BIBLE BANNER“Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that “Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt theit may be displayed because of truth.“-(Psalm 60: 4.) voice unto them.“-(Isa. 13: 2.1

TOL. II. No. VIII Devoted To The Defense Of The Church Against All Errors And Innovations MARCH 194

THE GREATEST VICTORYCLED E. WALLACE

History abounds in its records of great achievementsand victories of human celebrities. None excels the tri-umph of Paul, the apostle, described by himself on theeve of his “departure.”

I have fought the good fight, I have finishedthe course, I have kept the faith: henceforth thereis laid up for me the crown of righteousness, whichthe Lord, the righteous judge, shall give to me atthat day; and not to me only, but also to all themthat have loved his appearing.” (2 Tim. 4:7, 8)“I have fought the good fight.” Men have fought for

liberty, to satisfy selfish ambitions for conquest, to ac-cumulate wealth and its attending power, and for othercauses more or less great. Some have attained fame asheroes while others reaped a reward of infamy. Paulfought. He is not much of a man who will not. The king-dom of God is not a drilling ground for pacifists. Itis organized for conquest. “The good fight” of Paul is thebest sort of fight and challenges a most careful examina-tion. The weapons of that warfare clearly exhibit thecharacter of it. “For though we walk in the flesh, we do notwar according to the flesh (for the weapons of ourwarfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God tothe casting down of strongholds); casting down imagina-tions, and every high thing that is exalted against theknowledge of’ God, and bringing every thought into cap-tivity to the obedience of Christ; and being in readiness

‘to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience shall bemade full.” (2 Cor. 10:3-61 The fight must be carried onby those of like mind with Paul as long as the imagina-tions, thoughts and plans of men mark out paths of dis-obedience to Christ, the Lord.

Paul was a fighter before he was a good fighter. Heonce thought that he “ought to do many things contrary tothe name of Jesus of Nazareth” and he carried on a ter-rific warfare against the truth while in his darkened un-derstanding he thought it to be heresy. His. “good fight”began with his conversion and ended only when his headwent rolling in the dust in glorious martyrdom. He wasstern in his defense and advocacy of the truth. He waseven hard on himself and uncompromising in his demandsthat his own life conform to the ideals he was battling for.“I therefore so run, as not uncertainly; so fight I, as notbeating the air: but I buffet my body, and bring it intobondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached toothers, I myself should be rejected.” (I Cor. 9:26, 27)Many men have the energy, courage and will that fightingdemands and they use it in a way that is disastrous to them-selves and others. A human jelly fish may do no more

harm than waste good food and encumber space thatcould be more profitably used, but a fighter is either do-ing a lot of good or a tremendous amount of harm. Itis contrary to his nature to be neutral. A good fight de-mands a stout heart directed by clear thinking and trueideals to guide it. Paul had an objective, he was goingsomewhere. “Brethren, I count not myself yet to havelaid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things whichare behind, and stretching forward to the things whichare before, I press on toward the goal unto the prize of thehigh calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 3:13, 14).“Stretching forward” and “pressing on” point out the enor-mous energy the apostle employed in his upward move-ment toward his goal. He encountered many obstaclesand his victory in overcoming them made it “the goodfight.”

“I have finished the course.” He ran a great race andthe pattern of it is found in his own words: “Therefore letus also. . . . lay aside every weight, and the sin whichdoth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience therace that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the authorand perfecter of our faith.” (Heb. 12:1, 2) The zeal ofthe apostle was so fiery that his enemies considered himmad and possibly some of his well-wishers thought him afanatic. The taste of victory was sweet to such an ardentspirit and he glowed in triumph over a finished course.The way was dark and storms were gathering on one oc-casion when he was enroute to Jerusalem. It was muchlike Daniel going into the den of lions. Undaunted, hesaid to a group of friends: “But I hold not my life of anyaccount as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplishmy course, and the ministry which I received from theLord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.”(Acts 20:24) That course was now finished, his gospel min-istry had been long, rich and faithful without the spot ofcompromise or surrender, and he was ready to meet theLord unafraid and unashamed. It was the warrior’s truereward!

“I have kept the faith.” This faith was the gospel thatPaul preached which came to him by revelation of JesusChrist. There were many and powerful influences at workto modify the faith. Judaism, Paganism and the perennialappeals of the flesh stubbornly resisted a full surrenderto the stern demands of the faith. These strong influencesare still seen in much that is called Christianity. Paul’szeal for the faith burned hotly at Antioch when he resistedthe encroachments of a strong Jewish clique among thebrethren “that the truth of the gospel might continue with

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THE HARDING-HARPER PEACE PACTThe brotherhood had hardly grabbed breath after read-

ing the breath-taking charges in the September Bible Ban-ner brought by Brother E. R. Harper and others againstthe present administration of Harding College when the an-nouncement appeared in the papers by the officials of thecollege that “an agreement” had been reached betweenthe school and Brother Harper and that he had signed upto cease fighting Harding College and put his influence be-hind the school. The announcements appearing in the pap-ers over the signature of Dean Sears made it quite plainthat they had won a great victory in quieting BrotherHarper and stopping his fight. But no one could get theimpression from their announcements that they (the of-ficials and faculty) had made any sort of changes in theorder of things at Searcy or that any change in policy hadbeen promised. They did not agree to remove any teach-er nor to cease teaching premillennialism or any other er-ror. Brother Harper did not agree to cease fighting pre-millennialism, he agreed to cease fighting the school onthe mere assurance that an effort would be made to add ateacher who does not believe premillennialism, to the pres-ent faculty.

After his veritable barrage of testimony and evidenceagainst Harding’s unsoundness Brother Harper closed hisarticles in the September issue with the intimation thathe had more and stronger evidence in abundance whichwould follow later. Accordingly, he immediately sent an-other article for publication containing further exposuresof the premillennial tendencies, sympathies, and actualteaching found in the college. His article was scheduledfor publication, but after it was already in type, the requestcame from Brother Harper to withhold the article, as hehad signed an agreement with the college to stop the fight.

But before submitting this article to the readers, andcertainly without any effort or desire to prejudice the case,Brother Harper’s own statement, which appeared in a re-cent issue of the Firm Foundation, is hereby given, withthe request that it be read with due care and consideration.

“THE AGREEMENT TO CEASE THE FIGHT”

Dear Brethren :

Little Rock, ArkansasJanuary 26, 1940.

It is known to all who read our papers and hearme over the radio that I have been opposing pre-millennialism in Harding College. Other brethrenhave been with me in such opposition. I gatheredevidence in document form and published some ofit in the Bible Banner.

About one week before Thanksgiving, BrotherBenson contacted Brother Glenn E. Green, who wasat that time in a meeting with us. He asked himto see if there might be any way to get me to ceasemy fight at this time against the school. While itis not a fight against a school yet the school is in-volved. The conversations between them finally re-sulted in an agreement, based upon certain condi-tions, and said agreement was finally consummat-ed with the signature of Brother Sears, in mystudy on Sunday evening before Thanksgiving. Thisbeing done I then accepted an invitation to appear

on their Thanksgiving program. Brother Bensonalso spoke at 4th and State.

The agreement briefly is this, “We are attempt-ing to add W. B. West Jr. to our faculty for thiscoming year as professor of Ancient Languages andAssociate Professor of Bible. Of course, BrotherWest will have absolute freedom to teach on all sub-jects as his own judgment dictates in harmony withthe word of the Lord.” This being the promise wewe were asked if on this we could “Cooperate with”and “cease our fight against Harding College” to“help them struggle forward in peace and harmonyfor the advancement of the cause of Christ.” Thisbeing the request made of us at the Fort Smithmeeting as given on page 20 of the September issueof the Banner, I with them signed my willingnessto cease the fight and try to carry out the agree-ment.

If I have erred in this, time will tell. I regretthat some have misunderstood the agreement tomean that a perfect reconciliation of these mattershas been effected and as a result may have alloweddoubt or suspicion to creep into their minds con-cerning my loyalty or soundness to the truth. I be-lieve as I always have and stand for those sameprinciples. So with this explanation of affairs,trust that confidence, if it need be with you, hasbeen restored. By the above I simply meant tocease my fight until a reasonable time has beengiven to carry out our agreement, that all mattersmay be cleared up.

I now wish to assume all responsibility for anymistaken idea that may have arisen and to exoner-ate all parties concerned. If there be any blame orinjury on or to any one, I ask that I be the one tobear it alone and I do feel that the idea of a re-conciliation with no understanding of matters pub-lished was a mistake. I trust that all may under-stand and that premillennialism may be overcomeand peace among us may reign.-Kindly, E. R. Har-per.

Little Rock irkznsts * Jan 10 1940Firm Foundation Co., ‘Austin, ’ Texas. Dear

Brethren:In as much as there has appeared in your paper

an article from Dean Sears of Harding College con-cerning a “reconciliation” between me and themwill you please publish this for me?

Let me say to my many friends who have foughtwith me against “pre-millenialism” and . . . . . . _ _ . . .that this is not checking my fight against the evilsof such doctrines in the church. Neither is it “ty-ing” my hands so that I will not raise my voiceagainst evils that may arise in Arkansas at anyplace. You may rest assured of that fact.

Now at this time I do not have an article readyfor publication concerning just what is taking placeat Harding. I will in a very few days and I amasking that you do not judge too hastily and havefaith in me and when I feel that I can do justiceto what we are trying to do, I will write.

As to its being a “reconciliation,” I would saythat it is hardly that, at this stage. Yet it is verydefinitely trying to culminate in that very thing.It is a “basis for better understanding and groundsfor trying to work out a situation that will be forthe good of the church in Arkansas and the brother-h o o d ” It may not materialize but let me say forBrother Benson, “If it does not it will not be becausehe has‘convinced me that he is now ready to tryto do something to get the brotherhood at peace ~with the school.”

Now brethren give me time to try out what webelieve may be for the good of us all. You maydepend on me coming out of it unscarred by errorand neither will I sell the truth out to “premillen-nialism.” You may brand me and leave me scar-red but the error will not. However, I am willingto suffer, if I must, at the hands of my most lovedand devoted friends, if I personally believe that Iam trying honestly to do that which I feel is best.

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In this fight I have made, I have made it forthree years in Arkansas almost alone and manywho are now going to cast suspicion about me, letme run the risk of dying with the brotherhood with-out lifting your voice to help me.most alone here,

I fought it al-“then,” without much help and

“now” brethren I am doing this with the samecourage that I did the other because I feel that Iam doing that which may result in good. The pastyear I have had some of the most faithful men inArkansas with me, that have ever lived. I lovethem and they know it. Brother Wallace has beenmy best friend in this all and his help and “our”pleadings have now brought about a condition thatI believe is going to be for the good of us all.

Brethren, give us time to at least try it beforeyou execute me. Every man has the right to beheard and has the right under our “democraticform of government,”defense.

to have time to prepare hisAt least we are getting a man added to

the Bible department that we believe is sound onthe question under fire. I beg of you, give me andthe school time to see what we can do. Any manwho has had the courage I have had to make thefight I have made against error and for truth

“THE ACTUALWe are more than pleased that “The Firm Foundation

is pleased to publish the foregoing from Brother E. R.Harper” and that it is “in full sympathy with him in hisfight.” We have two letters from Brother Harper statingthat both the Firm Foundation and the Gospel Advocate re-fused to publish “The Actual Facts Concerning HardingCollege Versus The Benson-Sears Bulletin.” It certainlystrengthens the fight for the Firm Foundation, with itsmighty influence, to carry within its sweep this potentialstatement: “It is hoped that Harding College, even if it hasnot done so in the past, will work out a consistent programagainst this pernicious ism that is doing and has been do-ing so much harm in many parts of the country.”

There is power behind the pen in those words-powercharacteristic of the editor of the Firm Foundation. Hispen is formidable once he declares hostilities to exist onissues and it is true that he has “a record in the editorialmanagement of the Firm Foundation of more than thirtyyears-during which there has not come before the brother-hood an issue that we have not spoken plainly on when it

should not just be murdered over night. However,if that be the desire of some, then I will take themurdering.

If in the end it can’t be done to the glory ofthe church and the truth and most of all to theglory of our Lord, then you may count on me com-mg out of it. Brother Benson, brethren, is tryingnow to help conditions. I feel that I know this.Yours for the truth and opposed to “Bollism,”

E. R. HARPER* * * *. .

The Firm Foundation is pleased to publish theforegoing from Brother E. R. Harper. We regardBrother Harper as one of the best of men and are infull sympathy with him in his fight against the en-croachments of premillennialism. It is hoped thatHarding College, even if it has not done so in thepast, will work out a consistent program againstthis pernicious ism that is doing and has been doingso much harm in many parts of the country. BrotherHarper need not fear that he will have any difficultygiving publicity through the Firm Foundation to hiscontributions against error.

(Editor, Firm Foundation)

FACTS” CONTINUED

Harding Men Speak‘\>

E. R. HARPER

1 am sorry to have to continue towrite concerning such matters but aslong as we have to encounter “Whis-pering Campaigns” which seek to denythe plain facts which we hold in ourpossession, signed and written by thesemen themselves and their students, itseems that the only way we have ofletting you know the truth is in the Bi-ble Banner. But I am saying to allwho read these articles, we are notenvious of those in the school. Wewant no place in their schools. Iwould not give my work for theirs,yet their work is honorable. All wewant is a school that we can indorse.If they will surrender the positionstaken in these letters that have ap-peared in the Banner, and will teachthe truth against Boll and his destruc-tive doctrines instead of defendinghim and denouncing those who aretrying to save the church from them,then we will be back of them and have

appeared that it merited space in our columns.” I per-sonally believe this to be true of the Firm Foundation andam glad that now “Brother Harper need not fear that hewill have any difficulty giving publicity through the FirmFoundation to his contributions against error,” in Hard-ing College. But help sometimes arrives too late. GreatBritain and France offered fifty thousand men and “com-plete assistance” to the fighting Finns after they had sign-ed a forced truce with Russia. The Firm Foundation nowoffers Brother Harper “publicity through the Firm Foun-dation” in his fight “against the encroachments of pre-millennialism”-but Brother Harper has signed his peacepact with Harding College. And Harding College is the hot-bed of these “encroachments,” according to Brother Har-per’s own evidence.

The Bible Banner feels justified, under these circum-stances, in publishing the article held in type, which Broth-er Harper requested withheld. If these things were true afew weeks ago, they are true now. And Harding Collegestill needs purging. Read it and weep.

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repeatedly told them so. They knowwhat is the matter. They have beento see me too many times trying toget me behind the school and when Irefused to commend them as soundin all points, then they started a cam-paign to kill me and those who wouldnot speak for them and recommendthem. We were not bothering themuntil they came and tried to force usto back them and tell the brotherhoodthey were sound. When we refusedthen the fight began against us. Ihave waited over two years to writeand publish that which I have knownto be true. The reason for this, “Theypromised to fix it.” When I first cameto Arkansas I did not believe it, and Iwas invited into the school, and I de-fended the school, and nearly causedmyself trouble with the Fourth andState Church. I never let up until Igot them to have brother Armstrongand Brother Benson in here to preach.But I have my eyes open now and theyhave done it, together with theirpreachers boys who have visited me,

I know the Dean of Bible at Harding isa Premillennialist and so do the restthere know it and they have seen mostof these letters.

I will make you this offer, “Fromanywhere in the United States” youmay live, if you will make the triphere and I do not have the letters andarticles that appear in the Bible Ban-ner, I will pay your way here andback. If I do have them you willhave to pay your own expenses. BringBrother Benson with you.

Letters From Their MenIn this I may not give the names

of those who have written, for somestudents have requested that we notrepeat them nor give the names ofthose from whom we quote. But Ipromise you that I have the lettersthat appear under my name. You canjust depend on that.

September 14, 1939.“Mr. E. R. Harper, Church of Christ,

Little Rock, Ark., Dear Brother Har-per : “I read with interest your articlein the latest issue of the “Bible Ban-

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ner.“. . . . “Though there have beennoticeable weaknesses in HardingCollege during the. . . . I have beenthere, I didn’t suppose that the dangerwas so grave as you suggested in yourarticle. On several occasions I havediffered with Brother Armstrong, andothers, in a respectful manner ofcourse, but these differences were notover anything that I considered ofmore than secondary importance. Itis possible, however, that these smallthings were out-cropings of somethingdeeper underneath. The esteem, inwhich I hold these men, too, may havesomething to do with my overlookingsome of their apparent peculiarities inbelief.

