This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...the church existed not only to save lives but to continue intact an orthodox theology. But the confines of truth are far more extended than they used to be; and it. is impossible to bound the nature of God and define all his purposes for mankind in as rigid language as the fathers were wont to use. Therefore the church ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...the church existed not only to save lives but to continue intact an orthodox theology. But the confines of truth are far more extended than they used to be; and it. is impossible to bound the nature of God and define all his purposes for mankind in as rigid language as the fathers were wont to use. Therefore the church has become willing to make the service of Christ and devotion to the kingdom of Christ the supreme qualification for membership, using its statement of doctrinal belief, not as a barrier against thought, but as a suggestion to further grasp of spiritual truth. It would seem, therefore, that every one who had found in Jesus a revelation of God and an ideal for man, who could see in him "the way, the truth, and the life," would find no hindrance in entering the fellowship of the church. And surely those who, in the present situation, are unwilling to enter this fellowship can find no just cause for complaint that they are not given a vote in the direction of church matters. On the thirteenth of December, 1892, the eighth pastor of the church, Rev. Lewis Wilder Hicks, was installed; Rev. J. W. Cooper, of New Britain, Connecticut, preaching the sermon. Mr. Hicks had been in the pastorate for eighteen years, having had charge of Congregational churches in Woodstock, Vt, Wethersfield, Conn., Pueblo, Col., and Denison, Tex. At the opening of 1893 the church was once more entirely out of debt, the sale of the parsonage during 1892 having sufficed to clear off all incumbrances. There had been a serious difference of opinion in regard to the first attempt to select a pastor, and the feeling aroused threatened at one time to result in permanent injury to the church. But Mr. Hicks soon found his way into the hearts of his people, and by his unf...
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