Article June 1, 1899 Issue

Another Lawyer Heard From

BY WM. HOLMAN JENNINGS.

It had been the cherished desire of my mother that I should become a preacher in the Presbyterian Church; but at the age of twenty-one, when I was prepared for a course in theology, my ideas of election, eternal punishment, and a personal devil were radically different from the accepted articles of that denomination. Also, all truths seemed in unity, and all days were the Lord's days; hence there was no distinction between sacred and secular rights, duties, and science. However, in the fall of 1892, I went from Virginia to New England and attended for one session a well-known divinity school. In the summer of 1893 the conclusion came irresistibly that I could never preach with sincerity any of the schemes or plans of salvation known to "Comparative Theology." A year before this thought had come to me :—

Let Theologues lull drowsy heads to rest,
He best knows God who loves his Maker best.

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