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with an effrontery that should shame the devil himself, assumes the power to enlighten God’s people about His mistakes! If mercy was ever manifested, it is in God’s forbearance toward these, the wickedest of sinners; and yet there is a sure word for these men to consider: “ What wilt thou say when He shall punish thee?” Every man and woman who has been misled by their teaching, hin dered from service by their teaching, both saints and sinners, will rise up to testify against them when the books are opened. T. C. H. P9%1 SPECIFIC SPECIMENS OF RANK INFIDELITY We are often accused of magnifying the conditions in our colleges and churches. As a matter of fact, the pages of this magazine could be filled each month with positive proof of the Satanic seed-sowing which is being carried on by infidels in church and school, but we have something else to do in our effort to establish men and women in the truth. However, the following facts are so pertinent that we give them to our readers as samples of the God-denying, Christ-rejecting, Spirit-grieving work so rampant to day. The following three paragraphs are taken from Enudsen’s “ Beacon Lights of Prophecy” : “ The best of the Hebrew prophets were like the whirlwind dervishes, going through bodily contortions until semi-conscious, when their mutterings and ex pressions were taken down by their followers and supposed to be predictions of the future. This is predictive prophecy. Possibly some clairvoyant faculty ex isted in some of them,’ ’ “ The book of Daniel belongs to that Apocalyptic literature of which there was a large lot in his age, the Maccabean period, all fanciful and fictitious.” “ ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ claimed by the prophets, is a psychological pheno menon of these men, never to be regarded as direct revelation from God.” The next three are from Rail’s “ New Testament History” “ Christ was not conscious of his Messiahship, nor called to it, until his bap tism by John.” “ Christ fully expected the Jewish people and rulers to accept him up to liis entry into Jerusalem at the last, and then changed his plan.” “ Christ then decided he must die for his views of the kingdom he came to found.” The third degree of “ threes” is from Prof. Wm . Newton Clarke’s “ The ology” : .flwM ■ ■. 7 . ' “ The Bible has many contradictions and inaccuracies, and never claims to be wholly inerrant.” “ It does not need inspiration of God if it is true, and inspiration would not avail for its contradictions and inaccuracies.” “ If God the Father freely forgives sinners, no atonement is necessary. If there is an atonement required, God does not freely forgive.” “ Zion’s Herald” says: “ We submit that these nine notions were regarded as blasphemous when Voltaire, Tom Paine and Ingersoll (an earlier trio of infidels) uttered them. W e challenge any believer in God’s Word to frame a definition of outright blasphemy which would not include them !” The three volumes from which these extracts are taken, are used in the Minister’s Course of Study of the Methodist Church, and approved by
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