Show HI III SHUNTING time tmio his pised when heresy hunters by inquisition or othorll call Inflict ptimshinent bv i iinpusonmi maiming maim-ing or taking time life of those who dnitd to dlllor from thorn with reirl to Chureh oernmeiit 01 doilrmes lint wlnlu the vindictive punishments of other days aro interdicted b > tho better Cbnstitn spirit of the nineteenth cell tory Hit mil Christian impulse of earlier das t to mil down luc fioin Ileivcn to i destroy those who insist upon tho right of private judgment still remains in time Chimb loda it finds notable expire moil m a denomination which more Hi many m-any other stands for individual freedom of opinion m religious mailers Refer once is had to the Congregationalists and to official mcTiires recently talon to irush out time licresj which would extend ex-tend tho time of probation to icrtun classes of men into the lIfo beyond the grave The reeont letion ol tho Board of Foreign For-eign Missions in Wriminitmi against applicants for missionary work who were tainted with this presumed heresv ind m rudely thrusting from their ceeutivo committee a reprcscnlalivo man who accepts tho doctrine in question is fresh in the memory of reading ind intelligent men mated with their success in turning turn-ing E C Smyth out of the missiouiry Hym OoUe complaints h uu heen I lo lted against the same fontlcniin m eouneetion with IIIH four brother professors m time Vndover School of Theology by the saute heresy hunling iiKiuisitoia for the purpose pur-pose of driving the gentlemen mijuesllon m disgrace from their oflieial positions Ihero is no Untrue of unchristian conduct or of any lack 1 of qmhilc ition is theological theo-logical teachers again thorn only they cherish a belief that to time untold millions mil-lions of tho human rice tint have ind will piss into time future state neeessirilv having no knowledge of the Rivior ot Men or of lib gospel of good tidings there will bo granted a future probitlon under better ircumstinccs for iupintaiu0 and acceptance of tint to tlitm before imknown gospel This and I nothing moio is tlm he id and fiont of their often hn 111 it i is u no ticeablo fact that with h irdly nil oxccp lion the iupieauitiitio pipers of other iivantellcal Heels which Imvn hcietoforo tauntel Iho Coiiiienalionuhsl body 1 > with looseness of doctrine and with ollensivo liboialitv of thought mid aetion now tat the i heresy hunters on the back while they declare that their own immaculate sect is free from tho soul dcstioying doctrine doc-trine I If the aggressive policy thus in nignnlfd IH i ontmup 1 it is i ovi li nt tint I r 1 fI bieik in there will como u 1 division unil time Congrgationul ranks As u result the vital principle of I rotestantism Ihu right of private judgment in religious mailers will bo vindicated and a deserved rebuke will be gis emi to mousing imiulsil ors who bring repioaeh ujioii u cin e wliosp Iritthey fall to apprcci ite |