THIS IS DEPLORABLE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 11, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 10.

THIS IS DEPLORABLE.

The following article, under the above caption, we take from Word and Work. It is a striking setting forth of a sad condition prevalent to-day:—

From a most reliable source there has come to our knowledge some sad facts concerning one of our theological seminaries. Recently, a student from this school was invited to give a course of Bible lessons to a class of ladies. The young man, instead of leaping with joy at the thought of bearing witness to the glories of his Lord, excused himself for want of time to make due preparation. Upon this the good ladies said they would be satisfied with any course of study that he was taking in the seminary, thus releasing him, as they supposed, from any special need of time for preparation. But the young “sprig of divinity” took the breath of the godly women away from them by answering: “We really do not have time to study the Bible, we have so many other studies that we must complete.” Horror of horrors! No time for Bible study—no time to listen to what God says—all time to listen to what man says! The guesses, the thoughts, the assumptions, the conclusions of depraved and beclouded men, studied, discussed and praised or blamed, but the inerrant Word of God, the eternal truth of God, and the holy will of God, ignored, avoided, and relegated to seclusion and silence! We are not surprised to learn that another student in this same seminary, not 100 miles from Boston, should say: “I wonder these professors do not make infidels of us all; some of them quote the writings of the destructive critics, but give us nothing to refute them.”

Is it any wonder that Romish priests and papers are boasting that Protestantism is going to pieces? “The Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants,” can be quoted no longer as true. “The speculations of men and these speculations only” are assuming the place once occupied by the Bible, and then what? Protestantism prostrate, Romanism rampant, liberty lost, the Inquisition inaugurated, Revolution, anarchy, antichrist! Stand firm, ye servants of God!