The real issue for which the Presbyterians are making their determined stand is the inspiration and historical accuracy of the Bible, essential facts of which (now rejected by many Liberals) are the truth of the miracles in both Old and New_ Testaments, the Virgin Birth of Our Lord, His deity and coequality with God, His vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection and ascension, etc., which have always been held by all evangelical churches, particularly by those that are united in this seminary. The Presbyterians come in for criticism on the ground that these points, on which so much stress is laid to-day, are not mentioned specifically in the original constitution: The point is a technical one and will hardly be pressed by any man who is acquainted with the real facts of the school's formation. For while these question were not acute, at that time the position of the Presbyterians was so well known to all in China that to make this technicality now would be to. give the Presbyter-jans ground for charging their cooperating brethren with bad faith at the very beginning. For whatever may be the right of any individual or denomination to teach what it believes, everyone knows that the institution was founded as frankly Conservative and on no other imaginable basis could the Presbyterians have been induced to cooperate. In demanding that the spirit of the original agreement be maintained the Presoyterians are on firm ground. a
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