system
of teaching which stands for a whole Bible, a Gospel of redeeming
blood, a risen and actually coming Saviour, coming again in the
flesh, and seeks with an insistent and constant "thus saith the
Lord" to win the souls of men to a grace-given and grace-dealing
Saviour. (And I may say in passing that Paul, under God, is
undoubtedly responsible for this doctrine so persistent and
aggressive, this doctrine of Premillennialism.)

To the advanced theological professor Revelation is a piece of crazy
quilt patchwork, so full of symbols that have no intelligent
meaning, symbols that can be interpreted by twenty different
expositors in twenty different ways, is so full of monsters and
nightmare doings that only an unbalanced mind could have written it
and one equally unbalanced would alone attempt to decipher it.

To these teachers and leaders who count themselves as progressive
followers of the Christ of God, who practically set aside the matter
of miracles as no more worthy of credence than the stories of Alice
in Wonderland, the final place of the deposit of authority is in the
individual and subconscious mind.

These professors, teachers and leaders to a large degree are an
expression of Protestantism.

Protestantism to-day stands for everything in general and nothing in
particular, except its protest against being definite and
particular.

It has thrown eschatology overboard.

It no longer has any interest in hereafter things.

There may be a holy city in heaven; it does not know, it will not
affirm for nor against; but it does know there are unholy cities on
earth.

The streets of the upper city may be paved with gold; it will not
enter into controversy about it; but it is certain the streets down
here are paved with poor asphalt and trodden by footsore and weary
men.

Heaven may be more desirable than earth. The condition there may be
a great advance on this. Advanced thinkers in Protestantism will
neither affirm nor deny that; but they are convinced the conditions
down here should be made much better and if possible even that of
heaven on earth.

The truth is, both heaven and hell, like angelology, have fallen out
of modern theology. Heaven is too high and hell too deep. No
telescope has ever revealed the one and modern sweetness, gentleness
and light repudiate the cruelty and sufferings of the other.

The Gospel for the individual soul, the soul the Son of God once
outweighed against a whole world