1"H2 fsPA' # No, mo-" , 5'2,1)ouna) n "Methodism' % r. Fundamental
 ism and Modernism" at the after
 noon session of the Methodist Min
 isters' Association of the New Ha
 ven district.
 Dr. Elliott said:
 "The Protestant churches are fl
 the midst of great chaos and tn ] Methodist churches today can b,
 proud of the fact that this grea
 schism has affected them very little
 The Baptist and Presbyterian
 churches are divided and filled witt
 schism and dissension, the Metho
 dist church has not been affected
 because 1t is not doctrinal but i, Bounded on personal experience
 spiritual and ethical and not dog.
 matic.
 There are comparatively few fundamentalists in the Methodist church. In order to be a funda. mentalist or a traditionalist you must go back farther than the f7tb century.
 The tent or hippodrome evangel. ism is a failure because 1t fills the church with unconverted persons.
 W. J. Bryan Breeding Infidels.
 William Jennings Bryan is driv- ing our young people in the colleges and seminaries into infidelity by tell ing them they cant believe certain things. The late Dwight l.. Moody must turn over in his grave ever, time he thinks of the present day Moody training.
 The mistake that modernism is making today is that lot of our younger ministers are preaching negative things instead of positive. They are telling people what they ought not to believe instead of what they should believe.
 If you don't believe in enough absolutely definite certainties to preach at least two sermons B week for a year you ought to quit the ministry.
 The two evils of the church to- day are fake Fundamentals and mis- chievous modernists. If John Wes- ley were alive today he would be a modernist. Our religious life is not supposed to be a matter of doctrine but outward living.
 Believes Virgin Birth Took Place.
 T believe the Virgin birth nc. .ually took place, as historical fact because I believe human being can De born supernaturally, can't he?
 Do you think I am a heretic for believing this?"
 Cries of No, mo-" from the other greeted the question. . Even the Moslems in the Koran ell about the birth of Christ but hey don't worship Him as a result. Ne believe in Him because we know Him to be divine. not because of his arth. We believe in Him because Ve believe in personal god. A faith hat teaches a metaphysical god has 70 Christianity whatever.
 You can't prove that God is good. he God that made the stars and he heavens was powerful but you ant prove by that that he is good. .ou can't prove God is good in na- lre because there are too many makes and too much yellow fever; ou can't prove 1t in history because istory tells of too many wars; you ant prove 1t in life, look at your VII. The only place I can find l ivine nature is in Jesus of Nazareth ecause l know him as a living per- 'n upon whom the whole founda- on of our life must rest.
 Insists He Has Theology.
 Don't think I don't have a theoIo- 7. do. You wouldn't like it per- lps, but l think every preacher lght to have a doctrine that has me value in life. My faith is in a erson and not proposition.
 When the Presbyterian general sent in the five points rgely gotten together by Mir. Bryan ey were getting away from Christi lity and were taking up a proposi- on.
 Nobody can prove the inerrancy
 the holy scriptures. Methodists lieve in a Bible that leads us to od and not in god that lads us to book. You'll find so much good Id moral in the Bible that you mt have to worry about the ques- 'n of the inerrant Compare the oks of Kings and Chronicles. The ble is proven not innerrant. One ok says Jehovah tempted Christ d the other says the devil did. ley try to make our God a devil. T believe in a living faith in a , rson, which means saving faith , d intelligent credence. l. K. K. Helps Catholic Church. , The Ku Klux Kan in using the |, oss as ceremonial is adopting a 'man Catholic method in fighting , } Catholic church and because of ,
 methods nothing in the world is i ing as much good for Romanism ,
 this reasonable organization lich wears nightgowns on the eets. ' The name Ku Klux Klan Is taken { nm a Greek word which means ! lights of the Golden Circle, a trea- ( lable organization whose members T neral Grant sent to the penften- ries during the Civil War" Ills Apostolic Observation-Disclosures Referring to the apostolic suo- ( sslon to which the Catholic, Epis- Il pal and Swedish Lutheran church. e