The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1905-11-10
is NOT A HERETO.
Rev. Bradley of Atlanta is
Strongly Defended,
HIS TRADUCERS HARD HIT
Rev. J. w. Lee of St. Louis Church
Delivers Singing Rebuke to Old
Fogies in a Sermon on
Evolution. a -

Preaching Sunday night on "Evolu.
tion," Rev, James W. Lee, pastor OF
st. John Methodist Episcopal church,
in st. Louis, Mo-, who will succeed
Rev. Dr.. H. S. Bradley at Trinity
church, Atlanta, and whom DR.. Brad.
lep will succeed at st. John church,
Defended DR.. Bradley against the re-
cent heresy attack, declaring him an
eyolutionist and advanced thinker.
In his sermon DR.. Lee declared his
firm belief in theistic evolution as op-
posed to materialistic evolution, and
presented the creation of the world
by evolution as the only tenable the
CRY for modern religious thought. The
opponents Of evolution, the people
who accept literally the creation story
oz the Bible, he relegated to the dark
ages. DR.. Lee delved deep into scien-
tiic research, quoted Huxley, Haeckel
and Spencer and rehearsed and dis
sected the atomic theory.
There are many people who seem
so think that when a preacher be-
lieTes in evolution he is a hereto,
said Dr. Lee, 81 am an evolutionist
and my belief in evolution is firmer
today than it ever was. Evolution
the creation of worlds, and a universe
by gradual processes, is far more in
Keeping with the better idea OF God
than any antiquated notions that some
people hold about the way that God
went about the building of this earth,
much like we imagine a carpenter
would, plucling the land from one
part of the universe and the water
from another, and the trees from this
and the animals from that and putting
them together.
THE anti-evolutionist looks on God
as a carpenter, who works from the
outside The eyolutionist sees God in
every atom and looks on Him as
working from the inner side of things.
If you are an anti, you belong to the
thirteenth century. If you are an evo-
lutionist you belong to the modern
era of thought and have all science
back of you"
In conclusion he said: Evolution
makes it absolutely necessary to be-
lieve in an all controlling will 1 find
that it is an absolute delight to be-
lieve that, through all these ages,
there has been a gradual ascent,
which was directed by Cod So it has
come today that things have got to
20 up until man reaches a state Of
perfection and becomes the temple
for the Spirit of God. 1t is reas-
surfing conviction to know that,
though governments and empires may
fall and civilization be buried beneath
for time, it all must result in adj
vancement. Even this great republic
Of ours might go down, but out of it
would rise a higher and better civil
lization, and if our government does
fail, it will be because of a disregard
of this law, a conflict with the law Of
evolution"
; Mitchell is ousted by Methodsts.
At a meeting of the board of trus-
tees Of Boston, Mass, university, Pro
lessor Hinckley M. Mitchell, against
whom charges of unsoundness in
doctrine were sustained last week by
the board of bishops, was removed
from the faculty of the university
with which he had been connected for
twenty years as professor of Hebrew
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