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April 8, 1909.
TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
7
Unitarianism and M. E. Churches
By REV. J. DITZLER
Article III.
ed to none in their zeal for the au- is accurate as far as he goes.
the Anglican clergy had gone astray
politically this writer greatly admires etc.
Alasonkeiamlin
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others
equally dishonest to enter into the
it give any aid whatever to missions
rents of the great sea.
fected.
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common with the Socinians.
—the one the greatest theologian of The mighty reaction against
to him
in his
This was “in the United
honestly than ordinary partisans will men at Nottingham
“The backsliding and coldness
trades- extinct,
and on States.”
cause of two reasons—their wise and
great organizers—Calvin and Wesley
A NOTE OF WARNING.
The attention of the Secretaries of
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higher
G. W. CHADWICK.
For catalogue of
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Write to Mason & Hamiin Co.,
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gives us more details and much more had
This is be- did not leave the Mennonites unaf-
I have
found a
1897, the skepticism of the Anti-Trinitarians fallen into
penetrated among the
ail ages, the latter the greatest legis- Calvinism under Socinian and other
Calvin gave the influences, resulting in the rending
Socinianism, or become
They had much in
We selected the third President of thority of the Scripture, and in their never, that I remember,
a dishonest man and helps
“Anti-Pedobaptism” of
do, or ever did do, gives on many Peirce, who took an active part and 500:
the United States because the friends belief that in Christ and in him alone false statement in his volumnious de-
of Unitarianism put forth their claims is salvation. Tt became the control- tails of history. Buckle copies most
under his great name, and though ling type of Protestantism in Poland,” elaborately in Vol. 1, 355-357. How far
Of England he says, page
George W. Chadwick, people generally .
* *
“Ever since boyhood I have been
especially food of meats, and I am
convinced I ate too rapidly, and failed
to masticate my food properly.
“The result was that I found my-
self, a few years ago, arnteted with
most ailments of the stomach and kidneys,
ever which interfered seriously with my
business.
“At last I took the adyice of friends
and began to eat Grape-Nuts instead
of the heavy meats, etc., that had con-
stituted my former diet.
“I found that I was at once benefit-
pages (e. g. 339) this fact noted by whom Whitson (a clerical of the An- had affected all religious communi- the Board of Missions has been called ed by the change, that I was soon re-
other Baptist historians: “The Polish 8lical Church) boasts of having cor- ties in England. (Page 499 he shows to the fact that there are a number lieved from the heart-burn and the in-
anti-trinitarian. anti-pedobaptist move- rupted." two Socinians had effected this.) of Syrians traveling through the South digestion that used to follow my
work. In the rarest instances does
Canada, on same page Buckle says: “In 1738 Churches having for the most part
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t
severe arraignment of dancing by
Cicero in the Roman Court, in his
defense of Murino, whom the prose-
cuting Attorney accused of dancing.
So in many cases. Still, as a rule, he
ment is of great importance in Bap- We have sufficiently shown the ex- Had it not been for the merciful revi- soliciting aid for mission work. Hav- meals, that the pains in my back had
tist history. From this party the Eng- tent of Unitarianism in the days of val which accompanied the labors of ing inquired carefully into the matter, ceased entirely.
