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Show Music, The Drama Foreign News Society News SECTION And Literature OCTOBER SATURDAY THREE 9 1920 SALT LAKE CITY TEN PAGES- UTAH Famous .Figures in the Foreign News ..In Sensational Sermon, Canon of Westminster Denies Biblical Account of Adam, Eve and Fall of Man, Also Teachings of St. Paul on Subject He is Both Theologian and Scientist, Fellow of Royal Society Bitter Discussion Aroused, With General Booth, Father Vaughan and Others Tahing Issue, and No Less Eminent Divines Supporting, the Canons Contentions Romance . of Dis.. guised Painting by Old Master, Lost for Three Hundred Years. Found in Gar7et and Worth Quarter of a Million Dollars as Restored , Sept nun, a nun in complete convent garb, standing 'firside a table supporting a Biblaand a skull, and with a crucifix in tha background. This was owing totha fact that, a short time after the portrait left Vtlaxquess hands, another artist ol rathef k mere painter received order to taka it in hanti sr.d give the Queen an entirely new costume: orders that he proceeded to carry out to the best of his indifferent ability. The picture has been living in disguise tot over 300 years. It has taken a London expert in restoration six months to remove the'(disguise, snj today the picture i in hia studio in its original guise. It belongs to Don Ramon Garcia, of Barcelona, who sent it to the restoration expert and to whom it will presently be returned. This is its of Canon Ernest William Iarneit wnotc sermon on Full of Man ha.s htarted a controversy promising to the famous dispute between and religion. arising out of the Darwinian thoory of evolution, has the rare if not uniqtie'distinction of being a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as a canon of Westminster Abbey. A comparatively young man he is 46 he has a keen strong face, with the deep-sHis eyes of the seer and thinker. brows, broad forehead and firm chin give him the appearance of a strong man, both in mind and character. , IDs record is brilliant. At Cambridge he was a second wrangler, that is to say, in the year of his graduation he came out second on the University examination list. He took his doctorship of science four years afterwards. With a great reputation as a mathematician, he became a fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, and eleven years ago was elected to a fellowship of the Society. This is thq. highest distinction that scientist can receive, as the Royal British t Society is the most famous scientific body in tha world and its fellowships most carefully bestowed. That is the canon'a qualification to represent science. His authority to speak for the church is equally good. The position of canon of Westminster is one of high importance The special preacher for the annual meetings of the British Association is always chosen for his ability to speak for the church in a way that will enlist tha For respect, if not the sympathy, of scientists. this purpose Canon Barnes was a singularly hap-- y ON'DON, .'iU. Ltht 11 I. ; v . - fr I (.'non llanics ..f Westminster Whom- Ilcjn-Unrtf (hs Abbey, - et : - Bible Siory or m Creation and Pauline IhNxrlnrA Imvctj on UM Fall of Man 'll.n Irmolnt tha Greatest Theological DNputt of Modern Ttnir. X over-archin- g story: Tito Dieguiscd tclsequcs as Restored. It Itaa Taken a I onion Expert Six Months to Remora the Nuns Garb a bleb. Thre Hundred Yearn gn. an Cnknown Painter hntrnrnl otCr thin, the Mint of Fight Portrait of Quceg Isabella . of Bourbon Painted b .. the Spanish Master. Thia Velas. uea Is Valued at $250,000. sb-y- Iff .. i . the head of the Salvation Army, and Father Bernard Vaughan. The General in a long letter to The Times speaks of the highly imaginative figment of the Cardiff sermon and strongly objects tothe canons slogan Darwin has triumphed. choice. The canon is no irresponsible cleric. To quote a writer in the daily press, he is a very steady, Yet he has set going a safe and solid man. controversy t that is filling columns qf the newspapers with jajl.the features of a hot religious debate. The irony of the thing is that no one is more surprised than the canon himself at the storm his sermon has raised-,- ' " His acceptance oC the revelations of science, with its logical .sequel of the abandonment of the doctrine, of the Fall of Man, was the cause of all the trouble. In a nutshell - hero is what he kr id Our educated clergy frankly accept, the teaching of modern science, which involves the evolution of matter from ether, life from matter, and mind from life. Christian thinkers, accepting this, found it necessary to abandon the doctrine of the Fall and arguments from it by theologians from St Paul onward. The canon will have no turning 'of the legends of Genesis into allegories, and no obscurconsequence of new ing of the revolutionary knowledge. This means an uncompromising rejection of the story of Adam, Eve and the. apple and is a dethroning of St. Paul, the first and greatest theologian, because he built entirely upon the Fall. TEACHING OF SCIENCE CRYSTALLIZED. Canon Barnes has given the world perhaps the best summary of the scientific story of the world From some fundathat has yet been produced. mental stuff in the Universe electrons arose. From them came matter. ..l'rom . matter life emerged. From life came mind. From mind spiritual consciousness is developing. This, says the canon, is not incombatible .with the Christian revelation, which, indeed, discloses the ultimate meaning of the facta described by Science. The other side of the dispute is led by such n religious teachers as General Booth., -- . . -- well-know- i ty-- n la so much General Booth, Thisf.