Show BURROUGHS ANSWERED diaries 15 Gonrlay Would Like to Discuss Dr York With Him EDiToR DEMoCRAT I would kindly ask permission to reply to Mr J W Burroughs on behalf of Dr York who unfortunately is absent and has no means of defending himself In Thursdays issue of THE DEMOCRAT the gentleman asserts that Dr York in his lectures I made some very broad statements that he or any other gentleman could not sustain sus-tain Now if it be permissible to accept I a challenge in behalf of an absent ab-sent friend I hereby throw down the controversial gauntlet to tho gentle gente I man or rather pick up the gauntlet in Dr Yorks defense I the gentleman genteman really wishes to reply to some of the r doctors theological queries and fallacious falla-cious statements I will willingly give him a chance to do so either publicly on the rostrum or through the columns of I the press I will willingly meet the wi wiing gentleman gen-tleman in debate broadly upon the I themes of evolution and revelation or I upon any specific point to which he may take exception in Dr Yorks lectures In behalf of Dr York Sincerely ClIAS > B GOURLAY |