THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NE S S 775 They are going to »trengthen and purify the “ best religious and moral traits” of the natiye faiths. That will be some job. The “ religions and moral traits ’ ’ of these professors need purifying. Why not exploit this pro gram at home? Why not subject them to six months’ solitary confinement, and then let some one stand outside and read the Bible to them? Let them meditate upon their awful sins—denying God’s Word, deceiving the students, sowing the seed of rebellion against God’s authority, seeking to breed traitors to the faith. Perhaps such a course of treatment might save them from the awful doom pronounced in Heb. 10:28, 29: “ He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit o f grace?” We ask our readers to face this practical question: What effect do you think such teaching will have upon the minds of the young men preparing for Christian service ? What effect will the teaching of these young men, in turn (supposing that they take up Christian work) have upon the rising generation? Every honest man and woman must face these questions. —T. C. H. RATIONALISTIC REVIVALS The “ evangelism” of the new school is something fearfully and won derfully conceived. There comes to our desk a newspaper display adverj tisement featuring revival meetings in the Methodist Church, Chatham, N. J. Large headline—“ Hell Fire and Brimstone.” This is what follows: “ In the old days a revival meant scaring people into being good. Wild eyed evangelists painted lurid pictures of hell into which poor little souls of bad people were to he done nicely to a turn. ‘ Are you saved?’ was the disturbing question of these barn-storming preachers. Any decent Chris tian these days wouldn’t be so presumptuous as to say he .was ‘ saved’. He doesn’t know because he is too busy trying to be a worthy citizen of the kingdom of God in this world. NO ONE NEED FEAR THAT THE UNION SERVICES NEXT WEEK AT THE METHODIST CHURCH WILL BE OF THIS SORT.” Revivals without the Holy Spirit—revivals without the message of the Word of God—here we have the new order of thing?. But—will it work? This new revival stuff has already been tried out and some very promi nent liberalists have been letting it slip out that there is a screw loose some where. For instance, Dr. Douglas Clyde McIntosh, of Yale University, admits freely that “ the old Christianity was positive and vital, While the message of religious liberalism has been predominantly negative.” Dr. W. H. Pi Faunce, of Brown University, says, “ Under the old theol ogy there was a spirit of reverence and obedience that now seems to be totally lacking.” (SEE OUTSIDE BACK COVER)
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