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THE DENVE
By Rev
At the recent
the Presbyterian
H. Roberts, as
submitted a repc
the union betwi
Presbyterian Chi
chiefly with the
adopted by the A
bly re-affirmed t
and 1906, declarii
Confessions of tl
ment as to warra
Probably one
the attention of
ance will be the
doctrine, (i). In
it is asserted tha
than the Confess
of our Church in
third section it is
in neither Churc
THE PRESBYTEF
Contributed
THE PASSER-BY.
, all ye that pass by,
u, that thousands of souls
kness and longing for light?
u, that a helping hand
iever lor uoa ana rignt?
i?your Lord's command,
ves while the fields are white?
The harvest is night!
, all ye thai pass by ?
that the Savior died?
to work in His fields today?
blood from His wounded side
n, every stain away?
tral! You must decide!. *
e plow? Oh! turn not away,
>rt and the moments fly,
i, all ye that pass by?
i, all ye that have washed
as shed on Calvary?
i, all ye rich of earth,
ease amid luxury?
l, ye that idly wait
ranes and the day grows gray?
ind the orphan's cry;
l, all ye that pass by?
u, that the time draws near?
he Harvest has tarried long?
i that the growing wheat
ares so thick and strong?
forth, that the Master comes,
i Him with a glad new song?
will tc your cry,
ting and pass you by,
?John Richard Moreland.
R ASSEMBLY DELIVERANCE.
. Wm. R. Henderson, D. D.
meeting of the General Assembly ?
Church, U. S. A., in Denver, Dr. Wr
chairman of the Union Committe
>rt covering some points involved i
sen the Northern and Cumberlar
Tl. ? * -
im-m-a. x iic icpun, or paper, ciea
doctrinal issue. This report w;
.ssembly, and in so doing the Asser
he action of the Assemblies of 19c
lg that the systems of doctrine of tl
le two Churches were in such agre
nt their union.
of the first points which will arre
the reader of this Assembly delive
statements regarding the system 1
the second section of this deliveran*
t "It is the system of doctrine rath
ion of Faith that binds the membe
to unity in doctrinal beliefs." In tl
said that, inasmuch as the "Assemb
h before the union" determined "tl
UAN OF THE SOUTH.
? exact contents of the system <
the contents of the system o
_ been, in both Churches, and s
Church, not fully stated and
doctrinal content of the phras
is a theological terra incognita
it be assprtpH ttiot "it ic ! >* > o.
than the Confession of Faith 1
of our Church into unity in doc
words, the Assembly has not
doctrines are involved in the
nevertheless, whatever they r
members of our Church in
beliefs"!
(2). Is it true that the dc
phrase, "system of doctrine," i
tainty which the Denver deliv
with all respect to*the disting
committee which formulated 1
begging the question to assert
this deliverance, that there
declaration or action of the G
mining the doctrinal system i
Assembly deliverance has
necessary, inasmuch as the d
phrase has been regarded as si
a very early period in the hist
Church in America. As Dr. C
phrase has "a fixed, historical
further says: "The objection th
what doctrines belong to the s
and therefore if the obligation
tion of the system, it can not b
are received and what are
unfounded. If the question, '
doctrine taught by the Re
submitted to a hundred Roi
Lutherans, to a hundred men
England, or to a hundred see
panflid tlipv ur/Mtld ill
V..V, W..v^ nvuiu nil ^IVt J^l ^
There is not the slightest d<
disinterested scholars as to \
what do not, belong to the i
3f Dr. Roberts himself was noi
n. condition of mind upon this
e, finds himself by reason of the
in "reunited Church" in Tennes:
id only a few years before he enl
Is land union negotiations, he pi
as entitled "The Presbyterian !
n- clearly defines the distinctive <
H Presbyterian Church. On paj
ie "The third element in the Cc
e- tively Calvinistic, and consists
are ordinarily called the five
st These five points are: (1) Unc<
i- conumonai predestination ; (2
of particular redemption as oppc
ce ment; (3) total as opposed t<
er efficacious as opposed to uncei
rs opposed to partial perseveranc
le the differentiating features of t
ly terian doctrine, the .points wl
le from other evangelical Christie
Mil
July 7, 1909.
of doctrine." "therefore,
f doctrine always have
ire now in the reunited
adjudicated." If the
e, "system of doctrine,"
, upon what ground can
'stem of doctrine rather
that binds the members
:trinal beliefs"? In other
officially declared what
"system of doctrine";
nay be, they bind "the
ito unity in doctrinal
jctrinal content of the
s involved in the uncererance
suggests? It is,
uished chairman of the
this deliverance, simply
, as is virtually done in
has never been any
eneral Assembly deterof
the Confession. No
ever been considered
octrinal content of the
ibstantially settled from
ory of the Presbyterian
Charles Hodge says, this
meaning." Dr. Hodge
at it is an open question
ystem and what do not,
be limited to the aHnn
e known what doctrines
: rejected, is entirely
What is the system of
formed Churches' ? be
manists, to a hundred
ibers of the Church of
ptics, if intelligent hnd
icisely the same answer.
5ubt or dispute among
vhat doctrines do, and
aith of the Reformed."
t always in the foggy
point in which he now
critical situation of the
see and Missouri. For
:ered upon the Cumberlblished
a little treatise
System," in which he
doctrinal position of the
ges 16 and 17 he says:
>ntession is the distinci
of the doctrines which
points of Calvinism,
onditional as opposed to
) definite atonement or
ised to indefinite atone)
partial depravity; (4)
rtain grace; (5) final as
e. These five points are
he Reformed or Presbylich
separate Calvinists
ins."
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