THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S 987 the pleasure of preaching to them and the joy of seeing them born again, but we do not believe in opening the prison doors and setting them at lib erty, else we would not love our country. We love these enemies of the truth, but we love them too well not to warn our readers against them as Paul did, and if these men use the thir teenth chapter of First Corinthians as an argument for our shutting our eyes to the truth, let them go on to the fifteenth chapter where Paul gives us the heart of the Gospel: “ How that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures;” And then let them listen to Paul again in Gal. 1 :6-8: “ I marvel that ye are so soon removed from, him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel; which is not another; but there be some that trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.” —T. C. H. FOSDICK OR “FALSE-DlCK” In the First Presbyterian Church of New York City a Baptist minister is supplying the pulpit. The man has acquired some notoriety'by reason of his pulpit ability. His name is Harry Emerson Fosdick. Now Mr. Fosdick is entitled to just so much consideration from the Christian people as his position and pulpiteering warrant and no more. We are going to say something to our readers which it gives us sorrow to say, but,we must speak the truth as the circumstances demand. The First Presbyterian Church,, as an organized body of believers, has a confession of faith, which every minister of the Presbyterian Church, every ordained elder of the Presbyterian Church, takes a public vow to maintain and sustain. This confession of faith includes the. Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures: “ The authority of the Holy Scripture, for which it ought to be believed and obeyed, dependeth not upon the testimony of any man or. church, but wholly upon God (who is truth itself), the author thereof; and therefore it is to be received, because it is the Word of God.” The Triune God,—Father, Son and Holy Ghost: “ In unity of the Godhead there be three persons of one substance, power and eternity; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. The Father is of none, either begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Son.” That Jesus Christ was “The Son of God, the second person in the Trinity, being very and eternal God, of one substance, and equal with the Father, who did, when the fulness of time was come, take upon him man’s nature, and all the essential properties and common infirmities thereof, yet without sin; being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance. So that two whole, perfect and distinct natures, the Godhead and the manhood, were Inseparably Joined together in one person, without conversion, composition or confusion; which person is very God and very man, yet one Christ; the only mediator between God and man.” That the Son and the Holy Ghost are equal with the Father: . ;“ The Holy Scriptures * * * ascribing unto them such names, attributes works and worship as are proper to God only.” (See Page 1077)
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