Changing Denominations Only for Loyalty to Truth
NO MAN should change from one Christian denomination to another except for one reason, viz., that loyalty to truth demands it. Several times within the last few years we have heard that Mr. A has become an E, or Mr. B has become a C. And no other reason was assigned than either that the B's treated him shabbily, or did not treat him well enough. Suppose a boy has a controversy with his teacher, which results in his finding himself at the radical end of the ferule. The boy goes home, saying, “I can't endure that teacher; therefore twice four is nine.” That is poor logic. It is exactly as good, however, as the reasoning of the minister who thinks within himself, “The Baptists have slighted me; therefore baptism came in the place of circumcision.” Or, again, “I find the Baptists uncongenial; therefore the apostles did baptize infants, and I will do the same.” Or, yet again, “I cannot bear close communion; therefore ‘baptize’ means to sprinkle.” This seems to us the worst kind of logic; as bad as that Fenian logic which reasons thus: “My grandfather had to pay too much rent in Ireland; therefore I will murder some people in Canada.”—The Watchman.