foot then on the other debating
with themselves whether this Scripture that was once considered holy
and sufficient is after all a revelation from God or an invention of
man.

A large number of men who are at the front in the teaching, the
management, the organization and control of the churches of the
different denominations repudiate practically every fundamental
doctrine of the Christian faith.

They deny the Virgin birth.

The denial of the Virgin birth puts a stain upon the mother of Jesus
as of a woman who has broken wedlock and sends her son forth as a
bastard, an illegitimate who had no legal right to come into the
world; and then illogically, if not hypocritically, those who deny
it bid us take this son and make Him the exemplar of righteousness,
forgetting or ignoring the self-evident fact that if, indeed, He had
but a human and natural father then was He bred in sin and unfit to
be set up as the supreme standard of righteousness and holiness
among men.

There are those who deny the sacrificial character of the death of
the cross.

They repudiate atonement by the shedding of blood.

When we tell them it is written without shedding of blood there is
no remission and it is the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, that
alone cleanseth from all sin they fling up their hands in protest,
tell us we are to be numbered among the figures of the past and that
the theology we seek to maintain is the theology of the butcher
shop, the barbarous doctrine of the shambles and the shadow of old
-time tribal gods whose vengefulness and wrath could be appeased only
by the murder of a victim.

They repudiate the doctrine of the bodily resurrection of the Lord.

His body has long ago mingled with the dust of Palestine and been
blown afar by careless winds. If He rose at all it was as the
principle of righteousness and truth, whatever such a resurrection
may mean. They will no longer tolerate the insistent need of
regeneration. It has been said that "if a man is well born the first
time he does not need to be born the second time."

In the nature of the case such teaching rejects our Lord's bodily
ascension to heaven and His session as a glorified man who is very
God at the right hand of the Father.

Above all, and as a further consequent of such an attitude, teachers
of this class repudiate with an almost hysterical outcry, not only
the thought that the Lord will come a second time to this world, but
that those who lo