Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-24

NY. Christian ministers.
Inc Following are extracts from recent
uHefanceS of two such persons:
The physical resurrection of Christ i -,
| necessary to the faith, and making If 81
would be fundamental heresy because #
makes the physical more important than the
spiritual. DR. Leighton Parks.
Ihe birth, death, descension. resurrnctton
ana ascension Of all Savior-Gods. not ov
| ceptlnS Jesus, are versions Of the SIN rovtr
| IHere IS no rational doubt about tba fcti
| tlous character of the divine Jesus do11b+
fhat ne lived. AS an objectivitv there is no
9 9Ch aIFInlty-meaning the triune God Fa
| tner' Son and Holy Spirit He is q eT1hioo
i've existing in the imagination of ortbodo,.
ChlIsIans. If the Anglican creed is ~
0I@SLIc enough to permit one to read into ~
dII mat one believes to be the result of rnod
eEh intellectual progress, then perhans 7
Dusnt 10 be put out. However, I consider
CnaH IN communicating me under s1ch con
oltlons the AgIcan communion is IN ofeoot
saying that II is incapable of proernse snI
poeS not want intelligent memhnrsbin ;,
bISnop William NJ Brown.
80 Lnele are examples Of similar utterances
oIo ne - au'oca1es OF creedlessness, and what
oFeI may be said of them it will NOT bn d.
nleo mat they depreciate, if thew do no+ ~
puuIate' that for which apostles suffered snd
martyrs died. Gu ana
me primitive church was = witnossina
onost1o anu tne pre-eminent function of its
Of bo
resurrection. Lat u Ine
This great fact was the very heart and rfe
or apostolic preaching, and on it the Chris
tlan Church was organized Without if
there would have been no Gospel to be
preached no Apostles to preach and no
Cnurch TO believe in Christ, and by thus be-
IleYlng become 1.-The pillar and ground of tha
truth. q Timothy $3.50
1t was the essential substance of st, Pc
ter sermon on the day of Pentecost and if
continued to occupy the central place in all
the preaching by which the Apostles turned
the world upside down" as they went everv-
where WIN power giving witness of the
IGSu[[ecton OF the Lord Jesus" (Acts ABB
Whether preaching at Jerusalem or Atbons
IN Asia or Europe their message was ALWAYS
[ne same-'Jesus and the I resurrection"
CActs 17:18.) W.
IL was on this account that their first
prosecutions were inflicted by the Sadducees
d da, IMAM by the Pharisees; "for the Sad
uuceeS say there is no resurrection neithnr
anger nor spirit, but the Pharisees confess
ooth' (Acts 23:8.) If the APOSTLES and
HrSt christians had not borne specific and
uheQulYocal testimony to the resIrrnction If
1TsuS' they would have escaped much, if not
on IHe persecution which was visited Unon
mem. For this cause Peter and. John were
imprisoned (Acts 4:1-2); Stephen was stoned
(Acts I:54-6O); and James was behoaded
lAcIS IZ'I-2) For the same cause Paul was
eAeCuceo, ana many thousands of the follow
eLs OF CHRIST were put to death during the
"lSO three centuries of the Christian era.
For witnesses that their Lord had risen
from the dead they suffered all manner Of
fortunes, mot accepting deiverance" at the
cost Of denying their faith Hence, our word
martyr" which is derived from a Greek
word signifying nothing more than "a wit
ness. Such at first was its significance in
the Church To be a martyr meant only to
witness to the truth of Christ's resurrection.
but Witnessing to the fact was so generally
attended by persecution, and so frequently
followed by death, that martyrdom at length
came to signify dying for Christ Hence
Paul in his prayer to the risen Lord said
When the blood Of the martyr Stephen was
shed, l also standing by, and consentfng
unto his death, and kept the raiment Of them
that slew him" (Acts 22:3OD
Without the truth implied by the resurrec-
ton there would have been in the first cen