“It would be improbable that a stu-den would attend a school for . . . .and not enter into its various activitiesand not acquire a love for the insti-tution, as well as a readiness to de-fend it against any criticism. I havealways tried hard to see the goodpoints of the school and to minimizethe weaknesses and even now I wouldgo a long way to justify the collegeif such were possible. However, I don’tthink I am so biased that I cannot seethe truth when it is presented. If thethings you called attention to in yourarticle are so, (and I have no reasonto doubt that you presented facts),there are far greater weaknesses inHarding than I realized. It is for thisreason that I am writing you..

I stand ready to fight with all theability and knowledge I can commandthe weaknesses in Harding College ;and like you, I want to see it in everyrespect a symbol for soundness.”

Fervently yours, A Harding Student.The following is part of a letter con-

cerning the above young man by aschool mate of his.

September 19, 1939.“Mr. E. R. Harper, Church of Christ

Fourth and State Streets, Little Rock,Ark., Dear Brother Harper: “I receiv-ed a letter from. . . today. You re-member him, do you not. He readyour article this week in the Banneron the college and wants to talk withyou about these things.

He is a strong defender of the truthalways. You’ll find him very openminded and logical, and willing to rea-son at all times. He says that he fearsconditions will be harder for him (werehe to come this year): in that he(would) not have such colleagues as. . . . . . and myself. So you need notfeel that. . . is talking with you forany concealed reason, but merely toget a better understanding of the ar-ticle you wrote to the Banner.”

Yours in Christ, A Harding Student.There are many things in these that

I would enjoy being able to speak out

about but I have given you the senti-ment of these two fine letters by twovery fine boys. These letters showthat they realize there is somethingwrong and there is fear in their heartsin opposing the error.

This next letter will show why I with-hold these names. They make it hardon their students both in and out ofschool if they side against them. Iknow what it means, but I am olderand can take it. I do not want tomake it hard for these young men.Here is what they are up against.

Dear Brother: “In that meetingthat afternoon (The meeting was toclear up that Monday night speech ofBrother Rhodes. E. R. If.) the otherfellows that had made such rash state-ments about that Monday night meet-ing all retracted their statements, andsigned a petition to the effect of myletter that the meeting didn’t upholdthe Boll theory. Or that BrotherRhodes’s defense did not do that. Onefellow had to retract this statement:“Brother Rhodes said that he wasn’tdefending Brother Boll, but he did amighty good job of it.”

“Then it appeared that there wasnothing else left for me to do but towrite as the committee suggested, tell-ing him that I didn’t mean that Broth-er Rhodes was defending Brother Boll.Well, I couldn’t say that BrotherRhodes did openly defend Brother Bollas no one can say that, but I did im-ply in the letter that Brother Rhodes’speech did leave the wrong impres-sion. And it is only logical that ifBrother Rhodes had intended to de-fend Brother Boll it would have to bein a camouflaged manner.

“I’ll have to admit, Brother. . . ., Isuppose all of us fellows that spokeon that program, afterwards, did mag-nify the results in our minds. We wereall terribly worked up for a whileover the conditions, and it did stir usup for quite a while. We didn’t thinkthat Brother Rhodes did just right thatnight and we still hold that contention.

“I did not make the statement“Harding College is a Bollite school ifthere ever was one,” as my own per-sonal statement, but as a quotationthat was made that night by one ofthe speakers. . . . . . . . . it was merelya quotation which was retracted in thislast meeting of the speakers. It withvarious others had to be retracted be-fore the petition could be signed by theother speakers.

(The reason why he requested thatsome things he said not to be printedwith his name is further shown inthese statements from this letter. E.R. H.)

“I only anticipated the trouble thatit would cause and it would naturally

do so as I am yet a student of thisinstitution. . . . . . . . . . .(Last year).

“I think you can fully understandthe position it places me in here whensuch meetings are called, as the onethat was held recently. (I am sure wecan understand. They put the pres-sure on the boys. E. R. H.) I hopeyou can see clearly, now, my positionwith regard to the meeting. And as Ieven told Brother Harper, (Yes, heas well as a half dozen others discuss-ed that meeting on Monday night withme. E. R. H.) that no one could sayBrother Rhodes openly defendedBrother Boll, but his retaliation didleave an unfavorable impression. Ihope you will realize too, that somethings I told you in writing may havebeen exaggerated due to our stirred-upemotions about that time.”

Your Brother in Christ, AnotherHarding Student.

“Better Quit KickingMy Dog Around”

This same young man told me thatafter the meeting that Monday nighthe and Brother Rhodes went on theoutside, and Brother Rhodes told himthat “We” did not harmonize ourtheory with the Bible and that Broth-er Boll did try to harmonize his theorywith the Bible. Another young mansaid the Brother Rhodes told themthe story of the man who “Killed hisdog and left him lying in the road.In two or three days he came back,got a club and began beating the dogagain. Some asked him, Why are youbeating that dog when he has beendead for days? The man replied, Iam beating him just to show that heis already dead.” All the studentslaughed. He applied that story to theboys talks that night. Brother Rhodessaid “We have killed this question20 years ago and now you boys arejust beating it to show that it is dead.”Well, that looked good, and may toyou, but here is the thing this youngman and the rest of them saw, andhere is what he said to me, “BrotherHarper, every year they have a nightto discuss the war question. They killedthat dog twenty years ago. Why dothey keep beating him? Then, whenwe discuss it and kill it again, they al- \ways go away with smiles and pat uson the back and tell us how good wehave done. Every year they have usthe College question and others. Theykilled it twenty years ago. Why keepbeating that dog? They praise us ev-ery time we kill it again. All are infine humor. Every year we discussthe College Question and others. Theykilled that Dog twenty years ago. Whykeep killing it every year? But theyare always happy and no hard feel-ings no criticism for re-IriIIing those

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old dogs that have been killed b ythem for the past twenty years. Butyou let us want to discuss and killagain, for us young men, the pre-millennial question and we have justsuch a time as we had that Mondaynight and we do not like the way Broth-er Rhodes did about it.”

Brethren that young man has some-thing there as surely as you live andbreathe. Really, why can they kill allthose other dogs every year and enjoyit and then when you beat premill-ennialism again they get all hot andbothered call meetings and have theboys to retract the statemnts thatbeat the old dog all up again? Only oneanswer. They love that old Dog-Pre-millennialism. “You had better quitkicking My Dog around.” Those otherthings are not their dogs. But you can’tcriticise Brother Boll and his premill-ennial theories. You can criticise thosewho ate fighting premillennialism andthey will smile, and help you; but layoff those who are teaching it such asJanes, Jorgenson, Blansett, and Boll.They will even challenge us to showone thing destructive to the word ofof the Lord that is taught by BrotherBoll in his millennial theories. YesI have that in black and white signedby Brother Armstrong. It does lookto me like brethren could get theireyes open, and see that it is notjealousy and envy that is back of this.It is the future of the church undersuch conditions that so much con-cerns us.

Statement From the Pen ofBrother Benson

In a recent bulletin sent out by Hard-ing College it plays up Clinton David-son’s financial success and states thatduring all that time he has “Remainedhumble and devoted etc.” I have a

letter written to him (Benson) inwhich this statement was challeng-ed and here is his reply: “The parti-cular phrase stating that he had re-mained humble and devoted may bequestioned.” Well he knew it was nottrue at the time he published it. Nev-ertheless, he has sent the bulletin tohundreds of people that will neverread the letter. Is Brother Bensonsincere in this affair? We wilI let yoube the judge. I quote from this sameletter concerning Brother Davidson:

“He has remained humbled anddevoted and according to his OWIIconfession, believed he was takingthe best course at the time he wasmeeting with the Christian Churchbelieving that he could lead themout of error. (That is the excuseof every one of our preachersnearly who begins to play aroundwith them. This man is too smartto offer such excuse. It is but adodge. Let them stop trying tojustify his deserting the littlechurch in New York and takingup with the Christian Church. Le’tthem iust admit he sinned and didwrong-. Baptists are honest inwhat they do, but they are wrong.E. R. H.) Finding that impos-sible he has come back to theerouo at Manhattan and made hisconfession and even during thetime that he was with the Chris-tian Church he was doing definitegiving to those of our own loyalbrethren. I am personally ac-quainted with Clinton Davidsonand have found him one of themost devoted and humble Chris-tians that I have been with at all.He would put many of our churchof Christ preachers to shame i nhis faithful devotion to the Lord,(By deserting the church in timeof need I guess. E. R. Harper)having Bible reading and prayerfaithfully in his home and observ-ing the Lord’s supper with his wifewhen unable to meet with a bodyof Christians on the Lord’s day.”

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(What is meant A Body of Chris-tians by them. E. Ft. H.)Now, I can’t help replying to this.

Here he says Brother Davidson wouldput many of “us” (we know who theyare he has in mind) to shame with hisdevotion to the Lord.” Well, here weare, we remained with the church,never have deserted her in her hardtimes. We have sacrificed to preachfor the church, never did quit preach-ing the gospel to make a fortune, havefought her battles against the enemy,all the time he has been with theenemy. He was with them, lendinghis influence to them and against thatlittle band meeting in a rented hall,in New York, and then Brother Bensoncomes out with a denunciation like thisagainst his brethren who have foughtthe battles of the Lord while this manhe upholds as one devoted to the Lord,quit us for 20 years during the hardestperiod of our war. Now, he comes backto “show us and tell us” how to runthe church. Brother Benson shouldget down on his knees and beg thepardon of his brethren who have tofight for the church, for his insultinginsinuation about their devotion totheir Lord. If I had taught and de-fended one time Boll and his theory,had believed and express myself to theeffect that we could cast out devils andperform miracles today and if I hadsigned a statement, which I have to-day, “That the devil was loose andwould not be bound until the millen-nium which is some time in the fu-ture” as Benson has done I would betrying to get right instead of castingreflection upon brethren who havefought all this time for the truth.Brethren, we are telling the truth.Harding needs to get right.

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THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE SITUATIONIn commenting upon the inconsistency of the situation

in which Brother Harper is involved the Bible Bannerwants it understood that we are not fighting Brother Har-per, nor making any attack upon him personally in hispresent pre;,‘,bment. We sympathize with him in thisplight. The Bible Banner has been his friend and haspublished what no other paper would in an effort to aid inthe good fight of faith he has been making. But withoutreflection on his sincerity or personal integrity, the effectsof the course he has pursued in Harding are all that hasbeen formerly said of it. It has turned his victory for thetruth in Arkansas into defeat and given triumph to theforces of error in Harding College. We can voice the senti-ment of the Firm Foundation that Brother Harper is “oneof the best of men,” but we are also compelled to say thatthe Bible Banner cannot go along with hm in the com-promise with Harding College.

His fear of being murdered by any of us who havebeen his friends in his fight is but shying at the shadowof his own mistake in this matter. The “murder” took

place at the conference table with the officials of the col-lege when he signed an agreement with them. It was afatal mistake to go into such a conference. Issues of truthare not settled at conference tables. Conferences invari-ably end in compromises. We have had too much of thatalready. Truth signs no truce with error. The simple factof this whole matter is that Brother Harper has been out-generaled at a conference table about like Hitler out-man-euvered Chamberlain at Munich.

Why an “agreement?” Why sign on a dotted line tocease hostilities? When the error ceases to be taught, andthe teachers of it removed from their places, the opposi-tion would automatically cease. If the error is still taught,and the teachers of it are still in their same old places,then any agreement to let-up in the fight is worse than acompromise, it is a virtual surrender.

Let us look at the facts as they actually are in thepresent status of this case

First: There have not been any changes in_ HardingCollege since Brother Harper gave “The actual facts con-

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cerning Harding College versus the Benson-Sears Bulletin,”in the September Banner. Benson, Armstrong, Searsand Rhodes have made no denials of the charges on one.hand and no confessions of the evils in conduct and teachingon the other. If the charges made against them by Broth-er Harper were true then they are true now. Our under-standing is that the only reply that was made to BrotherHarper’s array of evidence against them was that theywould just “pray for him.” If Harding College has con-vinced Brother Harper that his charges were false, heshould withdraw them. If the charges were true then,they arc true now and the peace pact is an out-and-outcompromise.

lished in the January Bible Banner, we have from BrotherCecil B. Douthitt, of the Haldeman Avenue Church, Louis-ville, Kentucky, the following:

“On December 16, 1939, the Louisville, newspap- ’ers carried the announcement that J. N. Armstrongwould preach morning and evening, for the High-land Church in Louisville. This church is the onethat withdrew from Rubel and Taylor, and is oneof the rankest premillennial churches in existence.Armstrong never comes near any of us who areopposing premillennialism here in Louisville. Thisdoes not look much like he is one who has changed,for he continues to associate with the speculatorsas he has always done.”

Second: It has been disclosed that there has been ab-solutely no agreement to cease teaching premillennialismin Harding College, or any of the other softness that goeswith it, nor to remove a single premillennial or other ob-jeetionable teacher. It was only agreed that an effortwould be made to add a Bible and language teacher to thefaculty of the present regime, and permit this new man toteach “as his own judg?nent dictates in harmony with theword of the Lord”-that is, anything he pleases. It wasagreed it seems that this man (if secured) may teachagainst premillennialism; but it was not agreed that thosemen on the faculty, including the Head of the Bible De-partment, who are premillennialists will not teach premil-lennialism. Therefore, on the mere ground that one teach-er may be added who will not teach premillennialism,Brother Harper signs an agreement to cease the fightagainst the school and put his influence behind a school inwhich he knows premillennialism will be taught by someof the teachers. This disarms Brother Harper in makingany criticism against premillennial influences in any otherschool among us as long as one teacher may be found inthem who believes and teaches the truth.

Let it be noted that this trip to Louisville by BrotherArmstrong was made after Brother Harper’s agreement tocease the fight and put his influence behind the school, andmoreover it is the second time Brother Armstrong has fill-ed engagements with the Boll element in Louisville lately.This fact alone shows the attitude of Harding College to-ward the peace treaty with Brother Harper. They arelaughing up their sleeves now that Harper is silenced andhis hands are tied.

The Bible Seminary at Cincinnati, operated by theChristian Church, would doubtless be more than glad toenter such an agreement. That is, to add any recognizedteacher of our choice to their faculty who would be permit-ted to teach what he wished, provided we would sign anagreement with them to cease the fight, put our influencebehind their Seminary, but let them retain all of their di-gressive teachers.

R. H. Boll has a school in Louisville. It is our con-viction that he would be glad to add a teacher to his fac-ulty who would be free to teach what he wishes if wewould sign an agreement with him to cease the fight andput our influence behind him and his school in Louisville,and have that “good fellowship” with Boll and his partythat Brother Armstrong talks about so much.

The promoters of the Unity Meetings between leadersof the Christian Churches and some self-appointed leadersamong churches of Christ, have not proposed more thanBrother Harper’s agreement with Harding calls for. In-deed, James D. Murch would be elated (and would join theHarding College jubilee) if he could effect just that sort ofan “agreement” in his Unity Meetings, and he has neverdemanded of Witty and others more than that.

AN INCUBUS OF ERRORAccording to the testimony of E. R. Harper, B. G. Hope,

George W. DeHoff, George B. Curtis and many formergraduates of Harding College, including the president ofthe board of trustees-a galaxy of damaging evidence-thehead men at Harding College are unsound.

(1) The views of J. N. Armstrong. Of him BrotherHarper says : “Of course, we know that Brother Armstrongis a premillennialist and will remain one until he dies.” Inaddition to the questions presented to Brother Armstrong intheir recent lectureship, and his answers, which were pub-

(2) The testimony concerning George S. Benson. Ithas been brought out in direct testimony that after Broth-er Benson returned from China he taught that miracleswere yet in force and that he was a witness to the cast-ing out of devils in a man in China and, moreover, by a sec-tarian preacher! And it is also shown in this array ofcharges that until very recently Brother Benson admittedhis premillennial views. But since all of these things havecome to light Brother Benson says that he has changed hisviews, and no longer believes these things. It is very re-markable that a man as mature as he was supposed to havebeen, supported by the churches in the mission empire ofChina, brought back to the U. S. A. to become president ofone of our colleges, could have held such views, and itseems strange that he made no change in his views on thesesubjects until the heat was turned on. But grant that hehas changed and no longer believes these things-can any-body persuade themselves to think that any man who hasbeen so weak as to believe such sheer error can becomestrong enough almost over night to qualify as the head ofone of our colleges? If my twelve and fourteen year oldboys did not know any more than that I would have themboth bored for the simples.

