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TIIE BEST ACT OF OI K LAST
ASSEMBLY.
We call one of the Assembly's acts
the best because it offers the most fens
| ible and satisfactory solution of a quesj
tion that has long vexed and injured
| our church. Section 111 in Chapter X
I of our Confession does not logically
| raise the question of the universal salvation
of infants. It only undertakes
to state how infants and other incapables
are saved. But the seeming ambiguity
of the language, the real difficulty
experienced by our ablest men in
explaining it to the satisfaction of the
average mind and the alacrity of Epliriam
and the other tribes of Israel in
seizing it to use as a stone to cast at
Judah have resulted in sorely wounding
and retarding our cause. We are a
great Church, but how much greater
might have we become is the question.
And this clause in the confession has
been one of the greatest hindrances.
In proof of this assertion, many instances
could be cited like the following:
In one case to a good man. about to
unite with our church, some one carried
this clause of our confession with the
pointed question: "Can you get your
roiispnt t r\ iinitp with n phurch thnt
teaches infant damnation ?" And the
prospective member landed in other
ranks. In another case a young but already
prominent minister in my state
led "an intelligent gentleman and his
wife to Christ," and they said to him:
"Doctor, we would rather join your
church but we have two little graves
out in the cemetery and we cannot secure
our own consent to belong to a
church which seems to teach that we
may not meet them in heaven." He
explained that it dees not teach infant
damnation. But they shook their heads
kindly and went on. Maybe in spite
of his ability, the words of Byron came
to them: "Please Sir, explain your explanation."
The remedy propounded by the Assembly
is very simple. Tt consists in
the elision of but one word. The confession.
if so amended, will then read:
"Infants, dying in infancy, are regen
erated and saved by Christ through
the Spirit, who worketh when and where
and how he pleaseth. So also are all
other elect persons, who are incapable
of being outwardly called by the ministry
of the word."
The advantages of this slight verbal
' ango may be seen by the following reflections:
The Integrity of Calvinistic Doctrine Is
Preserved.
(1) Though the word "elect" is dropped
in the first sentence, their salvation
is ascribed to election in the next sentence
where it speaks of "other elect
persons." So the doctrine of election
would not be eliminated. It would still
agree with the opening words of the
chapter when it speaks of "those whom
Ood has predestinated unto life."
(2) "They are saved by Christ,"
which shows that they are sinners and
in need of redemption precisely as
other persons.
(Thou orn ^PftffOiiOPo iotl nnfl onrorl
by (""hidst through the Spirit." which
logically teaches their birth in sin and
their consequent need of the birth from
above.
(4) As they are described as saved
"through the Spirit, who worheth when
and where and how he pleaseth," it is
clear that salvation comes to them
alone from sovereign and gracious love.
Tn the light of the fact which hecomes
of this assertion: "Tf you ground the
election of dying infants upon the fact
that they die in Infancy, you have
grounded it upon a thing in the creature
AN OF THE SOOTH
and not upon "the free grace and love
of God?" It is expressly grounded upon
the sovereign love of Gcd because He
"worketh when and where and how he
pleaseth."
(5) The whole analysis demonstrates
that salvation is regarded as coming to
infants, not from any Pelagian, of their
native innocence, nor Anninian theory
of divine obligation to save such as can
not hear and understand the Gospel but
pureiy iroin a wine ana soui-giaciaening
view of electing grace. There is absolutely
no basis for the charges that "the
new paragraph is Arminian and so a
broach into the Calvinistic system of
the Confession." . . ."the word elect
or its equivalent in that place is essential
to the unity of chapter X" . . . "The
effect of the proposed amendment is to
thrust, into this chapter another class
from which the idea of election, as the
principal of classification is entirely
excluded." Suppose a multi-millionaire
should publish in a New York paper:
"Children incapable of paying their own
way are invited to go with me on a free
excursion to the country tomorrow. So
itiso are ail otner rxew rorKers. wlio
cannot pay their own way." Would
it be necessary to place the word New
York before the word children? Tt
would be a needless repetition so to do.
"The idea of election as the principle of
classification" is that they shall be "New
Yorkers" and the phrase "other New
Yorkers" clearly involves that the children
shall be also of that city.
