# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1915_S88
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

88 Kirchlich⸗Zeitgeschichtliches.

faith in the Bible is ordinarily the man that is chosen as best qualified
0 fill the chair of Biblical Instruetion. Let the Tartufes that, with
gum shoes and dark lanterns, have erept into our institutions of learn-
ing, there to be vested in cap and gown to make culls and gulls of our
boys, be stripped of their masks and shipped to limbo, where they belong.
Is there no vitriolie vocabulary caustie enough to make the satire suffi-
ciently pungent? No voice to awaken the conscience, and arouse a Chris-
tian sentiment that shall express itself in peremptory challenge of such
teaching? 80 long as there is no positive and emphatice protest, these
learned' sappers and miners will continue their underground work of
wrecking the faith. The Assistant Professor, under tlie spell of his ex-
hilarating hallucination, seems to believe that he possesses à mental
dynamite that will blow out the foundations. . . What remedy is there
for such bane? One way to shrink their sinews is to withhold and to
withdraw all financial help, and by gift and legacy to strengthen the in-
stitutions that remain faithful to God's Word.. We are painfully
aware that the teaching under reprobation is not confined to any par-
ticular university, but is becoming alarmingly common and offensively
loud-voiced in many of our institutions of learning.“ Prof. Miller ist ein
Produkt des Union Seminary. — Wie der Abfall vom Schriftprinzip von
einzelnen Lehrern in reformierten Anstalten eingeleitet wurde, erzählt im
Préesbyterian ein früherer Schüler Dr. Bascoms, der am Williams⸗College
unterrichtete: Dr. Bascom met a large company of young people on Sab-
bath afternoons, and lectured to us upon the Fundamentals of the Chris-
tian Faith. Inspiration was that of Genius, the Bible writers had simply
climbed the hill of knowledge a little farther up than had other men,
and their vision was wider and clearer than others'. This was fine to
a youthful mind. It could be understood, and was aeceptable to reason.
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost were different names for the same Person.
This made the Trinity easy. Any one could understand that. Thus we
Tollowed him with deep delight as be went on, clarifying all difsieulties,
and making all things easy of belief and acceptance, until he came to the
atonement. He summed this up by saying: The death of Jesus Christ
was nothing more nor less than à piece of Jewish butchery.“ There was
soméething shocking in this. We could not take it. And while we thought,
there came upon the wing a text which we had learned while standing
at the knée of our sainted mother. It was this: Therefore doth My
Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I may take it again.
No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power
to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment
I have received of My Father.““ G.

Die reformjüdischen Rabbiner Amerikas gründeten 1889 eine Kon⸗
ferenz, die letzten Sommer ihre 25. Jahresversammlung in Detroit, Mich.,
hielt. Auch auf dieser Versammlung trat die Geteiltheit der amerikani⸗
schen Reformjuden in eine strengere und eine weniger strenge Richtung
hervor. Die letztere ist in ihrem Indifferentismus gegen das spezifisch
Jüdische so weit gegangen, daß sie fortwährend Annäherungen mit dem
Christentum, allerdings nur mit dem Christentum, wie es sich in der V. M.
O. A. und ähnlichen Erscheinungen sowie in der Union College-Theologie
kundgibt, anstrebt. Man will jetzt wieder zurück — nicht etwa zum ortho⸗