T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S Dr. David James Burrell, Marble Colleg iate Church, New York; Bishop William Burt, Methodist Episcopal Church, Buf falo, N. Y.; Dr. John Roach Straton, Cal vary Baptist Church, New York; Judge Gilbert O. Nations, Allen W. Johnston, author of “The Roman Catholic Bible and the Roman Catholic Church,” Sche nectady, N. Y.; Dr. Robert Stuart Mac- Arthur, president of the Baptist World Alliance; the Rev. Edwin D. Bailey, Pros pect Heights Presbyterian Church, Brook lyn; Dr. Charles Lee Laws, Watchman and Examiner, New York; Dr. Frank M. Goodchild, Central Baptist Church, New York; the Rev. Oscar M. Voorhees, gen eral secretary of Phi Beta Kappa; John W. Ripley, 50 Church Street, New York; the Rev. J. A. Davis and many others. An Old-Time Bishop There is something queer about the Methodist bishops appealing for funds to erect a monument to the memory of Bishop Asbury at Washington, D. C. Bishop Asbury was the first bishop in America, a man who preached the old- time faith. He was an itinerant, working without salary, getting only the slightest pittance for his support. He traveled continually, holding old-time, red-hot re vivals with all the accompaniments of praise and demonstration. Between Bishop Asbury and many of the up-to- date bishops of Methodism there is not the slightest resemblance. If the old bishop should come around now, he would thunder against the Methodist apostasy and the political methods of the bishops, and probably turn a lot of preachers out of their pulpits. Yet Methodists want to honor that old fellow! Perhaps way down deep there is a feeling that Meth odism would be benefited by a return of some of that Holy Ghost fire of days past. That is out of the question until there is a return to the authority of the Word of God. Dieffienbach—What’s in a Name? Leave it to Rev. Bob Shuler, the Meth odist exhorter of Los Angeles, to trim
964 .cises held under the auspices of the Thomas Paine National Historical As sociation on the site of what was for- iherly his home.” The item did not say whether or not any of our seminary pro fessors had part in the exercises, but the Lord knows some of them are teach ing exactly the same views Paine did, and doing it in the name of the church. When another infidel, Robert Ingersoll, was asked, “Why are you not lecturing against the Bible as you used to?” he replied, “Preachers and teachers in the Church are doing that now, and they have audiences and influence that I never had.” At a recent conference at South Bend, Indiana, a keen pastor read from a book certain passages, and then askedTiis con gregation whether what he read sounded like the deliverances of the “Theological Seventeen” of the Fall, Flood, Virgin Birth and inspiration of the Scriptures. After a unanimous affirmative answer, he informed the worshippers that he had just read certain passages from Tom Paine’s “Age of Reason.” The Ration alist Society of the city invited the presi dent of the “Theological Seventeen” from Columbus, Ohio, to address the ration alists some Sabbath afternoon, saying: “We surely are glad to have these minis ters come up toward the front of the pro cession.” Who knows but that the ra tionalists will go to hiring these gentle men to preach for them yet? Evangelical Protestant Society An organization headed by leading clergymen of the United States is being formed in the East under the name of The Evangelical Protestant Society, with headquarters at 113 Fulton Street, New York City. From advance notices of its platform and plans it seems very certain that here is a movement for combatting Romanism and spreading Evangelical Protestantism that will meet with great favor in the church for it is headed by men whose high standing and intellectual understanding cannot be questioned. Among the leaders in the movement are:
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