The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-06-14
bAPT|sTs FIGHT
FOR CONTROL Of
CHURCH IN MEET
Conservative Element Would wrest
Whip Hand from Radicals;
Bryan Imported TO Lead Bat.
tie for "FundamentalIsm."
HEAD OF "HARDSHELL"
BRANCH NOW HOPEFUL
"commoner" Declares It's Flight
Against "Evolutlonlsts"; Believes
Bible from Cover to Cover;
Says Whale Story True.
by CARL VICTOR LITTLE.
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent.


Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
Cadle Tabernacle. indianapolis, Ind
June i4.-Conservative Bap tistl
fought today to wrest control OF IN,
denomination from the radicals.
The breach between the two wing
Of the faith-whlch comprises tw,
million adherents-widened as tn,
national convention opened.
ITS a finish fight" said DIR. J. C
Massee, OF Boston, nationally known
minister and leader OF the conserva
tlves or "fundamentallsts."
Were not going to wait for the
pendulum to swing back to the faith
Of our fathers.
Were going to pull II back"
Is HardshelI Branch.
DR.. Massee leads the popularity
known 'Hardshell" Baptists. It's not
a term Of derision. They take pride
In the name themselves.
The leader prevented a split In the
Baptist church when he induced his
followers to give up plans of bolt
and to fight the battle of "the old
time religion" out on the convention
floor
The conservatives accept the Bible
from Genesis to Revelations. The
radicals, led by DR.. Henry Emerson
Fosdick and DIR. Frank Paderford,
New York, interpret the Bible liber-
ally, claiming portions of 1t to be
allegorical.
Both sides claim rs percent of the
d g n IN nations constituency DR..
Massee, however, admits the radicals
are in control.
I'VE spent years in cussing the OPP
position instead OF discussing them"
he said. "While we were asleep they
edged us out. Now we have only a
10 percent representation on commit
tees and boards and the funds and
properties of the church are In their
hands"
Like Fights Are On.
The same fight between the funda-
mentalists and the radicals that is
nearing a crisis in the Baptist de-
nomination, is surging in practically
all other Protestant faiths, according
to William Jennings Bryan, who to
use his words, is "stumping the ma
tion for votes for God and against
apeism."
Bryan, the nations leading Pres
byterian, was imported by the Bap-
tist conservatives to start the fight
here against the radicals.
The "commoner' preached, lee
tured, warned and counselled until
dawn when his train pulled out for
Louisville. The fire of his early
campaign days was still with him.
Bryan, the mouth piece of funda-
mentalism in all denominations, ac-
cording to DR.. Massee, told the Unit
ed Press:
Il believe the Bible from cover''to
cover. If / did not accept any por-
tion of it, I would reject 1t all.
Believes Whole Story.
81 believe that Jonah was actually
in the belly of the whale for three
days. Who knows, there might have
been suite of rooms in there.
would far rather believe that Jonah,
while young, contracted the habit Of
going in and out of the whale than
the ridiculous guesses Of the evolu-
tionists.
when l want to read fiction, I
don't turn to the Arabian Nights. |
turn to works on biology. | like my
fiction wild. Scientists make guess
and call it hypothesis. Guess is
too short a word for a professor.
Darwin guesses that mankind de-
scended from few germs that hap
pened 6OO,O0O,0OO years ago. He
doesn't even let us descend from a
good American ape. He makes us
come from an African brute.
Hunting "Misslng Link"
Scientists for sixty years have
been trying to discover the missing
link-to get some proof of their
theory. They go all around the
world to get look at dead horse
with five toes when they would not
cross the street to save a soul.
when "a man gives up the funda
mentals and throws the Bible away
there is no limit to his guesses. A
university of Chicago professor sait
the greatest day in the history OF the
world was when water puppy
crawled out on land and decided tt
stay. The water puppy, he said
eventually became a man.
eff he proves that, l am willing tt
give up Christmas, Thanksgiving ant
New Years and celebrate water
puppies day."