Journal: Central Bible Quarterly
Volume: CENQ 12:1 (Spring 1969)
Article: The G.A.R.B. Guilt Complex Of Dr. Merle R. Hull, Editor Of The Baptist Bulletin
Author: Richard V. Clearwaters

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The G.A.R.B. Guilt Complex Of Dr. Merle R. Hull, Editor Of The Baptist Bulletin

Richard V. Clearwaters

This writer has been a reader, subscriber and friend of The Baptist Bulletin for a long time. When we were in the Conservative Baptist Movement, holding offices, and serving on the C.B.F.M.S. Mission Board, occasionally we would meet ourselves in The Bulletin being criticized for being a part of a “mixed multitude” and for a lack of “separation.” Even though we developed what was called the “hard core” in that movement, we took that criticism knowing that much of it was deserved on a strict Biblical basis. Finally we realized our hopeless plight and separated completely with a number of other churches and pastors, and formed the New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches.

This Association began with resolutions against the Billy Graham variety of Ecumenical Evangelism, against New Evangelicalism as described by its confessed founder Harold Ockenga (exact wording found in W. E. Ashbrook’s, “Evangelicalism the New Neutralism,” page 7b through 8a), and a strong resolution for the twenty-four hour day in the Genesis account of creation, and one for the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church. The Minnesota Baptist Association has passed the same resolutions (Dr. B. Myron Cedarholm personally made the motion to place by name the hesitant G.A.R.B. in the resolution as faltering on the twenty-four hour day in their resolution). Dr. Cedarholm also wrote in the Central Testimony, November-December, 1967, the strongest article yet published, “Why a New Association of Churches IS Needed,” and he closed that article with words about leaving the Swedish Conference, about leaving the A.B.C., and about leaving the C.B.A., and then said, “Now we are in the N.T.A. and will remain unless it should defect. We must always be true first to God’s Word.”

March 23, 1966, during the presidency of Dr. Cedarholm at Pillsbury College, I received the following telegram from the

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Fundamental Baptist Fellowship (the Board of which was meeting in Chicago), Dr. Guy Archer Weniger, president: “Whereas it has been brought to our attention that on two recent occasions representatives of the CBFMS have been presented as guest speakers at Pillsbury College chapel exercises, and whereas Pillsbury represents the heart of those vital interests we are united in fellowship to foster and protect, epitomizing our position as an association in ‘hard core’ churches; and whereas Pillsbury College has been militant and uncompromising in its stand against the enemies we face in these days, represented by New Evangelicals and their sympathizers; be it therefore resolved that we e...

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