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Hebrews in the fiery furnace, and that the New Testament is not dependent on the freedom of its writers from fallibility in matters of historical and literary criticism, and whereas, if one part of the Bible is untrustworthy, it is all untrustworthy, and the statements of Dr. Harper tend to undermine the faith of the common people and the Holy Scriptures as the Word of God." The Centralia Baptist Association thus decided to recommend to their pastors and churches that they withhold funding and support from the University of Chicago until they could be "convinced that it stands for the Old Faith and for the Word of God as held by Baptists."
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honorable means to destroy it from the face of the earth. To this end, we commend the work of the Anti-Saloon League, and all other organizations which are laboring to stamp out the awful curse, and urge all our people to support it in its work, and to vote for no man in office who will not firmly pledge himself to use his influence to destroy liquor traffic."
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human origin and Bible controversy began and the association responded with the following resolution: "Whereas, we have been creditably informed that Dr. W.R. Harper, President of the
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