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older churches. They are the result of a spiritual urge upon the part of the people who are seeking what they think the church cannot furnish them." Commenting on his sermon, he said he was a 0 modernist out and out," and that he had not consulted with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a trustee of the church, or with any other member of the con– gregation. Why doesn't Dr. WoeHkin play fair, leave the church that has made him, and try the game Independently? STRAW No. 2. "A re-written version of the Bible, which will include modern scientific, ethical and philosophical theories, is the plan of the Tyson Lectureship Foundation. This Foundation was or– ganized in the library of the J . P. Mor– gan home yesterday, and its purpose, according to announcement made to– day, is 'to make accessible to men and women in general the results of the research of modern scholars into the origins of the Christian religion.' 'Mod– ern critical and historical research,' ac– cording to the statement, 'has given us back our Bible. It is no longer an im– possible book, full of moral and intel– lectual stumbling blocks. Man is as in– curably religious as in former days, and is eagerly asking for a faith which shall be at once consonant with reason and verifiable in experience in the light of the twentieth century.' " (As– sociated Press Dispatch.) Well, well! Who are these men who are asking for a new faith and a new Bible? Well, one of them is the son of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, who left as his testimony concerning the Bible, the following preamble to his will: "I commit my soul into the hands of my Saviour, full of confidence that, having redeemed and washed it with His most precious blood, He will pre– sent it faultless before the throne of my Heavenly Father.
"I entreat my children to maintain and defend, at all hazards, and at any cost of personal sacrifice, the blessed doc– trine of complete atonement for sin through the blood of Jesus Christ, once offered, and through that alone.'' Every man who attended that meet– ing, as well as J. P. Morgan, Jr., him– self, owes all that be has and is (whatever that may be) to the Old Bible. All of the Rockefeller, Morgan and Ford Interests are involved when they talk of a "new Bible." They may get one which will tie their Interests up with Russia and Germany, and their de– scendants may have a taste of the an– archy and moral chaos which now reigns in those countries. STRAW No. 3. The Rev. L. Mason Clarke, for twenty years pastor of the First Pres– byterian Church of Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., is quoted In a news dispatch of May 27th as denying the five articles of faith recently declared essential by the Presbyterian General Assembly, and denying the right of the Assembly to interfere with "religious liberty", appealing to the "Modern element" in the denomination to make a Hfearless stand against the obscurantist attitude of the Assembly.'' He charged the Assembly with being arrogant and Impertinent in not allow– ing room for "progressive minds." Dr. Clarke,-there Is plenty of room on the outside. Why not go and try It out? ~ THE GRANDEST PRODUCT I have seen grand old white-haired Theodore Cuyler stand in the chapel at Princeton University and say, after enumerating the advantages of the school in an intellectual way: "Gentle– men, the grandest product of this grand old university Is a noble Chris– tian character.''-F. D. Kershner.
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