lish General Baptists derived much of its greatest power—so bold had its Whitefield and the Wesleys evangeli- we have reached the conclusion that My nerves which used to be un-
their impulse, by it they have been votaries become that, as seen, Jef- cal truth would have well-nigh died the majority of them are irresponsi- steady, and my brain which was slow
greatly influenced, and between it and ferson believed it would spread from out. Those extraordinary men were ble parties. We make the suggestion and lethargic from a heavy diet of
them there has always been a close Boston over the whole United States raised up for a glorious purpose. The that no gifts be placed in the hands of meats and greasy foods had gradual-
affinity; from it, through the Rhyns- and become the universal Church effects of their ministry were felt by these men, even though they may ly, but none the less surely been re-
burgers, or Collegiants, of Holland, therein. On the average of virtue, all denominations. * * * A new have in their possession letters of stored to normal efficiency
the Particular Baptists of England generally speaking, honesty, piety and order of things may be dated from recommendation. Such gifts should Now every nerve is steady and my
seem to have derived their immer- influence for good we wish to pre- the commencement of their ministry,” be made through the Board of Mis- brain and thinking faculties are quick-
sion (1641.”) So proves Dr. Whitsitt sent an array of facts that like the etc. sions employing them, and only er and more acute than for years past,
fully, Dr. Henry Dexter, of Boston; above cannot be questioned. While Page 514: Robinson renounced the through such a channel. While there “After my old style breakfasts I
“John Smyth, a L-Baptist,” and Bar- Buckle is a high authority, he is too Trinity, and then “there is a constant may be here and there an honest used to suffer during the forenoon
clay, and Philip Schaff, in “Teachings often very partial to the secular side endeavor to write down the orthodox man, it is highly probable that the from a feeling of weakness which hin-
of the Twelve,” etc. Again, page 336, as against religion. For example, or Trinitarian party, while all excel- majority are impostors wno are dered me seriously in my work but
"By 1574 the anti-trinitarian, anti- Vol. 1, 68 to 70, he details the facts lence is ascribed to Arianism,” i. tramping about the country laying since I have begun to use Grape-Nuts
pedobaptists had become a vigorous about French Protestants forbidding e., Unitarianism. Under Unitarianism traps for the unwary. food I can work tin dinner time with
' and aggressive party in Poland and theatergoing and dancing of mem- the Baptists were so impeded that Dr. James L. Barton, Secretary oi al ease ana comfort.” “There’s a Rea.
in Siebenburgen, closely connected bers, as if that were a fault, yet does after they had existed in the Ameri- the American Board of Commission- son.”
with Poland and subject to the same not tell us that Plato banished the- can Continent from March, 1639, to ers for Foreign Missions, in reply to a Read the littie 00 «TLe Road tQ
influences.” Page 337: “These anti- aters from his ideal Republic, nor 1740, one hundred and one years, there letter from me writes as follows: Wellville ” in pkgs
trinitarian, anti-pedobaptists were far that both Greece and Rome forbade were “less than 3000 members.” Page "You ask in regard to the Syrians Ever read the above letter? A new
removed from the religious indiffer- permiscuous dancing, save the lewd 527. No wonder Cramp calls Unita- traveling through many portions of one appears from time to time. They
entism that has characterized much class; that it was against civil law rianism ‘the blighting influence.” the South soliciting aid for mission are genuine, true, and full of human
of the later Socinianism. They yield- to dance with women, and the se- David Benedict is better known work. I do not know of a single one interest,
FEED YOU MONEY
Feed Your Brain and it Will Feed
You Money and Fame.
him as a statesman, and his admira- Hase, next to Gieseler, the most from the honesty and piety of a for-
ble and wise course in 1773 on till careful of Church historians, next to mer day, the oath of allegiance was
death, politically considered, and now him the most reliable, says, page refused by the Archbishop of Canter-
vote the party ticket he founded when- 603: “Near the close of the last and bury, by the Bishop of Bath and Wells,
ever we have a chance to do so, yet the commencement of the present the Bishop of Ely, of Gloucester, of ,. (2. 4 . , „ p-. „ ..g.
’ - , . c.mrtu.1’, , than any Baptist historian in Amen- Telephone M. 5720. Hours: 9 to 1,1 to S
we part company on religion The (nineteenth) century a number of the Norwich, of Petersborough, of Wor- i 211, . . 1
E o • 0 Ca He cOpield the ancjent records
x or the Baptists more than w-D- JONES, M. D-
were as orthodox as Calvin, Luther, thodox Calvinists) were known to be- four more. Six hundred of the clergy misstates facts'' ILa e 5 Practice Limited to
Arininius or Wesley, Ben Franklin, Heve Unitarian doctrines; but a gene- it is estimated by Macaulay and Buck- hi, t Cw " e, ge aq,2 EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT,
several noted Methodists, Congrega- ral separation was not effected until ler followed suit. All these labored , ' 4 & .
tionalists, etc. (1S15) the orthodox party were start- to have the infamous James II re- US ° 16 "° aP 1S ° ies’ as oes 615 Wilson Building. Dallas, Texas.