Between the two, J. N. Armstrong and George S. Ben-son, we have far more respect for Brother Armstrong, whohas stood up for his premillennial views under all the fireand criticism while Brother Benson has reversed himselfover and over, used whitewash and putty to conceal thefacts, and has been guilty of unparalleled duplicity in hiseffort to hold the favor of all the elements from whichsupport for Harding College could be- drawn. How canBrother Harper harmonize the “actual facts” that he hashimself made public concerning Brother Benson (and hesays he has even more yet unpublished) with his indorse-ment of him in the Firm Foundation of recent date?

(3) The general influence at Harding College. Premil-lennialism is not all that is wrong at Harding. The by-products of this theory are many. Brother Armstrong hasbeen wrong on nearly everything, and has planted all ofthese errors in his schools in various locations, Oklahoma,Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. We can furnish plenty ofwitnesses from Oklahoma. Brother Harper has alreadyfurnished them from Arkansas. His teaching on the workof the Holy Spirit has been contradictory to the fundament-als of the gospel, which accounts for his public statementsthat Bogard whipped Hardeman on the Holy Spirit debate-he is more in agreement with Bogard than Hardeman orany other gospel preacher. His teaching on miraculous

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answers to prayer in connection with direct special provi-dence is carried to the worst sectarian extremes. An ex-ample of it is Clinton Davidson’s testimonial that when hewas an employee of a bank the Lord laid his hand on acancelled check, in answer to prayer, that it would havetaken him several days, or weeks, to find; and while hewas an out-and-out digressive in a New York ChristianChurch, the Lord performed a direct operation on a tele-phone switch-board, plugged him on a busy line which re-vealed a secret and put over a million dollar deal for himand other financial sharks in New York who didn’t evenknow the Lord-and that in answer to his prayer! BrotherArmstrong has taught this kind of foolishness all of hislife in all of his schools. He has been wrong on the sec-tarian baptism question, and would hardly baptize a Bap-tist if he wanted to be. He was dead set against the FirmFoundation in all of these controversies of the past and hasnever strengthened any young preacher along any of theselines. The young men who have come from Harding strongin the faith, are strong in spite of the fact that they attend-ed Harding College and not because of it.

Harding College is the hotbed of premillennial sym-pathy, influence and teaching, by Brother Harper’s owntestimony. Yet he signs an agreement to put his influencebehind the school, which means that he will advise thefathers and mothers of Arkansas to send their sons anddaughters to a school that teaches premillennialism withall of its latent errors and by-products of false doctrines-an incubus of error!

Brother Harper has made a mistake-doubtless an hon-est one, but a grave one. We hope he will repudiate hisagreement, renew his fight, and like Nehemiah, stay on thewalls with hammer and sword until every premillennialteacher or sympathizer has been removed, and other ser-ious weaknesses corrected.

If he will do so, he will again have the help of all whostood by him in the good fight he was making, and he willsee that the only ones who are trying to “murder” him arethe ones with whom he has entered this pact of peace. Awar on error cannot be won in diplomatic chambers.

“Harding needs to get right? Verily, it does. Likesome of the other schools it needs renovating from the atticto the cellar. And any agreement to stop the fight, signedor otherwise, until it is done is beyond any satisfactory ex-planation.-F. E. W. Jr.

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T H E GREATEST VICTORY

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you. Much of Paul’s writing and preaching was designedto build a strong line of defense against tidal waves ofinfluences which were subversive of the gospel. Therewas passion in the plea he made to Timothy. “0 Timothy,guard that which is committed unto thee, turning awayfrom the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowl-edge which is falsely so called; which some professinghave erred concerning the faith.” (I Tim. 6:20, 21) Thefaith is a divine trust. It must be kept. It must be guard-ed. It is something precious. “Contend earnestly for thefaith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.”(Jude 3) The plea often made today that it makes littledifference what one believes “just so he is honest in it”is pitiful when compared with the apostle’s zeal for thefaith. Had Paul turned aside from the faith to the ad-vocacy of speculations and opinions, he could not havesaid : “I have kept the faith.” Some make shipwreck ofit, some compromise it, while others ignore it for “knowl-edge which is falsely so called.” He who can at the endof his life say truthfully: “I have kept the faith” sharesthe supreme triumph that Paul gloried in.

“Henceforth.” The years that were spent in keepingthe faith were few and soon gone. The “henceforth”stretches out through eternity. Men are concerned aboutthe now and exercise a fatal apathy regarding what willfollow “henceforh.” The word “crown” is impressivehere. It will be given “to all them that have loved his ap-pearing.” An earthly crown is a symbol of wealth, pow-er and rule. The heavenly crown stands for the eternalexaltation of the redeemed who shall live forever in thepresence of the Lord and share his likeness and his glory.It is the passport to all that heaven is and has to offer tothem whom the Lord bought with a price. It was realto Paul and unreal today only to those who are not keepingthe faith.

“That day” is “the day of the Lord,” the day whenthe Lord will come, raise the dead and judge the world.There will be a “henceforth” for all. It will be glory for allwho have fought for and kept the faith. It will be otherwisefor myriads who have turned aside for fables, sold out for amess of pottage, or in other ways have shown their con-tempt for the faith.

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LISTEhllNG IN ON THE UNITY MEETINGA. B. KEENAN

Chairman Murch: Will the Unity Meeting now come toorder? I think we are ready for the business of the day, tohear reports, and to get on with what we have before us.

Voice in Back: Mr. Chairman, I believe I have some-thing of interest to the meeting.

Chairman Murch: The name please?Voice in Back: I am Harley Patterson, associated with

the Disciples of Christ in Wichita Falls, Texas.Chairman Murch: Oh, yes! I’ve heard of you.Harley Patterson: I wish to say something on behalf

of the committee of which I am a member. You may re-call that several of us were delegates to the Business Ses-sions at the recent Richmond convention, and I should liketo present to this meeting just a little sample of the finefeeling which prevailed here between the Christian churchand the denominational world. As a result of the WorldConference of Christian Youth held in Amsterdam the fol-lowing ideas have gained prominence: May I just readan item here?

Chairman Murch: Read on!Harley Patterson: Well, here goes: “We are conscious

that we ourselves, as members of the Northern BaptistConvention and the International Convention of Disciplesof Christ, are two groups who have much in common. Werecall the historical lines of common fellowship out ofwhich our communions emerged and the overtures towardunity which our communions have made in recent years. . .We cannot forget the bond of fellowship in our commonlove of Christ, as we have worshipped together in the WorldConference of Christian Youth.” That is all, Mr. Chair-man.

Chairman Murch: Thank you, Brother Patterson. Thatis excellent, and I-

Unidentified Heckler: That sounds as if the Christianchurch is condemned as a denomination by one of its ownsupporters.

Chairman Murch: You don’t have the floor! As I wassaying, I wish to thank you, Brother Patterson. And now,who else has something of interest to this most important,-1 may even say “world-moving,” meeting!

Unidentified Man Near Front of Auditorium: BrotherMurch:

Chairman Murch: Yes, sir?Unidentified Man Near Front of Auditorium: I repre-

sent the “Christian Standard;” I- I- I am an editorial writ-er!

Chairman Murch: “The Voice of the Standard is theVoice of God.” Say on! We’re all ears!

Unidentified Man Near Front of Auditorium: I hope allof you here appreciate the way we have been pounding onthe Restoration Movement lately. If we can get the worldto subscribe to the Restoration Movement, we’ll usher inthe millennium. People don’t appreciate the RestorationMovement like they should. What we need is more preach-ing on the pioneers and the Restoration Movement. As amatter of fact-

Unidentified Heckler: Be truer to the New Testament,and quit talking so much about the “Restoration Move-ment” and you’ll be of some use in this world.

Unidentified Man Near Front of Auditorium: Why, why,this is awful: I’ve never been so insulted in my life! I’msitting down.

Chairman Murch: Whoever you are, will you pleaseask for the floor? Now! Just where were we? Oh, yes, Irecall. Let us go on with the meeting, brethren. Oh, by theway, before we go any further! Will each pastor present

get his church to donate the fifth Sunday in February’scontribution to the improvement of “Bethany Beach,” thebrotherhood’s resort on the Delaware Coast? Some of thesections of the clubhouse roof are a bit in disrepair, andwe need new ropes on at least six of the swings. YOU will?That’s wonderful, brethren! That can’t be Brother Groomback there is it? Why it is Brother Groom, who went toEngland this summer as a fraternal delegate to the Eng-lish churches! Brother Groom, this meeting can’t go a bitfurther without hearing from you!

Brother Groom: The British brethren really got me thissummer, folks. I can’t sing the praises of Anglo-Saxon vir-tue too highly. They have many things which are charac-teristic of our brotherhood over here.

Unidentified Heckler: You wouldn’t mean “our de-nomination” by any chance, would you?

Chairman Murch: I insist that you speak only whenspoken to! Go on, Brother Grobm:

Brother Broom: Our movement in Britain was similarto the beginnings of our movement in this country. Onereally funny thing was the statement by the chairman ofthe centennial committee that they were in possession of alock of Thomas Campbell’s hair. This statement drew firefrom one man on the floor who said that it was reverting tothe custom of preserving the bones of saints. I had to laff!

Unidentified Heckler : Only one? . .Chairman Murch: Shut up, you, you reactionary!Brother Groom: They’ve got one idea over there that

I hope gets sunk by a German mine on the way over here.Chairman Murch: Goodness! What’s that? !Brother Groom: In British congregations the elders are

the boss, not the pastor at all.Chairman Murch: It makes me shudder! How hor-

rible!Brother Groom: One can never tell where these lay

movements will lead to!Chairman Murch: Too true! Some of them have re-

minded me of the worst excesses of the Russian revolu-tion. “The Voice of the Clergy is the Voice of God.”

Brother Groom: But on the whole, their preaching ispretty much like ours.

Unidentified Heckler: I don’t know whether to laughor cry.

Brother Murch: One more crack from you and we’lltoss you out, you, you legalist! Thank you. Thank youvery much, Brother Groom. And now I see Brother Yel-derman, minister of the Christian church at Denton, Texas,sitting-over there. Brother Yelderman, as we all know, hasbeen knitting his brows these past years over what to dowith the young people. Brother Yelderman, have you gotthat puzzle solved yet?

Brother Yelderman: I think I have, Brother Murch!Chairman Murch: Say on!Brother Yelderman: You can streamline your church

by having young men as ushers. That ought to attract alot of a-hem-the fairer sex. You can put them in a choirtogether. You can let them put on some plays. Many aHollywood star got his start among humble surroundings.You can put young people in as teachers. That’11 keep ‘emcoming to the Sunday School. Get it? You can have theyoung folks pray. The oldsters will g&t a big kick out oflistening to them. They can be junior church officials.They might even be able to out-vote some of the old fogiesonce in a while. You can even have them get up theirown orchestra and furnish music during the services.

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Brother C. F. Witty: Mr. Chairman, object to this lineof talk:

Brother Murch: Brother Yelderman, do you yield thefloor to Brother W---y?

Brother Yelderman: I guess I’m through with what Ihad in mind.

Brother Murch: The chair recognizes Brother W--- ofDetroit.

Brother W--y: We can never -get our two bodies together if you keep bringing up the music question. Ithought we were going to say nothing about it, at least dur-ing this love feast.

Brother D. C. Janes: That’s it! Love! Love!.Brother Murch: Don’t you really think, Brother W--y,

you’re a bit old-fashioned with those quaint ideas of yours?You really didn’t expect us “to give up our idols,” as someof you radical associates have phrased it?

Brother W--y : Well, let each congregation settlethe matter for itself! Don’t bring the subject up here andcommit all of us to it! Some of my people irre not quiteprepared for that.

Brother Murch: The chair recognizes the saintly S. S.Lappin, of Bedford, Indiana.

Brother Lappin: Stick by your guns, Yelderman! Thesilly distraction over the use of instruments in worship andthe formation of missionary societies still makes inroadson the peace of Zion!

Brother W---y: May I rise for a question?Brother Murch: Does Brother Lappin wish to permit

his being questioned?Brother Lappin: Why not?Brother Murch: Go ahead, Brother W---y.Brother W--y: I thought I had you fellows pretty well

lined up on that music question. You were to go your way,and we were to go ours. We weren’t going to agitate theissue to the dividing of the brethren any more, so thatwhen the next church census is taken we can make a big-ger and better, impression on the religious world. Is thisthe way to promote peace?

Brother E. L. Jorgenson: Peace! Peace! at any price! 0Lord, give us peace in our day!

Brother Witty: I appeal to your sense of fair play.How about you, Brother Trinkle. You silenced your organat our last United Meeting, I recall, and seemed to be im-pressed with our anti-organ arguments. How about it?

Brother Trinkle: I have always believed in being cour-teous to guests, particularly to those whom I have suspect-ed of being “a bit tetched.” But now that you’ve askedfor it, Brother W---y, I’ll let you have it! On November 26,the cash offering at Englewood Christian Church was morethan $1,600 which cleared all our indebtedness on our prop-erty. We are planning a mortgage burning for the nearfuture. And that isn’t all: We hope to close the year withthe organ which we installed last May, about the time wehad that meeting you speak about, fully paid for!

Brother W--y: I move we adjourn, talk these thingsover with our respective peoples and come together formore searching for avenues that will lead us to a commonground at some future date.

Chairman Murch: I have heard a second to the mo-tion. This Unity Meeting is adjourned:

Unidentified Heckler: Is there a Bible Banner in the

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMESWELDON B. B E N N E T T

“There has not been a war in the.eastern hemispherein the last fifty years that has failed to induce the beliefthat Jews would go back to Palestine as a result of it. Stillwars have ceased, peace has followed, but the Jews arescattered as before.”

Thus wrote Dr. T. W. Brents in his “Gospel Sermons”published by the Gospel Advocate Company in 1891. Twen-ty-three years after this publication the great World Warbegan. One of the results of the war was the promise ofthe British government to favor the Jews giving to thema national home in Palestine. The move to reestablish theJews in their native land has since been known as “Zion-ism.”

In order to complete their theory of speculation thePremillennialists assert the return of all Jews to Palestineto be with Christ when He returns to sit on the literalthrone of David at Jerusalem for one-thousand years. Likea drowning man grabbing at a straw they take hold ofsuch events as “Zionism” and shout “the signs of thetimes.”

Last winter I corresponded at length with a Premillen-nialist Baptist preacher. He thought he saw in Matt. 24:32,33 a direct fulfillment today. There Jesus said, “Now fromthe fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now be-come tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that thesummer is nigh; even so ye also, when ye see all thesethings know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors.” Quot-ing from the Baptist preacher: “Throughout scripture Is-rael is referred to as a ‘Fig Tree’. . . Israel has been ap-parently dead as a nation. But like a fig tree in spring isbeing revived in Zionism today.”

Unfortunately for the theory, however, the British gov-ernment decided last spring in favor of the Arabs thusbringing to an end the hopes of Jewish restoration throughZionism. I recall a newspaper article expressing the de-jection of countless Jews as a result of the government’saction. But I’m sure that the Jews themselves were notmuch more disappointed than some of the premillennial-ists who thought they saw a scriptural fulfillment in theZionist move. But why should they worry? If they miss-ed it yesterday it is comparatively easy for them to de-cide it refers to current events today. Especially wih anew war in progress and a Jewish-hater destined to lose(or win-1 wonder which it will take to uphold theirtheory).

Several years ago some premillennialists thought the“king of the north” referred to the Czar of Russia-now itseems to be Mussolini-tomorrow?

Dr. Brents says again, “But are there scriptures thatspeak of the return of the Jews to Jerusalem? Yes, manyof them; but most of them were written either before orduring the captivity, and had their fulfillment in the re-urn of the Jews from Babylon. We think it likely thatmany of the Jews will become weary of waiting for theirlong-looked for Savior, and will accept the Christian re-ligion, but as a nation, never. This is not only unreaso-able, but impossible their is an individuality about

house? the Christian religion that cannot be dispensed with.”

UN-INDORSEDIn 1937, when Jorgenson’s songbook “Great Songs of the Church “Number Two” came from the

press, I indorsed it. Since then I have learned the truth on the premillenneial question, and hereby,withdraw my indorsement of this book. As a matter of fact, I used five songs in my first book that Iwould not use now under any condition.-Marion Davis.

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THE DARKEST CLOUD ON OUR HORIZONJOHN T. LEWIS

What is it? It is the present attitude and resentmentthat the heads 6f some of “our Bible Colleges take towardany one who would dare criticize any thing they may do.There is no doubt that for the next few decades the way“our” Bible Colleges go the Churches will go, and herein isthe danger. For the President of a College, supposed tobe run by Christians, to resent a just criticism of some ofthe doings of the college is on a par with copyrighting areligious paper, and such antics should be frowned uponby all lovers of truths. The student body usually imbibesthe spirit of the faculty, and the resentment of criticismwill ultimately lead to anarchy, as the following “UnitedPress” dispatch will show.

