Salt Lake Herald | 1891-10-04 | Page 4 | A Radical Change of Creed

A RADICAL CHANGE OF CREED I Within the past few years there has probably prob-ably been more change ecclEsiastical dooI trines and theory than in any previous I period of ten times its duration Indeed in the last two years agitation in the churches has been rife and effected many modificatione of old time views planting the religious banner on advanced ramparts This could not have been done had not the I essence of toleration been Increasing and I spreading throughout all lands There is abroad a more liberal tendency and less bigotry respecting individual thought and conscience that themselves beget the spirit of investigation which is the foundation of truth Perhaps the most radical change notable in the trend of modern religious progress is the one favored by the St Louis Pros bytory relative to infant damnation A committee had been appointed to revise the Westminster Confession and it had reported re-ported in opposition to the doctrine of elect infants that ual Infants and all other persons incapable of receiving the call of the Gospel are saved by the blood of CHRIST Here was a direct and incisive thrust at u tenet which had come down from tho days of JOHN KNOX who held there were infants not a span long crawling crawl-ing on the floor of hell and which had withstood tho criticisms of generations Dr S JNICCOLLS who is a man of learning and ono of the most devout and eminent Presbyterian divines in the United States repudiated in the debate the doctrine doc-trine that GOD had predestined men to destruction de-struction and declared his belief that all who dis in infancy are saved by the blood of CHRIST His address appears to have had a decided influsnce for the Presbytery adopted by a considerable majority the resolution proposed by the committee