-aaymoonshine an evolution from probable stuff of The , more than probable , stuff in canOn the vigorous style general throws over and sticks to St. Paul and tha doctrine of the Fall. He is convinced the Apostle knew more about the first and second Adam than all the biofokista and evolutkmmta clares that the whole teaching of Christ proceeds on the assumption of the original dignity and subsequent degradation of man. Father Vaughan is an opponent not less ' vigorous than General, Booth. He denounces the eermbn of the canon as packed with bad science and worse theology.' More than this, Father Vaughan bluntly declares that if he followed Canon Barnes his wofild soon settle down to be, not a scientist or a Christian, but a materialist pure " and simple. The famous Jesuit preacher charges the canon with raising a mere working scientific hypothesis to the rank of an established scientific theory, and urges that the problem of the Fall of Man, original sin, and redemption are' beyond the province of science to determine. .They belong, he asserts, to the realm qf . faith. . The canon is as defiant of science this is his parting shot as of theology. n . are equally Other clergymen severe. Perhaps the most interesting comment comes -n from tjic Reverend R. J7 CampbelI, the' who the New author of passed through Theology a similarly heated religious controversy - some years ago and emerged to move from the Congregational body to the Church of England. What surprises me, he states, is that Canon Barness statement should be regarded aa epoch- s . making. Thg recorded words of our Lord say nothing about the Fall of Man. We all know perfectly well, however, that we are weak and sinful beings,'' and that we are in need of the Divine forgiveness and help that are offered to u$ in Christ. Whether there was a fall of the race long ago or not is of small importance compared with the .neesLof. salvation now, both for the individual and society.. Tho Bishop of' Exeter (Lord William regards tha doctrine of evolution. He holds that in .every man thers is an original te- n- pat-togeth- er -- - well-know- wetl-know- ' grow up bad and not good. WORLD IS GOING TO HELL" And so the battle goes, with the big guns and the small hard at it. A Church of England clergyman, the Reverend T. P. Stevens, who hits out with We need a great deal more refreshing directness. kick in our sermons, he says; the world is going to hell and it is no good stringing a lot of texts together and talking to people in that stupid way. You really want to deal with things in the light of present-da- y conditions. Mr. Stevens suggests that most of the hymns now sting be abandoned, that discussion should.be encouraged after every sermon and that a (fearless onslaught should be made on the lessons read In church. Clergymen, he saya, should risk upsetting old people and preach more to tha young and concentrate on the essentials of the. Bible, which did' not come down from Heaven on A golden chain. Another supporter is the Master of Marlborough, one of Englands most famous public I stand directly schools. This js his declaration: ' with Canon Barnes. And Canon. Barnes himself what has he to that has been levelled at. say to all the criticism j him? When I saw him at his home- - in Little Cloisters, .Westminster Abbey, this week, he spoke as follows: I am convinced that my attitude is almost , . Princes Isabella of Bourbon was married t the then Prince of Austurias, later Philip IV, it) 1615. In 1624, the same year in which Philip made his triumphant entry into Madrid as King, ths Queen, because she was about to become a mother, ehtered in the Spanish capital belonging to tha order of Descaliaa, whose patron saint is St. Therera. While there, her portrait was painted by Velasquez, this being the first of the eight portraits of her executed by the famous ertist..Th Queen desired to become a nunhut the Pop refused his sanction and she had to return to tho royal palace. When aha did so, she left the portrait In the nunnery, where she had made herself ' very popular. Tha community, disappointed that tha Queen could not be one of them, appear to hava determined that at least her portrait should show her as- a nun. So they called in a painter, tha first they could think of, who painted a nuns dress over universal among the younger educated men and the Queens costly robe, remoyed the silk hander-chiwomen of the Christian community. Today no that was in the left