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Brown University, to represent the Baptists. 

 It claims among its seats of learning, Har- 

 vard, Dartmouth, Cornell, Michigan Univer- 

 sity, University of California and many other 

 colleges of less note. 



Although it has this standing among reli- 

 gious teachers, two classes of thinkers still 

 persist in lecturing and sermonizing the pub- 

 lic into the belief that the doctrine itself is es- 

 sentially atheistic. The two classes are the 

 atheists and the faithful among the theolo- 

 gians. That an atheist should want to usurp 

 this doctrine is not surprising; that an ortho- 

 dox theologian should help him to succeed is 

 a matter of surprise and deep regret. If it 

 concerned the atheist or the theologian alone 

 the evil would be less than it is. As it is, the 

 real harm is clone to thousands of young peo- 

 ple who read enough to know that science ac- 

 cepts some sort of evolution and who hear 

 from Sabbath sermons that evolution and 

 godliness are not only inconsistent but de- 

 structive of each other. If these things are 

 stated with anything like fairness to the facts. 



