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Show PROTECTION Of FATHERS' fAITH "Higher Criticism" Is De. - nounced by Bible League as Corrupting Minds of Youth in Colleges. CHICAGO, Nov. 1. "Higher criticism" criti-cism" held the center of the stage at the closing session of the Chicago branch of the American Bible league yesterday. ...... After, reaching the general conclusion that the universities and colleges of the country are insidiously spreading the blight of highsr criticism throughout through-out the Nation, and that the sons and daughters of believers are having, their ideas of the authenticity of the Bible distorted through those agencies,, the delegates discussed the best method of battling the "peril," as they termed it. Publicity was declared by many speakers to be the strongest weapon of defense in the conflict. One speaker, who characterized the question as "the greatest religious upheaval of the present pres-ent day," said that "upon what is to be done by Christian men and women in combating this steadily growing thing depends the victory or the prime doctrines of Christianity." |