Show ANOTHER HERESY CASE once in a while the religious denominations nomina tiona of the world are disturbed dia by the assaults of independent spirits in their own ranks upon the old ramparts of their declarations of faith heresy trials and are the be usual immediate while the ultimate effect must be the downfall of dogmas oot not resting reefing on od eternal foundations it is 19 self golf that the leading dissenters are not always right often wey they continue groping to in darkness as aa donne denae an aa that from which they claim to have bare found an escape but their efforts are none the lent leaf at least nega lively fraught with blessings to their tel fel lowman since much tearing down of old ruins mine and leveling of the ground Is ia feces sary aary before the heavenly structure ot of the couros and kingdom of god can be reared on earth in all its ita magnificence one 0 tie of the latest heresy trials la is that of professor saor woodworth of the university of california and maxwell a student in the institution both were until recently members of a baptist church at bakely Br kely and were expelled from wat that association on account of charges charge preferred against them by tho the vastor pastor not a shadow was thrown on OIL their moral character but some of their views view were pronounced heterodox and they were dealt with accordingly some time ago the student commenced to express views view contrary to the accepted faith of his oo co religion ests the pastor and told him that he must retract or relinquish all hopeson hopes of associating with baptists baptiste la in this world and with the blessed ones in ia the next at tb this is point professor woodworth who was sunday school superintendent in interfered and published his view he declared among other things that the absence of error in the bible is true only of the spirit and not of the matter of the text that the trinity are only three of many manifestations fe of the one god that the fall of man was only from a childish innocence not from holiness wat that salvation by the death arleath on calvary is to be understood symbolically ayi that righteousness righteous nope of faith is not imputed to us but Is faiths outward manifestation that baptism to in not prerequisite toe to church burch membership nor to the lords supper A strange mixture of truth and error to is this butchy but why an honest believer i in such doctrines should be considered disqualified for membership in the baptist church to is not clear that church with others teaches the incomprehensibility of the godhead and disclaims divine authority in its leaders as well as a continuation of inspiration spir stion and revelation why thong then Is not the of any of its members on points of doctrine equal to the he opinions ioos of those who framed the articles of faith since divine authority Is not claimed fr fir f r these and why should not from a baptist point of view the opinions of an eminent scholar of today be preferable to the he views of the framers of the old confession of faith when the fact to is considered that theological science has advanced in later years beyond anything that was anticipated a hundred years ago it to Is quite conceivable that the confession of faith itself contains heresies her esies and needs revio revision lou one of the he more important points la in this heresy controversy relates t the birth of our savior and it to is note worthy as showing how bow utterly helpless are the theologians who depend on oil the written word alone for information concerning doctrines the professor aban abandons dotis the generally nene rally accepted view and claims that christ was wag product of evolution borne into MAN world as every other child now one would think a question of this nature has already been settled and to beyond dispute except the plain gospel atae statement to is to be denied but behold recently a very avery ancient manuscript of the gospels has been discovered it to in the syriac language and must have been translated from a text older than mop any now extant in matt 1 I 16 it reads jacob begat joseph joseph to whom mary the virgin was espoused begat jesup jesu who as called messiah eminent german scholars lars are exhausting their resources of learning and logic to shiw that this his to an error of the syriac translator as an it no doubt is but all le same lame it places the heretics bere tion lo io a position ilon to maintain that he received text is the erroneous onous erro orr one and thit that 9 qan taine the true reading as once penned by matthew and thus an opportunity to is riven to add to the religious confusion of the world already resembling that of the builders of the tower lower of babel As time goes on it becomes more and more evident the she only salvation ivAlon sa from error la Is divine revelation that was wag the light that guided the world of old and without it progress pro greas was impossible poM ibIe by its rays again mankind will be guided out of the labyrinth from which it now sees no escape by the acceptation of the gospel revealed from above in this age truth will be established reestablished re and with it peace and happiness |