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will end, every evil will end, and “The earth shall he full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.” (Isa. 11:9). Then and not till then. Even so come Lord Jesus, come quickly.
ing of it later, said, “Why, he holds to the notion that the Bible is inspired from cover to cover, and that foolish ness must be given up by any man who expects to succeed in the modern min istry.” This is an instance of Tolera tion! Modernism boasts its toleration. Conservation confesses itself intolerant of error. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Practice is louder than profession. In these instances Liberals ordained a man who spoke their own shibboleth against the protests of some of their Conservative brethren, and with the tolerant consent of others; and in the second instance Liberals refused to ordain a man because he did not speak the shibboleth of their skepticism. We find that the men who are eloquently pleading for “toleration,” in their attempt to keep together denomina tional factions that have no fellowship one with the other, are the very men that show the most intolerant spirit the moment one dissents from their prema turely hatched opinions.” SPURGEON’S CONSECRATION It is said that when Spurgeon was beginning to feel his wonderful power as a preacher and leader, one day while walking across a common he seemed to hear a voice saying, “Seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not.” Spurgeon’s full consecration, which deepened and ripened with the years, began at once on that common. Every thing that came into his life afterwards was of no value when Compared with Christ, eternal life, and spiritual riches. DON’T BE S’POSING An old negro Christian, who made a scanty living by hard work, was asked: “Suppose you should be sick or lose your employment?” She answered: “I never s’poses. The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want. Better give up them s’poses and trust the Lord.”
MODERN TOLERATION Dr. W. B. Riley of Minneapolis, relates the following: “Recently a University of Chicago graduate, whose name we withhold, to save him suffering from his own opin ions, was ordained by the Twin City Baptist Association. The ministers who were present reported that he doubted practically all the fundamentals, and denied Some of them. The virgin birth of Christ and His resurrection from the grave were not certainties with him; the inspiration of the Bible was only possible by an attenuated definition of the word “inspiration.” A visiting min ister in the city, who, as supply pastor was present, a man of fine, scholarly attainments and ripe experience, ob jected to the ordination of this young man. Two members of the council withdrew when they found that the vote was going to go in the affirmative; three others, members of the council, have since said to the writer that they would never again vote for a man who held such skeptical views as were voiced by this modern graduate of this modern University; that they were both ashamed and sorry for their part in the same. The Swedish people, from whose fellow ship this young man has risen, have expressed well nigh universal regret that a man holding such views should enter the ministry. About the same time, in an Associa tion in Michigan, .a Moody graduate applied for ordination and the examin ing council, made up in its major part by “Moderns" in full sympathy with the theology taught in the' University of Chicago, refused to ordain this man, and one member of the council, speak
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