New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1923, Page 19

MODERNISTS WIN IN - DEBATE ONCHURCH Potter Is Winner Over Straton, Who Is Fundamentalist New York, Dec. 21, — The Rev. Francis Potter, pastor of the modernist, defeated the Rev. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Daptist church, a fundamentalist, in a debate on the suhject, “The Bible Ts The Infallible Word of God.” The judges who made the decision were Almet . Jenks, formerly presiding giustice of ghe superior court; Ernest 1. Conant, lawyer, and C. Neal Bar- nev, former mayor of Lynn, Mass., and a trustee of Tufts college. In arnouncing the decision of the andges, when was reached by a vote of 2 to 1, Justice Jenks said that the merits of the guestion were not con- tgidered nor passed on by them, hut that they had been influenced solely by the arguments brought out by €ach speaker in support of his con- tention. Calvary Baptist church, where the debate was held, was filled to the doors by an audience which seemed about equally divided in allegiance to speakers, Some of the more enthu- siastic tried several times to raise thr cheers for their favorite, but| they were suppressed by the chair- man, Dr. Straton hased his argument on six main foundations which he sum- marized as follow 1 The preservation and inerease In distribution of the Bible in face of ruthless hostility, 2. The Bible's universality as ex- emplified by the fact that it exists in written form in practically every tongue on earth; the only book that has done so in the histo: of man. % The Bible’s unity shown by the fact that, aithough it was 1,600 years in the making by In life, and was gathered in 66 di nen in every walk visions, the uniformity of expressed thought is constant throughout 4. The Bible's fulfilled prophecies from the destruction of Nineveh and Tyre to the birth of Christ. 5. The Bible's own proved 1o infallibility, 6. The Bible’s self-proved author- 1ty “Fire and sword and persecution *and war,” said Dr. Straton, “have done their utmost to eradicate this book from among men and to pre- vent its elreulation; but, like the burning Hush of Moses, while burning it has remained still unconsumed. Tt is sald that in one century 150,000 persons were butchered for reading the Bible, “Jesus Christ sald ‘The word s truth,’ Must that not be the seeret of 1t? It is in the very nature of an error or lie to destroy itself, The lie claim CEDAR $16.95, $19.00, carries in 'its bosom the seed of fits own destruction, Permitted To Survive “Is it too montsrous to suppose that vised tissue of lics, errors and super- | stitions could so have gripped the human race? And from God's side, |assuming that there is a living God, is not the thought that He would al- | low the Bible to continue to flourish, | ‘1f it is a fake? absurd, upon the | very face of it. | “Is it not true, therefore, that to | |obey the divine origin and infallibil- “The modernists and the rational- | throned and the man put in his place. | himself and declares he will do only {what he himself thinks right and | \what he wishes to do we call an am- | |archist. With sober hearts and ear- Inest minds we need to face the ques- | {tionr whether this truth does not ap- | iply to the man in the religious world |who says the same thing. | 3 “The silly sensationalism, the rag- time religion that is seen in many of | tour churches and the puny little es- | |says that are delivered from many of | {our pulpits and dignified through |courtesy with the name of sermons| are pitiful in comparison with the | |grand preaching of the past, which |gave forth a sure note of warning and | | promise by the very authority 8f God | Himself speaking through His Holy| | Wora.” { Dr. Straton here abandoned -r:u-i ;ml‘nt for appeal and exhorted his re- | ligious ecolleagues fo re-establish the| authority of the Bible and ‘“come! |back to the old fashioned preaching! that flows from it."” Rejection of au-| |thority in home, state or churgh, he |seid, is the greatest and most men- | |acing danger of'the day, Dr. Potter devoted the early part| of his specel to a careful analysis| of how the reading of the Bible had affected him from the days of his [youth. e recalled reading at the age of 9. His parents were poor, he said, and he remembered going into the cellar of their humble home and believing that God had the power to turn a ninepin into money. He was told that prayer was not answered unless the thing prayed | for was good, and he could not un- | | derstand why gold would not be good [to help his family, | Many other things rose to bother! | his inquiring mind. He ecould not understand why if it was wrong to lie the commandments did not forhid Ht divectly, 'When he raised questions of his doubt either at home or J in Sunday school an evasion usually’ re. |sulted, Going to college he continued [to wonder about many things he {eould not understand, and he made a closp analysis of the scrip- tures In his search for truth, At 17, in college, he suggested that the question of the virgin birth he debated and was ealled a Unitarian He contjnued { praying for gold CHESTS $24.00, $27.00 B. C. 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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1923. “These questions of _mir college yearf and in theological sem- inary years are a maze of myths, or a cunningly de-|which are asked Jigher crities, childhood and e, I found in later|of his contentions: the very unhistorical; by the questions ! tific or @ number of learned men, most of [to be morally wrong. them Christians, same questions which had their books, but I mild and tame, “The trouble with the higher crit- 1cs appeared to were too much |ity of the Bible is really to deny the tars of 4 ity of s > deny |ters of detail, such as words in the West | existence of a wise and loving God? | text, minor discrepancies, and things Side Unitarian church and an avowed | of that nature, things which the | “A man who becomes a law unto manded and which seemed to me wrong."” The minister t vere | were asking thel .pny one of | word of God. ' But what concerned | consistencies in the volume, ists exalt the individual consciousness | me more, and really trouble me, were as the seat of final authority. ’l‘hisjflu- direct contrgdictions between va-| by one author. only means that God has been de- |rious sections of the Bible and the ! irst, are inaccuracies which are second, that| Hebrew race, so-called | there are passages which represent| ment the documents of When I found that|God as doing something which seems tianity, | these bothered | .ontradictions or immoral me about the Bible, I began to read | woulg, taken alone, prove my thesis 1 thought them very|¢nay the Bible is not the All of them, | gether, and many others which might me to be that they|be cited, constitute a body of evidence concerned with mat- | within the book itself which | my opponent’s contention. wonder that there are not maccuracies, sanctions, infallible taken to- more in- |yt the final edition of the “The word ‘Bible’ comes from two | translated, means ‘The Books. are sixty-six books in the Bible, and | of God, hov hen quoted at length|they were written by boyhood | from the Scriptures to establish Hu-M-fdlrrwrrm men over nearly a thousand that there ! years, They represent, in the Old unscien- | Testament, the literature of the early Chris- Many of these hooks were written for special purposes, and 1 | doubt if any one of them was written with the idea that it would be in- cluded in the Bible, Paul, for in- stance, writes a letter to the people of Thessalonica giving specific coun- sels for their peculiar situation. Take the Psalms alone, usually ascribed to David. It takes only a ‘few hours study to reveal that w a number of compositions by one man, Hebrew hymn bhook, a compilation of many refutes Tt is a for it is many | imprecatory Psalms? . and in the New Testa- | have here not | “God is too great to be included be- | tween the covers of any printed book. | Not the literature of a single race, | nor even the literature of all races, is ufficient to comprehend the wonder mnd the glory and the goodness of God. We can read His message in the sunshine and the flowers. 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