HERESY CHARGED AT MERCER UNIVERSITYNon-Baptist Teaching Laid To Five ProfessorsMACON, March 31, (1939)-The executive com-

mittee of the Mercer University board of trusteestoday submitted a report to the board on an inves-tigation into charges brought by a group of Baptistministerial students that five nrofessors were teach-un-Bantist theories.

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The trustees will submit their findings to theGeorgia Bantist Convention. under which the uni-versi‘iy operates.

The 13 ministerial students testified before thecommittee. and later were threatened with nhvsicalharm by a group of “liberal” students wai&if out-side the chapel where the investigation was inprogress.

Macon police were called late yesterday to re-store order as the “liberals” milled around the min-isterial students, Sticks and stones were hurledat an automobile trying to leave the crowd.

As campus feeling became more tense, T. R.Smith, president of the student bodv. said. “If theteachers are prosecuted, the students won’t standfor it.”Let no one think because this was a Baptist college

that we are not subject to the same aberrations. We aremen of like passions. The history of the Bible Collegesof the “Restoration Movement,” has been the history ofthe cow that gave a pail full of milk and then kicked itover. This is not an argument against “our” Bible Col-leges; but it is a reason for criticism that will keep themin their proper sphere, and true to the ideals for whichthey were founded.

THE HISTORY OF COLLEGESWe will now study the history of “our” colleges. Beth-

any College, the first one of the “Restoration Movement,”opened its doors November 1, 1841. In the Millennial Har-binger, 1840 pages 157, 158, Alexander Campbell, its found-er, set forth the purpose and ideals for which the Collegewas to be established. He said: “The cardinal thought inthis scheme is our beau ideal of education, viz.that theformation of moral character, the culture of the heart,is the supreme end of education, or rather is educationitself. With me education and the formation of moralcharacter are identical expressions. An immoral man isuneducated. The blasphemer, the profane swearer, theliar, the calumniator, the duellist, the braggadocio, thespeculator, etc. etc., are vulgar, barbarous, and uneducat-ed persons. But such is not the popular opinion. Why?Because, as De Fellenberg avers, the formation of charact-er by means of schools-i. e., by means of systematic dis-cipline and instruction, is a new thought. Schools werefirst established for other purposes; and when establish-ed, the formation of character was not an element in theirsystem-nor is it so yet. This statement, which certainly

is true, deserves the gravest reflections of the gravestman; and is, to my mind, a justifiable reason--on imper-ious demand for the new institution to which we are callingthe attention of Christians and philanthropists of everyname. We contemplate a scheme in which the formationof the physical and intellecutal man shall not be neglected,but which shall be always held in subordination to themoral man. In which, in one word, the formation of mor-al character, then cultivation of the heart, shall be theAlpha and the Omega, the radical and all controlling aimand object in all the literary and scientific studies, in allthe exercises, recreations and amusements of children andyouth.” No school or college was ever founded upon high-er or nobler ideals than was Bethany College. While underthe tutelage and influence of its illustrious founder, Beth-any college, turned out such moral and intellecutal giantsas J. W. McGarvey, Moses E. Lard, C. L. Loos, John F.Rowe, B. W. Johnson, J. M. Barnes, J. A. Harding, andothers, to plead the cause‘ of Restoration. But Alexan-der Campbell made the fatal mistake in using the columnsof the Millennial Hargbinger, and his wonderful influenceto raise an endowment for Bethany college. His manlyform had hardly been consigned to the dust of the dead,by admiring friends, before the “eagles” began to gathernot over his grave; but around the college. I will now letthose who know better than I finish the history of Bethany,and the brood of Colleges which have come from it.

THE STANDARD’S LAMENTATIONFirst we notice an editorial from the pungent pen of

Edwin R. Errett, which appeared in the Christian Stand-ard August 13, 1938. It follows:

We take a glance at our colleges-more than acursory glance. In those years before the Warthey were most of them auitk voor. from the finan-ciai standpoint. Their equipment was meager. Butthey were turning out hundreds of ministers andscores of eager missionaries. Their Commence-ments were primarily the times of launching min-isters of the Word upon their careers. Then moregenerous gifts began to come for colleges. Theybegan to receive gifts from Carnegie and Rockefel-ler Foundations. They began to covet standardizedaccreditation. The Bible ceased to have primaryplace. The professors began to cast doubt uponits authenticity. Documentary hypotheses, withdoubt of the Mosiac authorship of the Pentateuch,and scorning of John’s authorshiv of the Gosoelnamed for him, and scoffing at ihe Virgin Birthfollowed that notorious nonsense from the lips ofSamuel Harden Church at Pittsburgh. The old col-lege of McGarvey, Grubbs and Loos was mani-festly in such hands. One after another the schoolsbecame general colleges. Their faculties werelargely denominational men; their student bodieshad only minorities of our own youth; their cur-ricula gave no distinctive message on our behalf.and wokldy amusements usurped-the place of theStudent Volunteers and the ministerial association.Where this was not true, the schools continued toproduce the old fruit in ministers and missionaries.

The faculties of these impotent schools aremembers of the Campbell Institute, and the doc-trines are the same radical theories discreditingthe unique authority of the Bible. Again the line offorce runs to Chicago.

So we may go on. A great Bible-school move-ment, developed by Herbert Moninger and stateleaders of like temper, is bogged down with de-creased enrollments,. while the curriculum is se-cularized and the training camps are made the cen-ters for disseminating dogmas about “building anew world” and about authority residing in exper-ience rather than in Christ. Congregations are di-

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vided and their old-time local fellowship is poison-ed by doubts growing out of the radicalism ofpreachers now in pulpits once made glorious by theNew Testament message.

It is of no avail to talk of unity and good willand advance while at the same time being SO WI-scientific as to avoid pointing our telescopes atNeptune from which the disturbing force emanates.Who but a blatant infidel, or a digressive modernist

would argue that it would not have been better for thecause of Christ if Bethany Callege had died with its vener-able founder? The following letter from H. Leo Boles isself explanatory and to the point.

April 19, 1939. Dear Bro. Lewis, I hereby hand youthe statement that was made to me by Marion Stphenson,St. Louis, MO.

He and I were in conversation in a Hotel in Chicago,Ill., and he said all the Colleges of the Christian Churchare honey-combed with infidelity and there is nothing wecan do about it.

At that time Mr. Stephenson was Editor-in-chief of theSunday School Literature published by the Christian Boardof Publication, St. Louis, MO.

Yours fraternally,H. Leo Boles.

Let the churches of Christ ponder well Mr. Stephenson’sstatement-“All the Colleges of the Christian Church arehoney-combed with infidelity and there is nothing we cando about it.” Therefore within less than the span ofyears that the great emancipator, of the New Testamentchurch and its worship, lived, Bethany College, the dreamand idol of his heart, the child of his extraordinary brain-the institutions he founded and endowed, along with allthe other colleges that have grown out of its influence, havespun a web of infidelity which has completely coveredand smothered out not only the principles for which Mr.Campbell fought, but also the influence of such stal-warts as McGarvey, Grubbs, and Loos. What assur-ance have we that this will not be the history of DavidLipscomb College, along with all other Colleges, that havecome from its influences and example, and that too withinthe span of years that David Lipscomb lived? “Our” col-leges have already set their course toward endowments, and“standardized accreditations,” which ultimately meansjust colleges among other colleges. This is the course orcurrent that swept Bethany College, and its like institu-tions, into the infidelity of which Mr. Stephenson spoke.No living man can control a human institution after hisdeath.

WHAT LIPSCOMB AND HARDING STOOD FORI entered the Nashville Bible school at the beginning

of its eighth year, and was there eight consecutive years.Three years of this time J. A. Harding was “superinten-dent” of the school. During those three years I had hismemory work in the Bible and listened to his chapel talksevery morning. He would not even let the school be in-corporated while he was head of it. I sat at David Lips-comb’s feet for eight years. I heard him say more thanonce that he did not want a college, he just wanted aschool where boys and girls who were not able to attendcollege, could come, and along with other studies, betaught the word of God daily. Therefore I know that acollege endowed, with “standardized accreditation” is pos-itively foreign to the purpose and ideals of the co-foundersof the Nashville Bible school. So you may debunk thispresent day buncombe about what Lipscomb and Hardingstood for. If David Lipscomb were living today he couldnot teach in the College that bears his name. When, there-fore, you see David Lipscomb’s picture on a bulletin withthe young men who are teaching the Bible in David Lips-

comb College today, don’t you think that he was ever ateacher in “David Lipscomb College,” he was just a backnumber who taught the Bible in the Nashville Bible school-the school he founded, and controlled as long as he lived.After his death, the “Nashville Bible School” became“David Lipscomb College” quicker than a tadpole couldshed its tail and become a frog. To be strictly honest, thetrustees and president of David Lipscomb should say tothe brotherhood: “A modern College cannot be run by theeducational ideas and ideals of David Lipscomb and J. A.Harding.” I have been told that David Lipscomb was“no authority.” That depends on what you are talkingabout, David Lipscomb and J. A. Harding are absolute,and sole authorities upon the educational purposes andideals for which they founded the Nashville Bible School.

TEE TWO WAYS FOR “OUR” COLLEGESLet no one think that I am an enemy of any of our

colleges. I am not; but I am fearful of the ultimate end ofthe course they have chartered-Endowments, that willattract human vultures, and standardize accreditations, dic-ated by men who would not give a whoop whether theteachers were modernists, agnostics, infidels, or what not;but could whoop it up, if you got one of their tribe andwanted to fire him, or tell him what he could not teach.When the heads, or supposed friends of our colleges, as-sume a compromising, apologetic attitude toward the evilsof our day, and anathematize any one who would dare tocriticize them, it is evidence that “the mystery of lawless-ness doth already work.” That is the road that led Beth-any College, and is satellites, through the wilderness ofdigression into the boggy swamps of infidelity. “We aremen of like passions,” and history repeats itself too oftenfor us to feel sure of our footing wabbling down the sameserpentine road.

A. Campbell and T. Fanning versus “Fergusonism”When the “Restoration movement” was girdling the

globe as a golden belt, there stood out two Giant Oaks, inthe educational, and journalistic fields of the movementAlexander Campbell, and Tolbert Fanning, each the found-er, and editor of a paper, and the founder and president ofa college. Campbell was the founder, and editor of theMillennial Harbinger, and also the founder and presidentof Bethany College. Fanning was the founder and editorof the Gospel Advocate, and also the founder and presidentof Franklin College. These were not rival papers or col-leges. Neither Campbell nor Fanning was imbued withpeanut jealousy. They admired each other and respectedeach other’s extraordinary gifts, and were colaborers for along time. From 1852 to 1854, Alexander Campbell, againstthe advice of admiring friends, joined Tolbert Fanning inhis relentless fight against “Fergusonism” (spiritualism)advocated in Nashville, Tennessee, by J. B. Ferguson, pneof the most popular young preachers of that day, who al-most mesmerized the people of Nashville, by his pleasing

speech, and fascinating manners.We will let these three men speak for themselves. Mr.

Ferguson says : “In 1852 Mr. Alexander Campbell assailedour published opinions-l Peter 3: 19-declaring them her-etical and infidel. Soon after, Messrs. Fanning and Fallconcerted a scheme to remove me from the pastorship,but met with signal rebukes. The church sustained myviews, as also did the most respectable and worthy part ofthe community. On three occasions the congregation de-cided, by overwhelming majorities, its preference for us asa preacher above all others.” Mr. Campbell said: “Wewere censured by a few old friends in Nashville, for ourearly expose of the apostacy of Mr. Ferguson, as clearlyindicated to my mind then as it is now, so far, at least

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as principle is concerned. We saw as clearly then as wedo now, the gulf of scepticism into which he had fallen.”(Millennial Harbinger 1855, page 636). Mr. Fanning said:“Indeed, I have been insultingly told that, in as much as Iam not a member of any one of the churches poisoned anddegraded hy the sensualism of spirit-rappers, ti was noneof my business. A still more mortifying insinuation, andon brought ,against older and better men than myself, is,that ambition and envy prompted the opposition to thedaring encroachments upon our Zion in Tennessee.” (Gos-pel Advocate 1855, page 110). These things were said anddone at the beginning of the fight. Mr. Campbell arrivedin Nashville on November 25, 1854, to deliver some lec-tures on the infidelity of “Fergusonism,” and instead ofMr. Ferguson having his elders to meet, and pass resolu-tions not to announce, or attend Mr. Campbell’s lectures,Mr. Campbell said: “On my arrival in Nashville, Mr. Fer-guson announced that he had received a special communi-cation, in form of a letter, from the late Dr. Wm. E. Chan-ning, formerly of Boston, now in hades. In this letter fromthe elegant and fascinating orator and writer of sermons,Dr. W. E. Channing, Mr. Ferguson received a ‘postive com-mand’ not to attend any of my meetings while in Nash-ville, and also to hold no nocturnal spiritual levees duringmy sojourn in that city.” I relate these things for thesereasons. To show how blindly the masses will follow aman, who has ingratiated himself into their confidence, intothe most absurd positions. And how good people will oftenmisrepresent, and hurl insulting insinuations against thosewho would dare raise their voices against “the daring en-croachments upon our Zion.” It also shows that AlexanderCampbell, and Tolbert Fanning saw eye to eye, and stoodshoulder to shoulder in their fight against those encroach-ments. The majority of those who followed Mr. Fergu-sons’s nonsensical spiritualism made shipwreck of thefaith. Mr. Ferguson himself was finally repudiated, anddied with no one at his bier to sing of the praise and honorthat once was his. It was Mr. Campbell’s, and Mr. Fan-ning’s fight, made despite the maledictions of misguidedfriends of the truth, that saved a remnant of the church inNashville from the cataclysm of spiritualisms.

Fanning Versus Campbell On College PoliciesLater in life, however, these two great men came to

differ about how a college should be conducted. It is thisdivergence of ideas that is germane to our present discus-sion. However, every one who is familiar with Mr. Camp-bell’s writings knows, that in the evening of his eventfullife, he sheathed his sword, so far as his attitude towarddenominationalism, and the “encroachments upon Zion”was concerned. It is said that he grew a long white beardin his last days, and was wont to say: “I have hung out thewhite flag.” If Tolbert Fanning ever hung out the whiteflag, you couldn’t tell it from his writings, and I have neverheard him accused of it. Mr. Fanning took Mr. Camp-bell to task about some theories that Dr. Richardson wasadvocating. Dr. Richardson was “lecturer in the BiblicalInstitute,” of Bethany College the year Mr. Campbell died,and later wrote “Memoirs of Alexander Campbell.”

In the Gospel Advocate, March 18, 1858, page 70, Vol.4, Mr. Fanning wrote: “My highest ambition is to pleadfor the truth as it is written, and I desire not fellowshipwith men on other grounds. If I can have your friendshipon the New Testament platform, I shall feel honored andhappy, but if you are resolved to defend Dr. R’s course, thesooner you avow it the better for all concerned. Sufferme, my beloved brother, to very respectfully suggest,that we should not be for the hills of Virginia, the plainsof Tennessee, for Bethany, or Franklin College, but for thecause of our Master.-It is not positively certain that col-

leges are destined to be of service in the cause of Christ.Protestant Germany has endowed and settled upon her-self a class of infidel schools infinitely worse than Romanusurpation; and I give it as my settled opinion, that itwould be better for all our colleges to be blotted from ex-istence than to permit them to cause serious differencesamongst our great and good men. (The rift Mr. Fanninganticipated in the gulf between the Church of Christ and thedigressives today.-J. T. L). If Paul could say, ‘All are yours,whether Paul, Apollos, Cephas, or Chrrist’. We may say allschools are ours, whether in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri,Tennessee, or elsewhere, and we all belong to Christ. Finally,it is possibly a misfortune that so many of our able brethrenhave given themselves to the work of building up schools foryouth, instead of laboring in the school of Christ, and you,my venerable brother, must give me the liberty to say, thatperhaps if you and I should not live to see the day, thetime may not be far distant when myriads may havecause of regret that we have given so much of our time,talent and energy to institutions, certainly inferior to theChurch of God, and in some respects of doubtful religioustendencies.”

