The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1922-03-30
A LETTER
Rutherford, N. j.,
March %, 1922

| MT. James vi. htlflndTuJ,
Managing Editor of The Citizen,
My Dear Sir:
wish to acknowledge, with thanks,
your kind letter Of the 18th inst, and
with this one brief letter occept ycur
invitation.
First I wish to acknowledge what
suppose millions Of other persons
Of some education would acknow.-
edge. I have no technical knowledge
Of the so-called facts upon which the
so-called scientists base their theor-
les Of evolution or transmutation Of
from forming a judgment as to
whether or not these theories should
be taught our youth as facts, espe-
cially when 5000 self-confessed
American scientists in following
evolution discarded belief in a per-
sonal God and in personal immortal
ity.
To teach the old theory that Eng
land was made warm by our gulf
streams, or the impossibility of
steamships ever being able to cross
the ocean, or the new scientific theor-
les Of Sir Oliver Lodge. Thos A.
Edison and others. on spirit commu-
nicstion, can do little harm, but to
put the youths of our Christian in
stitutions under the tutelage of con-
fessed infidels is another question.
Prof. Francis p. LeBuffe, of Ford
ham University. here in New York
city. has just made a scientific ex.
animation Of evidence on evolution,
held by Prof. Henry Lainfielt Osborn,
on exhibition in the American Mus
cum of National History. and char
acterizes il as zone of Ranking
HOaxes of all time" and tn read his
long critical article in the New York
Times of March 18th is quite con-
vincing. There are thousands of sci
entists, many eminent, who do not
accept evolution as taught by Oar
win, or the transmutation of species.
or spontaneous generation as taught
by Prof. Huxley, or the chemical
origin of life advocated by Herbert
Spencer. "Who shall decide when
doctors disagree?" The old ques-
tions, (which is most reasonable 10
believe, that something came from
nothing or that something has always
existed" or, is there any limit 70
time and space, may be discussed
without limit-but to teach in the
schools that we must go back at
least 200, 900, 900 years TO find the orr
gin of man created in Gods image
demands more credulity than to 30
back 5000 years. The Bible says,
'In the beginning God" Natural
istc evolutionists teach that original
germs, from which all life has de-
veloped, came into existence by some
unknown natural process, but were in
no way dependent upon supernatural
agency. How wise this sounds but
how foolish to believe that something
came from nothing, or that the world
and universe are without designer,
by an all wise mind. "The fool hath
said in his heart there is no God"
and what other God. than the one
revealed in nature and in the Bible :?
DR.. George II. Sandison, for over
twenty-five years an able editor in
New York city, has just given two
columns in review and eulogy Of VIM.
j. Bryan's new book, an His Image"
/ have not yet seen the book, but
have just read two articles in the
Literary Digest Of March 25th, "Dar-
winism in the Schools" and "Agnos-
tic Evolutionists," with quotations
from Mr.. Bryan and Prof. VIM.
Bateson. The best treatise I know
of is by Prof. L. T. Townsend, DID,
STD, NV, entitled Collapse of
Evolution" In these days Of so
much agnosticism, why not wait
until Darwinism is proven before
teaching it in the schools, except as
a mere theory. 1.-THE Folkways" is
by Prof. W. G. Sumner, of Yale.
Most sincerely.