Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-27

inant issues of the campaign, and IN
favor of an association of nations
as proposed by Mr.. Harding. The
former secretary of state proposed
that President Wilson Immediately
turn over the Office to Vice Presi-
dent Marshall with the understand
ing that the latter appoint Mr.. Hard
ing as secretary 'of state at the be-
ginning of the new Congress and
then resign so that Mr.. Harding i'm
mediately could become president
and put into effect his association Of
nations.
Having become a permanent legal
resident OF Miami, Fla, Mr.. Bryan
was elected from that state as q
delegate to the Democratic national
convention at New York in 1924. He
took a prominent part in the pro-
ceedings, but his influence was great
ly curtaiIed as compared with that
which he eXerted at previous ma
tional conventions of the party. His
advocacy of the nomination of Will
lam G. McAdoo had no effect in
breaking the deadlock which contin-
ued for nearly two weeks between
Mr.. McAdoo and Governor Alfred E.
Smith of New York, the contest
eventually being ended when the
delegates switched to John w. Da-
Wis, who was nominated.
Mr.. Bryan was a member Of the
resolutions committee and at one
of the sessions when the K. K. K.
issue was being discussed he drop
ped to his knees and urged the other
members of the committee to join
with him in prayer that they might
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former secretary took part in the
campaign, but was not as active as
he had been in some previous ones.
His brother. Charles w. Bryan, then
governor of Nebraska, was the
Democratic nominee for vice-presi-
dent.
Easing up on his political activi-
ties with the 1920 national cam
paign, Mr. Bryan took a greater in
terest in the affairs os the Presby-
terian church and devoted more of
his time to lecturing. In 1923 he
was defeated for moderator of the
general assembly of the Presbyter-
ian Church after an exciting con-
test. He was elected vice moderator
at the general assembly of 1924.
An avowed opponent of the Darwin
theory OF evolution, Mr.. Bryan made
many addresses on the subject
Speaking in 1923 before the legisla-
ture of West Virginia, which was
considering a bill to prohibit the
teaching of the Darwin theory in
the schools of that state, Mr.. Bryan
said:
school teachers paid by taxation
should not be permitted to teach un-
der the guise of science or philoso-
ply anything that undermines faith
in God impaires belief in the Bible
or discredits the Son of God and
the Savior of the world. Evolu-
tionists rob the Savior of the glory
of the virgin birth, the majesty of
His deity and the triumph of His
resurrection. They weaken faith In
the Bible by discarding the miracles
and the supernatural and by elini-
Ma ting from the Birle all that con-
flicts with their theories. They rem
der the Book a scrap of paper"
Later in an address in New York
Mr.. Bryan denounced the Darwin
theory as the greatest enemy OF re-
ligion and declared that in the
schools it was undermining Chris
tianity. Il don't object to scientific
truth" he said, for no truth dis
turbs religion. What we object to
is for any scientist to put forth his
guess and demand that we substitute
it for the word of God. Evolution Is
an enemy of tie Bible and furnishes
a. respectable excuse for men to
deny the Bible" Among his writ
ings on the subject were The Mem
ace of Darwinism" and THE Bible
and Its Enemies"