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the things wherein we differ, but our half-heartedness in the religious affirmations that we share. At the foundation of our fellowship and at the heart of the creeds lies the confession of Jesus Christ as Lord, the recognition in Him of very God. Are we prepared to accept in our lives the implications of that confession, to permit Christ to be the Lord of our appetites, the Lord of our relations with our neighbors, the Lord of our family life, of our industrial and business relations? Every man who enters into the religious meaning of the ancient creeds stands upon his feet and joins hands with the great body of Christians throughout the centuries, and says that he believes in God; that he believes in a Righteous Will working in creation; he believes in Christ, the Son of God, the very life and love of God in terms of our human life; he believes in the Spirit, God working within us to draw us to Himself; he believes in the church, the fellowship of those who draw their strength from Christ; he believes in forgiveness, the undiscouraged love of God for us which demands an undiscouraged love for one another; he believes in our victory over death and the life of ever-deepening fellowship. We appeal to our chief pastors to summon us again and again to this faith and to hold us to a strict account in our sworn loyalty to it.

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(Signed) 1 HENRY Bradford Washburn,

MAX KELLNER,

SAMUEL MCCOMB,

WILLIAM H. P. HATCH,

JAMES ARTHUR MULLER,

JAMES THAYER ADDISON,

NORMAN BURDETT NASH,
ANGUS DUN.

1 Edward Staples Brown, the only member of the faculty who did not

sign, was teaching in St. John's University, Shanghai, China.

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INDEX

150

Apostles' Creed, text, 17; author-
ship, 17 note, 64; to be inter-
preted by Nicene Creed, 367. See
Creed
Archaeology

142

vs. higher criticism,

Arnold, Matthew, 41
Articles, Thirty-nine, not the creed

of Episcopal church, 381
Atonement, statements of creeds, 20,
21, 23, 26; Bryan's discussion, 36
Augustine on science and the Bible,
276

Augustus, story of his birth, 106
Authority, necessary in science, not
religion, 215; true authority of
Bible, 208

Bacon, B. W., 328

Baptists, 13, 21, 411

Barnes, Canon, 256, 296
Barton, W. E., 395
Bateson, 235, 253, 280
Bergson, 247.

Bible, two views summarized, 5-8;
statements of creeds, 18, 21, 22,
25, 26; Reformers and the Bible,
5; inerrancy and verbal inspira-
tion, 5; Bible never equalled, 32;
objector must himself be infal
lible, 33; modern uncertainty,
115; infallible Bible vs. infallible
church, 116; Bible claims to be
authoritative, 116; church fathers
so held, 117; three necessary ele-
ments of a doctrine of Scripture,
122; structure, 122; supernatural
revelation, 127; inspired book,
129, 153; contradictions ex-
plained, 178; both views find
support in Bible, 72; modernist
view of inspiration, 191; modern-
ist view of authority, 195, 208;
Bible does not claim inerrancy,
407; Luther's free attitude, 197;
not intended for oracle, 212; val-
uable but not perfect, 214; not
to be followed in everything be-
'cause not self-consistent, 197-
200; Clarke's change of view,
197; religious progress
within

Bible, 201; mistaken ascriptions
of authorship, 204; inconsisten-
cies, 204; untrue statements in
Bible, 205; gross ideas, 206;
gains from new view, 220-3, 225-
7; Bible not an authority on
science, 276, 284, 292; primitive
science in Bible, 285; Bryan un-
just to Bible, 286; Westminster
Confession does not declare it
inerrant, 407.

See Inerrancy, Inspiration, In-
fallibility

Bishops' letter, 366, 383, 385, 410,
426, 440

Bishop, George H., 157
Brookes, 163, 171

Brooks, Phillips, 303, 390, 413
Buckle's application of evolution a
failure, 139

Buddha, stories of his birth, 320
Burrell, D. J., 157, 177
Burroughs, John, 273

Bryan, 32, 58, 250, 263, 272, 282,
290, 363

Calvin, 53, 403
Canon, 113

Cathedral-building, a sin, 107; will
not be hindered by bishop's stand
for orthodoxy, 380

Catholic movement in Church of
England delays reconciliation with
science, 30I

Catholicism, Protestantism must not
imitate, 43
Chalmers, 154, 376
Channing, 393
Cheyne, 141, 142
Chiliasm, 365_
Christ. See Jesus

Christianity, static or growing? 30,
41; affected by secular environ-
ment, 296; essential character re-
mains permanent, 298; Christian-
ity and liberalism are different re-
ligions, 361, 366

Church, modernists seek a compre-
hensive, 70, ΙΟΙ; evangelical
church based on a particular
message, 362; inclusiveness justi-
fied by Acts 15, 395; inclusive or
exclusive? 395, 396

Church of England, 54, 301, 412
Clark, Bishop, 413
Clarke, W. N., 189, 197
Clay, 143

