We clip the following short paragraph from the Western Recorder of May 26: [466]

      Prof. Shailer Matthews, of the Baptist Divinity School in Chicago, said in a recent speech in that city, "Christianity gave value to Christ's teaching, and not Christ's teaching to Christianity." There may be some meaning in those words consistent with belief in our Lord as the mighty God and the atoning Saviour, but it does not appear.

      The Recorder thinks that there may be some meaning in these words of Professor Matthews consistent with belief in our Lord; but if they have any meaning at all, consistent or inconsistent, it does not appear to me. It is characteristic of many men with the critical views espoused by Professor Matthews often to employ words without meaning. By the by, I am not sure President Harper will thank the Recorder for representing that Divinity School as a Baptist institution; and I am sure that the Recorder is not anxious, by the use of that title, to claim fellowship with it.

[SEBC 466-467]