1. The Bible. The Scriptures of the Old and NewTestaments were given by inspiration of God, and are our infallible ruleof faith and practice.

2. God. There is one living and true God, revealedin nature as the Creator, Preserver, and Righteous Governor of the universe;and in the Scriptures as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; yet as one God, infinitelywise and good, whom all intelligent creatures are supremely to love, adore,and obey.

3. Christ. Christ is God manifest in the flesh;in His divine nature truly God, in His human nature truly man. The mediatorbetween God and man, once crucified, He is now risen and glorified, andis our ever present Saviour and Lord.

4. The Holy Spirit. The Scriptures assign to theHoly Spirit all the attributes of God.

5. The Government of God. God exercises a wiseand benevolent providence over all being and all things by maintainingthe constitution and laws of nature. He also performs special acts, nototherwise provided for, as the highest welfare of men requires.

6. The Sinfulness of Man. Man was created innocent,but by disobedience fell into a state of sin and condemnation. His posterity,therefore, inherit a fallen nature of such tendencies that all who cometo years of accountability, sin and become guilty before God.

7. The Works of Christ. The Son of God by His incarnation,life, sufferings, death, and resurrection effected for all a redemptionfrom sin that is full and free, and is the ground of salvation by faith.

8. The Terms of Salvation. The conditions of salvation are:
1. Repentance or sincere sorrow for sin and hearty renunciation ofit.
2. Faith or the unreserved committal of one's self to Christ as Saviorand Lord with purpose to love and obey Him in all things. In the exerciseof saving faith, the soul is renewed by the Holy Spirit, freed from thedominion of sin, and becomes a child of God.
3. Continuance of faith andobedience unto death.

9. Election. God determined from the beginningto save all who should comply with the conditions of salvation. Hence byfaith in Christ men become His elect.

10. Freedom of the Will. The human will is freeand self-controlled, having power to yield to the influence of the truthand the Spirit, or to resist them and perish.

11. Salvation Free. God desires the salvation ofall, the Gospel invites all, the Holy Spirit strives with all, and whosoeverwill may come and take of the water of life freely.

12. Perseverance. All believers in Christ, whothrough grace persevere in holiness to the end of life, have promise ofeternal salvation.

13. Gospel Ordinances. BAPTISM, or the immersionof believers in water, and the LORD'S SUPPER, are the ordinances to beperpetuated under the Gospel. FEET WASHING, an ordinance teaching humility,is of universal obligation, and is to be ministered to all true believers.

14. Tithing. God commanded tithes and offeringsin the Old Testament; Jesus Christ endorsed it in the Gospel (Matt. 23:23),and the apostle Paul said, "Upon the first day of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him" (1 Cor.16:2a).

15. The Christian Sabbath. The divine law requiresthat one day in seven be set apart from secular employments and amusements,for rest, worship, holy works, and activities, and for personal communionwith God.

16. Resurrection, Judgment, and Final Retribution.The Scriptures teach the resurrection of all men at the last day. Thosewho have done good will come forth to the resurrection of life, and thosewho have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation; then the wickedwill "go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternallife."