Show EVOLUTION AND revelation SENSATION PRODUCED IN METHODIST T CONGRESS ideas advanced not universally popular with young men of the church pittsburgh pittsburg nov 2 23 01 the national conference of 0 the methodist Ept episcopal church which began yesterday was c today Beti between een and 00 prominent members of the church from parts of tile the country were ere in attendance the gathering Is the first of its kind ever hold by the 1 M I p r church and Is described in the cull as a conference or of the younger men ot of the clourah in relation ion ot of methodism to current social and intellectual conditions dishop vincent of chautauqua presided after devotional exercises john W thomas ph D of allegheny college meadville pa read it a paper on the relation ion of emotion and reason lit in tie re llalon the speaker declared that the flippant remarks and higher criticos criticisms ne found jn a the magazines of 0 the present upon re religion I 1 igdon bore ere nine mot th harmful armful addresses dres 9 es mere also nat made tie on revival its ig and perlis perils by hev dr naymond haymond of middleton conn D A hayes ph ill D of evanston in III and itea 11 II L jacobs of tyrone pa ila the tenure feature ot or the afternoon session was the paper presented by E G conklin pit ph D professor ot of compa compan a live embryology university of pennsylvania syl varila thi the subject discussed wag waa involution evolution and revelation Revel Atlon tile the paper canie near producing a sensation during its reading the attention of the audience was wa divided find and the general discussion dilleh alch followed was aricy some of if tile the points made by dr conk alln ill were the charge that evolution Is 19 achels tic can call arise only from the roost full fundamental damen da tat misconception of the doctrine I 1 it t tit ither confirms or derda denies the existence of a god it la Is no more theistic atheistic to believe th that it anezis originally 1 1 I sly came into tho the world according 1 to 0 the law of evolution that it Is 13 to be 11 have ave that individuals come into the lo 10 horld rid according to the law of development me nt the prevalent view of special or creation e aan 1 Is not founded upon ionesta Io nests but urion unon the seventh b book 0 ok of paradisa lost it Is the con census of at scientific opinion that evolution does riot not destroy thit evidences of designing nature but rather that it gives elves us its a more t of tain evi lenac o of an and anci all dembiac lis ing deed design gir all ali the evidences of eye evolution lution apply to the origin or in of ma man 0 as 9 much its aal to that of any other oilier ism the of man mail does doca not consist in the tact fart that recently reent ly a and nil miraculously lie islas as laun launched chod int into tile this IV corll 0 rl 1 his real dignity consists not it in liss liia origin but in all le he Is aud N hat lie lic may become evolution explains the moral unrest of human kind as due to the conolt lt between the antrias and the spiritual tho the boor beastly atly and the heavenly hea hon vonly it explains original sin aln as aa became his abts inheritance land and from the fall as aa n a conscious yielding of tire the lower nature although evolution points out jut mans humble origin it also suggests hla his glorious pl orloue find and immortal destiny through tilt all the evolution has been leading to a hazher ethical and rid life when the doctor hod had fini ihei the op of 0 his position crime came to the front in numbers n inch that the theory of evolution rot pat ili verbally ver sally popular lit in the cong con erens reits |