APPENDIX. 
THE NEW CONTROVERSY ABOUT 
EVOLUTION. 
Once more the battle is raging about the theory of 
evolution. The discussion of this subject was a lively 
one fifty years ago, then gradually languished, and the 
past twenty years, to all appearances, was a dead issue. 
Evolution was an accepted fact. Now the magazines 
and the Sunday papers are again carrying long discus- 
sions of this subject, and the religious press is full of it. 
Undoubtedly the onslaught of Mr. W. J. Bryan has in a 
great measure contributed to this revival of popular in- 
terest in evolution. His powerful eloquence has caused 
a commotion in the universities where he addressed the 
students. But the cause of this new controversy lies 
deeper. 
For the past twenty-five years the Christian Church 
in America has been disturbed by a coterie of infidel 
professors of theology, the Sadducees of the modern 
age. The infallible Bible and the divine Christ have 
been denied, every cherished belief of the Church has 
been scrapped, and the very Sunday-school manuals filled 
with the (evolutionistic) Higher Criticism of the Bible. 
Now the revulsion has come. Great scholars have arisen 
and have demonstrated the baselessness and dishonesty of 
this infidel propaganda. The churches are alarmed. 
Among Presbyterians there is an open demand for sepa- 
ration, and the Fundamentalists among the Baptists are 
marshaling the best intellect of that denomination in de- 
fense of Christian belief. And everywhere there is rec- 
ognition of the fact that evolution is the great, impure 
mother of all this spawn of heresy and infidelity. 
