Show WHERE LIES THE consistency THE rev bev B fay mills mille who Is conducting the religious revival meetings tings in this his city has been taken to task taek in a published open letter by mr dvm utter the strictures of the latter are directed toward a solitary expression used by the revivalist in one of his bis ser sermons moma nf the statement to which exception was taken can be best defined by a quotation from mr utters letter and we here present an excerpt 1 I write to protest against othe second point of y our sermon which as I 1 under tood stood it etwas was that those who do not believe that jesus christ is in god canno cannoa b be pure in heart if you had argued that a mans heart could not be right without in some sense accepting christ as a savior I 1 should not say bay a word for in some sense every right hear hearted ed man of today is a follower of jesus and perhaps eve every 7 good man owes something to chris christs Leach teachings ings i 1 I believe there are righteous men of every name there are jews right in this city cily whose righteousness and purity purit of life on ought to bhame you in this condemnation I 1 may be a partial judge but I 1 believe that the unitarians of our country are in the main a A righteous 9 oteous people it appears to us that the meaning of mr mills milli was perfectly clear and that it to IB stretching far beyond his big intention to take it that he intended to convey abe that it to Is impossible tor or man to be in some sense righteous and yet not believe christ to be god It t cannot be berthat that the gentleman intended to say that men who do not believe in the divine character of christ are necessarily bad that they are immoral dib dishonest honest and fraudulent the speaker was speaking epe aking from a bible standpoint including the claims and teachings of christ himself prom from this thia platform he must view an acceptance of jesus of nazareth as god as a part of righteousness and pure hearted nese mess as a consequence that those who reject hina him in that character are to t the extent of that repudiation not right or pure in heart the are clew clear oo on the question of Christ ls own claim to divinity and the efficacy of his blood as a sacrificial atonement for mankind these claims are either true or false chuse thi se who hold bold them to be untrue seek geek to place him in the light of the gigantic fraud that ever appeared on the earth we are unable to understand so how any person can accept him as being in some sense mense a savior land and at the same time maintain that he was wa 0 a pretender and that he therefore bl belonged longed to the class clan to whom he a 1 ministered ered his terrible rebukes the hypocrites accepting him merely in the same light as socrates or any other mere moral philosopher does not alter the situation no other moral teacher made such claims as an he did and if it be held that he represented himself in a false light those who assume such a position regarding him place him below the level of moral t achelis teach eie who have never asserted that th they gr were more than ordinary men mr mills in stating elating that bat the acceptation or of christ in the capacity in which he presented himself was a part of righteousness only re rea a what jesus himself insisted upon it seems to be a strained in arence to presume that the gentleman meant it to be understood that in his bis estimation there are no jews who are righteous in a worldly bense benee he doubtless does claim that in their acceptance non of the savior in hla his divine character they failed in that respect in not con COB forming to what every sincere christian must believe to be a part of righteousness and therefore necessary to absolute purity of heart the redeemer was perso personally hally rejected by the forefathers odthe of the hebrew race had they on the he contrary received him they would not have been under the condemnation which according to the scriptures he pronounced against them it seems to t us that thai from the tand stand point of christianity as defined by the bible the position of mr mille has haa the quality of consistency while that can hardly be said of the attitude of people who repudiate the claims made b by y jesus himself to being of divine character and yet profess to accept of him as ae in some sense a savior |