•r'fc;-.«.-»-r_4.;rt, .: «»>.' -. rr^s^ vt.-
PAGE SIX
THE CONFLICT
WAKE FOP.EST AND |
BAPTICT THOUGHT;
(continued from page five)
which has had such a great part
in the progress of our denomina
tion in this State, and which is
now uoing a blessed work,
thouglx it has been injured by
the unjust criticisms. If Wake
Forest were blotted from the
earth today our loss would be
irreparable.
“This writer is no longer a
trustee of Wake Forest and he
can therefore say, as one in
the ranks, that we can depend
on the trustees to keep Wake
Forest true to its traditions. If
Wake Forest cannot stand the
test which Christ has given, if
its fruit is not such as to com
mend it to the confidence of the
Baptists of the state, the trus
tees will correct any evil which
may exist, if it be in their pov '
er to do so. But let us look at
the fruit rather than be influ
enced by rumors, most of which
come from other States.”
Now, some things to consid
er:
First. Years ago there was
an unsound man in the faculty
of the Southern Baptist The
ological Seminary by the name
of Prof. Crawford H. Toy, a
pious, cultured gentleman, a
superior scholar to Prest. W.
L. Poteat, for -Jno. A. Broadus
acknowledged Toy as, in some
respects, his superior, though
Prof. Toy and Prest. Poteat got
their unsound, dangerous teach
ings from the same source, from
German Universities; but Jno.
.A. -Broadus and others, true to
God’s cause, told Professor Toy
that because of his unsound
views, he should resign his pro
fessorship; and Professor Toy
did not hold on to his position
and continue to draw his salary
to teach one thing and then
teach another that would de
stroy what he was paid to teach.
Second: During the time
that Professor Toy was a Prof
essor in the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary many
strong, sound men were edu
cated in the seminary, some of
whom are now world-renowned;
but Southern Baptists have
been discriminating enough
and honest enough to give the
credit for these eminent, sound
men, not to the unsound profes
sor, but to Boyce and Manly
and Broadus, the sound prcfes-
sors in the Seminary, whose
sound teachings held ciiese;
young men from being corrupt-1
ed by the unsound teachings of
Pr il'c'^or Toy; and to +he Bap-1
tist pastors in the souru w'ho
so grounded these young preach
ers in the truth, that Professor
Toy’s teachings could not cor-;
rupt them; and to the noble
Baptist fathers and mothers'
back of these young preachers
who so trained their children ^
in God’s word that their faith
could not be wrecked by Prof
essor Toy. BUT THESE LEAD- ^
ERS OF NORTH CAROLINA
BAPTISTS, SO BLINDED BY
THEIR WORSHIP OF A;
GREAT MAN, IN ORDER
THAT THEY MAY CONTIN- !
UE TO HAVE EVOLUTION
IN WAKE FOREST COL-1
LEGE, HAVE GIVEN THE;
CREDIT FOR THE GREAT,
SOUND MEN WHO HAVE i
GONE OUT FROM WAKE;
FOREST TO PREST. POTEAT |
THE EVOLUTIONIST, THE!
UNSOUND MAN, INSTEAD;
OF TO PROFESSOR W. R.
COLLUM, PROFESSOR ROY
AL AND THE LARGE BODY
OF SOUND PROFESSORS
ON THE FACULTY OF WAKE
FOREST COLLEGE AND TO
THE • SOUND PASTORS OF
NORTH CAROLINA WHO SO
TRAINED THOSE YOUNG
PREACHERS IN G 0 D ’S
TRUTH THAT PREST. POT
EAT AND PROFESOR HU
BERT POTEAT COULD NOT
SHAKE THEM, AND TO THE
NOBLE BAPTIST FATHERS
AND MOTHERS OF NORTH
CAROLINA WHO SO TAUGHT
THEIR CHILDREN ' GOD’S
WORD THAT THE POTEATS,
, FATHER AND SON, COULD
;N0T WRECK THEIR FAITH.
I This is the first time since
' Adam that the credit for sound
I students has been given to the
' unsound teachers instead of to
ithe sound teachers—“there’s a
! reason”—TO KEEP THE BAP-
’^STS OF NORTH CAROLINA
I BLINDED, THAT THESE
iOFFICIAL LEADERS OF
NORTH CAROLNA BAPTISTS
MAY CONTINUE TO HAVE
EVOLUTION IN WAKE FOR
EST.
Third: While these brethren
were parading the fruits of
I Wake Forest, WHY DID THEY
i NOT BRING THEM ALL
iOUT? WHY DID THEY NOT
I TELL OF THE YOUNG MEN
I IN NORTH CA R 0 L I N A
AND IN TEXAS WHOM I
lAND OTHERS HAVE MET
i FOR YEARS WHOSE FAITH
WAS WRECKED BY WAKE
FOREST? WHY DID THEY
NOT TELL OF YOUNG BAP
TIST PREACHERS EDUCAT
ED IN WAKE FOREST
land trustees of Calvary Bap-
(
tist Church, New York City.
