Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

doctrinal or practical word, they have, wherever and whenever they have made
a translation of the Bible, not “shunned to declare all the counsel of God.”
30. In the language of the New York Tribune:
“The Baptists have solved the great problem. They combine the most resolute
conviction, the most stubborn belief in their own special doctrines, with the
most admirable tolerance of the faith of other Christians.”
Before the Evangelical Alliance, of Chicago, but a little while before his death,
Dr. Schaff, the great Presbyterian church historian, said:
“The Baptist is a glorious church; for she bore, and still bears testimony to the
primitive mode of baptism, to the purity of the congregation, to the separation
of church and State, and the liberty of conscience, and has given the world the
‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ of Bunyan. such preachers as Robert Hall and Charles H.
Spurgeon and such missionaries as Judson.”
The lines:
“For modes of faith let graceless bigots fight,
His must be right whose life is in the right.”
are very misleading. From the foregoing that life is the fruit of loyalty to all
things Christ has commanded is the inevitable conclusion. Not that Baptist
human nature has made Baptists better than others but their many peculiar
scriptural principles, doctrines and practices have done so.
Looking over Baptist fruits we see that Baptists, standing ALONE for most
important practical principles and doctrines their abandonment or compromise
of these principles and this doctrine can but work disaster to the world, to
Christians of other churches, to themselves and great dishonor to our precious
Christ. Thus Baptist fruits attest Baptists as the only true successors of Christ,
of His Apostles and of their being the true witnesses from the apostolic to the
present age.
Now, that the liberty of the age presents an open field for Baptists to push the
great New Testament “fight of faith” to the final victory, as Prof. G.D.B.
Pepper, D.D., has so well said, for them to not do so would be to prove
themselves unworthy of the great trust committed to them, recreant to their
duty, dishonoring to the blood of Baptist martyrs which has bequeathed this
opportunity to them and disloyal to God.
With Christian love to all blood-washed souls — whatever their creed — with
a joyful recognition of the broken and mixed fragments of truth held by others
and the good fruits they bear, let us work and pray for the blessed time when