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4 EX-PRESIDENT E It is almost a wast the "new religion"' wh prophesied and which true situation and of vigorously exploiting, probably got his idea books," as the Bible shelf. But a word or And tirst ot all, tiie far from new. Men 1 thousand years to pro and they have failed i as this new effort on denomination in parti' sessed of every facility nal aggression, for i ward propagandism, sound system, with B and center, has been induce men to accept distinguished ex-presi old doctrines of his cu further along today t while those whose doc ergetically opposed 1 of it over and over ag And next, the so-ca creed or dogma ! An< and thinker goes on t what principles will g' what extended, and 1: the dogmas, of the "n creed! Chief among this creedless religion all "supernatural" elen Another will be no pri ity. Another will be good-will as its discip or six articles in this c to know enough of t know that it can not without belief, that rz arable. The very agn ing because he knows lief and it is his cree doubts everything, be declares the fundamen one belief. Men will they cease to have m Dr. Eliot's substitu is folly when the lif thrown upon it. Cc from some inward co iousness. Paul made people were too conte city was wholly given without supernatural!! inates faith, which ma secration, zeal, and o mere development, an generation, which is 1 cai in all the realm ot it calls for the intervei THE PRESBYTEJRIA V LIOT'S "NEW RELIGION " :e of time and space to discuss ich Ex-president Eliot has lately many who are ignorant of the the history of religion are so The distinguished ex-president is out of his "five-foot shelf of is not included in that five-foot two may be added, j "new religion" of Dr. Eliot is lave been trying for nearly two pagate exactly what he outlines, in all the ages as ignominiouslv the same old line will fail. One cular, noted for its culture, posy for internal growth and cxternward strengthening and outexcept the one clement of a oston and Harvard for its heart trying for seventy-five years to the fundamental points of the dent, who is but revamping the It. Rut that denomination is no :han it was seven decades ago. rtrines it has historically and enlave multiplied right alongside ain. lied "new religion" will have no d then the distinguished scholar 0 define what it will believe and uide it! He gives a creed, sometys down the principles, that is, ew religion" which will have no the articles of the creed which 1 will have will he one denying aents. Another will be no ritual, ests. Another will be no authorthe development of co-operative line. So here we have some five :reedless creed! Dr. Eliot ought he laws of the human mind to exist and perform its functions itionality and a creed are insepostic who says he believes notli; nothing expresses that one held. The universal skeptic, who :lieves that he doubts, and thus tal nature to him of at least that not cease to have a creed until inds. tion of "culture" for conviction r It f nf J ? ,ii>. vApvniiiLc wi umiui^' IS ilture and intellectuality, apart nvictions, only tend to supercilfew converts in Athens. The nt with their learning. And the to idolatry! And a real religion sm means a religion which elimkes of soul, spirit, life, love, conf everv erace of the new life a evolution. The principle of rethe most profoundly philosophitruth, is to be rejected, because ntion of the supernatural! t lN of the south. The long and short of it is propagandist and prophet of and according to the tenets that faith is simply at best b ?. : ; i. _ ij luiiciiuMii wmcn ne wouiu su principles, in their last analys those of Ingersoll, only that blasphemy did more to shoe] cious but not less dangerous ex-president. ADVANCED From published accounts < Pan-Presbyterian Council ret we learn that "Probably the sion of 'advanced views' was Moffatt, of Washington and his sermon before the Counc ''If the Church should go ha its theology, as some have sn ter fitted for the needs, of tlv century." If this statement has a de the teachings of the aposth which they believed to be t thoritative, are not a suffici rule of faith and life, for th and that truth which has be since the days of the apostle (piate system of sound docti right living. The speaker coi "Let our scholars seek to of the books of the Bible and composition, even if their cor verse all our traditional bel continue to use their conten purposes as before. System? olutionized, if some of these vail, for the Bible can then he only as other literature is ap| tnres can still be used effecti hears on life." , Here we are assured that so prevail and so revolutions can he employed hv theolog ture is appealed to. As we un< ident, the teachings of the only as an imperfect worki liable to be seriously impaire ern scholarship, even to the ing abandoned as a sufficient faith and practice. The mine working his mine while the a ysis of samples of the miner; termine whether ore exists whether indeed the desired only what was supposed at f It may he remembered thai Dr. Moffett read an interes garded as both able and cor he was a member of the joint the Articles of Agreement foi Churches, and later was pror of the Des Moines Assembly absorption of a portion of th 1 August 18, 1909. that Dr. Eliot is simply a his own Unitarian belief and logical conclusion of ut a preacher of humanibstitute for religion. His is, hardly rise higher than the latter's ridicule and Ii the mind than the spe? notions of the Harvard VIEWS. }f the proceedings of the rentlv held in New York, most outspoken expresthat of President Jas. D. 1 Jefferson College." In il he is quoted as saying, ck to Apostolic times for iggested, it would be bete first than the twentieth finite meaning, it is that ;s and of the Scriptures rue and accepted as anient, if indeed a reliable e age in. which we live; en discovered or evolved rs, is essential to an aderine and consequently to ritinued: determine the authorship the circumstances of their iclusions be such as to reiefs; meanwhile we may ts for religious or ethical mc ineoiogy may Dc revcritical contentions preemployed by theologians pealed to. Rut the Scripvely for the doctrine that critical contentions may r.e theology that the Bible ians only as other literaierstand this college presPible are to be regarded ng hypothesis, which is d by the advance of modextent of the Bible's beand authoritative rule of r may prudently continue ssayer is making an analil deposit, in order to de in paying quantities, or mineral exists at all, or irst to be a by-product. : at the Liverpool Council ting paper that was reiservative. Subsequently committee which adopted " tllf1 Cfllllicil rvf Dof/->rmn/1 ninent in the proceedings which consummated the e Cumberland Church.