Article October 29, 1904 Issue

A Minister Changes Views

New York Tribune

Northport, Long Island, October 1.—The Rev. Dr. Samuel T. Carter, for many years a member of the Presbytery of Nassau, has sent to all the members of the Presbytery a letter that has caused a decided stir among the ministers. Mr. Carter now lives in New York. He says in part.—

"I feel that we owe to our people a better statement of the doctrines of the Holy Scripture. It hurts the consciences and intellects of our best people to be assured, on Divine authority, that the world was made in six days; that a plague came on Israel because David numbered the people, as we do every ten years, or that the Holy Ghost approves of dashing 'the little ones against the stones.' The attempted explanation of such utterances does credit neither to our intellect nor our conscience.

"Surely we ought to have a better doctrine of sacred Scriptures as an advancing revelation of God, while accepting it as containing the supreme utterances of spiritual truth and as being a faithful guide to eternal life.

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