[p 3]FOREWORD
The following pages have grown out of a paper,following the same outline more briefly, whichwas read before the Pastors’ Conference of theSan Juaquin Valley Baptist Association, the largestassociation in the Northern California Baptist Convention.At the close of the reading a request forits publication was enthusiastically and unanimouslyvoted.
The author has since divided the paper into twochapters; in the first chapter has added to and classifiedthe quotations concerning evolution, has enlargedthe remarks on the influence of evolution on Scripturedoctrine, and has both enlarged upon and entirelyrearranged the matter of the second chapter, in anattempt to make it both more obvious and more conclusiveto the reader than it was felt to be to thehearers.
The term “Church” in the following pages is intendedto cover that fellowship, of every name, whichincludes all who have been really born again. Whenorganized church fellowship is referred to, the wholeevangelical Protestant fellowship in general is meant,as distinguished from Roman Catholic, Greek church,or any other non-evangelical faith, although true Christiansare to be found within every fellowship. Theterm “Schools,” in its larger meaning, includes allinstitutions of learning maintained at private, denominational,or public expense; more specifically,[p 4]those dominated by the present evolutionary philosophyare meant. With notable exceptions in a fewschools that refuse to be so dominated, the whole educationalsystem in general, especially in the NorthernStates, has practically capitulated to the evolutionists,and the schools that have so surrendered areparticularly in mind in the following discussion.
It is but a humble effort to point out what is obviouslythe only possible solution for the present distressingand destructive controversy between theChurch and the Schools, but the author fondly hopesthat it will prove to be a real, even though small, contributiontoward the ending of that controversy.
It is sent out with the prayer that He who is Truthincarnate may lead those in both the Church and theSchools who really want to know the truth at all costto a common attitude toward Himself, to a common,because truly scientific, method of investigating truthin both the natural and the spiritual realms, and thereforeto a common goal which will unite them againstall those forces that seek to captur