e teachings of Prof. George B. Foster, in the Chicago
University Divinity School:
Is there no place to assail Christianity but a divinity
school? Is there no one to write infidel books except the
professors of Christian theology? Is a theological seminary
an appropriate place for a general massacre of Christian
doctrine?
And then the sentiment that follows in the next sentence is shared
increasingly by multitudes in the Church in proportion as these destroyers
become increasingly aggressive in their work of destruction. The editor
continues:
Mr. Mangasarian delivers infidel lectures every Sunday in
Orchestra Hall and no one is shocked, but when the professed
defenders of Christianity jump on it and assassinate it, the
public--even the agnostic public, cannot but despise them.
Either be scientific enough, cry believers to the evolutionists, to accept
the challenge of Christ's formula with all its implications, or be honest
enough to cease destroying the faith in an inerrant Bible you have sworn to
defend but refuse to accept!
The Church is also hurling the challenge of Christ's formula at every other
form of aggressive unbelief. No unbeliever, from destructive Higher Critic
to agnostic and infidel, has the shadow of a right to make contrary
pronouncement on the inerrancy and infallible authority of the Bible, for
he has refused to put Christ's word to the test,--his unbelief proves
it,--and he is therefore utterly incapacitated for passing any judgment
whatever on that Book which unfolds its meaning to faith alone.
And as to the controversy between the Church and the Schools, the
evolutionists must quit either evolution or the Christian schools, or the
controversy can in no way be cured. For how can faith in an inerrant Bible
and unbelief in its inerrancy abide in harmony in the same house? In the
very nature of things, two groups who hold such absolutely antagonistic
positions must either part company or continue the controversy born of the
antagonism. The true Church always has believed, and always will believe,
in an inerrant Word of God, and she cannot harbor within her ranks any
group of people, no matter by what name they go, who do not take their
stand without equivocation on that same ground.
If reason for this intolerance is asked, it will appear in the light of
some questions asked by Dr. Joseph Parker. These questions are:
If the Bible is wrong in histor
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