Smapy (in Old Testament, English and Hebrew) and A. T. Robertson (in New Testament, English and Greek.) Robertson's Greek New Testament. Grammar I have seen spoken of as unsurpassed by that of any other author of any age. No one of these men is, I think, over 65 years of age. Dr. Mullins, who is president of this Touisville Seminary, with more than 500 men studying in the ministry, has just been elected for the third time president of the Southern Baptist Convention and made a very great address at its opening session on May 16. Also because of the much agitation on the question of Science and Religion read a paper en that subject and it so pleased the more than 300 delegates and probably a larger number of visitors that it was approved without a dissenting voice.
Besides this nearly three and a half million of white Baptists who are almost perfectly united on the great Old Book as an ull-sutiicient rule of faith and practice, there are fully three million negro baptists who would say a hearty "amen" to Dr. Mullins great statement. I wish further to state that Southern Baptists last year showed the largest percentage of growth of any of the larger denominations in the United States. There is to meet in the last week in this month in Stockholm the Baptist World Alliance and Dr. Mullins is widely spoken of as the probable President of that body.
I do not at all profess to be a scientist. Most of the development in science has taken place since my college days, but do believe and accept all proven truth whether in God's World or Word. I do not feel that I have to cast overboard the latter in order to believe the former. It seems to many of us non-scientific scholars that our dear scientific brethren do discard His Word for what they call science. I say it seems so. Talking some time ago with one of my greatest acquaintance in the scientific world and hearing him laugh at and belittle a great minister of the Word who had ventured to criticize science falsely so called as he saw 14, when he said, The idea that a theo-logion should venture to criticize science!" When I asked if the theories of science he was teaching now were not quite different from those he taught 25 years ago he said "Oh certainly." And I again asked if at the end of other 25 years they might not differ as much from present thoories, he gave the same answer, What I think millions of others would like to know from some really great scientist is how they can claim to be followers of the Christ and yet reject the only Book or much of it, that tells us all we know of that Christ. This is really jo puzzle that I should like unravelled by some one. out here or in the home land. How dan they claim to preach and follow Christ without accepting the teachings in the Word about Him self as well as about God, the Father, and men? I really am -anxious that some one who laughs wt what some of us—very many of us—call the fundamentals of the Word of God will tell us how they get along without faith in these.
I might have said above that all Southern Presbyterians were at least i few years ago fully with Southern Baptists on these fundamentals of the Bible.
I am, eto, G. P. Bosticx. Pochow, An.,
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