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Show EVOLUTION IS SUBJECTOF DAY J. Burt Sumsion of Springville Spring-ville Who is Attending School at the Wisconsin University, write the Following Fol-lowing to the Herald. It- is rather Interesting to be In the east at present. There Is a royal battle going on betwen science and religion. Evolution is the most popular subject o the day. During the lectures the students arc taken into the field of evolution. The trial at Dayton seems to be the main circus and the college lecture room merely a side .show. There are 000 faculty members, all of whom are evolutionists, but that does not mean that they are not religious re-ligious nor devout Christians. The scientists fel that the action of Mr. Bryan will have a long and lasting detrimental influence on civilization. They feel that the populace will be swept by an emotional emo-tional appeal into the realm of discrediting dis-crediting real science and that there will be a tendency of the people to turn to quack teacherse and doctors. doc-tors. They realize that science is calm, retiring, not given to senti-mentalism senti-mentalism and that it will take a campaign to reach against the out growth of emotionalism, which will come out of the trinl at Dayton. They feel that there has been an intellectual stagnation and this upheavel will cause the minds of spects and in some respects decided-men decided-men to become static. I had a talk with Dr. E. A. Boss, world renowned sociologist, who has written more books in that field than any other man now living. He thinks the 5000 scienticts of the world will have a difficult time in making clear just how they stand nn flip nirttfer bepjmsp evprv "nilflck" every "Tom, Dick and Harry." is making news paper comment, which is read by an unscrutinizing public. Each oMnday night I mete with a group of scientists, w which, group is composed of young students who : are doing advance college work and who come from many places of the world. There are some from Vienna, Austria, and from other European countries. Many stntes of the T'nion are renresented. I had Inn opportunity of speaking twenty five minutes, two weeks ago. Each night about four students are called on to occupy the first hour and fiften minutes. Then the meeting is thrown open for general discussion. discus-sion. My views on the questions discussed are similar in many rely re-ly different. Many students do lok to God for truth; they lok not in the right direction. di-rection. The scientists are to be congratulated on their Iterance, broadness of views and on the intense in-tense interest they are showing in trying to find out truth. Among the scientists are some of the best men we have in the world today. I have visited a number of religious relig-ious gatherings. Some are putting on a real circus. Some of them are trying to harmonize the new scientific scien-tific thought and still maintain that the Bible is "The Good Old Book, the Word of God." They are trying to adjust their sermons to audiences which have not had very much scientific scien-tific training and which have not read carefully and closely from the Bible. There are many preachers also who have launched into this new field without having preparation. prepara-tion. Many of them are schooled In Divinity schools which are set aside from the microscope. Last Sunday nignt I listened to Rev. limit who preaches "Evolution," "Evolu-tion," "Modern Thought," a "New Interpretation of the Bible " etc. He is accused of departing from the fold. He is to be tried soon for his utterances. Christianity is struggling strug-gling with its contentions and evo- lution has now added a new stimulus stim-ulus for the elready contentious flnnic. Last Sunday night the churches were partially filled witli the older folks, but the movies were crowded to capacity with the younger young-er set. I have bad many discussions with students on the campus. They know a great deal about science but a very little about the Bible. Some of them are getting the dust off the Bible and are beginning to rend. It is amusing to hear them talk about the "Creation," "The Two Creations," "Man In the Image of God." They did not realize before what a job they had to try to harmonize har-monize the Bible as it is generally Interpreted by the ministers and the way it is interpreted by science and the way the Bible literally reads. These students are between not two tint three fires. This summer has been a wonderful wonder-ful opportunity for me to compare my views with the views of the students stu-dents here. I have been treated with the utmost kindness nnd religious relig-ious discussion here is on a high plane. I was at a banquet where advanced ad-vanced students and teachers were assembled. In the audience there was a young man who graduatd from our stale Institution. He was called to speak for five minutes. He was afraid that they would ask where he came from. He told of his visit to Ohio and mentioned other states, but Utah was left out. He sat down and that was the end. I was called on last. I announced that I had lieen trained in the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university, "The school that was financed by the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called Mormons." There was a great deal of pressure pres-sure for a few minutes but they kept me up asking me all kinds of questions. Before I sat down I fnnde every body feel flue. And after af-ter the meeting the s(udeus and profssors came up (o lalk with me. From that niomenll made many lontacts and have ben called on to take the lead in the discussion of various questions which have come up. Many of these man who have sludie, know (hat there is something in Mormonism that would be good to have. |