| Show THE prevailing AMiNa DOUDT DOUBT the rov lov dr borrs fouls himself called Lii lod upon to explain in tile the anlo in iv pendent why as a member of iho having charge of tho mat tort lor ho bo favored favora 1 the appointment of a young man as a missionary ot of the american board who had bad doubts as to to the indiscriminate damnation of the ho heathen hc athon dr 1 storrs says in that whilo while lie ho would re rc leido to commission commission anybody who positively believed in future probation I 1 lio lie was not disposed to abut out it a candidi ito simply because it in tile tho birly stages 0 of his theological 0 study liu ho was holo hopeful ful that tho the heathen would have such a pro probation but tile iho majot majority ity of tile tho committee commit teo it cems deenis wore act of tint min and postponed further consideration of if tile iho caso anee until tho applicant shall amno hmo completed his theological 0 eal al the great coat interest in tho subject is indicated by tho the fact that tho the independent prints an unusually largo large edition of tho the number containing it tile bettor and it is also shown ill jn the lie caro causim cau and chabot aaion with which dr storrs exola explains inh his v views i e w s iro sees very iery plainly and declares without reserve that if tile the tho the c 0 ory I 1 Y of future 0 probation bo be accepted tile cicat 1110 motive tivo for missionary labor among the heathen is pone gone if they aio to have an opportunity for repentance pen imi tance horen hera frer under the amr aln mediate ex exhibition hibi tion of christ mid lippart from 1 the lie temptations tometa ions of the world and the flesh the incentive for to carry t to 0 gospel tb jimro cicro on oil carth will iio DO longer romain remain tile tho firm convi c tion oc 0 that tho iho heathen boull ile bo danji damned led Othor otherwise witia has from the first been tile the ing force in miss unary on ell terome 0 it ib has haa induced millio ns of fuoua mon all ana f V 0 moll 0 t 0 dolly deny t holvor luxuries and oven even necessities iu ill order that they mi might ailt contribute money toward pan pining ii the ox benses of if tile tho attempt to savo at lea least it some of choso ami cited from the tires firos of hell if therefore thoro foro that thai conviction ia iy or destroyed chiti is to bacomo bo como of the atno ican B baard jard to what ino motives tives ahall it ib aico aipo 1 fr fix pecuniary rt why should aou assume to dabble ivi with i ali it a ans task lc IV aich god in ill hi hii own ovil tillio timo wiil i or cr boim fol in with infinito vis lom iu As dr storrs ls siye why should a man go out aa a it if ile ho believes luit billat the be heathen atholl llroy ho does enot go 90 to shuw will ivill in ill tile tho future i have five vast epport unities for re hepolit mac life lit 0 which tray iray now lie he S 10 1 i ri C e dby ly listening to 0 o him 11 yat Y t i is mani manifest fost from this coltor that hint tit at oust 1 doubts of the damnation of the heat heathen lleti a ao 0 pro provi volant ilant at nung con coll thou logical C s it bouts louts tho the at and tile the most mom 0 of the joi x 0 o 11 in sec et el lif f khoii dr de st tira scenic i i 0 of alum aloiv Cou faunto fo unto lito an all oa as as exilia i ill ilij lion doubt flin mt babi 1 l ful ul x i y ca tho the r p imbry ead eares of candor moral mond and alli jo C alty to C chris hris P of brig r 0 1 0 f t P res by teri t 11 theological en fichtol in thi taij eit city chiya ulo all leiai IL t liero here is groit jI bijj perplex jj ty tv in 11 tile iho fit minds of C and the fie try its as well as tho people the of their boien have beon been 8 scattered latterell an I 1 t thoy 11 PV know kilow not 1101 how lul w li lira to boin bein to build anew tho the young oung 3 iron I 1 ir r on oil before tho Amo american rican board simply represents tho the orthodox theological tho thought light ra of tile lie day clay its uncertainly arial audits ra timidity and every candidate of candor and honesty who comes to lo the iho board from the divinity schools is likely to bo of tho ihu same mind sheso doubts tool too seem scein to bo be unconquerable aud anti progressive thus thua thoy thov will b bo 0 strodom stroD yoi tho longer the iho youri joun 5 ul nian n ian u in abo seminary As belief in goes it IR 0 that bojer iu in jal should go also albai if I 1 human concoy bious of divine jukica cannat lo lie satisfied isfried without bolic believing ving 0 in a future probation fur for the iho hoi aien theu chy are no less outraged if that aliat opportunity for salvation is ejot extended to all men such a tendency away from the very defy i of orthodox x belief bex 0 points to a complete theological ra revolution revolution to a imm be ido which the ilie of the sixteenth century will appear of minor consequence n ca it 11 is id 1 really 1111 y as president dont declares de clarea a move inove ment oward a gnosticism agnosticism to toward II 11 ird tho the entire tire destruction des desi ruction of tile the ON ol 01 1 l ihei I 1 logical log icil system sun |
