# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1904_S279
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches. 279

Weidner hielt einen Vortrag über “The Uncritical Character of the Present A4p-
plication of the Rationalistic Prineiples of the New Testament.“' Am Abend
sprach Dr. Wright von Oberlin über “„The Enscientific Character of the Pre-
vailing Higher Criticism, with its Evolutionary Fad: or, Misdirected Scholar-
ship“. Das Thema der Schlußsitzung lautete: Method Prophosed by the League
for Remedying Evils.“ Tyne Presbytertan schreibt:“ Dr. Gregory, the General
Secretary, stated that a vigorous campaigu would begin at once; and a
fund of 810,000 was needed now, and 8100,000 later. The friends of criti-
eism have millions at their back with great publishers as allies, and it will
take money to prepare aud circulate a counteractive literature. Dr. Burrell
urged that the League appoint à local secretary in every city and town in the
United States and Canada. President Hall announced that another conven-
tion, far more comprehensive in its scope, will be held nest fall, at which
the greatest non-critical Bible scholars ou both sidés of the Atlantic will be
Present, ineluding Sir George Anderson. It is also designed to issue Bible
reading primers, and primers on vital issues, and later on, to publishea Bible
dictionary and encyelopaedia. Centers for the propagation of Bible study
are to be established.“' — Von sämmtlichen Rednern hat sich, soweit wir die Be⸗
richte verfolgt haben, keiner für die Verbalinspiration, wie sie von der Schrift selber
gelehrt wird, ausgesprochen. F. B.

The Methodist Protestant General Conference hat sich einstimmig dahin
erklärt, daß die geplante Vereinigung mit den Congregationalisten und den „Ver⸗
einigten Brüdern“ ins Werk gesetzt werde. Nur zwei Bedingungen werden gestellt:
„First, A statement of the common fundamental doctrines of the Christian
faith. Second, A representative form of government, securing to the local
churches the largest degree of liberty consistent with some form of connec-
tionalism, that will Conserve all the great interests of the church and most
effectively promote the kingdom of God.“ Der Congregationalist glaubt, daß
folgende beiden Sätze in der Constitution desNationa! Council of Congregational
Churches“' eine befriedigende Basis zur Vereinigung abgeben werde: 1. They
agree in belief that the Holy Scriptures are the sufficient and only infallible
rule of religious faith and practice, their interpretation thereof being in sub-
stantial accordance with the great doctrines of the Christian faith, eommonly
called evangelical, held in our churches from the early times, and sufficiently
set forth by former general councils.“ 2. „They agree in belief that the
right of government resides in local churches, or congregations of believers
who are responsible directly to the Lord Jesus Christ, the one head of the
Church Universal and of all particular churches; but that all churches, being
in communion one with another as parts of Christ's Catholic Church, have
mutual duties, subsisting in the obligations of fellowship.“ —Alle drei interes⸗
sirten Körper sind darin einig, daß man sich mit Einigkeit in etlichen wesentlichen
Stücken zufrieden geben müsse, und daß man von Christen en verlangen dürfe, daß
sie in allen Stücken der Lehre übereinstimmen. F. B.

Auf der Conferenz der Bischöflichen Methodisten in Los Angeles hatte Dr. Mun⸗
hall eine Klageschrift eingereicht gegen die höheren Kritiker und liberalen Theologen
unter den Methodisten, insonderheit an den Anstalten in Chicago und Boston. Als
die Sache zur Sprache kam, erklärte ein Delegat aus Canada: die Kirche habe kein
Recht, von irgend einem Gliede zu verlangen, daß es Dinge glaube, welche die
Wissenschaft widerlegt habe. „At this“ — so heißt es in einem Berichte — „the
college presidents and their entourage applauded vigorously.“ Dr. Dudson