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Ketcherside represented the anti-college faction, and G. C. Brewer was the debater for loyal brethren in the auditorium of the St. Louis House, December 16-19, 1946. Five congregations supported Ketcherside and 14 supported Brewer. E. M. Zerr moderated for Ketcherside; W. L. Totty for Brewer.
The first two nights Brewer affirmed that the organization of schools, such as David Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tennessee for the purpose of teaching the Bible and other subjects in connection, is in harmony with God's word, and, therefore, scriptural. Brewer opened his affirmation by showing that the church is a New Testament organization ruled over by elders, with Christ as its head, and that Christ is to be glorified in the church. He further showed that any organization that attempts to usurp authority over the church, or in any way infringe on the rights of the church, is unscriptural. The honor and glory of the church must not be divided with another organization. Brewer then showed how that Christians as individuals teach the word of God in a college, and thus glorify God through the church, because they are members of the church, and any good thing that a Christian may do anywhere is giving God glory, just as an evil act by a Christian done anywhere will bring reproach against the church by virtue of the fact that he is a member of the church.
Bro. Brewer read from Masheim to the effect that the early Christians established schools in which to teach their children. He made a strong argument concerning Paul's teaching in the school of Tyrannus. He also made a very forceful argument on the Jews building the synagogues for the purpose of teaching, although God had not told them definitely to do such, but had told them to teach, and the synagogue was only a method of doing the thing that God commanded to be done, and that the synagogue teaching is analogous to our teaching in the colleges. That argument is one of the many that Ketcherside never touched. Brewer handed Ketcherside twenty written questions which he never attempted to answer.
The last two nights Ketcherside affirmed "that the organization of schools, such as David Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tennessee for the purpose of teaching the Bible and other subjects in connection, violates God's word, and is, therefore, sinful." Ketcherside's affirmative was very weak. About all he did was to rant against Bible colleges, saying that they are owned by the church and are parallel to the Missionary Society. Bro. Brewer met that by showing that they do not exercise any authority whatever beyond the bonds of the campus, and are not parallel to the Missionary Society.
Ketcherside spent much of his time reading from James A. Allen, Foy E. Wallace, Jr., Eugene Smith and others, trying to set them against colleges. He paraded Bro. Wallace's statement before the audience with much pomp and glory. A few years ago Wallace wrote this statement: 'It was the colleges that swept the church into the digression.' The anti-college papers have published it twenty times. It was printed in the American Christian Review not long ago in the form of a proposition, with Wallace's name to it, challenging us to meet Wallace in a debate on the college question. This shows their unfairness. Of course Bro. Brewer had no trouble of clearing the issue of all such subterfuge.
Perhaps Bro. Brewer's best negative work was done in answer to Ketcherside's argument against the colleges as an organization, based upon Ephesians 3:10. Brewer showed that the anti-college position on Ephesians 3:10 makes it unscriptural and sinful to teach children the Bible in the home. Ketcherside felt the sting of this argument so severely that he admitted that Ephesians 3:10 did not apply to people on earth, but referred to God's making known his manifold wisdom to the angels in heavenly places by establishing the church. Brewer showed that Ketcherside used his organization known as 'Bible Reading' in which he teaches the Bible in connection with other subjects. He also sells his literature, published by a worldly institution, to teach the word of God, or, as Ketcherside would put it 'to do the work of the church.'
Bro. Brewer is a fine debater on both the affirmative and the negative. He never makes a note of his opponent's speech, yet answers every worthwhile point. His arguments are logical, forceful, and powerful. He is a splendid orator, and in the heat of debate his speech seems to roll forth as great ocean waves. The debate was a complete success. (To be published by Eugene Smith)
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G. C. Brewer vs Carl Ketcherside
January 9, 1947
St. Louis House
(By W. L. Totty, Indianapolis, Indiana)
January 9, 1947
St. Louis House
(By W. L. Totty, Indianapolis, Indiana)
Ketcherside represented the anti-college faction, and G. C. Brewer was the debater for loyal brethren in the auditorium of the St. Louis House, December 16-19, 1946. Five congregations supported Ketcherside and 14 supported Brewer. E. M. Zerr moderated for Ketcherside; W. L. Totty for Brewer.
The first two nights Brewer affirmed that the organization of schools, such as David Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tennessee for the purpose of teaching the Bible and other subjects in connection, is in harmony with God's word, and, therefore, scriptural. Brewer opened his affirmation by showing that the church is a New Testament organization ruled over by elders, with Christ as its head, and that Christ is to be glorified in the church. He further showed that any organization that attempts to usurp authority over the church, or in any way infringe on the rights of the church, is unscriptural. The honor and glory of the church must not be divided with another organization. Brewer then showed how that Christians as individuals teach the word of God in a college, and thus glorify God through the church, because they are members of the church, and any good thing that a Christian may do anywhere is giving God glory, just as an evil act by a Christian done anywhere will bring reproach against the church by virtue of the fact that he is a member of the church.
Bro. Brewer read from Masheim to the effect that the early Christians established schools in which to teach their children. He made a strong argument concerning Paul's teaching in the school of Tyrannus. He also made a very forceful argument on the Jews building the synagogues for the purpose of teaching, although God had not told them definitely to do such, but had told them to teach, and the synagogue was only a method of doing the thing that God commanded to be done, and that the synagogue teaching is analogous to our teaching in the colleges. That argument is one of the many that Ketcherside never touched. Brewer handed Ketcherside twenty written questions which he never attempted to answer.
The last two nights Ketcherside affirmed "that the organization of schools, such as David Lipscomb College, Nashville, Tennessee for the purpose of teaching the Bible and other subjects in connection, violates God's word, and is, therefore, sinful." Ketcherside's affirmative was very weak. About all he did was to rant against Bible colleges, saying that they are owned by the church and are parallel to the Missionary Society. Bro. Brewer met that by showing that they do not exercise any authority whatever beyond the bonds of the campus, and are not parallel to the Missionary Society.
Ketcherside spent much of his time reading from James A. Allen, Foy E. Wallace, Jr., Eugene Smith and others, trying to set them against colleges. He paraded Bro. Wallace's statement before the audience with much pomp and glory. A few years ago Wallace wrote this statement: 'It was the colleges that swept the church into the digression.' The anti-college papers have published it twenty times. It was printed in the American Christian Review not long ago in the form of a proposition, with Wallace's name to it, challenging us to meet Wallace in a debate on the college question. This shows their unfairness. Of course Bro. Brewer had no trouble of clearing the issue of all such subterfuge.
Perhaps Bro. Brewer's best negative work was done in answer to Ketcherside's argument against the colleges as an organization, based upon Ephesians 3:10. Brewer showed that the anti-college position on Ephesians 3:10 makes it unscriptural and sinful to teach children the Bible in the home. Ketcherside felt the sting of this argument so severely that he admitted that Ephesians 3:10 did not apply to people on earth, but referred to God's making known his manifold wisdom to the angels in heavenly places by establishing the church. Brewer showed that Ketcherside used his organization known as 'Bible Reading' in which he teaches the Bible in connection with other subjects. He also sells his literature, published by a worldly institution, to teach the word of God, or, as Ketcherside would put it 'to do the work of the church.'
Bro. Brewer is a fine debater on both the affirmative and the negative. He never makes a note of his opponent's speech, yet answers every worthwhile point. His arguments are logical, forceful, and powerful. He is a splendid orator, and in the heat of debate his speech seems to roll forth as great ocean waves. The debate was a complete success. (To be published by Eugene Smith)
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