Several months ago we were
visiting certain members of our
F. A. CARTER,
Formerly of Raleigh, N. C.
E. C. MILLER,
Formerly of Mobile, Ala.
church, soliciting aid in cover-j Deacons and Trustees of Cal-
ing a threatened deficit. [ vary Baptist Church, New
One day, while in the Wall i York City,
street district, we came across j New York, June 11, 1923.
a young lawyer, whose name is| (Mr. Miller is the man who j.vjo
withheld, and who interested proposed to finance the opening | are WRONG WHY DON’T
HIS SYMPATHIZERS, THESE
run North Carolina, and that
North Carolina can manage her
own affairs. This trying to stir
up feeling and arouse prejudice
is little, if not contemptible.
IF PRES. POTEAT IS SOUND
AND WE WHO HAVE EX
POSED AND PROTESTED
AGAINST HIS TEACHINGS
us greatly. When we solicited
a subscription from him as a
member of Calvary Church he
of Southern Baptist work in
Palestine, and it is due to him
more than to any other one man
declined to make any, and gave | that we now have missioi^s-ries
vVriO Are
NOW
T'. r'-rr- A
L-'irtJliAOJl-
iiNG UNITARIANISM? WHY
I DID THEY NOT TELL OF
I THE MAN EDUCATED IN
I WAKE FOREST WHO WENT
TO BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
I IN TEXAS WHEN THAT
j GREAT INSTITUTION WAS
DOING A WONDER F U L
I WORK AND SHOT IT
; THROUGH WITH EVOLU-
jTION AND HELPED POISON
I ALL TEXAS WITH EVOLU
TION? WHY DID THEY NOT
TELL OF THE BRILLIANT
I LAWYER OF NEW YORK
iCITY WHO, AS RECENTLY
I PUBLISHED IN SOUTHERN
BAPTST PAPERS BY THE
DEACONS OF CALVARY BAP
TIST CHURCH, REFUSED
TO CONTRIBUTE TO CAL
VARY BAPTIST CHURCH,
GIVING AS HIS REASON
THAT HE DID NOT BELIEVE
IN PASTOR JOHN ROACH
STRATTON’S PREACHING,
THAT THE BIBLE IS THE
INSPIRED WORD OF GOD
AND THAT THE SAVIOUR
WAS DEITY, BORN OF A
HUMAN MOTHER WITHOUT
A HUMAN FATHER; AND
WHEN ASKED BY THE
deacons WHERE HE GOT,
HIS TEACHINGS HE RE
PLIED FROM PREST. W. L.'
POTEAT OF WAKE FOREST,
COLLEGE WHERE HE WAS
EDUCATED, AND THAT
THERE WERE DOZENS OF;
OTHERS IN HIS CLASS ^
WITH SIMILAR VIEWS?” No
other Baptist College in the
South has produced such fruits.
As proof, I give here the
article:
two reasons for not doing so:
First. Because he was not in
harmony with the preaching of
our pastor, Dr. John Roach
, Stratton, and was about to join
a church whose teachings. were
,^iore in keeping with his be
liefs. He had requested the
Park 'Avenue Baptist Church of
this city (known as the Rocke
feller Church, with Dr. Corne
lius Woelfkin as pastor) to write
to Calvary Church for his letter
of dismissal.
Second. Because he was an
evolutionist and no longer believ
ed in the inspiration of the
Bible, nor in the virgin birth,,
nor the Deity of Christ, nor the
atonement, nor the resurrec
tion, nor the second coming of
Our Lord, nor in the miracles
and supernatural content of the
Bible.
We expressed great surprise
■ that he would come into Cal
vary Baptist Church on a letter
of dismissal from a Baptist
church in North Carolina en
tertaining such views.
* This j'oung man then went
on to tell us that he was the
son of a well-known Baptist
minister now preaching in South
Carolina; that he had been a
regular baphz&d believer; that
prior to taking his law course
at Harvard University he had
taken a full course at W'ake
Forest College, North Carolina:
that while at this college he had
become a believer in evolution
and a disbeliever in the Chris
tian faith, and that he knew of
dozens of other students who
had done the same.
He stated that he desired to
leave ■, Calvary Baptist Church
because he wished to get into
an atmosphere that was more
congenial, and on leaving Cal
vary Church he would join the
Woelfkin-Rockefeller Church.
