Index Theology-Downgrade

"A chasm is opening between the men who believe their Bibles and the men who are prepared for an advance upon Scripture...Those who hold evangelical doctrine are in open alliance with those who call the fall a fable, who deny the personality of the Holy Ghost, who call justification by faith immoral, and hold that there is another probation after death, ... Attendance at places of worship is declining and reverence for holy things is vanishing. We solemnly believe this to be largely attributable to the skepticism which has flashed from the pulpit and spread among the people" (Sword and Trowel, November 1887).