Con,1. S., 395

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Conklin, E. G., 263

Conservatism,

not identical

with

I, 69. See

fundamentalism,
Orthodoxy
Controversy, possible good results,
100; delays work of church, 103;
causes anxiety among simple
Christians, 103; distracts attention
from social tasks, 106-9
Copernicus, 3, 5, 260, 270, 285
Crapsey, A. S., 105

Creed, Apostles', 11, 17, 64; Ni-

cene, 11, 17; of Baptist Bible
Union, 21; of a college, 25;
Kansas City creed, 26; what bond
instead of common creed? 353;
creeds state facts, not explana-
tions, 367; Apostles' Creed to be
interpreted by Nicene, 367;
clergy may not deny items
creed, 368, 383; permissive use
proposed, 445; a disturbing pro-
posal, 389; earlier creed cannot
interpret later, 413; value

in

of

literal belief admitted, 440; con-
sistent enforcement of standard of
belief and worship undesirable,
442; church made and may mod-
ify creeds, 444

Criticism, literary, of the Bible,
now current is largely mistaken,
118; deprives Bible of most of
its value, 119; fallacies listed,
131-52; definition of "higher
criticism," 131; its "assured re-
sults," 133-6; disregards testi-
mony of archaeology, 142; pro-
found effects admitted by a lib-
eral, 208

D, supposed Old Testament writer,
133

Darwin, 3, 36, 234, 250-61, 265,
272, 283, 290. See Darwinism,
Evolution

Darwinism, modified, 234; natural
selection, 251; sexual selection,
251; a guess, 251; not supported
by Bible, 252; Bateson's admis-
sion, 253, 280; Darwinism deals
in absurdities,
253; destroys
faith in Bible, 255; led Darwin
to agnosticism, 257; another ex-
planation of this, 290; Darwinism
and Biblical criticism, 138. See
Darwin, Evolution

David as psalm-writer, 135, 145-8,

204

Dawson, Sir William, 239
Denomination, what right has one
to exist? 47

Descent of man. See Darwin, Dar-
winism, Evolution

Deuteronomy, written by Moses?

133, 149

De Vries, 266
De Witt, 159

Dickinson, Jonathan, 401

Discrepancies in Bible explained,
178; trifling discrepancies do not
destroy reliability, 187

Doctrines of New Testament valid.
for all time, 31

Documentary hypothesis, 132
Drake, Durant, 203, 344
Driver, 137, 145, 203
Drummond, 239, 290
Du Bose, 389

E, supposed Old Testament writer,
133

Eddy, Sherwood, 292
Eichhorn, 132

Emmett, C. W., 54

Episcopal Church, 11, 13, 105, 366,
379, 410, 426, 439

Episcopal Theological School, 432,

439
Erasmus, 41
Etheridge, 233

Evolution, statements of creeds, 22,
256; two views summarized, 8;
effect on theology, 3; as applied
to literature and religion a fal-
lacy, 137; Need of careful defini-
tion, 232; no change of species
proved, 233, 252; false uses of
term "evolution," 234; evolution
and atheistic philosophy, 237; op-
posed by scientists, 239; theistic
Genesis
evolution, 239;
agrees
with science 242ff; evolution
cannot explain mind, language,
conscience, 245; the ape theory,
246; evolution by leaps, 247;
evolution leads to loss of faith,
255-9; puts God far away, 256; let
unbelieving evolutionists maintain
their own schools, 260; all nat-
uralists believe in evolution, 273;
Bible does not teach science, 276,
284; origin of species solved, 277;
Bateson's words an admission of
failure? 235, 253, 280; evolution
does not degrade man, 287; does
not necessarily involve material-
ism, 288; does not put God far
away, 289; McCosh combined evo-
lution and
religion, 274;
Kingsley, 274;
Drummond,

290
Ezra. See Law-code

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Faith as adventure, 94; as per-
sonal conviction, 95; distinguished
from forms of expression, 367

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Galileo, 260, 270, 285
Gaussen, 167

God, controversy issues from differ-
ing views of, 67-82, due to dif-
ferent underlying imagery, 71;
fundamentalism thinks in terms
of monarchy, 76, modernism
cannot do so, 79; evolution puts
God far away, 256; this denied,
289; God as mind and heart of
universe rather than judge, 97;
belief in God among educated,
258

Gordon, A. J., 162, 170

Gordon, George A., 308, 330, 345
Gospels, probably not by supposed
authors, 204
Grant, 411

Gray, James M., 153, 311

Green, 136

Haeckel, 239, 243

Hammurabi,

144

Harkness, 373,

Heaton, Lee W., 424, 433

Henslow, 234

Hexateuch, 133, 134. See Penta-

teuch

Hillis, N. D., 290

Historical method, meaning and ef-
fects, 3

Hodge, 154, 178, 371

Honesty of modernists, 361, 362,

363, 368, 393, 410, 421, 427, 429

Howland, M. S., 30

Hume, David, 307
Huxley, 232, 236, 275

Hymns a uniting force because not
theological, 99

as-

Inerrancy of Bible asserted, 21,
25, 187; defined, 187; not
serted in Bible or Westminster
Confession, 407. See Bible, In-
fallibility, Inspiration
Infallibility of Bible

