The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-07-14

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death
That there is but the end of leafs
fall
A moment of no consequence at ali. +,
He has chosen the sonnet form fol-
the portion where he pleads with his
love, and that where he loses her
both beautifully done, as wei las for
several other crucial points in the
autobiography 1t ends with this SIM
pie, yet quite unusual, bit of epitaph
Say he was sad, because there was
none to love him,
And sing his song.
Now he is still, and the brown thrush
above him
Sings all day long
Say he was lost, for there was none
to find him,
| And hold him tight.
Now the brown hands of mother earth
will mind him
All through the night"
#*#*# 80
Whether or no he persuades his
readers of the fallacy Of Darwin s
teachings. and the impiety of those
who believe what science teaches of
evolution, Bryan can not fail to i'm
press those who take up his book, "In
His lmmage" (Revell, $1.75), with his
own supreme and literal faith. He
starts with the promise that belief
in God must include a belief in the
Bible as one inspired book Of divine
origin, not a number of pieces of lit
erature brought together from various
sources and passed down to us
through the handling of various
scribes, ratbis and medieval doctors.
Ignoring all that history and science
have taught, or soothing at such
teachings, he builds on his premise of
faith in the Bibles literal truth, his
structure of faith in the dust-and-rib
creation of man and woman. The nine
lectures of which the book Is made up
were delivered at Union Theological
Seminary, Va, and are really lay SER
mons, in which the author frequently
| shows the narrowness of vision and
| blindness to all outside his one aim
| that have prevented fulfillment of
his political aspirations in large part
There is no question that he is a very
good man, very earnest one, and
there is no question that his book will
receive eager approval from a wide
circle of clergy and "the faithful" who
sit under them Sundays. Ellis Parker
Butler handles the evolution question
cleverly in one of his witty Lem
Hooper" articles in the Independent
in which he discusses the action of
the Kentucky legislature in forbidding
the teaching of evolution in tax
supported school:
But | don't see the sense of it,
said Joe Higgins. What made Ken
lucky, of all states, get such a crush
on Adam?"
We'll, right there you crowd me
off into the realm of pure speculation
joe" Judge Hooper said. "Of course
there was william Jennings Bryan;
he stumped the state for Adam ant
Eve and had big influence. | dom
know why he was so eager, maybe il
was revenge-back in the free silver
days he tried to make monkeys Of the
democratic voters and could not quite
do it; maybe he's trying to get ever
by blaming it all on Adam and Eve.
Speaking seriously, a man WHIT
treats evolution and Darwinism az
synonymous, says that "the higher
critic is a man without vision" (Hen
nv Ward Beecher and Phillips
Brooks?) and postulates that he who
accepts the teachings of science as tt
evolution must thereby be automatic
ally bereft of the whole Of the Bible
not lust of the literal Interpretation o
the garden episode: such man doe'
not appear to me wise enough to b.
hailed as a leader of any considerable
number of people. Isn't something
said somewhere about "the blind lead
ing the blind? To me, God wh'
could formulate law whereby life
through benign influence Of surround
ing matter and other life. could lif
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myriad forms to His image, is ia
more powerful, worshipful God thai
one who merely took up handful o
dust and moulded it into ready pat
tern. or a rib from the side Of
sleeper and made variant Of tina
sleeper. God and the Bible are no les
influential in the lives Of those know
whose's eyes are opened to His immu
table laws, than in the lives of thos
who fear the light in their narrov
souls-fear the light may find ther
empty.
Some New Books.
The Cornerstone Of Philippine indie
pendence, by Francis Burton Harrison
Century,