meeting, eat bread and wine if you like, or curds and cream and baked apples.” Professor Pratt of Williams Semi nary, obviously not conversant with true salvation, seeks this explana tion, “The supposed joy that accom panies conversion is nothing more or less than the effect of religious laugh ing gas.” Professor Augrey, former presi dent of Crozier Theological Semi nary, declares: “The way to have communion with principle [formerly known as God] is by relaxed quiet ness on a mountain side, absorption in some glorious symphony, and lit tle friendly moments w ith one’s flowers.” Here on the West Coast, Dr. Mc- Cowan of Pacific School of Religion caps such philosophies by his evalua tion that “The fundamentalist theory of the finality of the Biblical revela tion can be satisfying to no person who thinks. I cannot explain the empty tomb any more than how Santa Claus comes down the chim ney.” These are tremendous days in which we are living. Without ques tion they are days of compromise and spiritual lethargy. We as God’s children need to be active and con stantly on guard. When you think of students in schools, colleges and universities today, 'the majority of them are having a concerted attack made upon their minds by Satan. These are tomorrow’s leaders, as well as citizens of this land. We can only say, in a prayerful attitude as with the Psalmist of old, “If the founda tions be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Here at Biola we urgently need Some people practice what they preach; others, unfortunately, just practice preach ing.
revival, and stands wedded to Chris tianity until death.” Unfortunately, this prophecy was not fulfilled. To day at Dartmouth College one is shocked to see what has taken place. Listen to this statement which ap peared in the student newspaper; “Graduate and undergraduate alike take pride in the freedom of thought that is permitted here. On the reli gious question, it is only to be ex pected that Dartmouth shows a large percentage of atheists and agnostics. Dartmouth is proud of her disbeliev ers.” The thing which makes all of this so tragic is the fact that the Lord’s people through the years invested their savings in these schools, believ ing that they would remain faithful to God and the Bible. Really, it is morally dishonest and sinfully wicked for leaders to change these impor tant philosophies in deliberate direc tions away from the faith. Perhaps it is even sadder to con template that what is true of the colleges and universities of our land is unfortunately also true of our seminaries. Originally e s tab lish ed and based upon the Word of God, many of them seemingly have become drunken with the foolishness of man, which is what God calls wisdom with eternal values left out. Worshipping at the shrine of intellectualism, they have turned aside from the God of the Bible. Dr. Nixon of Colgate Rochester Divinity School has declared, “We shall hardly bandy words about the finality of Christ. The field is open at any time to mean more to men than Jesus has meant. He was a hu man being, a child of his people, and times. One might just as well speak of the wool of the lamb as of the blood of the lamb.” Professor Theodore Parker com mented, “The Lord’s Supper is a heathenish rite and means very lit tle. Cast away the elements! Let all who will come together and have a 16
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