hand, and added a table competent investigator denies tha fact of evolution,' with a Bible and a aull on It as appropriate trapand careful thought Is convinced that wa can pings. This superimposed painting, as time passed cept evolution as true without harm to Christianon, pame to be regarded as one of St. Theresa. But it Is natural that General ity generally. FOUND IN DUKES GARRET. ' Booth and the older evangelicals should regard my A couple of centuries later, the eojnmpfljty of viewpoint as subversive of Christian faith, possi- .'the Descalzas as An act of gratitude for gifU and bly even a slur to the gospel of redemption, which favors, presented the supposed picture of St I value as much, aa they do. The real message to. ;Theresa to a' ducal family in Madrid." At the erid ua all la not that In Adam all died, but. that in of tha present century, the -- family, wishing to Christ all may live. The Fall la not a vital dogma. modernize their palace, refurnished it. The old We can t deny it is without disloyalty to the Christian message. It-put into .the garret, where the Velasques remained the poasibility of the rise of man above his lower, until chance brought about its discovery. The dis-- , nature that Christ 'teaches. The process of sciencoverer was an antiquary of Barcelona who had us to view man as something tific knowledge-force- s received ah order to, search for a good portrait of in the making, not aa something ones perfect but St Theresa. - He bought tho picture and brought now marred. And ao t$ all Christiana who taka it to Barcelona. the modern point of view, Jesua Christ is God beSome time after the picture passed into the cause Ha was a 'miraculous 'anticipation, of what possession of Don Ramon Garcia,- - its present we should be the perfW man,, the worlds examowner, 'the paint around the throat of the figure ' ple of spiritual finality. began to crack, ant it became evident that an, ARTHUR DBYSDALK. other picture existed underneath. ' A number of . '1 attempts were made to remove the work of the. 1 ' C1ISC11CZ painter who attempted .to put the Queen into LlSgUlSCCl convent attire, but without much success. Event- - -nelly it was decided to send it to W. M. Powsc, on of Londons leading experts in restoration. Sept. 80. few portraitgbjr LONDON, of tha histories mora We have had to remove all the second paintpast hav romantic than that pf One T.Velaaquec valued at ing without disturbing the genuine Vesasques un250,000 which is now in London where it has been der it, said the restorer, when talking with me This of a restoration. It hat been doubly difficult because prolonged process undergoing yeaterday. portrait, which is a fine example of the work of this second painting waa put on while the first was till fresh, and the two in time .tended to blend. was discovered by the famous Spanish artist, chance some years ago in the garret of a ducal .After six months hard work we hava succeeded, mansion in Madrid. however, in giving back to the world a Velasquez It is one of eight portraits painted, by Velas- that was thought to be lost and the picture will ques of Queen Isabella of Bourbon, the first wife so return to its owner in Barcelona. of Philip IV of Spain.' When the picture arrived HAYDEN CHURCH. in London, however, it did not suggest a portrait (Copyright, 1920, by the Edward Marshal Syudi- -' of a Queen. On the contrary it seemed to be that cate, Inc.) ef . .... V Found In Garret Permanent London Bureau to Help American Tourists r om also be cheeked, for there Is a law in England forbidding profiteers. But visitors rs a rule do LONDON. not know this and even it they do, ars not anxious td waste time In an -etrif. T1 police or to...l.he police Bureau has proved so successful dur- courts. What then ate they to do to ing the present season, which has escape pillage? The bureau help them here. At been It first, that it is to be made a information desk, they can get a permanent fenture of the British Y. Its - of listreliable stores at shlch they M. C. A'a work. The news will be wlll'be charged pric-- a no higher than of welcome to scores of thousands Londoner has to peyN Or Americans a he- Took forward to their those the they a 111 be told how .much hey first visit to J,ondon. want A far better title for the bureau should give for the things In Is and what Amerithe ruulvalent would- be the Welcomf Club, for that Indicates its chief mission. It Is a can money. If viaitors are atm afraid sort of guide, companion and friend of being tricked, an Knglishwoman of to strangers to Burope passing good class will go with them on a through or staying In London. Those shopping tour for the modest fee of who are wise enough So make use of a drtbtr a day or feven do their , it can have tha best of times without shopping for them. These services have been planned being victimised by profiteers or wearied by long searching for rooms lo protect the visitor from the unThe bureau does not seek profit but scrupulous people who are always to la not a charity. 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