VS.

church,
116; infallible authority in Prot-
estanism illogical, 214. See In-
errancy, Inspiration, Bible
Ingersoll, modern view of Bible
makes his attack obsolete, 6
Inscription over cross, four forms,
180
Inspiration of Bible, 129, 153;
Bible's test of, 130; Gray's defi
nition, 154-8; extends to words,
158; proof of inspiration, 162;
objections answered, 177; Bible
claims
170;
verbal inspiration,
verbal inspiration not necessary,
209; claimed only for original
record, 156. See Bible, Infal-
libility, Inerrancy
Interpretation,

must not become
denial, 361, 386; non-literal in-
terpretation of part of creed al-
ready permitted, 417, 442; new
interpretations become permissible
by precedent, 429; what liberals
mean by "interpretation," 445
Intolerance, 362, 363

J, supposed Old Testament writer,

133

Jefferson, C. E., 209, 210
Jesus, creed declares Him to be

God, 369, 382; fundamentalism
approaches Him by dogmatic
route, modernism as fact in his-
tory, 82; modernism would loos-
en fact from interpretation, 84;
modern discovery of historical
Jesus a gain, 86; God, not Christ,
is problem, Christ explains God,
89; religion of Jesus vs. religion
about Jesus, 4, 94; we must fol-
low Jesus rather than Paul, 90;
Fosdick on deity of Christ, 349;
His religion a way of life, not a
philosophy, 95; cites Jonah, 211;
uses Old Testament as inspired,
130

Johnson, Franklin, 131, 179

Jonah, did Jesus cite as history?

211

Jordan, 138, 143
Jot or tittle, 175

Keim's theory of resurrection, 341
Kelvin, 240, 265

Kent, C. F., 113, 144

King of the Jews, four forms of
inscription, 180

Kingsley, Charles, 274
Kuenen, 134

Lake, Kirsopp, 13, 346
La Place, 73

Law-code of Old Testament, criti-
cal theory, 134; post-exilian origin
impossible, 125, 150

Lawrence, Bishop, 421, 424, 433
Laws of nature and miracle-stories,
3, 307, 308

Leuba's questionnaire, 258
Levites, 125, 126

Liberals, many moderate ones not
modernists, I

Literalists, real issue is between
them and liberals, 102
Lodge, Sir Oliver, 240, 244
Luther, 53, 197, 270, 285
Lyell, Sir Charles, 269, 275

Macalister's excavations, 144
Macartney, C. E., 29, 187
Macaulay, 136

MacCallum, J. A., 29

Machen, 361, 362

Manning, Bishop, 106, 353, 379

Mary. See Virgin birth

Maurice, F. D., 274, 412

McComb, Samuel, 30

McCosh, 239, 274

McGiffert, A. C., 208
McKim, 412

Mendel, 278

Merrill, W. P., 43, 59, 397

Mill, J. S., urged liberals to remain
in church, 430

Millennium, 1; both views in Bible,
198

Miller, Dickinson S., 426
Millikan, R. A., 294

Miracles, Protestant may believe in,

but must not make a test, 51;
prejudice against them a fallacy,
140, 387, 389; miracles could
prove nothing, 213; Hume
miracles, 307; Rashdall's similar
view, 308; not essential to Chris-
tianity, 308

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Miracles of Christ, statements of
creeds, 21; logically second of
"five points," 39 miracle-stories,
true or not, indicate impression
made by Jesus, 308
Modern Churchmen's Union, 55,

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134

Parks, Leighton, 106, 410, 422
Pastoral Letter, 366, 383, 385, 410,
426, 440
Patton, 153

Paul, 6, 64, 120, 325, 337; we must
follow Jesus rather than Paul,
90; his religion different from
that of Jesus, 90

Pearson, Bishop, 315

Pentateuch, 133; analysis a fallacy,
136; written long after Moses,
204; Colenso, 412

Postmillennialism and social better-
ment, 2

Potter, Bishop, 384

Prayer-book, literary criticism can-
not analyze, 136

Premillennarians, term defined, 1;
not all fundamentalists are pre-
millennarians, 1; premillennialism
and social betterment, 2; Prince-
ton Seminary professor thinks it
not a deadly error, 365; present
issue not over premillennialism,
366
Presbyterians, 11, 13, 18, 21, 32,
187, 365, 369, 397, 411; Pres-
byterian church based on com-
promise, 400; relation of church
to Westminster Confession, 369-
79, 401, 406; early testimony to
its catholicity, 402; affirmation
on unity and liberty, 404; five
points of doctrine, 21; formation
of Presbyterian Church in
U.S.A., 406; reunion of two
parts, and with Cumberland
Church, 406; doctrinal declara-
tions of General Assembly not
binding, 407; Assembly hasty in
condemning Fosdick, 408; affir-

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