March, 1937
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TWhere Fundamentalists Stand Resolutions presented January 17, 1937, on the opening Sunday of the twentieth annual meeting of the World's Christian Fundamentals Association. By a rising vote of 2,000 delegates and other friends, the document was unanimously accepted.
Officers of the World's Christian Fundamentals Association P AU L W . ROOD, President Los Angeles, Calif. R. G. LE TOU RNEAU , Vice-President Peoria, 111. CHARLES G. TRUMBULL, Vice-President Philadelphia, Pa. CLAUDE A . WATSON , Vice-President Los Angeles, Calif. MRS. DA ISY P. WRIGHT, Vice-President Greenwood, Miss. W . B. RILEY, Executive Secretary Minneapolis, Minn. DIRECTORS ALW YN BALL, JR. New York. N . Y. PH ILIP A . BENSON Brooklyn, N. Y. J. OLIVER BUSWELL, JR. Wheaton, 111. HUGH EVANS Los Angeles, Calif. MRS. CARL GRAY Omaha, Nebr. CHARLES E. GREMMELS New York, N. Y. J. D. HEINZMAN Denver, Colo. CHARLES L. HUSTON Coatesville, Pa. H. A . TRONSTDE Chicago, 111. GUSTAF F. JOHNSON Minneapolis, Minn. HOWARD A. KELLY Baltimore, Md. I. H. LINTON Washington, D. C. J. D. LORD Woodland. Calif. MRS, FINLEY J. SHEPERD N ew York, N . Y. OSWALD J. SMITH Toronto, Ont., Can. MRS. LYMAN STEWART Los Angeles, Calif. W ILLIAM G. STUDER Chicago, 111. W ALTER L . W ILSON Kansas City, Mo. ADVISORY COUNCIL W . W . AYER N ew York, N . Y. GUY H. FISH Des Moines, Iowa ROBERT H A LL GLOVER Philadelphia, Pa. NORMAN B. HARRISON Minneapolis, Minn. W ILL H. HOUGHTON Chicago, 111. P AU L M. KANAMORI Tokyo, Japan ARIE KOK Peking, China MARK A. MATTHEWS Seattle, Wash. A . T. O’REAR Long Beach, Calif. CHRISTABEL PANKHURST London, Eng. M. D. PLUNKETT Chicago. III. W . H. ROGERS N ew York, N. Y. B . H. SHADDUCK East Liverpool, Ohio A . A . SMITH Tampa, Fla. CARL G. WESTERDAHL Rockford, 111. The above officers and directors and members o f the advisory council o f the W orld’s Christian Fundamentals Association were elected in Los Angeles, C alif., on January 22, at a session of the twentieth annual meeting o f the Association. 4*
W E, the officers and members of the World’s Christian Fundamentals Association, assembled in annual meeting in the Church of the Open Door. Los Angeles, California, do hereby express ourselves concerning the following matters: I. L iquor W e submit that the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and its partial execu tion through a period of years, produced a degree of sobriety theretofore unknown in our country, eventuating in moral and ethical conditions which brought the United States to a period of such prosperity as it had never known before, and such as per haps no other country had ever enjoyed. We also note, first, that the repeal ,\of the Eighteenth Amendment has been attended by country-wide drunkenness involving the expenditure of billions of dollars; second, that this wave of intemperance has in creased the number of the incapacitated, thereby loading the government with the care of additional persons unemployed; and third, that drunken driving has resulted in a mounting death toll. We note, further, that the promised improvement in citizen ship made by the advocates of repeal has not been realized. The wave of crime which was falsely attributed to bootlegging has not receded. That most fiendish of crimes, kidnapping, which formerly was perpetrated usually by persons who were sober enough to know that the accomplish ment of their purpose would depend upon the preservation of the lives of the kid napped, is now committed by men and women frenzied by drink; to them, life is cheap. In the light of these findings, we declare ourselves determined to contend against this dominance of drink, and we pledge ourselves to seek actively the restoration of the Eighteenth Amendment. II. T he S ocial G ospel We submit that the deluge of intemper ance and the wave of crime which are sweeping our country are in part a product of “ another gospel” which is no gospel. The social gospel, so called, has proved itself a poor substitute for the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. While it pleads for temporary advantages to be ac corded the unfortunate, at the same time it denies the divine inspiration of the Bible, the deity of. Jesus Christ, blood atonement, the necessity of regeneration, the personality of the Holy Spirit, and the promised return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth as King. The consequence of this teaching has been a lowering of moral standards. If the Bible is not an inspired book, then sin may be condoned; crime may be assigned to mis taken steps, and final judgment upon in iquity may be denied. The acceptance of this view opens the floodgates of immorality,
bestiality, and sensualism. We therefore call the people of this nation to return to an understanding and acceptance of the plain teachings of the Word of God. We heartily commend those teachers in public schools, colleges, and universities who have remained loyal to Christ and to His Word, and those secular institutions that have respected the “ faith once de livered,” and those magazines that honor the Scriptures. We urge parents to send their boys and girls only to those schools where God’s existence is unquestioned, where the deity of His Son is accepted, and where the inspiration of the Bible is taught. We rejoice in the increasing popularity of Christian colleges, in the rise and growth of Bible training schools, and in the mount- ing .popularity of theological seminaries which are soundly orthodox. III. W orld P eace W e believe that war is contrary to divine will, and that it is indeed a world menace. We lament the selfishness which sets men at one another’s throats. W e deplore the destruction of life and property incident to civil, national, or world chaos. But we refuse the shibboleth of those proponents of peace whose philosophy, if logically carried out, would leave every city destitute of protection to be plundered by the criminal crowd and would put peace-loving countries at the mercy of the Moscow propagandists. IV . C ommunism We recognize in Communism bald atheism, with its rule by terror, its murder of innocent millions, and its gospel of hate. In spite of hold pretenses, it threatens the culture of ages, and even the existence of humanity itself. We discern that Com munism—God-denying and Christ-scorning —menaces America and the world. In their leadership against communistic inva sion we assure modern statesmen of our sympathy, cooperation, and support. As stu dents of Scripture, we find in Communism the fulfillment of those conditions described by the prophets as being preparatory to the rise of Antichrist. We are convinced of our obligation to inform men and women of approaching events which are clearly outlined in the prophetic word, that they may receive Christ as Saviour and escape the judgment of the unbelieving. V. C hrist ’ s R eturn We are determined to hold with joy “that blessed hope,” the promised return to earth of the Lord Jesus Christ. While we grieve over world conditions which produce poverty, hatred, crime, and warfare, we remind our own hearts of the fact— and we also call the attention of our fellow believ ers to it—that the “day of our redemption draweth nigh.” Having this assurance, we would “ rejoice evermore.”
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