Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-04
Vhat IS The Matter !, ,,.~..
,:s. .- With the Churcheso

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of syoi,tion, , ,,oa asno,,nn.I " u.y, asn;s,
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mon m.ad "as ,ns ,' ,h,nI ~ '"p'r"''"'is w
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And tho Lord God formed mn, Of
e. the dust Of The oroDnd md hrsn,bsJ
, into his nostriIs the breath of Iife.
aud man became a livina souJ. -.
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TyH1S is the record in the Book Of the
L Beginnings. All that the theory of
evolution attempts to do is to esnlain
the processes which took place during
the change Of the dust of the ground
into man with a living soul. 1t is no
more atheistic than the explanation in
book on geology Of the processes BY
which the plant life Of a remote period
was gradually changed into anthracite
Lincoln, one Of the most religious
mon America has produced; explained
church because he found difficulty in
giving assent to "the long, complicated
statement of Christian doctrine which
characterised their articles Of belief. and
confessions of faith" When anv church
made its sole qualification for menher.
ship, '"Thou shalt 1--we tho Iora ~
God with ali thy heart and with oi, Wy G
neighbor as thyself," he said no would
join that church with nil nv hc,rt
and all my SOUL" o. ,. .,a,t :. J.. .
There are thousands of relip;ons. :.
minded young and middle aged men who
hold the same Wow Sou,o - .h.,,,
once inclined toward the Christian min
istry, but they could not honestly sub.
scribe to the system NJ tbao,oov r,h;,h
those in outhor;,y ;rs,...J ~. -,
nreocb n, p.,,. e. ues snoulo
HarhS mas mat young
nv" anu women 90 10 the colleges from
.ne cnurches and that when they come
home they have grown away from tho
church, but not from religion. Cor tbav
engage in various forms % .annI,. -.
Iioious vorL that io-
80 80 nut mas no dlrect connec-
''oh WIN the reig!ous organizations.
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II the church is to re0aiu its in
fueHce tchat is needed ia mt ,,n,.
Urtino of the Kind ,bot m p,.t.
and The Ger,,emo, .,:tl n "s
bo,. be.., Jo;,s ~. W." D"S'e'
ab a.. ~. wv y,ed.e' en-.
r"''' y" "e summary OF rhe Idic and
nc gospe' w"tcn Lincoln desired TO be
me oreed OF his church. o..
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T DO not know who A G. Ero.,,
i of 16O wovo,,, p, -
b,+ =. :, ,s.. Ne" iork. Is
~, ~. "r 80 i"'ercs'eu enough In Albert
i'h!s Niiiams 70 disagree in the fol .
lowing way with what I wrote abou,
him ,.
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LANE. he;o. .S,,,, Huert ~ Hhys VIII
pcvo,,tJon,; tne RUSSIAN
con,Ynsn, ~ terested IN the
nsaraS -, "sh ~h'cn ap-
. EVENING pun,, - page OF .the
~ No ,ha, ,'.. iDuhN 1 seems
misses ,ha ,o,u. S eriewer ,, rather
-. -, ~ poe ". nie oooS when
,aLs n,,,n ""Haihs oid not
torinaI a,s " .uIs nsIesSaFs s MS
ground on which 20 project the njc-
ture Of what he saw" -.
One OF the chief merits of
(" lhtoush the Russian Revolution"
that N r. i. - not ~ e,tou Se tou"u IN she iaet
with any historical or ns~cboiosinsI ~
preconceptions. Some of the worst
misjudsments Of Soviet Russia have
) been made by men and women
,vno Wnose heaSs were SO stuned with
Revoiution % o',ht % 70 ha ~ .,a. uSSaam .ham
couldn't see It for what IL was
Mr.. Williams, on the other hand,
went to Russia as an American cor