The Mhle Sustains This Amendment.
An eminent pastor, begging the question
at this point as at some others, asserts
that the framers of the Confession
would admit nothing for which they had
not "express words of Scripture." On
the contrary their own statement is that
the religious beliefs of men be only
what is "either expressly set down in
Scripture or by good and necessary consequence
may be deduced from Scripture."
Chapter 1 Section VI. He has
also recently declared that "the Westminster
Assembly in making the Confes"
sion were compelled by the British Parliament
to admit only those things for
hich proof texts could be given." This
assertion is contradicted by the above
quotations of the two great rules in
creed making. And a score of quotations
could he given to show that, as a
matter of fact, Parliament did not so
"compel" them. Where is the "express
word" for saying "the Pope of Pome" is
an antichrist, as they do in chapter
XXV, section V? That pompous dignitary
is certainly not mentioned in the
Bible. Their words could have only
been deduced "by good and necessary
consequence." Where is "the express
word" for saying the church could show
her hand in politics only "by way of
humble petition?" There is no scriptural
warrant for conceiving the church
as a poor Lazarus begging for crumbs
at Caesar's gate. No. The church was
then in bondage to Caesar and that assembly
was there teaching what could
not even he said to come "by good and
necessary consequence from Scrinhire."
He further says: "This amendment
with startlling boldness dares ... to
spenlt where God Is silent." T^et us see.
(1) Tn II Sam. 12: 23 David, while
comforting himself, says of his dead
child: "T shall f?o to him hut he shall
not return to me." "He found his comTHE
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fort in the hope of meeting it in heaven.
And yet that child was begotten in
adultery and made legitimate by David's
marriage to his mother after the murder
of her husband and before its birth! Let
us not quail before this plain statement
of facts in Scripture. On it hangs the
argument in its full clearness and force.
David had repented of and confessed his
awful sins and had been restored to
humble peace with God and now was living
in the hope of meeting it in heaven.
Now, if such a child, born under these
conditions, and dying at the age of seven
days, was saved, can we conceive of
any "Infant dying in infancy" as born
under circumstances such as would preclude
our hope of its salvation?
(2) And three of the gospels unite in
telling us that, "little children" or "infants"
being under consideration, Jesus
declared tliat "of such is the Kingdom
of Clod." So we are warranted in believing
that the same grace that filled
John the Baptist "from his mother's
womb" is sovereignly and lovingly extended
to all who die in infancy.
Other Commendatory Features of The
Amendment.
(1) It involves a slighter verbal
change in the Confession than any other
amendment that has yet been submitted
to the church. Thus it is rendered less
objectionable to the numerous class who
urge the retention of the original language
of the Confession as far as possible.
C2) It adequately attains the end in
view, because the natural and pnsv in
ference from the amended language
would be that all infants are saved.
(3) Those whose righteous, though in
this ease misdirected, zeal to be exactly
loyal to Scripture in our confessional
statements would not be required to subscribe
to the word "all." Hence it should
be easier for them to reconcile themselves
to the change.
(4) Our beloved Church would be relieved
of a dark aspersion which for
years has been keeping many from entering
its pale and rend<
its own members unhap
weight of misunderstanding and misrepresentation.
It fits into the Scripture more
nearly than the present language. The
Bible does not say all infants are saved
but it gives solid ground for the inference.
So the Confession not say
"all" but leaves it easy t.
Our confession is a locomdYivs^in
the people's beliefs. T^et us not put on
the air brakes so hard as to stop it a
mile behind Revelation through fear we
might run two inches ahead of it. The
struggle to have this section amended
has heen long and hard. It has been
growing harder year by year. The grade
h-s heen steep hut the day will come
when our Confession will overtake Revelation.
Our people are becoming more
determined that our church shall ring
out more fully the words of Jesus:
""Even so it is not the will of your Father
in Heaven that one of these little
nnoo QYlAllI^ "
Paris, Tex. J. P. "R.
A Christian should br an unanswerable
argument for the Bible, a rebuke
to every one living in hypocrisy, an invitation
to all who are living in sin.
He lives in right relations to his Ood,
and reminds the world of Jesus.?Dr. J.
Wilbur Chapman.
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