What Shall We Do About It? A Chapter from a Recent Book, “ T h e Crisis in Church and College,” in which the Plain Duty o f True Christiansis Emphasized
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inent members” in certain localities are being bribed to inaction by a cunning intriguing policy on the part of certain' financial powers. Even in our great training camps where our young officers receive their equipment for battle, spies have become entrenched ahd are busy destroying the morale of the army of the Lord. There should be small room for the indifferent when the churches ought to be engaged in one of the most mo mentous struggles in history for the God-given right to preach and defend the Gospel of Jesus. God is calling His people today with a mighty call. It is a call to the open arena, to the battle fields of spiritual conflict, for each to do his part, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, in the very light of God. That there is a conflict over the Bible, should be evident to the most careless observer in the churches; nevertheless, many persons are not quite certain as to what this general unrest is all about. Of course it is. rather indefinite to say that it is over the Bible. What is there in the Bible to which Modernism objects? To be specific it should he stated that the following statements cover the ground completely, though not all of these will receive attention in this volume. The Crux o f the Battle 1—
ERHAPS to many thought ful perhaps, living the life of quiet simple faith, it may seem strange that there should he a conflict over so good a book as the Bible, the doctrines of which are
holy, precepts binding, histories true. Nevertheless such is the fact; a great struggle is on in America—more in evidence than in any period of our his tory. The conflict has been forced upon us by the school of critics, by that class of men who are battling against the very existence of the' Evangelical Churches of Jesus Christ. With few noble exceptions, here and there, men in both pulpit and pew have- closed their eyes to our religious peril. Indeed, in the silence of the orthodox pulpit is found one of the most serious aspects of the situation. If the clergy had only spoken out and informed the people the churches would be fully competent to deal with the problem, without the need of any outside help from such hooks as this. But the rank and file are kept in comparative ignor ance of the growing menace to the cause of Jesus Christ. Many of the Shepherds are not wisely protecting and instructing the sheep. Our flanks are exposed everywhere. Not a few of the churches are very much like an army whose scouts and officers are having some secret dealings with the enemy, while at the same time the lat ter are attacking on every hand. It would seem that some of the “ prom
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