The Gospel Trumpet - 30:08

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,AND Hl SHAL.L SEND HIS ANGeLS WITH A GREAT SOUND Of' A TRUMPETANO THEY SHAL ... GP.THEA T«?GE1'HER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINOS, FROM OHE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTH£I'I.-MATT ••• :1111.
SO WILL 1 SE£~ OUT MY SHEEP, AND WILL onIV!" T.HEM OUT 01' A ... L PLACES WHEAE THE:Y HAVE BEEN SCATTERED lfl TH£ CLOUDY AND PARK OAY,-E%£I\. 04:12. JER, 32::10 ••
VOLUME NO. XXX. ANDERSON, INDIANA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, FEI3RUAAY24, 1910. NUMBER 8.
CONTENTS ..
EDITORI.ALS .......................................................... __ ....... ___ .. 1
POETRY:
The vision.; ..................................................... , .............................. _ 2
ARTICLES:
Inattention .................................................................. ........ _ .... " 2
Can't See v\Thy. __ .. : ................... ..................................... -.. _·· 2
Mr.ekness ............................................. ; ........................... ............ _ 2
Conditions of Discipleship ........................................... -- 3
'.A Religious Controversy Between a lIus-band
and I-lis ,Vife............................................................ 3
!Bt£7ilicaZ S tndy :
Studies in Daniel... ................................................... , .............. 4:
More Questions for Bible Students ..... _ ......... _ ...... 5
Prophe"t{caZ:
G~ct'~s Scattered' P€l6ple13e~:ilg Gathered ... 5
Doctrinal:
Some Nuts for Materialists to Crack ................. 7
Pm·ity an(Z Flome:
The Boy ............................................................................................. 7
OFFICE AND HOME EVENTS ' • 8
,GENERAL NOTES AND NEWS:
'rons of Literature vVanted .... _ ....... __ .. ................. 8
An Urgent Gall for Help ....... ............................... _ .. 9
Increase of Subscription..s ...... _ ............. .-._ ............... 9
Our Sunday-school and Missionary ClasselLI0
Read the Literatura._.·.. .... --_·_.-....... _._: ..................... 10
To ENTjARGE SUBSCRJpTlO~ LTST ......... _ ... _ ....... .. _ 9
QUES'IIONS ANSWERED ......... __ ... ._._ ... ..... ......... 11
CORRESPONDENOE:
, From·' a P~isoner ..... .. .... ____ ... ... ___ ........... _ .. 12
MISSIONARY :-.... _____ .... ___ .................... 12
TE8TIMONIES ... __ .......................................... ._-: ................... 13, 14
FIELD REPORTS .................. _ ....... : ............. _ ................................ 14.
OBITUARY __ .. . .... .. __ 14
Rl!;QUESTS FOR PRAYER.. ____ .. _ .................... _ ....... 15
CALLS FOR MEETING-__ ..... _ ......... ... .. ._ .. . __ .... 15
MEETING NOTICES ...... ..:.-....... -_. ___ ._. __ ~15
INTOR1IATION ............... . __ .................. _ .. _ ......... _. __ ..... . .:. ....... 15
r.A.DVERTISEMENTS .................... .. _-_ ........................ __ ... 13, 15
DIVINE REhLING:
Testlwollieg ____ ... _____ . _______ ... 16
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The Christian life is a warfare; if you would
win you must fight.
It is the fleshly lusts that war against tha
soul over which we must have dominion.
There is only one way to triumph over the
flesh and that is t.o live in the Spirit.
If we would be a victor on life '8 battle-fie] d
we must keep filled with the Spirit.
.IntelJectuali.tY may make men of children, but
only spirituality can make children of men.
~rhe "New
Theology."
c. E. O.
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We hear much of the "new
theology." It is taught in
many schools; it is heard from
many pUlpits; it fills the pages of our current
literature; it has possession of the minds of a
large popular audience. It is not easy to define
the term, for the teaching is commonly indeiill.ite.
I t comes before the people as a reformation, a
re-statement of theological doctrines, in which
the most cardinal parts of the systamof truth
are eHher omitted or so set forth as to de'Stroy
their vitality. It appeals to an a.ge weary of
positive religious truth, that calls for the pleas­ant.
and cheering teaching concerning God, man,
and redemption. ~[lhe age seeks after new things ..