I will quote only a few extrac ts f rom Mr .Campbell’s reply. He says: “We have, long since, adjuredall such theories, and build on the well attested facts anddocuments of the Christian oracles. We believe and teachthat no man can believingly say that Jesus is Lord but bythe Holy Spirit’s attestations. If this satisfied not the phil-osophy of Prof. Fanning we make no farther attempt.”Prof. Fanning was not asking Prof. Campbell about whathe taught; but about his attitude toward Dr. Richardson’stheories. Mr. Campbell seemed to understand the issue, sohe said further on in his article. “Having already express-sed our views of Dr. Richardson’s ‘Faith versus Philo-sophy.’ We cannot afford to do it a second time on sucha condition as that proposed.” The point was this. Mr.Fanning, as president of Franklin College, thought that Mr.Campbell, as president of Bethany College, should take adefinite and postive stand on such matters. Mr. Campbellthought he could not afford to do it “on such a conditionas that proposed.” Have you ever heard anything like thatamong the “Presidents” of “our” colleges? I have heardBrother Lipscomb say that Mr. Fanning could not under-stand why Mr. Campbell had become silent on some of thedisturbing issues of that day, so he visited Mr. Campbellto find out; but was not permitted to have a conversationwith Mr. Campbell out of the presence of his wife. Cer-tainly Mr. Fanning understood then, it was because that“sagacious mind could no longer range at pleasure amidstthe grandest subjects of human thought, and to find amongthese its natural and healthful sphere of action.” But wego on with Mr. Campbell’s evening ideas of a Bible Col-lege. He says: “A college that makes the Bible an every-day text book and study, in which the Bible facts and doc-uments are exhibited and developed, in all their bear-ings on the government of God and on the destiny ofman in this great universe of God, cannot but be a per-ennial fountain of multiform and multitudinous benefac-tions and blessings to mankind. Such an institution oughtto have paramount claims upon the heart and conscienceof every true hearted citizen of the kingdom of the authorand founder of the Christian institution.” Therefore, Mr.Campbell’s idea of a college was, if the Bible was madean everyday text book, the college would have to be a“perennial fountain of multiform and multitudinous bene-factions and blessings to mankind.” He failed to take inconsideration the human element connected with the col-

lege. Mr. Fanning had no less respect for the power, andChristianizing influence of the Bible; but he took in con-

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THE CURSE OF NEGLIGENCEH O M E R H A I L E Y

A very dangerous attitude entering into our general lifetoday, and one affecting the whole structure of society,is that of doing just enough to “get by.” The effortsof men are too often half hearted, with no spirit andfervor in the work. Such an attitude is serious enough andbad enough in secular affairs, but when it invades thesacred realm of religious life it becomes disastrous. Hereone must deal with God, for it is He who is insulted androbbed by half hearted efforts, and the “get by” spirit.

In the history of Moab, the time finally came, when,because of her idolatry and corruption, she was ripe fordestruction. The word of Jehovah came unto the prophetJeremiah pronouncing her doom, and commanding that shebe destroyed; adding a curse upon those who should enterthe work of destruction negligently, or refuse to act at all.Hear the prophet: “Cursed be he that doeth the work ofJehovah negligently; and cursed be he that keepeth backhis sword from blood.” (Jer. 48: 10)

Two words here need defining, namely “curse” and“negligently.” The word “curse” is defined, “to invokeevil upon, anathematize, excommunicate, execrate.” Oneneedn’t get over-excited when the pope curses or “damns”him as he did the Russians recently; but when God pro-nounces a curse, to disregard it is tragic. “Negligently : ”“apt to omit what ought to be done.” This is about thegreatest problem facing the church today, the tendency to“omit what ought to be done.”

In Deut. 11:13 God demanded service with “all theheart.” Jesus said the greatest command is that menshould love God “with all the heart.” (Matt. 22:37-39) Godcommanded that “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, doit with thy might.” (Eccl. 9:lO) And also that Christiansshould be “in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serv-ing the Lord.” (Rom. 12:ll) But what if someone shouldnot take seriously the Lord in this matter, going about thework negligently today? The nausea of the Lord is declar-ed against the insipid, indifferent, lukewarm attitude in

sideration the human element, and insisted that “our” col-leges might become a curse to “man-kind,” and especiallyto the church. Bethany College, with all the colleges thathave come up under its influence, have shown the fallacyof Mr. Campbell’s college philosophy, and they have proventhe correctness of Mr. Fanning’s contention. Not with-standing these revealing facts, Mr. Campbell’s ideas aredominating “our” colleges today. The heads of “our col-leges today are bowing before the shrines of wealth, andtelling brethren who have been entrusted with a goodlyportion of this world’s possessions, how much good theirmoney will be doing long after their bodies have been sleep-ing amid the dust of the dead if they will endow “our” col-leges, as though they could know that the colleges will al-ways be in safe hands. A college, a religious paper, or theBible itself, is like a gun, it depends on whose hands it is in,as to the good or harm it may do. Remember the noblepurposes, and high ideals upon which Bethany College wasfounded. Remember also the galaxy of great men it edu-cated during the first few decades of its history. But, alas!where is Bethany college today? Not geographically,but in the fields of New Testament teaching. How manythousands of people, and churches, have its influence andteaching led into digression and infidelity during the lastfifty years? Let us stop, think, and reason, before weerect a permanent incline, greased with mammon, downwith the churches of Christ will ultimately slide into in-stitutional oblivion.

no uncertain terms, when to the church, Laodicea, He said“I will spew thee out of my mouth.” (Rev. 3: 16) Thatexactly expresses God’s attitude still toward such a dispos-ition.

The general attitude of many congregations today, en-tirely too many, is that of doing “the work of the Lord neg-ligently ,.” in worship, in work, and in warfare of a spiritualand doctrinal nature.

But note more carefully the next curse of Jehovahthrough the prophet, “And cursed is he that keepeth backhis sword from blood.” Moab must perish, must be des-troyed; God commanded it, and whosoever would holdback, or shrink from the task, must perish under His anath-ema. The Lord’s people are still His army, although notnow engaged in carnal warfare, yet engaged in a warfarenone the less terrific and deadly. The Christian fights“against the principalities, against the powers, againstthe world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritualhosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” The exhorta-tion to “contend earnestly for the faith once for all de-livered unto the saints” was not given to preachers ex-clusively, but to all Christians. No man, preacher orotherwise, can “contend earnestly for the faith” and at thesame time “hold back his sword.” To “contend” is towield the sword, to smite “hip and thigh,” as did Sam-son of old.

The armor of the Christian is of a spiritual nature,perfectly adapted to the warfare; and as said the apostle,“mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds;casting down imaginations, and every high thing that isexalted against the knowledge of God.” (2 Cor. 10:4, 5) Butfor the sword to be felt among those whom God has saiddestroy, the work cannot be done negligently, nor the swordkept back “from blood.”

Is it true that in the army of the Lord there are toomany “camp-followers” and not enough actual fighters?Xerxes said, “I wish I had as many soldiers as rnen;”maybe that is what the Lord wishes, too. Gideon’s armylost nothing of strength when of the thirty-two thousandmen, twenty-two thousand of them went back; and thenlater when, through lack of diligence, nine thousand sevenhundred more of them were rejected. “A few with Godare mightier than a multitude without Him,” someone hassaid; and certainly the negligent and the “holders back”do not have Him, for He has said, “My righteous one shalllive by faith: and if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleas-ure in him.”

And now, along with all the other “isms” the army ofthe Lord has to fight, such as denominatioalism, pre-mil-lennialism, “straddle-the-fence-ism,” etc., Catholicismlooms more formidable than ever before. For a long timethe blood stained harlot that rules from the seven hilledcity on the Tiber, has been casting her lustful eyes towardthe United States; and it seems that at last our President .is about to embrace her. I am not appointing myself acritic of the President of the United States; neither didGod appoint me such, but rather said that I should prayfor him. But every student of History knows that thisgesture will ultimately mean to the religious life of thiscountry if carried to the full maturity of the Pope’s desires.Without speculating on what might be the outcome, foronly God knows that, the vital point is this: Every Chris-ian must tighten the belt a few notches tighter, whet thesword a few degrees sharper, exercise himself to greaterability, and shaking off the spirit of doing the work of theLord “negligently,” strike with all his might this mon-ster of iniquity upon every occasion. Who dares hold backhis sword when God says “Strike! ”

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A BAPTIST PASTOR HOT AND BOTHERED.W. CLARENCE COOKE

[The following exchange between Brother Cooke and theBaptist pastor is being published in the Bible Banner forspecial distribution in Cookeville, Term. The CookevilleChurch ordered a special supply of Bible Banners for thispurpose. We are glad to supply them.-Editor.]

There is a wide-spread belief among the less-informedmembers of the church of Christ to the effect that sectarian

preachers and members of the denominations have in thelast several years changed their attitude toward the churchof Christ and its stand for New Testament authority in mat-ters religious. It has been the writer’s belief since he firstbegan to preach twenty-five years ago, that the change hasbeen in policy and not in attitude. So long as the churchwas struggling for its existence and fighting for every inchof ground it occupied, preachers and leaders among thedenominational churches- were bitter in their denunciationof those who were making an effort to plant the New Test-ament church in towns and communities where they heldsway. This same condition prevails today when an effortis made to preach the gospel in denominational localitieswhere the church is little known. But in towns and com-munities where the church has reached a state of socialand civic respectability as the world measures such, theattitude of sectarian preachers has been camouflaged witha policy of hypocritical friendship and deceptive favor,while underneath there is that same desire to discredit,misrepresent and malign the mission of those who takethe Bible as their only source of authority in religion.

Sixty-five years ago when Smith J. Denton was shut outof the Methodist church in Cookeville because he was reach-ing the people with the pure gospel of Christ, the brethren“went to the courthouse” that the gospel might be heardby the people of this community. This persecution result-ed in knitting more solidly together the little group andwith a determination to “carry on,” in a few years they haderected a house of their own in which to worship God “asit is written.” Only a few of the older members of thepresent congregation in Cookeville realize what a strugglethese pioneers had. Our membership has almost reachedthe one thousand mark and we are a body of people com-manding the respect of our town’s citizenship, but thereis still in the hearts of the leaders among the sectarianchurches that prejudice which closed the doors againstBrother Denton in Cookeille.

It is the conviction of this writer that when the churchcaters to popular sentiment civicly and socially by soft-pedaling the gospel of Christ, sectarians lose their respectfor it and such a condition results in the hinderance ratherthan the progress of the gospel. When members of thechurch of the Lord become so entangled with the civic andsocial activities as co-workers with sectarians that theycompromise rather than empahsize the fundamentals of thegospel; and when the local preacher becomes a member ofthe “Ministerial Alliance” or the “Pastor’s Association” inorder that he may “more easily fight against the immoralconditions of the town and community,” he in so doing hasbecome, in principle, an officer of the law and ceases to bein the eyes of the public, a worthy preacher of the gospel.Soft-pedaling from the pulpit and side-stepping from thepew, lends encouragement to the enemies of Truth andbrings reproach upon the Cause of Christ.

A recent experience of the writer which confirms theabove statements regarding the attitude of sectarianpreachers is of special interest here in Cookeville, but will

be of general interest since there are principles involvedwhich may be found in any given community.

Mr. J. Harold Stephens, Pastor of the First ‘BaptistChurch in Cookeville is in many respects a very fine youngman and a man of considerable ability, but like all sec-tarian preachers he cannot defend the doctrine he preachesand he becomes very bitter when faced with the truth inthe hands of a gospel preacher. This gospel preacherwas asked by a member of the church of Christ to assist himthem in assisting a member of the Baptist church in reply-ing to a letter which he had received from “The Pastor andFinance Committee” of the First Baptist Church, concern-ing “a budget for the Church and Associational Year.”Upon receipt of my reply, signed by Jessie Lee Coomer,the member of the Baptist church who had asked for helpin this matter, Mr. Stephens loses his temper and refersto me as “a man who is always putting his nose in otherpeople’s business.” Mr. Stephens is very diligent in hisefforts to persuade members of the church of Christ to“get saved” and “join the Baptist church,” but when theerrors and inconsistencies of Baptist doctrine are by re-quest pointed out to one of his flock, he is greatly chagrin-ed. I have in my possession a twenty-one page letter writ-ten by Mr. Stevens to one of the members of the Cookevillechurch of Christ in which he states that “The doctrine heldby the people today who call themselves the church ofChrist has only been practiced since about 1830, and is notbased upon the New Testament scripture.” In this letterhe also says, “most Campbellites deny the work of theSpirit.”

With this twenty-one page letter which he wrote in aneffort to overthrow the faith of a member lof the church ofChrist, he gave her eleven tracts of Baptist literature withhis name as “Pastor, First Baptist Church, Cookeville, Ten-nessee;” stamped on the outside covers. As every intelli-gent person knows, these tracts were written for the pur-pose of converting people to the “Baptist Faith,” and theyare distributed for the same purpose. This is by no meansthe first and only effort of Mr. Stephens to increase hisflock by shaking the faith of members of the church ofChrist with his Baptist literature and personal contact, andit is only a matter of my duty when called upon, to exposethe fallacies of his doctrine even though he charges mewith “putting my (his) nose in other people’s business.”

Upon learning of the efforts of Mr. Stephens to reachthe above mentioned member of the church and at therequest of her relatives, I addressed a letter to him thefirst paragraph of which reads thus: “For some time Ihave been planning to write you relative to a matter inwhich we are both interested, and which concerns the twocongregations for which we are preaching. I have hesitat-ed to do this until I was assured that the information whichwas given me concerning your effort to persuade one of themembers of church of Christ to join the Baptist church,was true. Now, that I have this information in your ownhand writing, I am ready to present my proposition.” Withthis letter I enclosed four propositions for a public dis-cussion that the matter might be heard by all. Mr. Steph-ens refused to engage in such a discussion, saying, “Idon’t feel called to give people of an unlike faith to theone Christ cherished, an opportunity to magnify their dot- -trines upon provocation of my own. I trust that thismay end our correspondence on this subject. I don’t feelthere is anything to be gained by it.”

That the reader may consider with an open mind the

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correspondence which resulted from my being asked to as-sist in the matter, it is given here its original form.

Letter Written by W. C. Cooke for Jesse Lee Comer, AMember of the Baptist Church

“Dear Brother Stephens: I received a few days ago aletter stating that ‘our Church (had) adopted a budget, somefew weeks ago’, and not being able to fully understand howsome of the statements therein made can be in harmonywith New Testament teaching I have asked one of myneighbors to assist me in the matter with the following re-sults :

1. What Paul said to the ‘Church at Corinth’ (2 Cor.8:lO) cannot be consistently applied to a Baptist Churchsince there was no such organization in existence at thetime Paul wrote to this church at Corinth and for manyyears after. Evidently you have overlooked the fact thatPaul addressed his letter ‘unto the church of God-at Cor-inth’ (2 Cor. 1 :l), not the ‘First Baptist Church’ there. Ifthere was a ‘First Baptist Church’ there at the time Paulwrote or in any other city in New Testament times, he fail-ed to say anything about it in his epistles to the New Testa-ment churches. If I am wrong about this will you kindlycite me to the scripture that mentions ‘a Baptist Church?’

2. You speak of “our plan of using the envelope” andrefer the reader to 1 Cor. 16~2 which says nothing about‘envelopes’ and besides this letter was also addressed ‘un-to the church of God-at Corinth’ and not the “First Bap-tist Church’ there. Furthermore, I notice upon reading thefirst verse of this chapter that Paul had ‘given order tothe churches of Galatia concerning the collection for the

sa ints , ’ but I can’t find where he called them BaptistChurches of either first, second or third rank or what-ever it is that numbers them.

3. My friend insists that the purpose of their meeting(In New Testament times) ‘upon the first day of the week’was to ‘break bread’ (Acts 2O:‘i’) or ‘to eat the Lord’s sup-per’ (1 Cor. 11:20), which is not the purpose of our (theBaptists) meeting on that day. Is he right about this mat-er? Why don’t Baptists ‘eat the Lord’s supper’ ‘uponthe first day of the week’ as they did in New Testamenttimes?

4. My friend is also asking for New Testament scrip-ture for adopting a ‘budget for the church and associationalyear.’ He says that none of the New Testament writerssay anything about an ‘associational year.’ Why do wehave it, and what is it for? Were there any associationsamong the New Testament churches? I need a little lighthere because it looks a little gloomy. I wanted to ask youabout promising the Lord a tithe (one-tenth), but I shallawait your information on this before going into that partof your letter. Very sincerely yours, (Signed) Jessie LeeCoomer.”

