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THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
lest afte r you have refitted th e works of God th ere be more chaos th a n now. God is not th e au tho r of confusion. Again you state a tru th when you ask : “May we no t judge one another by our fru its, as Jesus told His disciples to judge m en?” Certainly we may. Ap plying th is test, I kindly bu t sincerely charge you w ith allowing your liberty too much liberty. You have, by aban doning th e fundam entals of the Bible, driven a wedge into our church both at home and abroad. If you keep on blindly pounding it in, who can foretell th e resu lt of the ren t th a t divides a house against itself? You say you don’t much care what my creed may be. I regard it to be im portant, fo r it determ ines the fruits. The men on the firing-line know (even if the men in the offices do not) th a t in creasing thousands of dollars are being diverted by donors away from our de nom inational societies into o th er reli gious channels, because th ere is a grow ing d istru st on th e p art of the laity of those officials who arrog ate the rig h t to “modify or abandon” th e fundamentals of' historic faith a t the dictation of modern ideas. Well do you say: “ If we have the Spirit of Christ, then we both belong to him and nothing should be perm itted to separate us.” I ask you: Why, then, will you separate? Souls are perishing while you are dividing' the church, thus robbing uncounted millions of th e ir only hope of hearing the Gospel. For th e sake of dying men, I implore you to re tu rn to the Christ of th e m iddle cross. Cordially yours, A FUNDAMENTALIST. Like a Long Letter from Home — is a copy of the “K. B.” to a Missionary. A gift to our Missionary Fund never fails to send out a blessing to the world.
An Open L etter to a Modernist
My d ear B rother: Through th e courtesy of “The Ameri can Missionary” for November,, your “ Open L etter to a Fund am en talist” is received. I tru st the courtesy of the same magazine to convey to you my reply. You call me a “Fundam en talist.” I esteem this an honor. Your le tte r pro claims you to be a Modernist. This I am not. You are rig h t in saying th a t I “consider certain theological views,,, which were thoroughly acceptable to a form er generation, bu t which man,y pro fessed Christians have now either modi fied o r abandoned, essential to real Christianity.” I would ask you: W hat and Whom have you modified or abandoned?’ Cer tainly your father, fo r he, by your v ir tu al admission, was a Fundam entalist. 'He was in good company w ith Moody, Spurgeon, Hudson Taylor, McLaren, Wesley, every New Testament w riter, and w ith Jesus. But you would modify or abandon all of these. You deny th e wisdom of the “ faith of our fath ers,” although it is certain th a t w hat has been accomplished thus far has been w rought along these lines. The very name “F undam en talist” proclaims faith in th e Son of God, whose teachings I deny any man th e rig h t to modify. You and I are aware th a t you as a Modernist are forced eith er to modify or abandon th e Lord Jesus Christ. Be ing religious, you cannot wholly aban don Him, so you presume to change Him. Instead of receiving Him as He in the Bible is declared to be, you would make Him over to fit you r notions. The God-breathed Holy Scriptures must, fo r sooth, give* way before ephemeral mod ern ideas ! I feel, sure th a t the “ endeavor” you would make to “ fit together” God’s li b rary of N ature and His w ritten Word is superfluous. Better'*spend your days in obeying the Lord’s last command,
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