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Show Minister Thinks Church Doctrines Need Overhauling COLUMBIA'S, Uhlo, May 4 .Freser-iratlon .Freser-iratlon of Christianity demands a "re- ' ilglous house cleaning," tho Rev B 1 Evans, of the Franklin Park M. B. church, declared In an address hem I Wednesday in which he characterized I the story of the Garden of Eden us B fairy tale" and sold there Is Insufficient In-sufficient evidence to support the teaching of the vlrg-ln birth of Chrint "It Is our purpose," thy Rev. Evuns 'said, "to throw overboard the teaching teach-ing that for 6.000 years has taken us ia. k to a mythical Garden of Eden ; with a future that ends before the Great White Throne We accept thels- I tic evolution as a more rational and spiritual expression of man. It en- I ables us to believe our world Is not j hopelessly decadent. Little by lttth- our great planel v. as prepared for the I lite which began H.s wonderful course of evolution and today we see man I emerging from the helpless Infancy i Into a real consciousness of his powers; pow-ers; and before Jhe human raoi I stretch millions of years In which pro-I pro-I gress may be made." |