Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-06-29
Nix. DARST SPEAKS OUT.

member of the State Board of Con
troll, Charleston, West Virginia. =.
Stonewall Jackson Park on June 18th.
1922, referring to recent statements of
DR.. r. c. Spangley, Department, of
Botany, West Virginia University, Nor
| gantown.
want to speak to you of another
Friend, one who sticketh closer than
brother, one who can speak worlds
into existence, and by wave of His
hand they disappear.
! In the beginning this Friend OF ours
/ created first the heaven and the earth.
1.-The earth,' OUR Friend SAYS. WAS
without form, and void; and darkness
was upon the face OF the deep: and
the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters" and God said, Let
/ there be light; and there was light"
He then divided the waters from the
land. And God said, Let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb yielding
seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit
after its kind, whose seed is in itself,
upon the earth: and it was So" And
| God made two lights; the greater light
TO rule the day, and the lesser light
TO rule the night" He then said. 81 ct
the waters bring forth abundantly"
And God created great whales, and
every living creature that moveth,
which the waters brought forth album
dainty, after their kind, and every
winged fowl after his kind" Then
God said, "Let the earth bring forth
the living creature after his kind, cat
tie and creeping thing and beast Of
the earth after his kind: and il was
So" After all this life had been Gre
ated on the earth and in the sea. God
told them to multiply after their kind.
He then said, "Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness" $50
| God created man in His own image,
| in the image Of God created He him:
male and female created He them"
"And the Lord God formed man OF the
dust of the ground, and breathed into
| his nostrils the breath of life; and man
! became living soul"
DR.. r. G. Spangler, professor of
botany, West Virginia University, &C
cording to an article appearing in the
( Charleston Daily Mail under date CT
| June 18th, does not agree with God
He seems to know more about how
God made man than God Himself
in his estimation. He states in part
in the article referred to:
"In the beginning of my exiS-
tence | was a small one-celled
animal; at another stage ! was
| tiny sack-shaped mass without
blood or nerves; at another stage
! was a worm-lke animal with
pulsating tube instead of heart,
| and without head, neck or limbs;
at another stage fish, and at an
other stage a reptile. Later was
a wifi q he g ha;
and with long tail,' etc, etc,
world without end.
There seems to be vast difference
of opinion between DR.. Spangler and
| God Almighty as to how God made
man. God says that He made man in
| His own image, after His likeness, and
that He formed him out Of the dust of
the earth and breathed into his nos
trils the breath of life, and man be-
came living soul. | would like for
DR.. Spangler to tell me, if, when God
made me, | was a small one-celled an
imal, what did God look like? For
He says He made me in His own image,
and after His likeness. | would like
for DR.. Spangler to tell me also at
what particular stage did God breathe
the breath of life into that one-celled
~,
long-tailed hairy animal, and man be-
came living soul. God breathed into
men and women only living souls. An
finals do not have souls.
And so could continue asking him
questions he could not answer intelli-
gently or satisfactorily to one in a
hundred people, but what's the use
The first chapter of Genesis tells lis
all about it. DR.. Spangler cannot add
to it or take anything from it. He is
wrong; God is right. God made
perfect man physically in the begin
ming, as perfect as any he has made
since, and He made them perfect, male
and female, and told them to people
the earth after their kind So did He
make every living animal, on land and
in the sea, perfect in the beginning,
and told them to multiply after their
kind.
think talk like that DR.. Spangler
is indulging in, if he is quoted cor
rectly, is an insult to God and man,
and contrary to Gods word as given
to us through the Scriptures, and that
it is poisoning the minds of our chill
dren, and will lead some of our young
people to doubt the Bible What is
the use OF father and mother endeav-
oring in the early years of their child's
life to instill into his mind that the
word of God is right and that the
Bible is the word Of God, just as it is
written, il, when he is OF college age,
we turn him over to be tutored by
man who believes, and instructs him,
that instead OF God making the child
like Him, He made him a worm, fish
reptile and the like fllinc the younp
mind with unbelief and dwarfing and
crippling him for life? Why spend
our time in the Sunday schools year