Letters From the Red Beech
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Excerpt from Letters From the Red Beech: Six Letters by a Layman to a Minister of the Free Church of Scotland on the Canon, the Pulpit, and Criticism My Dear Sir, - I believe that this is the first time on which I have broken silence on this question. Like not a few other laymen I have a filial desire for the welfare of the Free Church, and for the welfare of Scotland through it, but I have thought that both might be best promoted by zealously holding ones tongue on the Robertson Smith matter, and taking no side upon it. Like a good many such men, however, I have at last been driven out of mere silence. Some general and important aspects of the question are coming to the front, which seem to me to demand not so much special knowledge that I do not possess - as a frank interchange of conscientious views between laymen and ministers. And while I have the honour to know most of the leading ministers of the Free Church, I am desirous to address one who is not only a member of the Commission of Assembly which has to deal with this special matter, but, above all things, a minister and a preacher - a man deservedly trusted and deservedly beloved, as a devout and competent dispenser of the divine Word to at least two generations of his countrymen. For reasons which will appear in the sequel, I think the influence of the Scottish pulpit, and the use which its occupants may make of the knowledge which they already possess, of the highest importance in this matter. But in the meantime I ask leave to mention to you those new and more constraining aspects of the question which have led to my addressing you. At the last meeting of the Free Church Commission of Assembly some of the weightier movers in this question abstained in a very remarkable way from the stress formerly laid on the Westminster Confession of Faith, and instead directed the mind of their hearers to a certain traditional belief of the Church on those subjects. Some of them pointed a contrast, apparently for the same purpose, between the Bible as being our supreme standard, while the Confession is only subordinate. And all this was reflected in the terms of Dr Wilson´s motion, which, as carried, appointed a committee to consider the bearing of Professor Smiths writings on "the accepted belief and teaching of the Church." This phraseology appeared to one of the most trusted and experienced friends of the Free Church, Mr Brown Douglas, so unusual and so dangerous, that on 17th August last he wrote a letter of caution and warning as to a course which might perhaps have been entered upon unawares. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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