j i o t e s by the Way.
By J. H. Sammis
to care only for the truth, " so they appear to be very good Christians. They speak of Christianity as the only hope of mankind. They talk of a "cruci- fied and risen Christ," of "revela- t i o n "; of a "regeneration and sancti- fication of peisonality through Go d ," and of " a life that streams from J esus. ' ' But whatever the appearances we know that those men, riarnac, Sa- batier, and others, have repudiated the supernatural m the commonly accepted sense of the word. Miracles, Virgin Birth; physical resurrection, ascension, and îeturn of Jesus; regeneration and sanctification as mystical operations of the Holy Spirit; all this they discard. In thé ethical garb, and the doctrinal speech of Christianity they would ' ' de- ceive the very elect ' ' with their anti- christianity. tory. It is distinguished from all other religions by precisely those facts and tenets which these men repudiate. It is a supernatural religion. It is built upon the miraculous, and it will culmi- nate in the miraculous. Its cardinal, and peculiar teachings are of a Virgin- born God-Man; a miracle working and divinely authoritative Teacher; an ex- piatory sacrifice c-n the Cross; a physi- cally risen, ascended and coming Jesus; an ever present and Personal God the Holy Snirit. communicating the life of the Living Christ to His Body the Church. .Any other " Ch r i s t i a n i t y ," call it " f r e e , ' - "progressive," " l i b 1 oral," " modern,'' whatever you please is not Christianity. It is only the vain and spiritually impotent "wisdom of this world, and of the princes of this world which come to nought.'' There is no doubt on this point. It is the conceit of men to whom the Cross, and What Is Chris- There is only one Christianity! It is that of Scripture and his- tianity?
All things are " P e o p le say that one ! Possible with cannot convert Moslems, I God. because apostasy for such means death. Let I me tell you my experience. After I had I learned through the gospel to know my I true Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, I nationality, honors, life, ancestry lost I all the value which, up to that time, I they had had for me. The truth alone I became my aim and goal. When I first 1 confessed Christ and the Mohammedan I priests came together in my village to § confute my testimony, one of them J struck me in the face with all his I strength. At that moment my heart I said: 'There is a proof that Jesus has • accepted you, for He has accounted you ,§, worthy to suffer shame for His name.' ft Before my inner eyes there rose up « plainly written the letters of Acts v. & 4, and this gave me such a rapture of « j o y as I had never known or experi- JLenced in any way up to that time. I ¡»said: ' If a blow can make, me partake 4 of such heavenly delights, how great » w o u ld be the bliss of dying for the •»Lord .Jesus!' From that time death lost Mall significance for me. My only wish Wiwas to preach the gospel to Mohamme- r| dans.' '—A Mohammedan Priest. ! ¡ J " l i b e r a l" scholars and preachers was « h e l d at Berlin in July. It is reported ijthat its personnel was "profoundly re- ' ligious," and " a p p e a r ed to care only If or the t r u t h ." " They believe in a free Christianity—but it is in Christ- ianity they believe.'' They are ' ' f r e e ' ' ' vin the sense that they have " c a s t His i bonds from t h em ," and confess no con- I Straints of old orthodoxy; of Church, j fcreed, or Scripture. As they " a p p e ar The "World's Congress 1 of Free Christianity. Unuer this title a gather- ing of noted
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