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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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