“THEOLOGY TYPHOID”
MODERNISM ATTACKED BY EVANGELIST DR. OLIVER’S ADDRESS Modernist theologians and evangelicals who are merely compromisers were criticised by Dr. French E. Oliver, Bible teacher and evangelist, addressing a large audience last evening in the Unity Hall. Dr. Oliver's subject was the ministry of the prophet Nathan. In the minds of men and women of faith at the present time, he said, the question was which was the greater danger to the work of soul-winning * evangelicals who simply compromisers, or the infidel modernists/ The speaker took as a simile for his remarks the case of the typhoid carrier who went immune among his fellows but spread contagion. W hen lives were at stake the personal element could not be avoided, lie personally did not think any treatment • ould be too drastic when men who had promised in their ordination vows to uphold the creed of the Church and to defend ti e faith turned round and became carriers of modernism. Dr. Oliver described modernism as the typhoid fever of theology, death-deal-ing in its effect on faith and spiritual life. Those who were depriving people of their faith in the trustworthiness of God's word were those at whom the finger of accusation would eventually be pointed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 7
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