292 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. -. 
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