Warhorn Blog Posts Tim Bayly

Excerpt:In 1940, Wheaton's Trustees were scandalized by President Buswell's battle against heresy. They wanted a peaceful campus and non-controversial president, so they fired President Buswell and promoted history prof, V. Raymond Edman, into the presidency.

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Excerpt:Ryken, his Trustees and faculty grudgingly admit this in their Report. But note their final sentence. They couldn't help themselves:
During (Buswell's) tenure as president (1926-1940), the College's endowment expanded substantially, both the faculty and the student body roughly tripled in size (from a few hundred to more than a thousand), and the school's academic rigor and national (and international) reputation grew as never before. Wheaton had become what some have referred to as "the Harvard of Fundamentalism." But these dramatic changes were not accompanied by a more expansive vision for racial equality.[fn]Report, 13.[/fn]The reader of such effete criticism must, of course, understand every last member of the Task Force, administration, and Board of Trustees is certain he himself is in possession of the most expansive vision for racial equality possible. But it should strike fear into the hearts of these faultless men judging Buswell to spend a moment asking themselves what other expansive visions of impeccable moral equality their successors ninety years from now will discover as future generations turn to examining the detritus of their own lives, then denouncing them and purging their names from Wheaton's campus.

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So from the beginning, the Reformed Protestant church condemned paedocommunion as well as administering the Lord's supper with both serious and extensive warnings and threats and serious and extensive encouragements and promises.
Today, postmillennial paedocommunionists only give serious and extensive encouragements and promises.

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[W]hy should we offer poison instead of life-giving food to our tender children?- John Calvin condemning paedocommunionEach of us has spent significant time the past couple of years warning brothers and sisters in Christ against Moscow’s promotion of their paedocommunion schism. We’ve decided it's time to revisit our warnings here at Warhorn. The schism should not be simply the subject of private warnings, but also public warnings and condemnations. This is for the restoration of the unity of the Church, but also for the protection of the souls of the sheep God has entrusted to us for feeding and protection.

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Excerpt:As I write, Ryken and his fellow administrators have been announcing several campus celebrations of their Report's spiritual accomplishments, congratulating themselves publicly and issuing invitations to join them in their joy. Recently they publicized their latest one, announcing they had issued an invitation to the Rev. Dr. Charlie Dates to come and bless them for their surrogate repentance:
Dear Wheaton College Community,On behalf of the Historical Review Implementation Task Force, you are invited to attend the Historical Review Symposium on Tuesday, March 12: "Repentance, Responsibility, and Renewal"* * *
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Excerpt:But let us keep in mind the point of this article. President J. Oliver Buswell Jr. had founded the Department of Anthropology at Wheaton way back in 1937 when Anthropology was the "principal science concerned with race," and this Wheaton College Statement on Race Relations produced by Wheaton's Department of Sociology and Anthropology was the fruit of President Buswell's opposition to racism.
Who has the temerity to deny this?
President Buswell was no fundamentalist, hick, or country bumpkin. He knew precisely what he was doing when he hired Alexander Grigolia, the Sorbonist, to profess Anthropology part time. He knew precisely what he was doing when he brought Grigolia on full time. He knew precisely what he was doing when he tasked Grigolia with founding Wheaton's Department of Anthropology way back in 1937 when, as Wheaton College today brags, "Wheaton's Anthropology program was one of the first of its kind among national liberal arts colleges."

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