The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-11-10
REV. BRADLEY
NOT A HERETO
So Declares Dr.. ]. W. Lee in a
Strong Sermon at st. Louis.
EVOLUTION HIS SUBJECT
RelcgatcS Old FOgieS on Religious
Thought to Dark AgeS--Dr. Brad
ley an Advanced Thinker.

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 DIR. Brad
lep will succeed at St. John church,
defended DIR, Bradley against the re,
cent heresy attack, declaring him an
evolutionist and advanced thinker
In his sermon DR.. Lee declared his
firm belief in theistic evolution as OPP
posed to materialstic evolution, and
presented the creation of the world
by evolution as the only tenable tho
DRY for modern religious thought. The
opponents of evolution, the people
who accept literally the creation story
of the Bible, he relegated to the dark
ages. DR.. Lee delved deep into scien-
tific research, quoted Huxley, Haeckel
and Spencer and rehearsed and dis.
sected the atomic theory.
There are many people who seem
to think that when a preacher be.
lleves in evolution he is a hereto, "
said Or. Lee. II 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
lnnVfnn xtyitb a haitian iIno ~ 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 plucking 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 tho
outside. The evOlutionist 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-
lievc in an all controlling will. | find
that It is an absolute delight to be.
lieve that, through all these ages,
there has been gradual ascent,
which was directed by God. SO it has
come today that things have got to
go up until man reaches a state of
perfection arl becomes the temple
for the Spirit of God. II is reas.
surfing conviction to know that,
though governments and empires may
fall and civilization be buried beneath
for a time, 1t all must result in ad-
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 disregard
Of this law, q conflict with the law OF
evolution"
Mitchell is ousted by Methodists.
At a meeting OF the board Of trus
tees Of Boston. Mass. univCrslt@. Pro
lessor Hlnckley NJ. Mitchell, against
whom charges Of unsOundnCss in
doctrine were sustained last week by
the board Of bishops. WAS removed
from thc faculty of The university
with which ho had been connected for
twenty years ps professor of' Hebrew
and Old Testament cXcgcscs.