THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION 



with the newness of the age and with the ancient 

 verity of truth." How feeble my own attempt is in 

 this matter, I quite understand; I am still a child of 

 the struggle. It has all come in my lifetime and I 

 have seen and felt not a little of the bitterness of it. 

 I believe the time is ripe for a definite peace. I be- 

 lieve our children, if we do not hamper them, will 

 never know the struggle we have had. In every 

 great institution throughout this broad land men of 

 earnest mind and noble soul are teaching the truth 

 as God gives it to them to know the truth. Let us 

 not hesitate to entrust our children to their hands. 

 To us they may seem to be teachers of discord but 

 they are not speaking in terms that we understand. 

 They are using the language of a new age. Under- 

 neath their teaching lies the everlasting truth. Out 

 of their teaching will come everlasting life. Let us 

 trust God in the world. Let us believe that in this 

 age he is teaching men's lips and dwelling in men's 

 hearts. Only so can we give to our children the 

 best their times can give them. If we insist in hold- 

 ing these men back to our conception we but deny 

 them the privilege of moving with God's great pro- 

 cession. We make them laggards when they should 

 be in the front ranks, their faces lighted by a nearer 

 and clearer vision of Almighty truth. 



