From the “Contender,” May, 1952.
“ONE of the leading dispensational writers of the 19th century was C. H. McIntosh, who was well known by his initials C. H. M. One of McIntosh’s series of writings was on the five books of Moses—Genesis to Deuteronomy—and went by the unusual title, “C. H. M.’s Notes.” Concerning this set of dispensational “Notes” D. L. Moody said, “They have been to me a very key to the Scriptures.” This quotation from Moody praising Dispensationalism is found on page 2 of a long list of fundamentalist books and booklets advertised in the back pages of Moody’s booklet entitled, “Prevailing Prayer,” which was published by the Revell Company in 1885. The dispensational fundamentalist flood of present-day “evangelists” which hates Presbyterianism and rejects the Covenant theology and infant baptism was set in motion, on a large scale, by the preaching and influence of D. L. Moody. The “evangelists” of to-day are simply copying the fundamentalism of Moody. It is long past time for “Presbyterians” to stop praising D. L. Moody and his successors as “great Christians.” Instead Presbyterians should expose Moody and his followers as enemies of the great Biblical truth of Predestination and the Covenant of grace which includes infant baptism. Dispensationalism tries to split off the Old Testament from the New, and thereby would destroy the basis of the Biblical and Reformed Faith.”—W. McL.