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t he teachings received at the university,-such as that the first chapters of Genesis were myths and that the question of the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead was debatable. The teacher seemed to be such a sincere man that he had great influence with the pupils, and it was only after she attended some meetings held by an evangelist who believed in the whole Word of God that-as she expressed it-she "got straightened out and resolved to take her stand for Christ and the Bible and against any teaching that dishonored her Lord." She left the University. A student in Southwestern University testified that he went there as a freshman with firm faith in his mother's Bible as the infallible Word of God but within a short time was beset with perplexing doubts and questions regarding the truthfulness of the Bible. One of the professors made it a practice to pick out apparent contradictions in the Bible to prove that it was not absolutely infallible. The young man quoted from his notebook this statement: ''Christ is neither omnipotent, omniscient nor omnipresent, because there were things He didn't know and things He couldn't do. For instance He said, 'Of that hour knoweth no man, neither the Son.' Is it necessary to believe that Jesus knew the world was round and that America was on the other side and would one day be discovered? I think not." Asked by Mr. Hawkins if the President and other teachers in the University stood for this teaching, he testified that the President endorsed him in these words: "Would a man of his character-known and respected by all the students-wilfully lead any one astray?" The young man closed his testimony with an impressive appeal to fathers and mothers to so thoroughly ground their children in the belief that the Bible is the infallible Word of God that no amount of infidel teach– ing which they might receive in school or college could ever shake it. The Purpose of this trial, as stated by Mr. Hawkins, was to answer the question: "Has Northern Baptist infidelity captured Southern Method– ist schools 1" Let the reader form his own conclusions as to this after reading the testimony given. Further Proof, if that were necessary, is found in the fact that a bull– etin of the Southwestern University, dated May, 1922, carried the an– nouncement that "The Summer School of Theology is fortunate in being able to secure the services of D'r. Gerald Birney Smith, Professor of Chris– tian Theology in the University of Chicago, a well known author and charming lecturer." Professor Smith 's position with reference to the fundamentals is shown in the following quotation from his "Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion: " "To insist dogmatically, as an a priori principle, that 'without the shedding of blood there is no remis– sion of sin' is both foolish and futile in an age which has abandoned the conception of bloody sacrifice and which is loudly demanding the aboli– tion of capital punishment." The Situation in the Methodist schools of Texas is but an indication of the harmful work of Modernism in denominational schools everywhere, with but few exceptions. And not only in denominational ~chools, but in our tax-supported schools, from the primary grades up to the State Universi– ties, the same pernicious poison is being injected into the minds of the THE END DRAWS NEAR.
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