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December 1927
tenty cannot succeed, because sensible people know full well that Modernism neither receives the Gospel at its face value, nor recognizes that any atonement either was made or is necessary. Evangelicals should warn the peo ple against the deliberate deceptions practiced in the use of the word ‘Evangelism,’ wresting it away entirely from its proper relationship, and emptying it of its true con tent.” The Africa Inland Mission We have received a letter calling our attention to an incorrect statement made by someone in speaking of our Superintendent as the “founder of the Africa Inland Mission.” We do not recall saying this in print, nor of making the mistake ourselves, and our critic has not indicated where he saw it. But if we have been at fault we are glad to make the correction. We understand that Rev. Peter Cameron Scott was the founder of the Africa Inland Mission, starting for Africa in June, 1895. Mr. Scott died in December, 1896. The workers he took out to the field were soon scattered, some by death and some by other causes, until all had left the mission. Dr. Hurlburt, who was the first president of the Home Council, was, after the death of Mr. Scott, asked to take supervision of all the work, and has led the mission out from its apparent failure, and through new workers, to its present place of great blessing in a long chain of stations, among more than twenty tribes, reaching into the far heart of Africa. Because of Dr. Hurlburt’s part in directing the work of the Africa Inland Mission to its present efficiency, his name may sometimes have been mentioned as the founder, and perhaps some have not known of the initial work of Mr. Peter Cameron Scott. Dr. Hurlburt, however, is careful never to make this error, and ,gives the highest honor to the real founder, whose vision of a chain of sta tions across Africa, and whose ideals and methods he has perpetuated and carried out. Managing Editor.
“It is -nauseating to hear the oft-repeated assertion from the Bible exhorter in his pulpit, the simpering school-marm in her class room, the cagey politician in his public blah-blahs, and from the unlearned jurist on his work-bench that morality can not be disassociated from religion, and if tried would tear our social fabric. This lie'is thrust down our throats daily.” Certainly morality and ethics have never been asso ciated with Atheism. One would think that the great ma jority of our criminals were professing Christians. What proportion of those charged with crime have even seen the inside of a Sunday school? Prison walls reek curses against Gpd. Who wants to undertake the publication of the crimes of atheists and infidels? Surely not The Truth Seeker. As to whether morality can be disassociated from true religion, a grammar school knowledge of the history of nations will furnish the answer. If moral and social con ditions were so much better in heathen lands, The Truth Seeker wouldn’t be published in the United States and the radicals from disintegrated countries across the seas would head for Africa rather than America. Indifference to the claims of God and open hostility to moral laws, almost invariably go hand in hand. The changed lives of multitudes in many lands are conclusive proof of the power of the Gospel to make men live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. Note:- An example of the unreliability of many newspaper reports concerning ministers may be seen in the following: Papers throughout the country have recently carried the news that a Dr. Matthews, pastor of the Glendale Presbyterian Church (Calif.) had sued the church because he was stricken with hernia while preaching. The name of the pastor of the church is not Matthews. The pastor has never suffered from hernia. The pastor has never sued the church for any reason. The Dr. Matthews referred to was an evangelist who was taken ill while holding meetings in the church, and Dr. Matthews has never sought to hold the church responsible. So much for .the newspapers! Stealing the Word -‘Evangelism” Dr. A. Z-. Conrad says: “Modernism knows no real Evangel. The frantic attempt to appropriate that word, with its- hallowed significance, and its great historic con-
The Royal Babe I see the Christ among the straw, A Babe in manger laid. I wonder at His lowly guise, The Lord a man is made. I watch His mother’s loving touch, I see her heart of love. He cries with tears as babies do, The Lord from realms above. I wonder at the Word made flesh, The Word from timeless .shore, And yet He came to die for me. I worship and adore.
B y D r . F. E. M arsh I kneel before this Royal Babe And bring my present small, And with the Magi worship Him With praise and love, yea, all. The smile that flits across His face Tells of His love within, For He has come to give His life To save from self and sin. The Lord was born for Calvary’s Cross To give Himself for me, Then to be born within my heart That He might live in me.
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