There appears to be a double meaning of our position being developed that was not voiced at the time of the First Congress. Books are being written by Fundamentalists of diverging opinions now. Will we hold the KJV in our public congresses, and hold to other translations in other public teachings and preachings elsewhere? I do not imply anything in the motives of my brethren, but there is the working of an inconsistency in our practice that is becoming harder and harder to maintain. When we give up such a strong position on an English translation, we could be changing, before others and ourselves, from a position we formerly held about Biblical Authority. Fundamentalism among us could suffer a great tragedy indeed to change the distinctiveness of what we have held to as the very Word of God from our beginnings together, brethren.

The day that such a strong statement is considered for removal from the World Congresses of Fundamentalism is the same day we no longer believe our statement to the degree we believed it then. The only thing we can see that would be a stronger offense would be to change our resolutions of doctrine as Fundamentalists. I know of no English Bible Department of any Christian college or seminary, including Foundations Bible College, but what speaks more for Hebrew and Greek than it honors the worth of the Elizabethan, classical English of the King James Version to the degree it deserves. We rarely hear anymore anyone speak highly of an English word from the King James Version. Our forebears did. The times are so flexible; we need to make stronger our belief in the very words of the KJV. Enough words have been said, and books written among us, to reveal there is a growing division among us that no matter how nice we try to say it, it is controversy anyway. All of the various views cannot be equally true; there are inconsistencies and lack of final evidence. We have always believed in a comparative study of texts, but that is never to say they are all equal. I do not doubt the integrity of our brethren, and the articles they write, but I do doubt the kind of dogmatism that is being developed that believes all of our sides among us are tenable or equal.

That is also another reason we must bring God into this urgency. God has preserved His preserved Word among us—The Authorized King James English Text in the English world. God expects us to preserve His Preserved word, too.