Pastor Stephens’ ReplyMr. Stephens replied to this letter by addressing the

envelope “To the Campbellite friend of Jessie Lee Coom-er,” and by writing on the margin and between the lines,as follows :

“Dear Jessie : ‘Tell your Campbellite friend that if hemet the religion of Christ he wouldn’t know it.” “Whetheryou have been saved or not he will tell you that you arebound for hell until your sins are washed away in a Camp-bellite pool of water.” “We believe in the shed blood ofChrist.” Then follows his attempt to answer by ridiculethe letter, and I give here his answers as they were writtenunder each numbered paragraph:

No. 1. Cite Scridure for Baotist Church. “Onthe opposite where- it mentions- Alexander Camp-bellite Church, organized about 1827 A. D.-tell yourfriend.

No. 2. Baptist Church not told to “Lay by inStore,” Lay by in store! You had better put it inan envelope than in your pocket and then spendit for selfish purposes. It is just as scriptural to usean envelope to put it in as a basket-tell yourfriend.”

No. 3, Why don’t Baptists “break bread onevery first day of the week?” “Because the Lorddidn’t command it,. and the Campbellites are soscared of their religion that they partake of thebread and wine every Sunday thinking that willkeep them from falling away from the Lord.”

In defence of his “Associational Year,” he says,“The Lord expects us to use a little common senseif we have any, tell your friend.

Then he adds: “Those who are spending theirtime trying to get up something, seldom find any-thing to do, tell your friend.”Mr. Stephens did not sign this letter, although he ac-

cuses me of not having “the nerve” to sign letters whichI had written for others as the reader will see further alongin this correspondence, but on the envelope he wrote: “Fromthe Pastor of the Church-of which Jesus Christ is head andnot Alexander Campbell.”

W. C. Cooke’s AnswerThe reply to the above the following letter was ad-

dressed to Mr. Stephens and signed by one o fthe partiesinvolved in this correspondence: Mr. Harold Stephens, City,Dear Sir: Upon being asked to assist one Jessie Lee Coom-er who is a member of your church into a better under-standing of things religious, I addressed a letter to youchallenging the application of scriptures addressed toNew Testament churches and applied by you to Baptistchurches. Imagine my surprise at the tactics used inyour reply to what I had written in the spirit of the Mas-ter! One can plainly see that the arguments presented byme; the scriptural quotations and the questions asked,put you on the spot. Why didn’t you answer them insteadof stigmatizing me a ‘Campbellite?” In the first placeI am not a ‘Campbellite’ because there is no such or-ganization in existence and never has been except in theminds of prejudice opposers of plain New Testament Chris-tianity as taught by the Spirit guided apostles. The peopleyou stigmatize ‘Campbellites’ are a respectable people ofthis good town of ours, and they hold church property here,but their property is not deeded to the trustess of ‘the Camp-bellite church’! This _is true of their property holdings allover the world. Their property is deeded to ‘the trusteesof the church of Christ’ and the state and government rec-ognize their rights and privileges. Therefore, one does nothave to go to the Bible to prove your statement false; itcan be done by revealing the truth outside the realm ofreligion.

“You sign yourself ‘The Pastor of the Church of whichJesus Christ is Head and not Alexander Campbell’ Well,let’s see if your logic and reasoning (?) hold good in yourpractice: Paul says, ‘For the husband is the head of thewife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being him-self the savior of the body, (Eph. 5:23). Again he says,‘Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to thelaw by the body of Christ; that ye should be married toanother, even to him who is raised from the dead, that yeshould bring forth fruit unto God, (Rom. 7:4). All honestBible students know that these figures of speech referto the relation of Christ to the church. In the Gospel ofJohn, chapter three and verse 29, John the Baptist tellshis hearers that Jesus is the ‘Bridegrooom’ and that he(John) is the friend of the ‘Bridegroom. Now, if the ‘Ban-tist Church’ is the ‘church of which Jesus Christ is head,will you please give me chapter and verse where it tellsYOU to name it for the> ‘friend of the Bridegroom?’ Johnthe Baptist calls himself ‘the friend of the Bridegroom’,

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(Jno. 3:29). Why don’t you name it in honor of Christ, ‘theBridegroom?’

“In 1912 your Baptist Board brought forth a translationof the New Testament that the writer of this epistle con-siders one of the best translations of them all. Baptizo,the Greek, in all its forms is correctly translated and inMatt. 3:1, it reads: ‘In those days came John the Immer-ser!’ Now, according to your present practice, using thistranslation, you would have to call your church ‘The Im-merser Church’ or it might be more proper to call it ‘TheJohnnie Church!’ You wouldn’t do that? Why? Well, may-be that is the reason the ‘Board’ quit publishing this trans-lation. You say, ‘Jesus took the material John the Baptistprovided and organized His Church! Good! Then whydon’t you call it ‘His church’?

“Here is a statement concerning ‘the friend’ you havestigmatized ‘Campbellite’ that reaches the limit in the fieldof falsehood and misrepresentation: You say, ‘Whether youhave been saved or not, he will tell you that you are boundfor hell until your sins are washed away in a Campbellitepool of water.’ When you stand in the presence of Himwho shall ‘judge righteously,’ what flimly excuse will youoffer for this misrepresentation of a people who are calling‘Bible things by Bible names and doing Bible things inBible ways?’ ‘Woe unto the pastors that destroy and scat-ter the sheep of my pasture ! saith the Lord (Jer. 23: 1)Were it not for such false statements and misrepresent-ations from men who claim to be preaching the Gospel ofChrist, there would soon be unity among God’s people. ‘0full of all subtility and all mischief-wilt thou not cease topervert the right ways of the Lord? ‘ (Acts 13: 10)

“In answer to my question under number one, of myother letter, where I asked you to ‘cite me to the scrip-ture that mentions a Baptist Church, you say, it can befound ‘on the page opposite where it mentions AlexanderCampbellite Church organized about 1827 A. D.’ Do youreally mean what you say in this statement? If so, let’ssee what you have admitted in your feeble effort to evadeinstead of answer my question. First, the Bible says ab-solutely nothing about a ‘Campbellite Church.’ Therefore,since we are to find a ‘Baptist Church’ mentioned ‘on thepage opposite where it mentions a ‘Campbellite Church!and since the Bible doesn’t mention a ‘Campbellite Church,’there is but one conclusion to be reached by your logic:The Bible does not mention a Baptist church. You said ityourself, in your effort to dodge the truth.

“Your effort at replying to number two, amuses me.Why didn’t you give us some scripture on your ‘Lay byin store?’ Are we to be guided in our work and worship by‘things just as scriptural?’ Suppose putting ‘it in a basket-tell your friend,’ isn’t scriptural? ‘Tell your friend’ howyou would do it then? On second thought, I believe it (thecontribution) gets to the pocket first does it not? Or may-be Jessie could transfer ‘it’ from his ‘pay envelope’ to the‘budget envelope’ without going through his pocket. Thismight work better, especially if he had a hole in his pocket;or maybe he could stop the hole with the envelope and saveall his money for food and clothing, since the New Testa-ment failed to tell anyone to give anything to ‘The FirstBaptist Church’ or any other ‘Baptist Church.’

“ln your effort to answer my question under numberthree, you do ‘err not knowing the scriptures!’ Get yourGreek New Testament, if you have one, and turn to I Cor.X:2. Here it is: ‘Katamian Sabbatoon-Every first day ofthe week! Why did the early disciples meet ‘every firstday of the week?’ Now, turn to Acts 20:7 ; ‘And upon thefirst day of the week, when the disciples came together tobreak bread! All authentic scholars of the Bible areagreed that this was to ‘eat the Lord’s supper! Why show

your defeat by saying ‘The Campbellites are so scared oftheir religion’ that they partake of the bread and wine everySunday thinking that will keep them from falling awayfrom the Lord?’ Evidently you were somewhat ‘scared’of your ‘religion’ when you attempted to answer my ques-tions. But this scribe had rather listen to the Lord whosaid ‘This do in rememberance of me’ than to follow theillogical meanderings of a ‘scared’ Baptist preacher.

Under number four: “So your ‘Associational year’ isbased upon ‘a little common sense if we have any, tellyour friend’ and not on the Bible? Thank you. Shall Ilook for an answer to this? (Signed) Very sincerely, AFriend of Jessie Lee Coomer.

Mr. Stephens’ Second ReplyIn his purported reply to the above letter Mr. Stephens

loses patience and speaks his mind in the following manner:“My Dear Sir: I would say ‘My Dear Mr. 7’ but. . . . . . .

I find it difficult to answer letters which have not the writ-er’s name signed to them. In the address on the envelope(This envelop was addressed to me, W. C. C.1 I am makinga guess as to who wrote the two letters which I have re-cently received. If I have guessed wrong, then maybe I’lllearn better when the writer gets nerve enough to signhis own name to his letters.

“I am too busy preaching the gospel, winning lost soulsto Christ, and organizing Baptist Churches to stop and ar-gue with a man who is always putting his nose in otherpeople’s business. When I exhaust the gospel of Christ inmy preaching and in my writing. I will then start in onthe Campbellites.’ It might be well for you to preach Christand Him crucified instead of fighting others who are fol-lowers of His. ‘I know whom I have believed’ and don’thave to go to any one in this world to find out about myrelation to my Lord and His will for my life.

“Your first letter amused me, your second letter disgust-ed me, and your third letter should it come, will be ignor-ed. My Lord commissioned me to preach His gospel, andnot to debate with those who substitute water baptism forthe shed blood of Christ in cleansing from sin; who sub-stitute works and forms for faith; who substitute a man-made organization for the true church and the kingdomof God; who substitute fighting other Christians for preach-ing the gospel; who substitute religious bigotry for Chris-tian love, and who deny the connecting, converting, regen-erating, revealing and witnessing power of the Holy Spiritapart from the written word. But the carnal mind of manwas never expected to discern the things of the Spirit ofGod.

“My prayer for you is that His Holy Spirit may so moveupon you as to cause you to realize the error of your wayand turn to Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, andfollow Him as your Lord. If this happens you will thenspend more time in getting sinners to put their faith inJesus Christ and His shed blood, and less time in tryingto get those who are Christians to join the CampbelliteChurch. Sincerely yours, (Signed) J. Harold Stephens.

“P. S. We will let you know when get ready for youto come over and tell us how to run our church.”

W. C. Cooke’s Final LetterThe above letter was addressed to me in care of a sister \

of Jessie Lee Coomer, who signed the second letter I wrotefor the “friend of Jessie Lee Coomer.” Upon receipt ofthis letter, I wrote as follows: .

Mr. J. Harold Stephens, Pastor, First Baptist Church,My Dear Fellow Townsman: “Your letter reached me lastnight and in reply let me assure you that I am sincerewhen I tell you that what I have done and what I shallcontinue to do is in this matter, will be without malicetoward you as a man and as a minister in this good town of

ours. I am fighting against a principle that I know iswrong, and for a principle that I am convinced throughdiligent and prayerful study of the New Testament, isabsolutely right and cannot be wrong.

“When I was asked by a member of the Church ofChrist to assist him in assisting one of the members ofthe Baptist Church in reaching a better understanding ofNew Testament teaching, remembering that Peter said,‘But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be readyalways to give an answer to every man that asketh you areason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear:Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evilof you, as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falselyaccuse your good conversation in Christ” (1 Pet. 3:15,16),I gladly pointed out some inconsistencies of Baptist Doc-trine and turned the letter over to those who had asked forit with the understanding that it would be signed by theproper party or parties. So, it wasn’t for the lack of ‘nerve’that I didn’t sign my name to the letter. You should haveknown better than to bring such an accusation against me.I had the ‘nerve’ to sign my name to propositions for dis-cussion with you a few years ago, but you evidently didn’thave the ‘nerve’ to sign your name to propositions in de-fense of Baptist Doctrine. Furthermore, you still do nothave ‘the nerve’ to sign such propositions and meet me inCookeville in a discussion of the differences between thechurch of Christ and the Baptist Church. You believe ina one-sided discussion where you can set up a straw manand fight him, but I have a letter written by you in whichyou say you do not care to ‘expose’ your religion beforethose who call it in question. Maybe you don’t want yourBaptist Doctrine deposed, and that is why you get angrywhen it is opposed by one who knows the truth as well asBaptist Doctrine whether it be Separate or Missionary asespoused by one man or a dozen men (Mr. Stephens was aSeparate Baptist until he left home and became a Pastor).

“You claim to be preaching the gospel; then why notavail yourself of an opportunity to preach to a people youstigmatize ‘Campbellites?’ If they are as bad as your letterpictures them, surely, you think they need the gospel, don’tyou?. In this way you would reach a great many morethan you are reaching with your ‘gospel’ now. Here is thetruth of the matter, Stephens: You Baptists learned a longtime ago, through bitter experience, that debating withpreachers of the church of Christ was hard on the in-consistencies of Baptist doctrine. Yes, you have heardabout the battle between truth and error here in our town,when the lamented J. Petty Ezell defended the truthagainst Baptist error in the hands of ‘Judge’ Edwards.I am confident that your Baptist brethren don’t want thisto happen again for ‘Truth ever gains and error uniformlyloses in discussion,’ and men in error have long since learn-ed this truth and they confine themselves to one-sided dis-cussions in which they exhibit ‘nerve enough’ to battle any-thing or anybody that isn’t present.

“Stephens, why didn’t you try to answer the argu-ments I presented in the letters you have received? Itwould have been more manly on your part than what youhave done. If I am wrong about this matter, why notshow me by the New Testament where it is instead ofvilifying and casting slurs on a people that love the Lordand His church? You say my f irst letter amused’you, but your reply doesn’t indicate amusement. Whatsort of language do you use when you are ‘amused?’ Youmust have laughed out loud when you made this state-ment: ‘Whether you have been saved or not, he (the ‘Camp-bellite’ friend), will tell you that you are bound for hell un-til your sins are washed away in a Campbellite pool ofwater! It would be hard for one to frame a statement

farther from the truth than this misrepresentation of yours,and just think, you were ‘amused’ when you made it. Onedoes not have to possess a degree in English to see the bit-terness and anger you display in your letters. Yes, youwere also ‘digusted’ with the first letter, and it appears tome that you ‘busted’ in your effort to reply. It is plain tosee what is in the heart of a man ‘too busy-organizingBaptist Churches’ to reply in a decent manner when thething he is doing is challenged. Out of the abundance of theheart the mouth speaketh’ (Matt. 12:34). Yes you have sppk-en and the people of Cookeville shall know it, whether you an-swer this letter or not. I certainly wouldn’t acknowledgedefeat before receiving the reply to my letter by saying,‘Your third letter, should it come, will be ignored. Evident-ly you have somewhere in the past felt the force of NewTestament teaching against the inconsistencies of Baptistdoctrine. Was it at County Line in Moore County when Imet W. S. Erwin in a four days debate some twelve yearsago? (Mr. Stephen’s home was near County line. W. C. C.)Maybe you have just heard of that debate. Or perhaps itis the debate I had with W. W. Crouch at Fosterville sevenor eight years ago? Well, the news will get around and aburnt child is afraid of the fire!

‘Why be so ‘busy organizing Baptist Churches’? JesusChrist didn’t organize any Baptist Churches; Paul didn’t;neither did Peter; but maybe it was Judas? The doc-trine of the impossibility of apostasy seems to indicatethat Judas was the one. He ‘by transgression fell’ (Acts1:25), so, he organized a church from which one couldn’tfall, or did he? Just where is your authority for ‘organiz-ing Baptist churches? Chapter and verse, please.

I know you said in one of your ‘attempts to cover theforce of my arguments that ‘Jesus took the material Johnthe Baptist provided and organized His church! So far, sogood, but why not call it his church instead of John’s?Stephens, you know as well as I that the New Testamentdoesn’t mention a Baptist Church.

“You deal at length on ‘those who substitute,’ and ifI have ever seen as many misrepresentations placed to-gether, I have no recollection of it and I have done someextensive reading. I here note briefly your statements:

“Those who substitute:” “1. Water baptism for theshed blood of Christ in cleansing from sin.’

Answer. Christ shed His blood in his death, (Jno.19:32, 33). Paul says, “We were baptized into His death,”(Rom. 6:3). We reach the blood through baptism. Nosubstitution here.

“2. Works and forms for faith.’ Answer. James says,“Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, andnot by faith only” (Jas. 2:24) We believe in “a faith thatworks by love.” (Gal. 5:6) No substitution here.

“3. ‘A man-made organization for the true church andkingdom of God! ’

Answer. In the language of Nathan to David: “Thouart the man” guilty of this sin. You are substituting theBaptist church for the church of Jesus Christ. Christ said‘upon this rock I will build my church ’ (Matt. 16:18), andit never was called a ‘Baptist Church by his faithful fol-lowers. You have made the substitution here, my friend.Can’t you see it?

