AN ASSURED FOUNDATION by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 51.

AN ASSURED FOUNDATION.

By Editor

IN an editorial on the "Presbyterian Revision Issue," the Springfield Republican notes the majority in favor of revision, and says:—

Dissatisfaction is shown in every variety of the action of the presbyteries, enough to make it certain that the ancient dogmas do not represent the true belief of the church, and, in fact, a clear consciousness that this denomination of Christians is going on under false colors. In this it does not differ from almost every other division of Christianity. Rome is not troubled, because it reposes on historical authority. But all bodies that hold the right of man to think for himself are ever in this state of flux; they can not rest, for the spirit of man is restless, and its glimpses of the truth make obsolescent, age by age, all systems built up by logic from premises assumed and not assured, and against which the heart and conscience of man revolt.

But Protestants could have saved all this if they had builded on the Word of God, if they could have believed that God was able to save His church and bind it together without the hoops of human creed. Catholic tradition will sometime crumble before the presence of God, and human tradition merely, by whomever held, is no different. Dead creeds of men can not expand. Why will not men trust in the living Word alone? It is assured.