We were shocked beyond
measure to hear this from such
a brilliant, promising, young
lawyer; and a few days later
located at Jerusalem.—
Let it
LEADERS OF NORTH CAR-
OLTNA BAPTISTS, STAND
UP LKE MEN AND SHOW
IT? WHY DON’T THEY" AT
be '.remembered that ^^CON
CILE PRES. POTEAT’S EVO
LUTION WITH GENE S I S
AND THE SAVIOUR’S EN-
this thing was not done in a
corner. The leaders of the
organized work of North Caro
lina Baptists have known of | DORSING GENES IS AS
this published letter; they have}"^^^ WORD OF GOD, IN-
known of the young Baptist! STEAD OF PLAYING THE
preachers who were wrecked! SISSY, AND COMPLAINING
under Prest. Poteat’s teaching |ARE IRYING TO
in Wake Forest; they knew that j NORTH CARO
LINA’S AFFAIRS.
Let it be understood that
when God calls man to “earn
estly contend for the faith” he
does not tell them to watch out
for State lines and stop there.
Truth is, that Heaven’s survey
or did not run the State lines of
the South.
Editor Livingston Johnson
thinks it a terrible crime for
those in other States to protest
Pres. Poteat’s evolution in W"ake
against Wake Forest getting stu
dents from other States; and he
forgets that Wake Forest sends
its products as preachers and
teachers into other States; and
men from Wake Forest go to
the Foreign Field and we from
other States have to help sup
port them. ' Thanks to Profes
sor Collum, Professor Royal
afxd other sound men of the
Wake Forest faculty, and
pastors of North Carolina who
things WITHOUT! young men, and
Prest. Poteat has said, open
and above board (after Wake
Forest inherited a million six
hundred (thousand dollars and
had gotten hundreds of thous
ands of the 75 Million Cam
paign) , that he is an Evolution
ist and that he has taught it
for years in Wake Forest; they
know that it was Evolution from
Wake Forest that got into Bay
lor University and has caused
the trouble and division in Tex
as; they know that more than
three fourths of the Biaptists
of North Carolina are against
having Evolution in Wake For
est ; yet, worshipping a great
man, “having men’s persons in
admiration because of advan
tage,” and violating God’s word
which says, “Them that sin re
buke before all, that others also
may fear. I charge thee before
God, and the Lord Jesus Christ
and the elect angels, that ob
serve these
PREFERRING ONE BEFORE
ANOTHER, DOING NOTHING
BY PARTIALITY",” they have
held the Poteats, father and
son, in Wake Forest, apd
have compassed sea and
land, persistently, to arouse pre
judice against the Editor of
THE CONFLICT and others as
meddler:
North Carolina affairs, as “at
tacking Wake Forest” and thus
arouse sympathy for Prest. Pot
eat and at the sanie time de
tract '^attention from the fact
that they are keeping the Pot
eats, father and son, in Wake
faithful North Carolina Baptist
fathers and mothers who taught
them God’s word, there ''re no
unsound men in the rureign
Field from Wake Forest, but
who knows when there vdll go
from there to the Foreign Field
men like ajome who went to
Wake Forest, Baptist preachers
as trying to manage '^'^o are now teaching evolution
and we of the other States will
have to help in supporting them.
But Editor Johnson errs when
he says that this agitation
against Evolution in Wake For
est is for the most part from
without the State of Noith Car
olina. In the discussion follow-
Forest over the protests of the _ ■ i-, +
a communication was received i people of North Carolina and ‘
from the Park Avenue Church | helping to fasten Evolution up-1 ^ years ago, a
requesting that a letter of dis- jon the tax-supported school;
missal from Calvary Church bejof North Carolina,
granted him. The deacons in-1 Fourth: Editor Livingston
structed the secretary to write j Johnson says that this agitation
the young man citing him to j for the most part comes from
appear before the board of dea-1 people outside of N. Carolina,
cons to explain his statements,! and he has rung the charges on .,7TTn -n AT?Trc-
and in the hope, if possible, to i „„tsiiei-s mterfei-ing with North ™
Poring him back to the faith. I Carolina’s affairs and trying to SPEAK OUT AGAINST PRES.
He did not appear before the j Forest but he does not protest
deacons, but wrote a contempt-'
Schools writing from Asheville
stated that for over twenty
years tjiere 'had been trouble
in the state over Prest. Poteat’s
Evolution in Wake Forest; and
there would be far more of pro
test were it not for two facts
(Continued on page seven)
DESTRUCTIVENESS OF
TEACHING EVOLUTION i
—ONE INSTANCE |
The undersigned are deacons;
uous letter requesting that his
name be dropped from the
church rolls, which was accord
ingly' done.
We were amazed to hear this; |
young man say that Tiot only J
had he lost his faith but that he;
knew of dozens of other young
men—his classmates—who had
come out of Wake Forest Col
lege with their faith shattered;
and we have felt it to be our
duty to give these facts to you
in the hope that you will, in
your paper, bring this to the
notice of the Baptists of your
state. Yours respectfully.
A MODERN PRINT SHOP
Specializing in
PUBLICATIONS
Pamphlets, Office Forms, Stationery and
All Kinds of Job Work
MAIL ORDERS SOLICITED
We are as close to you as your mail box
The College Print
C. A. Lovell, Manager
P. O. Box No. 2 Clinton, Miss.