The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-25
4 srNauLAR PRoCEEpING.

Those who have read Mark Twain's
books will recall the whimsical episode
That occurred during his travels IN
Palestine where he paused in his Jour
ney to weep over tina gave u Adam.
we believe he afterwards discovered
that 1t was not Adams grave upon
which he was shedding the brtny. but
he had his weep. and wrote an anus
ing account of 1t.
That riournfui incident was bad
enough, but net. half as Nsconcerting
as to learn that there are men-pTeaeh-
ers at that-who are trying to deprive
US of both Adam and Eve. We might
with some degree of patience admit
that Adam has been lost. but We re-
fuse to give up Mrs. Eve. We think
she was badly treated. but We cling
to her memory.
But now. as we said, they arc try
ing to abolish both Of them. and the
singular feature Of the sase. we repeat
is that the denial of the identity OF
both the original frst parents is not
only made by three preachers but their
position is tacitly endorsed by the
church which licensed them to preach.
We shall not give the denomination. as
that is not essential The main point Is
that a church licensed and authorized
three young men to preach. after they
had positively and publicly declared
that they do not believe the Adam and
Eve story for a minute. They insist
that the story is q myth; that there was
no Adam, no Eve and no Garden Of
Eden. In short, they insist that hui
mainly has been imposed on by a PAL
pable fake.
Is not that about the limit? For
| thousands of years." comments The
Kansas City Journal, "the male Of the
human species has had thrown up to
him the caddish conduct of Father Ad-
am in tattling on his wife. which the
feminine portion of the race has al
ways construed as the essence of "old
Nick" with which the sterner sex has
ever since been addicted. Countless
merry jests have been made at tho ex-
pense of Adam and Eve. and now If Mr..
AIDES seven primary jokes are to be
curtailed by the withdrawal of the best
of the seven, the joke column will be
sadly abridged. If there wasn't any
Eve or apple or spare rib-if it was
all an allegory. as the young preachers
declared, and were sustained by a ma
ence, then nothing is left but to &C.
| quiesce in the decision Of the majority.
unless the women sue out an iniunc-
ton against the summary modernism
which eliminates the traditional moth
err of the race. 1t begins to look as
though Eve would have to CO."
But there's something more import
ant than jokes in this contention. II
they knock out Adam and Eve where
does that leave us? II there were no
original frst parents. how did we get
here? We had to have a beginning,
did we not? And II there was no faith
er and mother to start the race we
don't see how 1t started. We suppose
these advanced" preachers will hard
ly claim that the human race sprang
up out of the earth like toadstools,
but it is either that or the Darwinian
theory that we came up through slow
and gradual evolution to our present
scale of being. We do not like to be-
lieve that we evoluted from a shape
less protoplasm. or something o: the
kind, and had to pass through the en-
tire scale of insects fowls and animals
before we got here. That sort OF the
DRY is calculated to knock out All our
pride and self-respect. yet we do not
see what other conclusion the preach
ers themselves can arrive at If they
deny the actually Of Adam und Eve.