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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
The corruption of all human nature: “ From this corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled and made opposite to all good, and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual trans gressions.” The necessity of the shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ as an atone ment for sin: “ Christ humbled himself in His death, in that having been betrayed by Judas, forsaken by His disciples, scorned and rejected by the world, condemned by Pilate, and tormented by His persecutors; having also conflicted with the terrors of death and the powers of darkness, felt and borne the weight of God’s wrath, He laid down His life an offering for sin, enduring the painful, shameful and cursed death of the cross.” The physical resurrection of Jesus Christ: "Christ was exalted in His resurrection, not having seen corruption in death, (of which it was not possible for Him to be held), and having the very same body in which He suffered, with the essential properties thereof, (but without mortality and other common infirmiteis belonging to this life) really united to His soul. He rose again from the dead the third day of His own power; whereby He de clared Himself to be the Son of God, to have satisfied Divine justice, to have van quished death, and Him that had the power of it, and to be Lord of quick and dead.” His physical return: “ Christ is to be exalted in His coming again to judge the world, in that He, who Was unjustly judged and condemned by wicked men shall come again at the last day in great power and in the full manifestation of His own glory, and of His Father’s, with all His holy angels, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, to judge the world in righteousness.” Now Mr. Fosdick says in a sermon, “ Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” given in the First Presbyterian Church of New York City, May 21, 1922: “ It is. interesting to note where the Fundamentalists are driving in their stakes to mark out a deadline of doctrine around the church, across which no one is to pass on terms of agreement. “ They insist that we must all believe in the historicity of certain special mir acles, pre-eminently in the virgin birth of our Lord; that we must believe in a special theory of inspiration— that the original documents of Scripture, which of course we no longer possess, were inerrantly dictated to men a good deal as a man might dictate to a stenographer; that we must believe in a special theory of the atonement— that the blood of our Lord, shed in a substitutionary death, placates an alienated Deity and makes possible welcome for the returning sinner; and that we must believe in thejsecond coming of our Lord upon the clouds of heaven to set up a millennium here, as the only way in which God can bring history to a worthy denouement. “ Such are some' of the stakes which are being driven to mark a deadline of doctrine around the church. * * * To believe in virgin birth as an explana tion of great personality is one of the familiar ways in which the ancient world was accustomed to account for unusual superiority. * * * One view is that Ghrist is literally coming, externally on the clouds of heaven, to set up His king dom here. I never heard that teaching in my youth at all.” He never heard it! Well, who is he? Because he never heard it in his youth is no proof that it was not preached. Mr. Fosdick charges that those who believe in the evangelical faith of the Presbyterian church—the good, old-fashioned believers in God’s Holy Word—are seeking to divide the church! Listen to him: “ And now, in the presence of colossal problems, which must be solved in Christ’s name and for Christ’s sake, the Fundamentalists propose to drive out from the Christian churches all the consecrated souls who do not agree with their theory of inspiration.” “ I WILL SHEW THEE GREAT THINGS!”
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