Dr. Ryder And The Creed

On June 15, Rev. Dr. Ryder, of Ann Arbor, was inaugurated as professor in the Andover theological seminary. He subscribed to the Andover creed, but in a way which leaves him perfeotly free to interpret it according to bis own reason. Next week The Register will print hia statement in which he defines his views. The Boston Advertiser, in an editorial article on "Brighter Days for Andover," says: The most important event of the anniversary was Dr. Ryder's inauguration as professor of New Testament literature. In subscribing to the seminary creed the new member of the faculty presented a carefully prepared statement of the sense in which he gave hia assen t to that famous document. In our columns elsewhere this morning Dr. Ryder's statement will be found in full. It will well repay careful study. Many persons who have labored under a misappreüension regarding the creed and the obligations of those who subscribe thereto will havetheir erroneous impressions corrected bv thia means. Dr. Ryder was elected to the chair which he now occupies by unanimous vote of the trustees and visitors, and he explicitly set forth to those bodies, before acceptinc the appointment, his views as yesterday publicly declared. It will be observed that he sees in the creed at once "orthodox soundness and broad catholicity ;" that he repudiatcs the notion that he is obliged to assent ''to all the doctrinal views which some or all of the framers may have held and taught;" that he accepts "different parís of the creed with different degrees of confidence;" that he regards some of the phraseology of the creed as "suggested by a mistaken exegesis," and finally that he does not subscribe to all the creedmakers' "psycholoey or to all their interpretstions of soripture, but simply 'to the doctrines of the gospel as expressed in the creed.' "