The Washington times., 1926-05-26
BAPT|STS JOI N
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Baptist unless he had been i'm.
mersed, rather than "sprinkied.
At one period of the debate,
which followed introduction of an
extremists amendment to the
Brougher compromise by DR.. w.
B. Riley, of Minneapolis, cries OF
Let them get out; we don't need
them" greeted DR.. A. w. Beaven,
of Rochester, N. K, speaking IN
opposition to the Riley amendment,
when he said its adoption would
mean the exclusion Of one-tenth
Of the Baptist Churches.
The Brougher resolution provides
that the conventions constituency
should consist solely OF those Bap-
fist churches in which the Inn
mersion of believers is recognized
as the only Spiritual baptisIn." and
the proposed Riley amendment
would substitute the words, after
recognized, and practiced as q
prerequisite to membership.
Loyalty to Bible
DR.. Riley, speaking on his pro-.
aition virtually asked the Baptist
churches to receive people who
are not Baptists.''
1.-THE great fundamental, ne said,
''is not loyalty to Christ. but loyalty
to the Bible as the basis OF our
religion
Baptism means to immerse, he.
said He called upon the President
to uphold 1.-The word of God.
DR.. j. C. Murphy, Of Boston, a
fundamentalist leader, declaring
that he believed the Brougher
resolution not a compromise but a
confession, said that while he was
opposed to any membership other
than of immersion believers" it
would be breaking faith to those
associate members in the Baptist
churches, already admitted by many
churches, to exclude them now. He
said he opposed the Riley amend
naent on these grounds.
DR.. John Roach Stratton, or New
York, noted Fundamentally leader
and not 'middle-o f-the-road"
F'undamentalist announced that he
would vote for the Riley amend
ment because the debate disclosed
that the understanding reached at
Chicago, which resulted In the
Brougaer proposal, was not being
lived UP to. He said that the Bible
was the revealed word OF God, and
word Of man, but on the word Of
God.
Stands for Immersion
Any form of baptism, he added,
other than by immersion, was in
disobedience of Gods command, and
he quoted the passage from the
Bible on which the immersion be-
levers base their contention. He
voIved, and added. referring to the
Modernists agitation not only In the
Baptist churches, but in other de-
nominations. ..the virgin birth OF
Christ is denied, His resurrection
il denied. and His second coming
is ridiculed.
Many delegates wanted 10 vote at
once following DR.. STATIONS adj
dress, and there were cries Of
Question. Question: which filled
the large auditorium in the midst
o. wild demonstration.
President Edwin III. Rhodes. Jr..
% Toledo. Ohio. presiding, declared
that the debate could not thus be
cut off, and refused to put the
question on the adoption of the
Riley amendment.
In the background OF this strug- |
gle stood John d. Rockefeller, jr.'s
millions as a shadow over the fu-
tire relations among the Baptist |
churches OF the country.
The extreme fundamental:sts con-
tend the Park Avenue Church,
New York, popularity known as the
church, at the behest
OF the Rockefeller millions and
controlling the thought oS possibly
500 other Baptist churches, VIII
try to force the abandonment Of the
practice Of immersion as the reQui-
ute of church membership.
At the very start Of today,s ses-
sion, the battle started, with no
Of the Rockefeller
church accredited to thu convention,
but with all the power of the
modernist group aligned against
attempts of the fundamentalists to
bar other than the Immersed
from the church.