The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-03-16
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1922.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1922.
GODS TOMORROW
The night is very black and grim,
Our hearts are sick with sorrow-
But on the rim of the curtain dim
A pulsing BEAM tiny CLEAN,
Whispers of Gods tomorrow
Beyond the night there shines light,
Our eyes are dim with sorrow
But faith still clings, and hope still springs,
And love still sings of happier things,
For life is fighting strong new wings
In search of Gods tomorrow.
From Hearts Courageous" by John Oxenham.
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Even though the anti-evoution bill has been
put to sleep for at least the next two years,
these two contrasting ideas of it interesting.
Bishop Charles Edward Locke, of the most
prominent bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church, in recent interview printed in the
Northwestern Christian Advocate, said in refer
ence to the anti-evoluton legislation in Mime
sofa:
whether the universe made by
long processes of development, or by
majestic fiat, certainly it was divinely
Z conceived and ordered-In the begin
ming God created. 1t does not matter
where we came from, for God made
cry living thing, but the great considera-
ton is what are making of ourselves,
and where we going. ! am perfect
ly willing to let each person believe what
he pleases the subject. The Methodist
church is not in the least divided on the
issue of evolution. 1t is essentially
scientific question and has nothing to
do with personal character immortal
ity. John Wesley's motto was, think
and let think More Christian toer-
ances would eliminate all of the acrm-
onious things that are now being written
and spoken"
That is the view of prominent in
Methodsm. group of men, prominent in
Catholicism, no less a group than the faculty
of ST. Johns University, the other day passed
a resolution against the proposed anti-evoution
bill. The Faculty Committee of the University
wrote to the Minneapolis Tribune the following
report of the Resolution:
"Whle we are in full sympathy with
any movement calculated to safeguard
the religion and morality in the people
and condemn most emphatically the
abuse of teaching materiaistic evolution
and of representing evolution
scientifically established fact, whereas
it is only hypothesis, on the details of
which the best scientists are not agreed;
And while we believe that parents have
right to protest against any attempt
to rob their children of their inherited
faith in institutions supported by pub
lie tax which should maintain an attitude
of complete neutrality toward religion;
Nevertheless we, the whole faculty
of st. Johns university represented
by the committee whose signature is APP !
pended), hereby wish to declare that we
most emphatcally opposed to the
passage of the anti-evolution bill, which
is now before the legislature;
"Since have the firm conviction
that it is outside the province of the
legislature to pass any scientific !
- opinion, hypothesis, theory, or truth, and
that the passage of bill like this furn-
: ishes precedent for all manner of pre-
posterous and intolerable legislation"
Here two quite different versions, and yet /
they arrive at the same conclusion; namely, that t
the subject is not for Legislative interfer- !
ence.
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A man of considerable position as well as
some thoughtfulness was asked to address q