Revising the Confession of Faith
By Editor
THE Catholic News instances the fact that the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church has determined to submit to the presbyteries the question of revising the Confession of Faith in order to make it "more consonant with the liberal spirit of the age," and says, "And yet this is called religion—this process of conforming to the license of the times." We cannot but think the criticism of the News is just. Why should the Confession of Faith not rather be so amended as to make it more consonant with the Scriptures of divine truth? What has the "spirit of the age" to do with articles of faith? If the Presbyterians have articles of faith which were framed to correspond with the spirit of the age at the time they were adopted, and not with the Bible, they need amending. But if at that time they were consonant with the Scriptures, we cannot understand why they should be changed now. Certainly the Scriptures have not changed. The truth is that the Confession of Faith is not, and never was, in harmony with the Bible, and there is little hope that it will be much better after it is amended.