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VOL. 21, NO. 12
THE ROAD IS NOT YET OMJAflBD
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Copyright: 1921: By The Chicago Tribune.
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When I Preached Saving Money,
;Not Souls
(Paul M. Kamamorio in the Sun
day School Times.)
In olden days God sent the Ori
ental taujl to take' the' Gospel, to
.Europe; in those latter days in
Which we live the history of His
providential, guidance 4s. repeating
itself. In the earlier months of last
year He ' sent the saffron-robed
Oriental, the Sadhui Sundar Singh,
from India to. the Occident with a
fresh message about how to pray;
and he has sent another Oriental
Paul Kanamori, from Japan, to warn
us, out of a bitter personal experi
ence, that there is nothing in the
destructive criticism of the Bible to
help the pagans of the Far East, but
that there is everything in it to make
of ourselves cultured pagans like
those of ancient Greece. Thank
God for these needed gospelfjrs, from
4he East, and their fidelity to the di
vine Oriental, their Lord and outs,
ana Ms glorious Book! Ed Sunday
School Times.
In the preceding article I gave a
brief account of the "Kumamoto
Band," but now I must turn to my
own p&rt in it,, because I am to toll
you the story of my own Chiislian
life. But when I turn to mv own
part I am sorry to say that I cannot
give the good part only, but 1 must
give the bad part to. I was not a good
boy, as some of my friends were,
working faithfully during half a conn
tury. I was a blacksliding prodigal
son of my heavenly Father for many
years. My life was ship-wrecked on
the rocks of doubt and unbelief. I
have nothing to glory of, but only
to confess my sins and failures. It
is not a pleasant thing for a man
to speak of his own sins and fail
ings. But I think It is our first duty
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as Christians to confess our sins to
one another. So I herd wish to dis
charge that first duty, and if possible
warn my young friends who are to
danger of treading the same path.
I was the first ono of the Kumam
oto Band who came to Doshisha
ntifvArnltv. in thft aummer of 1876.
Also I was a member of the first
graduating class, of. 187 u. After
graduating from this school I went
down to the Province of Okayama
as a missionary. 'mere was an
American board mission station in
Okayama, and I worked in connec
tion with it, and after a year there
sprang up a Congregational church
of about fifty members, and I became
its first pastor.
Then I was called back by Dr.
Neeshima to his school as a profes
sor of theology. So I came back to
my alma mater and assisted Dr.
Neeshima in teaching, and also in
Uio work of the presidency.
During my stay in Doshisha uni
versity as a professor of theology 1
read many books on that subject.
Among them were the books of
German New Theology and the High-?
er Criticism. To me, brought up in
almost Puritan strictness of doc
trine and practise, ' their easy and
free way of handling the Word of
God and interpreting the doctrines
of the Bible were so interesting and
rascinating that I was completely
carried" away by ttieir cunning argu
ment. Finally I became a convert
to this new doctrine, and a very
zealous propagandist of it.
In those days all the Congrega
tional churches were orthodox and
evangelical, and I was looked at jir
a very dangerous heretic, and was al
most excommunicated. I could not
conscientiously stay in the orthodox
church, since my theology so great
ly differed from theirs, and nn T latr
the Congregational church in order
io mase iny position clear to the
world; but when I left the church x
loft the Christian ministry also. I
did so because New Theology ana
Higher Criticism had destroyed my
faith in the perfect Divine authority
of the Bible, and the perfect Deity
of Christ. When I had lost these
two things I had lost everything.
In those days there were many
liberals who were saying, "You may
have your own theology in your
study, but retain the commonly ac
cepted Christian doctrine in thn ,i-
pit. There is no need of entering'
""" " umuussion or theological
questions in the pulpit, because it is
for the common people, and not for
the scholars."
B I said, "I cannot use two
theologies in my ministry, one for
myself, and the other for the people
I cannot handle the word of God in
such a double-handed way; what
I have learned in my study that I will
preach in my pulpit." But such was
quite a common practise among the
liberals of those days.
Some liberal churches invited me
to come to their side and help the
X?ad0f 1lberal Christianity in Ja-
fett fhUt ,dflined a11 invitations,
left the ministry, and joined a p0I
litico-social reform campaign in my
country Now I became a poHtteS
and social reformer; and in this ch
Pac ty Spent more than twenty years
mSw n't?? to11 h0 tllQ st"dy of
Higher Criticism and New Theolocv
destroyed mv vnnii-i ,.?Oi0S7.
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depths of doubt and unbSEf thG
I was a lover of the Bible. I loved
it and revered it as the word of God
T ELCOn,y?ted by wading tfteBlbte
I believed the Bible was the word of
God, given by the Holy Snirif
through holy men of old. The B iwfc
contains truth only an i A hl
The Holy Spirit cannot be the ZiV'
of error. God c.nnlVt&l
1 believed in the absoluTrnZT'
authority of the Bible, an l n
Dtvino Book, as on the rock o? th,a
I built ray faith in Christ?anity8teha'
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