We frankly admit that the old-time led by some announcements respect- stored to the “Head of Church,” EramP assdoNewmanand othersuand-----
Unitarian—Socinians — avowedly wor- ins the -progress of Unitarianism in one of the most infamous of persecu- --mag "I s in certain Ia of these solicitors who has any au-
shiped Christ, asked benefactions in America in an English publication, tors, who boasted that London under . 95. ‘ i .1. A.I-m thority to back him. I have seen sev-
his name and did not deny the in- and immediately withdrew their fel- him was like Rome. Ship loads of 13 •-2 division and i-ma eral of these, but so far as 1 can
spiration of the Scriptures, but aimed lowship from all who were suspected. Catholic relics were brought from pg ‛-g for m" A 159 judge they are in this business large-
as did their greatest clerical leader, After an excited controversy the Uni- Rome to London for their Churches. .. . ® + , n ly for personal revenue. Some have
Dr. Priestiv of Jefferson’s dav to be- tarian congregationalists were left in James intended to raise the Jesuit . ’ ' 1- - * . , been so successful that their number
little the idea of the importance of the a distinct body * * * in the vi- Petre to the Archbishopric. The only ingzane t e.pirseveranceof.the is largely multiplying and will multi-
belief as to Christ, make it indrferent, cinity o Boston", . .. clergymen who were true to Protest- duties or Christianit and invitations ply unti the Churches themselves
for it neves hgcpme agpresgve and. Henry C. Vedder, Baptist historian antism were about ono-tenth of the - . cease to support them. I wish the
bold till about the middleof the of Dozer College, New York, most low Churchmen. All this array was of merey o sinners as ry an ega Churches at home could be satisfied
eighteenth century namely about fair and reliable of all Baptist his- against “all the intellect of England preac 1"g’ e natura consequences with making their contributions for
1750. From that time it became noisy, torians, says, pages 164-165, showing and all her dearest interests”—Buckle. ' ’ y . foreign mission work through their
bold and aggressive. We now wish to the great revival Whitefield’s visit to And this in the face of the well known 6 1 ’ t “85 owar e regular authorized agency. The most
examine two-main facts: The sudden New England in 1739, says: “The fact that it would produce a most c °®e ° , 45 Seventeen cen ury a of the individual gifts made to irre-
prevalence of this dogma and the re- Edwards-Whitefield revival produced bloody and destructive civil war; P 1° ° l mem ers oegan o n sponsible collectors is worse than
suits on morals, spirituality and civi- the Unitarian reaction. * * * Uni- yet these degraded ministers con- . . nt , 3YS thrown away, because it encourages
iization. But we refer here to its ex- tarianism had for some time been in tinned to intrigue for the return of, theolog Iuwhichinthe end spread
istence in England and the United solution in New England, and the next to Bloody Mary, the meanest delyaamong the.pe0 nf ndc
rovivci cm 4 + A+1R 20 . , . i 1 , , -r a. considerable portion of them over
States, for in the sixteenth and seven- revival caused it to crystallize into tyrant England ever had. Vedder, ,, -4,,, :] , 11
viciLln Rn , , 1OAA d,j , 4-1 git , , i , 4 tO 1110 Unitarian, OK as it WHS 111011 de-
teenth centuries it had gained a pow- ViSible form. In 1800 two page 141, Short History of the Bap- omin,t mn‛,n 1, * * * mE
erful influence in parts of Europe, of the six orthodox Churches left in tists,” says of this general period, , i n ' Or the cause which they represent. I
There were two great Christian bodies Boston were Baptist, while eight Con- just before Wesley rose: “The state .. . ° ’ do not know those individuals about
that never did yield at all toward So- gregational Churches and one Epis- of all the religious bodies was deplo- 1 88 . l8S 5 1 whom you write, but I am speaking
cinian—now known as Unitarianism— copal Church had gone over bodily rable. In the Established Church the’ , 8 in general.
