The Intent Of The Researcher

A dear friend and occasional contributer to The Researcher has quite understandably strongly re-acted to the fact that we have laid considerable emphasis lately upon our conviction that he is wrong with regards to ideas, which he and some others, whom we have quoted in the past, have held regarding a line of teaching and a miss-use of seeming proof texts, in ways which this editor strongly believes are distortive of the truth about the Person of Christ and the range of His Kingdom, both now and in the eternal future.

Three times, in a relatively short letter, he charges that in our doing as we have done, I have betrayed the originnal purpose or design of The Researcher. Our purpose has always been to encourage Christians to re-search or re-examine their views of God's Word, and especially those parts of it that relate, directly or indirectly, to His prophetic purposes. I have constantly admired and pitied writers of denominational magazines, who had grace or endurance enough to suffer pastoral manipulators and would-be controllers of editors, but I have made it clear that my concept of my calling leaves little room for subserviance to back bench dictators, who will not take the responsibility and blame for leadership positions and decisions. If I must be answerable as an editor, I must be free from back bench mandates. We have reproduced statements of truth by men with whom we have differed vigorously on some other issues; but we refuse to be forced by contributions of either money or acceptable writing into opening the pages for which we are responsible to ongoing exposure and promotion of material that we believe is offered with a deliberate desire to distort what we believe to be basic truth. I have not deviated one iota from the objective I ennunciated in Brooklyn and Philadelphia where the plan for such a messenger was born, in conference with two other associates, both of whom are now in Glory. The job is bigger than I foresaw, both in respect to the cost, the work and the inspiring results, so do not feel too badly if some must go, while others come as gifts of God.

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