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A VENOMOUS EDITOR’S VOLCANIC ERUPTION His name is “ Dr. Dieffenbach” . He is the editor of The Christian Register, a Unitarian paper published in the city of Boston. He says, “ I beg of you to remember that I am an editor, cold to false alarms and keen for facts. I see this thing as a journalist.” With this introduction to the celebrated editor, let us regale you with a few of his prophetic utterances at a vesper service in Boston, reported in the Boston Herald, March 12, 1922 j “ The shame of the Arbuckle case pales In significance before the iniquity of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The terror and violence of Torrey’s base doc trine, proclaiming the coming of Christ, dripping in the blood of men, already seethes in the minds of millions of zealous followers. He has utterly overturned the ways of Jesus in his propaganda of the Gospel. No more is preaching the love of God of any avail. No more is Christian teaching effectual, or missions of healing, and social service. The horrendous appeal to force takes the place of the appeal to the Spirit which religion has employed in its churches for the salvation of the world.” Having stamped his feet on Torrey, he now jumps on Haldeman. He read from Dr. I. M. Haldeman’s book on “ The Coming of Christ” , stating that this book was being distributed by the thousands by the “ Torrey Institute , by the Moody Institute and the Gordon Bible College, in Boston. Christ is coming, this book says, “ as one who no longer seeks friendship or love. He will enunciate His claim by terror and might. He will tread and trample in His fury till the blood of men shall fill the earth. Till their upspurting blood shall make Him crimson, He comes to His glory, but not as the Saviour meek and lowly, but as an autocrat, a despot, through the gushing blood of a trampled world.” Of course, Dr. Haldeman is expounding the Scriptural statements con cerning the Tribulation period, as recorded in the Word of God. Let the reader get down the Book and read them for himself. Having finished Haldeman, the editor now paints a word picture of the Northern Baptist Church: “ Let me tell you the great Baptist Church is being riven by the Second Com-
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