“4. ‘Fighting other Christians for preaching the gospel.’Answer. Paul told Timothy to “Fight the good fight offaith.” (1 Tim. 6: 12). Again he said “Prove all things; holdfast that which is good.” (1 Thes. 5:21) I’m teaching thetruth, Stephens, and you are the one that is fighting againstGod. Shame on you.

“5. ‘Religious bigotry for Christian love. Answer. Ishall leave it to the readers to decide who displays ‘big-otry’ and who is “speaking the truth in love” in this mat-

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ter and I can hear them say again, “Thou art the man.”“6. ‘Who deny the connecting, converting, regenerating,

revealing and witnessing power of the Holy Spirit apartfrom the written word.

Answer. Do you mean to say that the Holy Spirit doesall this ‘apart from the written word?’ Then, in heaven’sname, tell me why you are preaching the ‘written word?’But you are not preaching the ‘written word’ when youteach that the Holy Spirit does his work ‘apart from thewritten word’ I challenge you to show one thing that theHoly Spirit does today that it is not said that the word doesthe same thing. You need to do a little discerning here,my boy.

“After the fulfillment of the prophecy pointing to theoutpouring or, baptism of the Holy Spirit which occurredat Pentecost and at the house of Cornelius, (Acts Chapters2 and 10) the baptism of the Holy Spirit ceased and is nowhistory. Joel’s prophecy (Joel 2:28), had been completelyfulfilled and there is no repetition in the fulfillment ofprophecy. Following this fulfillment, the miraculous man-ifestation of the Holy Spirit came only through the layingon of the apostles hands. (Acts, chapters 8 and 19) and the“sign of an apostle were wrought.” (11 Cor. 12: 12).

“The New Testament reveals three ages of dispensa-tions of the Spirit: The receiving, the revealing and thediscerning. You and I are subjects of the discerning ageof the Holy Spirit and we are to discern that which hasbeen revealed by those who received the guiding power ofthe Holy Spirit. Paul tells us that it comes ‘through thehearing of faith (Gal. 3:2), and we know that faith comesby the word of God. (Rom. 10:17).

I wouldn’t attempt to tell you ‘how to run’ your church.It’s yours, according to your statement, and you have aright to run it to suit yourself. Furthermore, I can’t take theNew Testament and tell one how to ‘run’ a Baptist churchfor the simple reason that it doesn’t mention a Baptistchurch.

“I am not trying to get anybody to ‘join’ anything, andcertainly I have never asked anyone to ‘join the Campbell-ite church,’ because there is no such church in existence.Jesus purchased the church with His blood (Acts 20:28),and it is neither a Baptist church nor a ‘Campbellitechurch,’ and that is why I am a member of neither.

“ ‘My prayer for you is’ that you may study the Bibleand learn the truth and that you will have the courage todo it when you learn it and come out of a thing that Godknows nothing about.

“Even though you are going to ignore this letter, Ihave written in the hope that I might say something thatwill cause you to see the absurdity of Baptist doctrine in thelight of the simplicity of the gospel of Christ.

“Let me say again, there is absolutely nothing personalbetween us so far as I am concerned, and my feelingstoward you as a man shall continue to be the best, but Ihave no patience with false doctrines and commandmentsof men. With the kindest of feeling, I am, very sincerelyyours, (Signed) W. Clarence Cooke.

(This letter has not been answered. Evidently, it hasbeen ‘ignored.‘)

“I have thoroughly examined Complete Christian Hymnaland found it, from many viewpoints, a most wonderfulbook. It is scriptural, its music is such as will meet therequirements of true worship, and its mechanical make upwill grace any place of worship. You have in it a wonderfulcollection of songs. You have rendered s great service tothe church of Christ by making possible the right kind ofsinging.“--Chester Estes, Corinth, Miss.

A BAPTIST PROPAGANDA

MARCH 1940

SCHEME INCOOKEVILLE

The Baptist and Reflector a weekly publication editedby Mr. 0. W. Taylor and the official organ of the SouthernBaptist Convention, recently published a “special Cooke-ville issue” in which venture “Photographs and write-upsof all the Cookeville churches were requested.” When thematter of their bringing out this “special issue” wasbrought to the attention of the elders of the church of Christ,they recognizing the move as pure Baptist propaganda atthe expense of local business men, refused to lend assist-ance to the promulgation of Baptist interests. The promot-ers of this project however, in some way secured a pictureof the Cookeville church of Christ and used it with onlythe name of the local preacher as the “write-up.” An edi-torial note on the pages carrying photographs of thechurches reads, “We regret that some did not comply withour request.”

The Cookeville church from its beginning has stoodwithout apology for the fundamentals of the gospel andagainst all denominational dogmas and sectarian error.The preachers who have labored with the congregationhave been men of conviction and courage; men who haveopposed all efforts of the various denominations of the cityto ally the church with their movements in the spread ofsectarianism. The present local preacher has always beenin agreement with this attitude toward sectarian preachersand denominations. They should not be encouraged in theirerror by back-slapping and hobnobbing from preachers ofthe church of Christ. This stand by the Cookeville churchand its leaders has been a “thorn in the flesh” of localsectarians, and this recent move to align the church withan advertising campaign for the Baptists seems to havereacted beyond local boundaries and their failure to re-ceive the cooperation of the church has provoked the angerof their editor and he takes a “dig” at those who are “try-ing to monopolize the name of Christ.”

In the first paragraph of this “special Cookeville issue”he says “The pastor is the key man. But sometimes hecannot unlock a certain situation because the lock is sorusty.” Don Norman writing in this “special issue” tellsus that the “invitation” for this “special Cookeville issue”was extended the “Baptist and Reflector” by “Pastor J.Harold Stephens, of the First Baptist Church” who “has hisfinger on the community pulse.” These two statementstaken together show that the Baptist and Reflector con-siders “Pastor J. Harold Stephens” “the key man” in theCookeville “situation” that just wouldn’t ‘?_rnlock” all thechurches in their effort to secure “photographs and write-ups.” The conclusion reached by editor Taylor is that “thelock is so rusty” Mr. Stephens “cannot unlock” it. Forthe information of these very zealous Baptist propagandists,we suggest that “Pastor Stephens” failure to secure the co-operation of the church of Christ was not caused by a rustylock, but because he was trying to use a Baptist “key” ina New Testament “lock” and it just wouldn’t fit. The com-bined efforts of their “outstanding men” in cooperationwith “Pastor J. Harold Stephens” to fit a Baptist “key” in-to a divine “lock” won’t work in Cookeville. The only keysthat will “unlock a certain situation” where the church ofChrist is involved are “the keys of the kingdom of heaven”which were used by Peter at Pentecost but my Baptistfriend Stephens doesn’t have those keys. They will no morefit a Baptist lock than a Baptist “key” will fit into a NewTestament “lock”, therefore, “the keys of the kingdom”carried by all New Testament evangelists and all faithfulpreachers of the church of Christ are useless in the handsof a Baptist “key man;” he can’t use them in any Baptist“situation” without demolishing his whole structure.

MARCH 1940

For a long time Baptist debaters tried to make con-tact with the New Testament church by the use of a chain,but when they pulled the chain it j,ust wouldn’t “rattle backto Pentecost.” The lap-link of the fifteenth centruy wouldn’thook-on to apostolic authority and there the “rattle” died.Now, they are evidently trying to make contact with “thekey man,” but they are faced with the same impossibility.The New Testament church had no Baptist “pastor” servingas a “key man” in the local congregation because that NewTestament church was not a Baptist church in any senseof the appellation. Furthermore, the members of the NewTestament church were never called Baptists by any ofthe divine writers. The only Baptist mentioned in theNew Testament died before the church was established.John was never called “a Baptist,” but he was called “theBaptist,” because he was the Baptizer of all those whowent out unto him to be immersed in the river Jordan.Even though he was one of the greatest prophets, Jesussaid, “he that is least in the kingdom is greater thanhe.” This would not have been said if John had been “inthe kingdom,” but he died before the kingdom was estab-lished. John was not a Christian, he was the forerunner,not a follower of the Christ; he was in front of the Lord,and Baptists have always been affrontive toward all thosewho have dared challenge their name and doctrine. There-fore, the Baptist “key” cannot “unlock a certain situation”where a New Testament church is involved; the “key” isof no more value than the chain that wouldn’t rattle backto Jerusalem.

A Baptist doctor with “his fingers on the communitypulse” can never correctly prescribe for a New Testamentchurch, because his man-made time-piece will not recorddivine pulsations. The pulse-beat of the church of Christis normal in every respect and in perfect harmony with theheart of the bible. Therefore, since the “heart is right withGod” the church will register no fever from the false diag-nosis of Doctor Stephens and his associates; their doctorbook, the Baptist and Reflector is not authentic; “Doctor”Taylor, its editor is without divine license and not a moth-er’s son of the “key men” are members of the medicalassociation of heaven.

In the second paragraph of his editorial, Editor Taylor“takes another rap” at the church and says, “It has beensuggested that probably the most troublesome group in thedivided church at Corinth was that which said, ‘and I ofChrist’ trying to’ monopolize the name of Christ to glossover the fact that it was a schismastic group.” When apassage of scripture is in conflict with “Baptist usage”there is no hesitancy on the part of Editor Taylor to tryto destroy its teaching by implication and misapplication.But the “Word of God shall stand forever” in the face oftheir efforts to destroy its influence. Those who have hadthe courage to honor Christ by His appointments and inHis name have been stigmatized “a schismastic group try--

ing to monopolize the name of Christ.” No, Editor Taylor,we are not “trying to monopolize the name of Christ;” weare trying to persuade Baptists to leave off their unscrip-tural name and cease to practice in their work and wor-ship those things for which there is no divine authority.Paul, in his epistle to this “divided church” admonishesthem to “speak the same thing. . . that there be no divisionamong” them, and this they could not do so long as these“schismatic” groups insisted on following men instead ofChrist. The only divine course for the church at Corinththat they might “be perfected together in the same mindand in the same judgment,” was to say in one voice “andI of Christ.” Was Paul “trying to monopolize the name ofChrist” when he said “Other foundation can no man laythan that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ?” If EditorTaylor would cease to lay emphasis on John the Baptistand do the very thing he condemns in members of thechurch of Christ who, like the faithful “group” in Corinth,are saying, “and I of Christ,” it would be no longer neces-sary for him to misapply scripture to protect his “schis-matic group” of Baptists. No amount of sectarian polishadministered by “the key man” will “gloss over” a “schis-matic group” of Baptist. Their inconsistencies are so glar-ing in doctrine and practice that “the key man” mustspend much of his time misrepresenting those who teachthe New Testament as it reads, and misapplying plainstatements of the Bible.

Unity in the Corinthian church could not be attainedand maintained by their saying, “I am of Paul, I am ofApollos and I of Cephas.” The disposition to thus followand honor men fostered division and made the unity forwhich the Savior prayed impossible. It is very evidentthat the church at Corinth had no “schismatic group” ofBaptists saying, “And I of John the Baptist.” It was notuntil the fifteenth centruy that such a “group” added theircontribution to the denominational confusion of religiousBabylon. “Come out of her my people that ye be not par-takers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues.”

We agree with Mr. Taylor that “a false gospel is worsethan immorality” and-that “Paul waxed hotter over error.. . . . than over immorality even.” But Paul’s fighting wasnot in behalf of “Baptist usage” nor was it done through aSectional Baptist Convention. He did his fighting as amember of the New Testament church and if he were onearth today he wouldn’t preach “any other gospel.” Paulwas never “exceedingly and excessively ‘sweet’ in dealingwith” error and when a minister of the gospel that Paulpreached is called upon to expose the false teaching of Bap-tists it is next to impossible for him to be “exceedingly andexcessively sweet” in his opposition to a “philosophy andpractice” that is “damning the souls of men” by its “per-verted gospel.” Woe, is unto me if I preach not the gos-pel” that Paul preached!-W. Clarence Cooke.

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3071.

Digest of The Canons ______......._ 1.00The New Horoscope of Missions(Dennis) . . . 1.00Reconstruction In Theology (King)

Christian Confidence 1837 (String)__________._________.................................... .50

Old Testament Prophecy (Sanders)

3140. Why Do I Live? (Smyth) ___.__.... .503141. Tracts For Missionary Use Vol. II

bound 1859 ___._.._.___.____.__.................. .503142. Evolution and Religion (Osborn)

3072.

3073.

____.._________._.__.................................... .50The Great Saints of The Bible(Banks) ._...................... -. 1.00Methodist Pamphlets for the Peo-pie-Vol. I 1857 (Summers) bound

. . . . . . _ __ _ ._ _ _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50The Seven Churches of Asia (Riley)

3074.

3075.3076.3077.

. . _ _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00The Missionary Message of TheBible (Cook) . . . . . . .50The Spirit Dominant (Clay) . . . . .50Ecclesiology (Peck) . .50Lectures on Our Lord’s Miracles(Cumming) _______......................... .50Theological Colloquies 1837 (Thorn-ton) . . . . . . . . . . 1.50A Jeweled Crown (Harrison) . . 1.00Beautiful Story of The Bible (TY-ler) . . . . . . . 1.00Why I Am A Christian (Crane) 1.00Studies in the Greek New Testa-ment (Smith) _____._______.__ .75Beginner’s Grammar of The He-brew Old Testament (Yates) .75The Method of The Master (Peck)

3109.

3110.

3111.

3112.3113.

3114.

3115.3116.

3117.

. . . . . .25Literal Translation (Plato) . . . . . . .75Devout Exercises of the Heart,1808 (Rowe) _____._....._.______........................The Twentieth century Revival

(Roller) ____________________........................ .75Ritual Eastern Star (Macoy) .25Breathings of the Better Life, 1866quoted at 2.50 __________.__.._.__........... 1.00Infant Baptism (McGlothlin) ._.. .50_.

3143.

3144.3145.

3146.

3147.

3148.

3149.

3150.

3151.3152.

3153.

3154.

3156.3157.3158.

__.___.__.__.._......................... -... .50Sunday School-Church Budget(Flake) ____ __....__.._......... _ . . . .._......... .75The Patriarch’s 1868 _..... .50Humanism and Christianity (MC-Connell) . . . . . . . _ _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50First Steps In Religious Education(Morton) . . . . _ __ . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . .50The Trend in Higher Education(Harper) _ _ __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00

The Meaning of Words, 1854 (John-son) ______........_.__.... . . . ____................... .50The Victorious Banner (Gordon)3078.

3079.3080.

3081.3082.

3083.

3084.

3085.3086.3087.

3088.3089.

3090.

3091.

3092.

3093.

3094.3095.3096.3097.3098.3099.3100.

3101.3102.3103.3104.

3105.3106.

3107.3107.

__ _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50The Beauty of God (Rector) . . . .25The Homilist-Vol. I (Downey) ____.._.Practical Studies in the FourthGospel (Candler) 2 vols __.....__.__ 1.50Present Day Theology (Gladden) .50Modern Methods in Church Work(Mead) . .._______________________________ 1.50-.50The Law of Love and Love As ALaw (Hopkins) ____________________________ .60The Unrealized Logic of Religion‘(Fitchett) ___.______________________ .50Sewall’s Sketches of St. Augustine,1848 (Sewall) ____.__.__....______............ 3.50Old Testament Characters Delineat-ed and Illustrated (Flay) . . . . . . . .50Life of Christ (Geikie) ______________ .50This Mind (McDowell) ._._._._.._.._ .50Bible Studies (Nunnally) ._.__.._._ .50Paley’s Evidences (Paley) _.__ .50Paradise Lost (Milton) ______.._.._._ .25Memoir of J. B. Taylor (Rice) 1.00The Vision of Dante Alighieri(Gory) ________________________________________... _ .50

His Life ____________________........................ .50God’s Minute _______._.__________ .50Seeing and Being (Trumbull) .50The Gospel of Healing (Simpson)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Bible Mastery (Brown) . .._._._.__.__ .50Thoughts on Personal Religion(Goulbourn) __._._._____._______________________ .50

At The Beautiful Gate ____ .50At The Beautiful Gate ________________ .50

3108. The Way of Holiness withNotes By The Way 1850 ___.________ .50

3117A. Did Jesus Rise? (Brookes) __._ .603118.

3119’.

3120.

3121.

3122.

3123.

3124.

