THE KING'S BUSINESS GROUNDED IN THE FUNDAMENTALS
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A MONG the graduates who have just now received diplomas from the U. P. Seminary at Xenia, Ohio, is Stewart P. MacLennan, a graduate of the Bible Insti tute of .Los Angeles, and who has also just taken charge as pastor of the Pres byterian church at San Pedro, this city. The following clipping from a Xenia news paper, referring to. a “statement” drawn up by Mr. MacLennan and signed by him self and his ■fellow-graduates, indicates that th'ey are firmly grounded in the fun damentals : A rather unusual meeting took place last week following the graduation exercises of Xenia Seminary, when the young men of the graduating class and the post-graduate students met together for the last time, and drew up a statement of a few things they believed in common. It has lately become quite an ordinary occurrence to read of. some Seminary student after his gradua tion setting out to tell the world just how much he does not believe. Orthodoxy seems to hold the field in the case of these Xenia students. So much so, that within five minutes after meeting they had signed and issued the following 'statement: We believe: 1. In the Verbal Inspiration of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. 2. In the Pre-existence, Deity, and T HE following brief morning prayer has been published broadcast, with the recommendation that each person commit it- to memory and use it daily: “Our Father, I pray that I may live this day in constant recollection of my true relation, as an inaividual, to Thee, the Originating and Indwelling Spirit. May my conscious mind perceive that Thy Life, Thy Spirit, Thy Thoughts are within me, and that Thou art seeking to realize Thyself and to manifest Thy Love through
Incarnation by Virgin B irth.of the Lord Jesus. Christ. ‘ 3. We also believe that He lived a sin less life, and that His death was Penal, yicarious, and Expiatory. 4. We believe that He was raised^ from the dead in the same body in which He suffered, and ascended to the right hand of God, where He is now making inter cession for the saints. 5. And further, we believe in His Immi nent, Personal and Visible return to raise and reward the saints, and execute judg ment on the ungodly. . We, the undersigned men, covenant with one another, and before God, not only to hold these doctrines, but To preach and teach theip to the several congregations to which God may call us. We make the above statement without suggestion from anyone, and without any desire for personal notoriety, but rather^ in the interest of those Christian truths which we believe stand firm and have not been shaken by any of the results of criticism, and also that we may deny the oft repeated charge that faith in these truths cannot be intelligent. Signed—Alva J. McClain, Stewart P. MacLennan, W. E. McClure, Dewitt Mac- Eachron, Chris G. Lunan, Henry Rankin, W. Greer McCrory, E. M. Duffy, C. E. Hawtho'rne, C. R. Ferguson, A. G. Mac Lennan, B. D. j Benjamin H. Somers, B. D .; JWilliam Sutherland, B. D .; H. Framer Smith, B. D.
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MORNING PRAYER
me. May my mind be a pure dwelling place' for Thy Spirit, and my thoughts only such as will heal and bless, May I remem ber that anger or unbrotherliness shown to another, under whatever provocation, thwarts Thy divine purpose arid grieves Thy Holy Spirit. May my highest aim this day be to manifest God, and make others happy, and may" I rise every day into' a higher consciousness of Thy Life and Thy Love, through Jesus Christ my , Lord. Amen.”
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