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6 A NEW CHAPTER IN C The recent licensure of cer eral" persuasion by the Pres to be regarded as a matter o terest. The widespread atter especially in the secular and : the apparent surrender on the of all that is distinctive of ' much that is vital to Christia ticular event as a waymark ii certain sections of the Churc thinking. We are not disposed to disc of this proceeding and its sq quote freely from what we re ical authority among publicat the source and integrity of tl In the May number of "'J Teacher, the proceedings of t cussed under the title: "Is it Presbyterianism ?" The nice cussed in that article was the i young men, graduates of Unic presented themselves for exa The examinations were not si but an influential minority in insisted that they should be. acterizes this as "a start pare the way for the disintegr; Church by bringing about a 1 not of Presbyterianism only, lical Faith." It further says bytery in declining to license taken because of their consum important points, their muddh a false philosophy on many o nial of pretty much everythir Church?and indeed, every bt Church?regards as essential Further: "In the course c three candidates denied subs sential in the Presbyterian s> "The Bible Student" quotes thi tion as stated by "a theologically lowing doctrines seem to have 1 denied: (1) The infallibility of the Sci and practice. (2) The Essential Deity of the consequent headship over the chi (3) The Virgin Birth of our L< ception. (4) The Vicarious, Expiatory ment of our Lord. (5) The resurrection of the L< (6) The efficacy of the all-pr< in Prayer?in fact, all phases of T. ficial, the reconciling and the int< (7) The fall of man. (8) The Bible doctrine of Sin, (9) Salvation by grace throut Christ as an Atoning Saviour. (10) Regeneration by the pow (11) Miracles as the direct n tlon of the supernatural. "In fact their examination brout repudiation of all that is vital ai and their creed?so far as they ci THE PRESBYTERI/ HURCH HISTORY. tain young men of "libbytery of New York is f more than passing inltion which it attracted, 5emi-religious press, and i part of the Presbytery, church doctrine, and of n faith, stamps this pari the rapid departure of h toward religious free:uss at length the merits jnificance, but rather to gard as the highest critions of this country, on le Christian faith. ?he Bible Student" and lie Presbytery were disthe Entering-Wedge in ting of Presbytery disnitial one at which three >n Seminary, New York, miination and licensure, istained at this meeting, the Presbytery earnestly The Bible Student" charling attempt to preitinn of tllP PrncKvtPriln epudiation of essentials, but of Evangelical Bibthat the action of Presthese young men "was imate ignorance on some :d condition by reason of ither points, and the deig that the Presbyterian anch of the Evangelical to Christianity." )f that examination the tantially everything esrstem." s summary of the examinatrained layman." The folbeen explicitly or impliclty Iptures as the ruie of faith Lord Jesus Christ, and His arch. on/1 f K a *v>*??? ? "?* U uuu cue Ulliauuiuuo LUIl* and Propitiatory Atonejrd from the grave, availing Name of our Lord [is priestly office?the sacriircessory. ;h faith in the Lord Jesus er of the Holy Ghost aanifestatlon and interposi;ht out a general denial and nd peculiar to Christianity, an be said to have had any Y r OF THE SOUTH. ?resolved itself into cold an<5 rianism. We read further that thes stantially with reports printt papers. It would have been needles the proceedings of this meet New York and the comment come of a subsequent one w just and wise action of the f that the comment of the dai such cases, was severely cri first meeting of Presbytery c young men and those who fa the second meeting "The Bi "At a meeting of the Presbyt men were re-examined, after th< pointed to advise with them, a tained" by a majority of the Pr< denee that there had been any si tent of their knowledge, or any as unscriptural or anti-scriptural statements of their written pap main a Ritschlian, naturalistic, s< Evangelical Christianity. Their denials both of the fac Bible, especially in its teachings and Resurrection of Christ, we Their answers throughout shows sentials, and a critical and sk< Scriptures, quite antagonistic to of the Presbyterian Church, and ministry in it. There is merely room here to i ing?not to say unaccountable ai The following comment 01 first meeting is significant ii that action at the second mec bytery) voted to sustain the them, the next step would 1 to perjure themselves public tion the Moderator should pi two ordination questions: " T. Do you believe the S New Testaments to be the V fallible rule of faith and pra " '2. Do you sincerely rec fession of Faith of the Chun tern of doctrine taught in th It is further affirmed ver) such a course "would be fata selves. It would push perji who at the same time have no No Christian Church on eai ministers." "The Presbyte law of self-preservation as common honesty." "To an facts of history it is plain a: these young men?though n f vki v ivn ui inw i>CW l I1CU1' fashioned infidelity of Pain< Howard Osgood, of Roche years ago, that all its denial can be duplicated verbatim worst enemies of Christianity The last number of "The B article entitled, "The New Yc its Defection," from which \ In our June Issue (p. 446) it w August 4, 1909. 1 Spiritually lifeless Unitae summaries "agree sub;d" in leading New York ;s to quote at length from :ing of the Presbytery of thereon, but for the outhich totally reversed the ormer. It is to be noted ily papers, as is usual in hral nf tliA o ir?r> nf md sympathetic with the vored their licensure. Of ble Student" says: ery on June 14 tnese young e report of a committee apnd their examinations "susisbytery. There was no eviubstantial addition to the exradical change in its quality 1. They still adhered to the era, which embodied in the icialistic scheme, rather than ts and the authority of the i concerning the incarnation re explicit and unequivocal. ;d a haziness of view on esjptical attitude towards the the genius and constitution entirely unfitting for a loyal jay that such acuon Is amazad indefensible. 11 the action taken at the i view of the reversal of iting. "Had it (the Presexamination and license lave been to invite them ly when at their ordinaropound to them the first criptures of the Old and Vord of God, the only inctice ?' eive and adopt the Condi, as containing the syse Holy Scriptures?'" r justly that to advocate 1 to the young men thcmired men into the pulpit, i message for a lost world, th has any use for such ry was stopped by the well as the principles of y one familiar with the s day that the denials of ow known as the "\fnH 3gy,'?are simply the olde and Voltaire. Prof. :ster Seminary, showed, s, when definitely stated, froiy the works of these ible Student" contains an >rk Presbytery Completes ve quote: as stated that, at its session