The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-05-31

their views of the dust of which man was
formed, meaning the dust from which
through steps from one stage to another,
man came to have dominion over all
other living creatures. He said he did
not believe that he would be condemned
for rejecting ideas which were held two
hundred years ago, and which had no
foundation in fact. 1t was once believed
that lunacy was controlled by the moon,
must he believe it now, because it was
believed then. The Assembly of West.
minister taught that the sun moves. 1t
would be unreasonable to expect that he
should believe it because Westminster
taught it. It made no difference whether
the formation of Adams body was
mediate or immediate; he was made q
living soul and God made covenant
with him.
The Presbytery of Augusta could not
find conviction against the speakers
belief, for he had not antagonized the
Bible. He had not taught that God
performed Els works supernaturally.
That will have to be determined by each
individual mind. he believed that God
formed man out of the dust of the
ground, and yet he was charged with
teaching contrary to the Bible and the
standards, because he went beyond and
believed beyond what was not contained
in them, or on which they are silent To
sustain the Synod of Georgia would be
to condemn all who believe there may be
some truth in evolution. It was a fact
that the Church had never failed, in
deciding on science, to decide wrong.
tR. ADAMS REpLS.
The Rev. DR.. Adams, of Augusta, the
prosecutor, then began his argument on
the part of the Synod of Georgia.
He said it mattered little what were
his motives in prosecuting this cause
before the Presbytery of Augusta, as was
spoken of by DR.. Woodrow yesterday.
They had met face to face in the Courts
of the Church and never had DR.. Wood
row impugned the motives which
prompted his prosecution. The speaker
was of the committee to whom had been
referred the complaint of heresy against
DR.. Woodrow. In committee, in Pres.
bytery and in Synod he had favored let
ting DR.. Woodrow alone to pursue his
Investigations and then to say how he
believed Adams body was evolved. At
that time he knew little of him, but sup.
posed him to be scientific man, who
would work out his ideas and proclaim
results.
Now, he didn't believe there was an
idea in his address that was not obtained
from some one else. The Synod of
Georgia ordered the Presbytery of
Augusta to try him or acquit him of
heresy and error. The speaker was com.
PEELED to bring the case before the proper
Court. Complainant had declared that
the sole object of the prosecutor was to
remove him from his professorship in the
college. That could not have been but
an indirect result. The chair was very
sore point with him. He held the chair
when the Church cried out against him.
DIR. Adams denounced the statement of
DIR. Woodrow that he was willing he
should preach with his views if he would
surrender his rrofessorship, as entirely
the opposite Of what he did say, and
called upon the Assembly to judge
between them.
The Assembly here took recess until
3 O'Clock. -
After the recess, Dr.. Adams contin-
ued:
He said that he had no purpose to
serve in the removal of Prof. Woodrow.
He had no axe to grind, no friend whom
he wished to have the place. When he
was before the Synod of Georgia he said
that the advocate of these views must not
be allowed TO use them in the school Of
the Church. Out of the school of the
Church he had nothing to do with the
views of DR.. Woodrow. But as
preacher he had no right to promulgate
such views while under the shadow of
the Church. He then called attention to
the issues before the Court. DIR. Wood.
row was charged with advancing views
contrary to the standards of the Church.
The Presbytery sustained him, and the
Synod aunulled the action of the Pres
bytery. The question to be determined
is, shall the Synod be sustained? DIR.
Woodrow denied, and his friends denied,
that be ever taught evolution doctrines
in the school, but whether he taught
them or not was immaterial. In his
address to the alumni he taught it, and
in his writings he taught it, and before
this General Assembly he advocated and
taught it, Much that he said was not
relevant to the case, and there was no
need to deny it. The complainant
claimed that in the Bible he finds moth
ing to contradict the cell tEeory-that is,
that a few bodies were formed out of
which all other things in vegetable and
aulln4i life were formed. We take what
he says Just as he states it to be his belief,
and no one attributes to him deism or
atheism. Evolutionists hold that for q
long time fish was the highest type, then
they got frog and the frog was your
ancestor Then they got the reptile, liz
zard and alligator. Then followed the
lower mammalian, which produced the
higher mammalian. He would not call
it monkey either. But they cut off his
nails, hattened his hands and shaved
him. Then the divine miraculous inter-
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