King's Business - 1923-08

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THE KING ' S BUSINESS

fight of faith until the last evolutionist sneaks back to the slimy hole from which he professes to have ·emerged and is lost to our sight forever! We appeal to every patriot, to every business man, to every loyal citizen-old and young-join in the movement to stem the tide of modern– ism which threatens to sweep our country to destruction. It ought to be possible to rally at least 500,000 people to support with their influence and their funds the Christian Fundamentals .Association and thus help to save .America from the Satanic teaching in the schools which seeks to belittle t he Bible in the minds of the students by daily seed-sowing: save it from t he unscrupulous ecclesiasts in the church who prate about their "scholar – ship;" save it from the politicians who would sell their souls for a mess of pottage-public position. - T. C. H. A FAMOUS TRIAL The Court Room was the great auditorium of the First Baptist Chur ch of Fort Worth, Texas, in which were held the sessions of the Fifth .Annual Conference of the World's Fundamental .Association. The Defendants were the College of Methodist bishops; as well as the membership of the Methodist church as a whole, who were charged by the prosecutor with being responsible for the teaching of heresy in Methodist schools in Texas. The P r osecutor was Rev. W. E. Hawkins, Jr., a Methodist evangelist, threatened with excommunication by the Methodist authorities if the trial was permitted. The Jury was composed of nearly five thousand people in attendance upon the Fundamentals' Convention,-the plain. common people of the South, together with delegates from all parts of the United States, Canada, and from across the water,-all of them believing the Bible to be God's Word from Genesis to Revelation. The Witnesses were a number of students from the Texas Woman's College, Southwestern University and Southern Methodist University, who were present on the platform and who testified as to unsound teaching re– ceived in their respective schools. The Testimony of one young woman, now a teacher in the public schools of Ft. Worth, and formerly a student in Texas Woman's College, was that she had been asked to leave the college after she had protested against such teaching as the following: "Scientists in their laboratories have made things that it is not in the power of the Creator to make." "I believe the Bible was inspired just as Browning and Tennyson were in– spired." This young woman was within a few months of graduation, her high grades showed that her scholarship was recognized by her teachers, and the fact that she was editor of the college paper and assistant matron bore testimony to her character. Further weight was given her testimony by her father, who testified that he took the matter up with the college officials, but they, refused to accept his written testimony. .A sophomore at Southern Methodist University, the daughter of a missionary in China, testified that her faith had been nearly wrecked by

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