110 THE K I NG ' S BUS I NES S We are told by our “ post” friends that the world is getting better, and that saying is a laughingstock to every fair-minded, sensible man, whether Christian or unbeliever; for the sin and unrest of the world is greater today than ever before in its history. One cheap method of attempting to discredit the premillennial doc trine is noted in a recent issue of “ The Christian Century” which asks if a new denomination is emerging. It says that “ in recent years the Moody Church of Chicago, forsaking the evangelical orthodoxy of its great founder, has turned largely to a propaganda of the second coming of Christ. A short course of instruction in proof texts of the Bible is being furnished stúdeñts to go out and preach these doctrines. In Los Angeles a similar institution has been founded with a $1,000,000 property. They claim that they are teaching ‘just the Bible.’ It might seem that this element is about to slough off from the evangelical denominations and form a new denomination, one that will have much in common with the Adventists and the Plymouth Brethren.” The only thing that is wrong with this statement is that it is false—not a suggesion of truth in it—excepting the statement that the Bible Schools named do “ teach the Bible,” and to this charge we plead guilty before the Lord and before our fellow men. We really do teach the Bible. But there never has been a suggestion or a thought of a new denomination among premillennialists. They are representative of all denominations, and these good brethren need not think that they will be able to bolster up their lost cause and unscriptural position by throwing dust. Just let them get out their Bibles, and show us from it where we are wrong, and we will gladly follow where the Word leads. A recent advertisement, in a religious periodical, starts out as follows: “ PREMILLENNIALISM—Thoughtful preachers and Sunday School teachers need to be fully aware of the fallacies and danger of the modern Premillennial propaganda. The following.list of books offers an effective equipment in meeting and defeating this modern heresy.” Then follows a list; of recent books and prices. Perhaps they will be cheaper after awhile, but they look cheap to us at any price! “ Fallacies and danger,”—well, well! Come up, John Wesley! What a mistake you made! George Mueller,—seven and a half million dollars passed through your premillennial hands and none of it stuck to your fingers. The Gospel was given,to the world and thousands of children call you blessed, but you are tagged now; you were a dangerous man! Come up, Hudson Taylor, father of the China Inland Mission with its thousand missionaries, and take your medicine. You are tagged “ danger ous” ! Rise up, Moody, Whittle, Needham, Gordon, Brooks, Pierson, Chap man, Alexander and a thousand other blessed departed saints,—you" are tagged! Turn your faces to the wall,—Torrey, Gray, Shelton, Pettingill, Munhall, Ostrom, and a multitude of other preachers, teachers, evangelists and laymen,—you are tagged “ fallacious—dangerous!” We are sorry for you all, but this is the decision of the Methodist Book Concern. —T. C. H.
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