A Story Outline of Evolution 



sufficient everywhere to Interpret Itself, that, on the con- 

 trary, it was ordained to be Interpreted under the concen- 

 trated light of all the learning which has been created by a 

 God-given Intelligence to man. I believe the biblical docu- 

 ments, so far as dictated by inspiration, have been written 

 for all time; and that their meaning Is so often so deep and 

 so rich that the accumulated learning of the latest generation 

 of men will be unable to exhaust it. 



"The pretense that the Bible must be interpreted gram- 

 matically and Hebraically, without scientific aids. Is an 

 implicit denial of Its divine inspiration, and Is one of those 

 self-destructive claims which a blind faith is ever setting up 

 against the demands of common sense." 



Since the Bible is a book of religion it Is well to take the 

 testimony of those best qualified to speak on the relation- 

 ship of Evolution to Religion. Dr. Henry Drummond, a 

 great naturalist, author, and minister, whom Dwight L. 

 Moody characterized as the "greatest preacher In the 

 world," In his book: "The Ascent of Man," pages 341 and 

 342, published in 1894 in the days of Evolution's dawn, 

 harmonized Evolution and Religion in these words : "Is 

 Nature henceforth to become the ethical teacher of the 

 world? Shall Its aims become the guide, its spirit the inspira- 

 tion of Man's life? Is there no ground here where all the 

 faiths and all the creeds may meet — nay no ground for a 

 final faith and a final creed? If all men could see the inner 

 meaning and aspiration of the natural order, should we not 

 find at last a universal religion congruous with the whole 



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