Brown On Equality of Men, 1802(Brown) _______._._______.________ 1.50Christianity & Economic Problems

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Questions on The Gospels-Vol. I(Smith) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Sunday School Teachers Compan-ion, 1842. ______________.___________ .50Immersionists Against The Bible

(Lee) __._________....._______________________........ 1.00Wandering Thoughts, 1835 (Steele)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00Teacher’s Assistant, 1832 ___.______ 1.00

3125. Baptist Hymn Book, Leather, 187

Parker’s People’s Bible-27 vols., blackcloth, good as new, a vast storehouse ofhomiletical and expository material cov-ering the whole Bible _...._._._._______._________ $eO.OOAnother set, good condition _______.____ . . ..$16.00

. . . . _ _ __. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.003126. Book of Church Services _....._..___ .253127. Practical Way to Union With God

(Hoffman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .503128. Holy Catholic Church; A Sermon,

1844 (M’Ilvaine) _____.__________._ _ _____._ .503129. The Augsburg Confession (Neve) _r. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...” . .._............. :133130. Personal Religion and The Life of

Devotions (Inge) _________________._.____ .253131. The Unification of the Churches

(F i sher ) ____.___..__________...... .253132. Must Protestantism Adopt Christian

Science? (Hegeman) ________________ .353133 Jay on Prayers, 1822, leather (Jay)

3134.

3135

3136.

3137.

3138.

3139.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00The Bible and Its Books (Hamill)

. . ...60Pearl of Great Price, (JosephSmith) ________________________________________........ .75

Thoughts on Personal Religion,1867 (Goulburn) _____.____..________...... .50Nqtes On The Gospels Vols, 1, 4,(Longking) 2 ~01s. _._.___.__.______....... 1.00

How Christ Came To Church (Gor-d o n ) _.__.._._____.__________________________...... .50Streaks of Light _._._____..._. .50

_ _. . . . . . . . . ._ ___ . . . . . . . _. __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75Subordinate Standards (Presby-terian) _____.._.................... . . .50Hungers of the Heart (Hardy) .50The Pattern in the Mount (Park-burst) .____________.............. _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - .50Forty Dollars and The Boots,Berlin, 1896 (Fay) ____.__________.._._.... 1.00The Organic Law of The M. E.Church (Sibley) _____.._.._._.._........ .50The Competent Church (Agar) .75The New Christian (Cushman) .25The Religion of a Layman (Brown)_^. . . . . . . ._ _ ._ _ . .._. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .bU

3158A The Christian Life in the ModernWorld (Peabody) __.__.__..__............ .50The Stories of Joseph (Sangster) .25Theopneuston, select scriptures,1842 (Cox) ._.._.._._._._.__._................... .50Sword Thursts At The Jesuitism ofRomanism (Ryan) . . . . .25Christianity and Socialism (Glad-d e n ) _....______.__._____.............. 1 .oo

3159.3160.

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3162.

3163.

3164.

3165.

3166.

3167.

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3169.3170.3171.

3172.

_._ -God’s Plan for World Redemption(Watson) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ .50Gov .Smith’s American Catholic-ism (Marshall) _..._._._ _ .50Church School Leadership (Raf-fety) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50Present Day Life and Religion(Dixon) ._._____._.____..___________ :____ _____ __ .25Williams Sermons, 1810, Leather,

3173.

3174.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00Workable Plans For Wide-AwakeChurches (Reisner) _._..__.__________._ 1.00Powell on Succession (Powell) .75The Christian Family (Hiller) .75Beginner’s Grammar of the He-brew Old Testament (Yates) .75Cobbin’s Descriptive TestamentNotes (Cobbin) _._.__.____..__.__._........ 1.00Annual Lesson Commentary onBible School Lessons-1937 (White-side) __._..._._.._._.._._................................ .25

Fifty Years and Beyond (Lathrop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _ _....... _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.00

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3176. How To Obtain Fullness of Power(Torrey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

3177. A Harmony of The Gospels (Kerr)Ir. _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3178. Altars of Earth (Simpson) _.__.___ 2:::3179. The Church A Composite Life, .253180. Alternative Views of The Bible

( B l o o r e ) _________......._......... .253181. Songs of the Sierras (Miller) _._.._....3182. Powell on Succession (Powell) 1.103183. Facts and Theories As To A Fu-

ture State (Grant) __________..____._________ 1.003184. Christ, Christianity and The Bible

(Haldeman) . _ _ . . . . . . .253185. Stray Thoughts (Strickland) __._....3186. Recollections of My Youth (Renan)

3187. On The Trail of Moses (Bank) .753188. The Monk and The Prince (Hay-

good) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.003189. Church Dictionary *(Staunton) .503190. Quiet Hints To Growing Preachers

The Sermon Bible-12 vols., consisting ofsermon outlines on the prominent textsof the entire Bible, by various authors.8 good sets __._________.____._..................... $10.00

(Jeffferson) ____________________................ .753191. The Universal Kingship (Moore) .50

The Interwoven Gospels (Pitteng-3192.

3193.

3194.

3195.3196.3197.

3198.

3199.

3200.

3201.

3202.

3203.

3204.3205.

3206.

3207.

3208.

er) 1889 ____..._____________........................ 1.00 3241.The Christ of History, 1867 (Young) 3242.

_ __ . _ . _ _ . _ _ _ . . 1.00Faith in The Divine Fatherhood

1.00;:s;in’,r christi;Lnity”cp;t~~~.~:~. 1:5000

Suburban Christians (Smith)Church In The Country and OtherPoems (Wil l ingham) _.___._______... .50Hand-Book of Bible Manners andCustoms (Freeman) ____.............. 1.00The Psalms, with notes (BibleTruth Depot ) _________.....______............ .50The Why and How of Foreign Mis-s i o n s ( B r o w n ) ___________._.__..____________ .50Daniel Quorum and His ReligiousNotions, 1876 (Pearse) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.00Why Friends (Quakers) Do NotBaptize With Water (Moon) .50Doddridge’s Rise and Progress( D o d d r i d g e ) __._............ .50Service and Prayers ____._............ .50Streams From Lebanon 1857( R e i d ) ________________._........................ 1 . 0 0From Bondage To Liberty in Re-ligion (Ashley) ____.............___.......... .75Short Subjects on Great Subjects( F r o u d e ) _.....______________.................. .75

Short Account of Life and Death ofRev. John Fletcher (Wesley) 1795

3209.3210.

3211.

3212.

3213.

3214.

3215.

3216.3217.

3218.3219.

3220.3221.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.50Ruter’s Church History (Ruter) 1.00The Christ of The Gospels (Mor-rison) . . .50Church and Sunday School Publicity( S m i t h ) .._____________.__........ .50The Gallows, The Prison, and ThePoor-House (Quingy), 1856 _... 1.00Paternoster Sheen or Light onMan’s Destiny (Mackenzie) ____ .50The Christian Idea In The ModernWorld (Calkins) . . .lOA Lawyer’s Study of the Bible( W h e e l e r ) ____.__________._.._.............. .75

Paul-The Christian ______________________ 1.00An Appeal To The People (Beech-er) . . . . . 1.00Letters of Jesus (Seiss) ____________ .75Paths to the City of God (Gun-saulus) . . .75Eternal Hope (Farrar) _.._..______ .50Training in Church Membership(Van Ness) .._._..__......................... .50

3222.

3223.

3224.

3225.

3326.

3227.3228.

3229.

3230.3231.3232.

3233.

3234.

3235.3236.3237.3238.

3239.

3240.

3243.

3244.

3245.3246.

3247.3248.3249.

3250.

3251.

3252.3253.,3254.

The Divine Opportunity (Stock-dale) _.___._________...__.......................... .50Principles and Ideals for the Sun-day School (Burton & Mathews)

. __ _ __ . . . . . . _ _ _ . . .50Old Wine in New Bottles (Brought-on) ____...___________.............................. 1.00The Conflicts of the Early Church(Niven) _ _ . 1.00The New Midweek Service (Pres-cott) _.....____................................ .75-.30The Book of Mormon (Smith) .50The Bible From Heaven (Canright)

__ _ _ _ .50The Challenge of the Present Cri-sis (Fosdick) _.....____....._.___.............. .50The Way To God (Moody) _....... .25Common Prayer _____._.__..________...... .25The Bible and Modern Criticism(Anderson) pub. at 2.50 _____..... 1.00

Atonement in Literature and Life(Dinsmore) ____.._________..... .35The Reformed Presbyterian, 1842

. . 2.00Sutton’s Learn To Die (Sutton) 1.00Protestant Modernism (Torrey) .50Tyller’s History, 1818, leather 1.50Main Questions in Religion (Sel-leek) ____..._________._._.......................... .50Bartlett’s Sketches of Missions(Bartlett) . .75Working Men and The Church(Coyle) . _ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35The Triune God (Crouse) ___.__ .50Elements of History, 1834 (Wor-cester) __ 1.00Crayon and Character (Griswold)

.25The Human Race and Other Ser-mons (Robertson) _......_____________.. .60The Ethics o f Jesus (King) .75Centennial Memorial, 1859 (Niven)

_ . __ _ . _. _ . 1.00The Child’s World __..._......._._________ 1.00The Mind of God (House) .50The Fact of A Future Life (My-e r s ) ._._..__________................................ .50Christ Christianity and The Bible(Haldeman) _............................... .50Princioles of Christian Living(Smith) 1.00

Lord, Teach Us To Pray (White) .75The .Ingham Lectures ____............ .75Seekers After God (Farrar) 1.00

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3256. Studies in The First Book of Sam-uel (Willett) .50Regeneration or The New Birth(Crouse) .._..______.......................... .50American Conflict-Vol. I, poor cond.(Greeley) _.._..____.._.__.................... 1.00Gems of Illustration (Guthrie) .50Morgan’s Physico-Theology, 1740(Morgan) .._ _................._........ 2 . 5 0Methodist Pamphlets For ThePeople Vol. 1, 2, 1857 (Summers)

3257.

3258.

3259.3260.

3261.

3262.3263.

3264.

3265.

3266.3267.

_.__..____..______._................................ 1.00Heaven (Moody) ____._.......__.......... .75Miracles-A Modern View (F. L.Darrow) . .50Manual of Theology, 1857 (Dagg)

. _ . _ _, _ . 1.00How To Conduct A Sunday School(Lawrance) ____.............................. .75The Holy Spir i t (Zartman) _._. .5OThe Social Unrest-Vol. I (Powell)

_.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

3265.3263.

3270.

3271.

3272.

3273.3274.3275.3276.

Aspects of Christ (Selbie) . .lOOProselyter’s Defeated, 1859 (Incog-nito) ._ _._..............___........... 1 . 0 0The Spirit-Filled Life 1896 (Mac-Neil) .50Politics Jn A Protestant Church(Smith) . . . . 1.50Half Hours With The Christ(Moses) ____.................................. .50The Closing Scene (Neale) 1.00God and The Man (Shumaker) .75The Bright Side of Life (Dixon) .75The Metaphysics of Blazac (Geste-n . . .rela) .50Problems That Perplex (Ward) .75Helping People Grow (Fleming) .75

3278A. Prayers For Heart and Home

3277.3278.

(Meyer) 1894 _.__..______________.............. .753279. What The War Is Teaching (Jef-

ferson) .503280. Paley’s Evidences of Christianity

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24 THE BIBLE BANNER MARCH 1940

PEACE WITHIN THY WALLSCECIL B. DOUTHITT

In the city of Jerusalem the tabernacle finally was sta-tioned and later the temple was built there by David’s sonSolomon. There the Jewish sacrifices were offered andtheir feasts observed. There God recorded his name andpromised to meet with the Israelites.

No other place on earth was so dear to David’s heartas the house of God, the place of worship. He rejoiced atthe arrival of the appointed time for worship. “I was gladwhen they said unto me, Let us go unto the house of Jeho-vah.” (Ps. 122: 1). Unto him a day there was better than athousand elsewhere. “For a day in thy courts is better thana thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house ofmy God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.” (Ps.84:lO) He prayed for the opportunity to dwell there. “Onething have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: thatI may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life,to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire in his tem-ple.” (Ps. 27:4) He expressed in song God’s love for theplace of worship. “Jehovah lov&h the gates of Zion morethan all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spok-en of thee, 0 city of God.” (Ps. 87:2, 3).

But that tabernacle and temple were types of thechurch, and both were furnished largely with figures ofthings to come. Those types and shadows of which Davidsang find their reality and substance in the church of ourLord, which is now the house of God, and which is compos-ed of men and women as living stones in this holy temple.

Moreover, David was a prophet and God had sworn withan oath unto him that of the fruit of his loins he would setone upon his throne, and David foreseeing this mademany prophetic utterances concerning the church overwhich his Son and Lord would reign supreme.

In view of the prophetic nature of many of the Psalmsof David we do not wonder that he prayed: “Peace be with-in thy walls.” (Ps. 122:7) Peace is as precious in thehouse of God today as it was in the temple of old. It is asessential to the purpose and growth of the church as it hasever been to the continued success of any nation, family,or individual.

Where there is peace there is tranquility of mind, ami-cable relations among people, and harmony between per-sons. It is the very opposite of confusion, strife, and di-vision.

Peace is a state to be sought, followed after, and pur-sued. Jesus gave the specific order: “Be at peace onewith another.” (Mk. 9:50) The same injunction was en-larged upon by the inspired Paul: “If it be possible, asmuch as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.” (Rom.12:18) “So then let us follow after things which make forpeace.” (Rom. 14:19) He that would “follow after peacewith all men” has the promise of a happier life and betterdays : “He that would love life and see good days. . . lethim seek peace and pursue it.” (I Pet. 3:ll).

Peace has not always prevailed in the churches. Thechurch at Corinth at one time became the very essence ofdiscord and confusion. The contentions among them werepointed out by Paul as evidence of carnality, and after themanner of men, they were actually suing one another, forwhich they were firmly rebuked. Their factious spirit hadculminated in a desecration of the Lord’s Supper, and thecongregation could no longer observe it in a decent manner.Peace did not exist there. The things they had followedafter caused strife and confusion, not peace,

Some things are pursued and followed after today,which do not “make for peace.” A truce or a granting ofmutual concessions with sin and error never brought peaceto any group of Christians. The scriptures demand a con-tinuous warfare against sin and error, rather than theraising of a white flag. By resisting the devil, and in noother way, he can be made to flee. (Jas. 4:7) Compromis-ing with him never caused him to make any contributionwhatever to the peace of the brethren, nor to install oneelectric fan in the tartarus compartment of hades. “Warthe good warfare, ” “fight the good fight of the faith,” arethe orders of the Captain of our Salvation.

Instead of following these orders some otherwise goodbrethren recently have signed an armistice of mutual con-cessions with the defenders of one of the worst peace-de-stroying “isms” of modern times. No “ism” has ever be-come a “wasm” through compromise. “Come ye out fromamong them, and be yet separate” is a command of boththe Old and New Testaments. What can any gospel be-liever hope to gain by yoking himself up with a teacher oferror? It is worse than yoking the ox with an ass. Whenthey are so yoked together it is necessary for the ox toadopt a few characteristics of the ass, and when he be-comes both asinine and bovine in his ways he is neither agood ox nor a good ass. When righteousness and iniquitycan have fellowship, when light and darkness have com-munion, when Christ and Belial can have concord, whenthe temple of God and idols can have agreement, then,.and not until then, will mutual concessions with error bringpeace.

A neutral attitude toward the disturbers of the peace isneither conducive to peace nor scriptural, and no inspiredman ever assumed such an attitude toward those whocause division and strife among brethren. There havebeen marathon fence-setters during every issue that hasrisen. What have they done? When the fight is over theyinvariably fall off the fence on the side of the majority.“Well, it is just not my nature to expose, refute, and re-buke,” says one, “I must preach a positive gospel.” Suchan apology is no more logical than the plea that it is notmy nature to pray, to give, or to visit the sick. When aman become; a Christian his nature is supposed to be sotransformed by the renewing of his mind as to conform toevery command of the gospel, even the command to re-prove, rebuke and exhort. If his nature is not such as toenable him to do that, his nature needs changisg, not thescriptures. Usually those whose nature will not allow themto oppose error can do almost a super-human job in criticis-ing the “method” of those who do oppose it. Some of themcan send out anonymous letters scrurrilous enough to makeJim Farley’s mail bags stink. Neutrality in either realityor pretence does not create peace nor maintain it.

All things that “make for peace” may be included inone word truth. There can be no universal peace of thedivine sort until all think, speak and act according to truth.It is not possible to obey the divine injunction to speak thesame thing, to be of the same mind and the same judg-ment, except such speaking and thinking be in harmonywith the truth. All who preach the truth, the whole truth,and nothing but the truth are doing much to make David’sprayer for peace a reality. The truth will make us freefrom all sin, including the sin of strife and slander; whenbelieved and obeyed it will bring harmony, tranquility,calmness-peace,

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