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October 1926
of redemption in Christ, dies out of the Bible, and in its place we hear only this: “ Thus saith the mind of man.” We go back to the question with which we started, with which all discussion of religion must start, Hath God spoken to man? And if He has, do we have a true record of what He has said? All the hopes of mankind depend upon the answer. The Scriptures say that God has spoken, spoken through men who were moved by the Holy Ghost, and for centuries the Christian Church has dared to speak to humanity only upon this ground, that it possessed and de clared the Word of the Living God. By What Shall We Be Guided? But now, if we adopt the idea of the Bible that is rapid ly and fatally gaining ground in the Protestant Church, then the Church can no longer arrest the attention of a fallen race with that ageless cry, “ Thus saith the Lord!” At first hearing, it seems very easy to take a trip through the Bible and mark when we leave the territory of primitive religion and pass into the true religion. But what is to be our guide? If some parts of the Bible are false, and others true, if this is only tribal religion and stone-age morality, and. this the highest and purest, what is to be our guide in Judging, and in distinguishing the one from the other? Ah, there is the fatal question, and the fatal answer must be, “ Man’s rea son !" And this, in turn, means that ultimately we depend not upon revelation but upon human reason. The final authority is not the Word of Gdd, but human reason. Thus the world is plunged back into the abyss of human ignorance and despair where we can hear only the taunting mocking echoes of our own cries in the darkness. As to the practical effect the "new view” of the Holy Scriptures is having upon the Christian Church, there could be no more striking evidence than the sad subsidence of re demptive teaching and preaching in the Protestant Church. The great question of the Reformation was this: “What shall I do to be saved?” and the great answer went with it, “ Through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.” Wherever a Protestant church lifts its spire towards the heavens it stands as a monument to the doctrine of salvation by faith. Historically, this is so. But alas! if we enter the churches and hear the message and read the sermonic output of the pulpits, we must conclude that in many churches there are now more important questions to be answered than the old question which rang out on the midnight air at Philippi so many years ago, “ What shall I do to be saved?” “ Deleted" Leads to "Diluted” A deleted Bible meanB a diluted Gospel. The Bible as the Word of God and the proclamation of the Cross as the power of God unto salvation, stand or fall together. Men and brethren, what shall we do? What can we do but pray that the Holy Spirit who gave the Scriptures to our fallen human ity, and who has used them through the Church unto the salvation of souls and the glory of God in Jesus Christ, may again be pleased to revive in the Church a great faith in the Bible as the Word of God. “ Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain that they may live! Awake, O north wind, and come, thou south, and blow upon our garden that thcKspices thereof may flow forth!” \. i conclude with these noble words from the hymnal of the Lutheran Church: God’s Word is our great heritage. And shall be ours forever. To spread its light from age to age Shall be its chief endeavor. Through life it guides our way, In death it is our stay. Lord, grant while worlds endure,
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