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 may be named such books as "Fallacies of Evolution," by J. D. Charles; "The Conservative Viewpoint" and "The Mennonite Church and Current Issues," by Daniel Kauffman; and "Modern Religious Liberalism" and "The Mennonite Church and Modernism," by John Horsch. These books were put in circulation throughout the Church.

The Mennonite General Conference likewise put itself on record by a carefully prepared statement on Christian Fundamentals. While some had gotten the idea that these articles of faith were adopted to supplant the eighteen articles of faith adopted at Dortrecht, Holland, in 1632, that was entirely foreign to the aims of our General Conference, as the statement of Fundamentals which we herewith submit was intended to cover an entirely different field. The paper adopted at Dort is still the recognized Confession of Faith in the Mennonite Church. Following is the Statement:

In order to safeguard our people from the inroads of false doctrines which assail the Word of God and threaten the foundation of our faith, we, the Mennonite General Conference, in regular session assembled at the Sycamore Grove Church near Garden City, Missouri, August 25th, 1921, herewith make the following declaration regarding the fundamental doctrines of our faith:

We believe in the plenary and verbal inspiration of the Bible as the Word of God; that it is authentic in its matter, authoritative in its counsels, inerrant in the original writings,