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pass this philosophy down to posterity as a "New Edition of the Memorial on Human Follies." The Tat-es of Evolution Have Been Surreptitiously Sown It was night, and under the cover of darkness this enemy came; not in the early evening when people were moving about, lest he be detected, but later, when men slept and no courage was re– quired to put over the dastardly deed. How true to history! I well remember when first this hypothesis began to be hinted in our schools, and how once In deny the charge and say he was mis– understood,-he was simply presenting it that the students might know about it and be intelligent when the subj ect came up. That individual multiplied himself and that method became well nigh uni– versal; and wheg, four years ago, the Christian Fundamentals Association be– gan to fight this theory, it was soon dis– covered that, like cuckoos, they had laid their eggs in a lmost every college nest, and used sacred endowments to unwit– tingly hatch them and unknowingly nurture their young, and sent them forth to propagate their kind! It be– gins to look as though, in origin and animus, it is another anarchistic-social– istic propaganda. In the great Southland, supposed to be conservative, the exact same process after the exact same surreptitious man– ner, is now making prodigious progress. Less than three years ago, Dr. Gambrell, or Texas, president of the Southern Convention, wrote me from Stockholm. Sweden, congratulating me upon the de– fense or the faith I was putting up in the Northland and saying, "Thank God, we do not have this problem in the South. I do not know a single preacher or professor who stands for the Darwin-
Ian hypothesis." What deception had been practiced on that great man! ! At that very time, for full twenty years, at Wake Forest, N. C., the brilliant president had been an ardent advocate of this theory and converts to his faith had been carefully distributed into other schools to do their surreptitious work. Ten years before that time in Waco University, one of these gradu– ates was the Dean of that School, and an ardent advocate of the evolutionary hypothesis; and that he did his work well is evident in the circumstance that lately four professors have been forced Methodist Church is torn over this subject, and recent declarations by eminent men in our Southern Baptist seminaries have rendered the entire Baptist body of the Southland restless in the last degree and ill content with the theological teachings that characterize the same. Surreptitious is the word-"sown in the darkness while me'! slept." How suggestive! Even Prof. Shailer Mathews admits that the evangelical faith was back of the creation of the Foreign Mission So– cieties, the founding of first-class col– leges, the establishment of the greater theological seminaries, the creation of the Y. M. C. A., etc. It was this fact that led Dr. Carroll, president of Waco, and later the found– er of Southwestern Theological Semin– ary, to speak in loud protest against this whole thieving procedure, and watch his "faculty with anxious care lest some lying spirit should succeed to membership on the same. What then is the conclusion of the whole matter? (3) THE TEST OF PATIENCE. "So the servunhl ot the householder came nnd suld unto him, Sir. dldat not thou sow geod seed in thy field l advocate it. The great Southern
a while, there would he a suspicion that out of that institution because of their some man was teaching it, and how advocacy of this false hypothesis, and almost without exception he would· the president and two others remain to
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