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Show Broader Outlook Will Reconcile Fundamentalist and Modernist By REV. JAMES D. BUHRER, Washington. COXTRO Eli.SY i3 a sure evidence of progress, and where there is no controversy there is no progress. There may he such a thing as a happy medium somewhere between the radical fundamentalist funda-mentalist and the extreme modernist. A person may be a modernist mod-ernist regarding certain viewpoints and a fundamentalist in other beliefs. be-liefs. A mail is a fundamentalist when he regards the value of past experience, ex-perience, hut no history is infallible. There is no original copy of the-Scriptures; the-Scriptures; the meanings of words constantly change, and different translations of the Bible are made according to the interpretation of the previous translation by the new translators. The future religion will consist in living according to the rules of Christ regardless of church denomination or doctrine. I am a fundamentalist because of my regard for the historic past, of the great progress slowly made. I honor the great leaders. Things are not true because new. I don't want to repeat the follies of the past. I want to transmit the gains of the past. Creeds, ceremonies, rites are fallible evidences of experiences. I am a modernist, because I hate no one who differs with me. I regard the possibilities of the future. Wisdom will not die with us. The old is not infallible nor true because it survived. The old was once new and had to fight its way. You need not be mentally shabby to be comfortable. I saw many good men mistaken. The future needs a deeper faith and larger vision. I know faith in Christ makes one better bet-ter and needs no conservatory care. The first modernist declared: "I have yet many things to say." |