March 1927
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K ick N o . 1 “Your paper has just two bad faults, I will be frank to say. I cannot do my household work On K. B. arrival day. Besides, it should be twice as thick; It whets my taste for more— And when I have to wait four weeks It surely makes me sore.” * * * *
“We cannot believe in the supernatural power of a thing of our own creation. As well ask us to carve an image, call it God and worship it. A reasonable man can no more worship the product of his brain than his hands ." * * * * Every now and then a Liberalist Comes forth with the remark: “The Modernist is much more concerned about Chris tian life than about doctrine ." It would be well if some professed Fundamentalists were more concerned about Christian life, but after all, what is doctrine but a statement of what one considers the foundation principles of Christian living ? How can there be a tree without a root? You cannot draw a straight line with a crooked rule. * * * * Hereg’bomeK a choice morsel from a Modernist paper—a characterization of Fundamentalists: “This is the sort of sublime idiocy issuing out of the most eminent nyiuths and minds impreg nated with the individualistic theory of life and society.” It may be that equally beautiful invectives have been hurled at Liberal- .ists, but it is our conviction that whenever either side indulges in mud-slinging, nothing is accomplished other than the dirtying of hands. We wish the Modernists had the monopoly on this kind of thing. * ♦ * * Dr. R. C. Hutchinson, writing concerning the Moslems, says in Atlantic Monthly: “If any religion is to commend itself to any people of another faith, it must present some element which the other religion does not possess:' The distinctive element of Christianity is.jove—love such as no Buddha or Mohammed ever revealed. ' Right here has Christianity failed. It has not suc ceeded in revealing to the Moslem world that it has this sub lime and unique element of value—namely, the love of Christ.' Every other argument and inducement has been brought, but without the fulness of this love the case has been incomplete and no victory has been won. Until Christians believe and dare to practice the teachings of Christ, it will not win Islam.” This is a serious indictment and may well set us all to examining our selves. How can we expect to win for Christ if we are-no better fundamentally than the unsaved? If some of us should give the Holy Spirit His way in our lives, a lot of people would rub their eyes in amazement: * * * * The Los Angeles Times makes a good comment on the recent formation of another free-thinkers’ society among students of Yale. “As they' grow older,” says the editor, “they will learn. The number is legion of those who were sincere unbelievers at 20 and sincere believers at 50. A notable instance is that of Earl Balfour,- who wrote at 25 a book entitled ‘In Defense of Philo sophic Doubt,’ and. at 60 ‘Foundations of Faith.’ Some one has said, ‘Doubt is the beginning of wisdom;’ it often, also, is the beginning of faith. These youths who go to the Bible to con tradict it, if they are sincere, are likely to find their doubts van ish and, like Balfour, to discover there the foundations of faith.” One is reminded of the lines :.
“The only thing that many a mother and daughter have in common today,” says a Los Angeles paper, “is bobbed hair.” * * * * Says one: “Our churches are made up of people who would be equally shocked to see Christianity doubted or put in practice.” It is sad that so many are inoculated with such a mild form of Christianity. * * * * It was Mr. Spurgeon who said: “The true safety of the Church is not creed, not an enactment for expelling those who violate the creed; the presence of God alone can protect His: people against the cunning assaults of their foes.” * * * * During the year 1925 there were 175,495 divorces granted in the United States, as compared with 170,952 in 1924, representing an increase of 4543, or 2.7 per cent. sfc * * * A survey of Philadelphia churches revealed an average increase of only seven members a congregation made during a decade by twelve leading Protestant denominations. Similar conditions could doubtless be shown in many cities. The loss of an authoritative message, with the consequent decline of the.soul- winning spirit, is doubtless largely responsible. * * * * “The miracle of human life cannot be explained on material istic grounds, and the person who cannot visualize anything in life except what he sees in a test tube or under a microscope is to be pitied,” Dr. Allan Craig, of Chicago said in an address before the American College of Surgeons recently. “It is the spirit within that makes the man supreme in the world and allows him to control materialistic things.” * * * * John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Inde pendence, and eight others who signed that historic document, were preachers’ sons. Numbers would grant preachers’ sons entrance into the presidency of the United States once in 220 times, but one in every nine of the presidents has been a preach er’s'son, while one in every four administrations has had a min ister’s daughter as mistress of the White House. One out of every five in the Hall of Fame in New York City is a minister’s son or daughter. ♦ S|c $ He Few could have given a better answer to a certain modernist writer who recently took the position that the race needed “a new God, made after our own image and likeness ," than has Grant Morgan in the “Catholic World.” So much do we need this new God, the critic has stated, that we should create him to fit our own ideas of what he ought to be. Mr. Morgan says:
“You can lead a horse to water, But' you cannot make him drink; You can send a boy to college, But you cannot make him think.”
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