It is a matel'ialistie age, and turns away from
the spiritual. It has seen old scie.ntific th(~()ries
set aside by new discoveries, and, applying the
sa,me rule, it rejects the old founda,tions in the
world of faith and builds up a theology which
has little of God in it.
The ,. new theology" very largely eliminates
th(l divine in our religion.. The Bible is lowered
from its. old standing as the ins:p~red and in­fallible
Word of God, and given a place Jjttle
above that of the books of men. The" new
theology" is indefinite) but when. summed up it
is positive an.d destructive of faith and of the
solid foundations of hope. It removes God fa.r
f.rom us instead of. bringb:~ghim nearer to us
as a personal God, just and holy, loving and
judging men. The Savior is robbed of his lUvin­ify
and lowered to the plane ofa vrise teacher
and a good man .. The atonement for sin is
r~jected and salvation is an evolution. The
resurrection of the dead is relegated·to the list
of beautiful, but impossible, t11ings. All. this is
popular and the "new theology" is making
headway,
The "new theology" is not restricted by de~
nominationallines ;it finds the general religions
condition favorable to its developeuient. We
must recognize. thisfnct. The II erald and J:>res~
byte?' forcibly says! "'It represents a system of
thought as far removed from the ~lq dq-etrine~
of a. personal God, a divine Savior, a vicariQus
atonement and the reSl..lrreCnon, as tt.e !:13st i~
from the west, anel should such teachings pre~
vail it would be, not a crisis, but an apc~y."
There is a loud call for adherence to the old
faith, and a real demand, if men ,vol1ld but hear
it, for the positive doctrines of human guilt,
divine, inexorable justice and redemption by the
Son of God. Here we . must stand firm, and
prea~h the "Vord of Ood in its fu.1ness and
, power.-].'rom, an Exchange.
Some persons attempt to de­fend
present-day dancing
and Dancing. from the pages of Holy Scrip,.
The Bible
ture. In cases where snch an attempted de­fense
is hc)nest, it shows a lamentable ignorance.
of the Bible.
A.n liistance is in mind where an individuail.
wrote anonymously to a minister of the gospel
who was ea.rnest in sa.ving the _youth of IUs
pastoral charge from the dangers of the ball.
room. 'PIle letter was as follows:
Sir-Obey the voice of Holy Scripture. Take
the follo;wing for your text and contradict it.
Show in what consi<;ts the eyjl of that innocent
am.usemen t of dancing. Eeci. 3:! 4. ".A. time to.
weep, and a time to laugh i a time to mourn, and
a time to dance."
Instead o,f preaching from the passage namedt
t,he minister s.ecUrg.g~ &, f¥l~r audience by
publishing his reply. In it he said he . had
Gonsulted every passage "in the Bible which re­ferred
to dancing. The most imp0i'tant of them
he quoted, and then concluded thus:
. F'roID the preceding quotations, it .will suf­ficiently
appear-I. That dancing was a. relig­ious
act,' both Q.f the true and also of idol
. worship. ,2. That it was practised exclusively
on' joyful occasions, such as national festivals or
great victories. 3: That it. was performed by
maidens only. 4. T:hat,i~ was performed usually
jn the daytime, in the oJ?ell air, in hig1hways~
fie] ds, or groves. '5.~ That :men whO; pe:r;":ertcd
dancing from a sacred use to .purposes of amuse-­ment,
,,,ere c1eemed infamous. 6. That no in­stances
of d·aneing are found upon record in
the Bible, in which the two sexes united in the
exercise, either as. an act of worship or amns~­roent.
7. That ther·e is no iIlstance npon record
of social dancing for .amusement, except tha.t
of the "vain fello"\vs," devoid of sbame; of the
irreljgious families d~scribed by Job: which pro-­d11ced
increased iprp~~ty, a~~ :er;d€'d in destrnc­tior..;
and of the ,daughter of I}erodias, w.~ich
terminated in the murder of John the. Baptist.
A. S. Dyer iTt Purity Advooat~.