Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1894 — A BAPTIST HERETIC. [ARTICLE]

A BAPTIST HERETIC.

President Harper, of the Uni verity of Chicago, in a recent lecture on the “Deluge”, at that institution, made some very re markable - assertions for an orthodox Baptist, as he is supposed to be from the distinguished position he occupies. The prophets under the old dispensation, Mr. Harper said, did not predict future manner generally supposed, by direct inspiration from Cod, but based their prophecies on the condition of the human race at that period, and upon events transpiring In their day and to their knowledge, following these incipient causes to an ultimate logical result by their own reasoning powers. Dr. Harrier denied that the story of “the sons of Cod and thedaughtersof men” was true, either scientifically or historically, and pronounced the recorded events leading up to the flood as myths that cannot be accepted, characterizing them as superstitions ruinous to religion—degrading, monstrous and baneful in their Influence. The story, Mr. Harper says, teaches the awful consequences of sin and gives a fitting introduction to the deluge, but it is simply a story and nothing more. There are many good people of all denominations who will regard such utterances as the rankest heresy, no matter from whom emanating, dngcrsoll himself could hardly express sentiments more directly antagonistic, to the generally accepted theory of the Christian belief in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures. . ‘