Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-18
OLD-TIlNE RELIGION
BY BISHOP w. 4 GAMBLER

Him no more than teacher OF elevated
ethics.
This is not to represent truly the life and
teachings of Jesus but to misrepresent ey-
erything told us Of the Christ by the in
spired evangelists, in whose writings are
found the only record we have of how He
lived and laboured and taught. 1t contra
diets every truth for which the teachers of
Christianity have stood for more than nine
teen hundred years.
And this sort of stuff it is proposed to
propagate through the State Universities of
our country The evident purpose of the
promoters of the scheme is to make liberal
ism the established" religion Of State-sllp-
ported institutions.
They claim that the religion Of their pro-
posed schools of religion" is to be nom
sectarian; but the claim is not true. 1t
would be more nearly non-sectarian if it
were in harmony with the faith of one great
denomination and was opposed to the teach
ings of all the rest. But it proposed to an
tagonize all evangelical churches and set up
as non-sectarian the most sorry type of ra-
tiOnaliStiC Sectarianism.
By what sort of reasoning is the conclu-
sion reached that it is non-sectarian to an
tagonze all the great churches and sectarian
to teach the tenets of any one of them?
1t is to be hoped that the governing au-
thOrities of the State Universities will not
permit the invasion Of those institutions by
this sleazy sectarianism or rationalism. State
Universities are supported by taxes levied
largely upon the members Of Evangelical
Churches, In the South this is especially
true. These evangelical Christians will not
tamely submit to taxation to establish liber-
alsm the religion of state-supported in
situations. Nor will it avail anything to
talk to them about freedom of thought"
They have some thought themselves, and they
will resent assault upon their freedom
by sinister scheme Of rationalsm.
tod
Schools Of Religion" that ably conducted
paper, the Western Recorder (Baptist), of
Louisville, Kentucky, speaks some plain and
proper words. The Editor says
"This hybrid, which is creature Of Mod
ernism, and which is sailing under the col
ors of Church Unionism, proposed to push
its way into the work of religious education
in the UNIVERSITIES. A study of the personnel
will show that these people are Modernists
thoughtful men are learning that such I'M
ion undertakings always tend to play down
religious teaching to the least common de-
nominator A pagan philosophy in the uni
Yersities, masquerading as Christianity
would be the result Of this performance. At
the worst the State Universities have lust
that now At the best some are still in con-
sIderably better shape. They would be in
the middle of a bad fix, so far as the spirit
uaI life of the students is concerned if they
put themselves into the hands of this group
of high-brow 'meddlesome Matties' When
Will we nave done with Smart-aleCk perform
ances Of religious MOdernists in America?
Apparently not until the Christian bodies
wake up and give them some stern and sus-
tanned treatment"
The Editor of the Recorder is quite cor
rect in his conclusion.
The Evangelical Churches can make no
compromise with the aggressive rationalism
now prevalent in the United States Conces-
Slons to it are virtual betrayaIs of their
Lord. They may we'll now as later fight
out the issues raised. The result of such
resistance to liberalism is not doubtful. Ra-
uonaIlsm will be defeated in such a contest
as 1t has been overwhelmed in the conflicts
winch it has provoked in all past centuries
1t is always COnceited and cocksure but
1t has never been able to sustain itself in
square fight concerning it's ill-fourded
principles
In our day it has taken somewhat diff
ferent course from that which it has mr.
sued generally in former times. It disguises
itself now with such terms as "evangelical."
'non-sectarian" and the like But let no
one be deceived by its adoption Of this de-
ce1tful policy. The old fable of the ass in
the lions skin applies to it.
Its disguise must be stripped off if and
its true nature made manifest Once this is
done, it will not be mistaken for "evangn1
zeal Christianity" Sound scholarship "
Its pretences to both piety and learning will
be revealed as nothing better than pre-
fences.