the Presbyterians and the Methodists, to Unitarianism. manners and morals of the clergy as .. „ ? , 4 6 e ma e The board of which Dr. Barton is
in Switzerland, Scotland and America Prof. Newman, page 320, says: The depicted in contemporary literature mnnn . . , an Secretary has the most extensive
these two bodies—the latter in Eng- Socinian wave that swept over the were frightful. The drunken, lecher- uoU con en ions, w ic spread work .among the Syrians. We may
land and America—have stood Protestant Netherlands during the ous, swearing, gaming parson is a , g . rely upon his statement. If any of our
against Unitarianism as solidly as do last years of the sixteenth century familiar character in the plays and 1 P us c u i people desire to render aid to the na-
the rocks of Gibraltar against the cur- and the early years of the seventeenth romances of the period, and survives ’ and aS a na ura consequence their tive Churches in Syria let the gifts
....... ‘ - even to the beginning of the present Churches one after another began to be forwarded to Dr. Barton, who will,,
(nineteenth) century.” decline, and many became extinct, receipt for the same and see that the
The late J. M. Cramp, D D. of More followed to the same effect. amounts are applied as directed. Only
Philadelphia, a painstaking and hon- We could now cite Lecky, the in this way can a self-respecting, self-
est historian, thus tells what Unita- 8reatest historian on the morals and supporting native Church be develop-
lator and revivalist. Calvin gave the influences, resulting in the rending rianism idid both in England and immorality of Europe that has ever ed, and this applies to similar work in
most spiritual interpretations and less asunder of the Reformed Church ** * America. Remember that already written, 111 two larse volumes, and other fields. W. R. LAMBUTH.
pagan bias to religion than any theolo- with the years of strife and persecu- Newman has shown that the English Buckle, both regarded as skeptics, ---------------- <
gical writer since Paul in his exposi- tion that preceded and followed the Baptists had emerged from the Socin- Who elaborately prove that Wesley You never reach another helpfully
tions of the Bible, and next to him his Synod of Dort (1618),” etc. ians, i. e> Unitarians. Of both Gen- and Whitefield saved England from an so long as you think you are bending
great American disciple, Jonathan Ed- Buckle, “History of Civilization in eral and Calvinistic Baptists, both of immoralit appalling, by its infamies
wards, and Wesley led all others in England,” in three volumes, London which he and others showed were of in the clerg and laity. King and
organizing Christianity as a working 1882, says: “The separation from this class. “Arianism had crept in subjects, and saved her from a most
force among the people. Our Baptist morals was effected late in the seven- among them, and with it certain bloody and disastrous revolution far
friends and brothers now and for a teenth century, * * * and it is a other errors. The loss of life follow- more fearful than was the French
century or nearly so have become striking instance of the decline of ed the obscuration of light. Anti- Eeyoution to France. No system of
one of the great working forces of a the old ecclesiastical spirit that both evangelical sentiments and practices reigion has ever reformed and ele
spiritual people. But their beginning of these great changes were begun by prevailed to such an alarming extent yated 2 Pe °Ple save the one that
was badly mixed and sorely beset the clergy themselves, page 425. Page that the sound-hearted of that de- 1 rou^ a 1 s 1Sto kept before its
with a world of heresies, isms and 427: “The great Arian (Unitarian) nomination felt the necessity of peace- "oshipers the sublime character of
wild dreams, as all their standard his- controversy, which was rashly instiga- fully withdrawing. They peacefully the iedemin God Christ by proph-
torians most elaborately exhibit. ted by Whitson Clarke (Samuel) and withdrew in the year 1770. * * * ec: by types the most impressive,
Prof. A. H. Newman, D. D., LL.D., Waterland, disseminated doubts The blessing of God followed the and ts efficacy exhibitedin the
Professor of Church History in Me- among nearly all classes.” In a note movement, * * * the Arianized ’ 15 .ous 155 15 "o " has
Master University, Toronto, Canada, on same page Buckle says: “In 1738 Churches having for the most part Sen
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