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Biblical Criticism of the Present Day.
1904.]
ever learned and reverend,
in other
if
ways they are
serious,
must confess shamefacedly their ignorance of the things of the feeding the church, must needs be fed
Spirit, and, instead of
and warmed by the church are
her.
And
so
it is
no wonder, that diseases
on the increase hand over hand, that
in
sects are
multiplying, that practice does not follow the teaching, and that
"
shepherd and flock," distrustful of each other, stand
mutually opposed, instead of unitedly enjoying the glory of
name.
Jesus' fers
by
Even
For a
it.
marsh, instead of
society
in a clear lake,
sonous vapors, which
spoil
yes the country,
which
is
suf-
image
finds its
in a
throws out of necessity poi-
By robbing
the national spirit.
the church of her theology, she ful
large,
at
spiritual circle
robbed also of that wonder-
power of thought which made us
Calvinists
for
ages
together an invincible stronghold in the midst of the land and, by presenting wandering ethical ideas in the stead of the
nourishing bread of practical theology, discipline and order are undermined, and the moral sense of justice
And
we have
ology-robbed church, a slip of the increase.
Our aim was
God may
where there was none, its
state universities there is
A
and the-
give
it
not to place a better theology by the
anew, however imperfectly
lost.
weakened.
new University
planted in this
old plant, with the prayer that
side of one less good, but,
the
is
therefore, in behalf of that misappreciated
form.
to plant
For consider
it
no longer any theology.
science of religion has taken
its
one
well, at It is
place, a science of
an
altogether other caliber, but which the state, less honestly, at the price of misleading the church of God, carries under the
name
of the old firm.
ever storms
may
Hence our
faith in
our future, what-
be gathering over our heads
the bitter opposition
we meet with from our
nothing disturbs peace of mind so
much
as
;
but hence also brethren.
For
want of courage
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