p. 6 | Theological Infidelity

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 19, 1907

Theological Infidelity

At a meeting of the Congregational National Council held at Cleveland, Ohio, the professor of homiletics in the Congregational Theological School was appointed to deliver an address. He did so, and of that address the Advance says:—

A more bold and bald declaration of infidelity was perhaps never before made in the presence of a religious body in this country than that which he gave to the National Council. He declared teaching that the Bible is the inspired word of God is a harmful superstition, and said there could be no atonement, and there was no need of any.

He can show more scorn in a minute for the faith that has transformed and transfigured the lives of millions of men than the most sarcastic politician can show for the opposite party in a whole campaign. He has just about all the late Colonel Ingersoll's willingness to pitch into the beliefs and doctrines of the Christian religion, without the colonel's fairness to stand on the outside while he does it.

Is it a matter of astonishment that, under the instruction of such professors, expounders of unbelief go out to fill the pulpits of the country? or that under the preaching of ministers thus prepared unbelief is filling the pews of the churches?