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BAYLOR FACULTY
MAKES STATEMENT
cognize the extraordinary duty
of Christian teachers in this
j age of unrest to prove all things
i and hold fast that which is
ON EVOLUTION I good, to test to the uttermost
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all theories and to conserve
the precious, established facts
of our holy religion. There
Evolution had been carried
fore do we beg the privilege
! of
to Baylor from Wake Forest,
XT T- -.r n. whose servants we are, con-
North Carolina. Year after i . , „
,, XU j. ' cerning our beliefs and pur-
year there has, been trouble ^ „ , ,,
,. ,, 1 X poses on the following points,
over it; sometimes the claim be-i ^ .
ing made that Evolution and'
WORLD, AND WAS BURIED.
HE AROSE AGAIN FROM
THE DEAD. THE TOMB
WAS EMPTIED OF ITS CON-
ENTS. IN HIS RISEN BODY
HE APPEARED MANY
TIMES TO HIS DISCIPLES.
HE ASCENDED TO THE
RIGHT HAND OF THE
FATHER. HE WILL COME
AGAIN IN PERSON THE
SAME JESUS WHO ASCEND-
God’s word “rightly interpret
ed” do not contradict, the “right
ly interpreted,” of course,
meaning the Evolutionists, in
terpretation ; sometimes the
claim being made that no Evo
lution was taught in Baylor
University,—only to be follow
ed by resignations of Profes
sors, admitting that they had
been teaching Evolution. The
Editor of The Conflict review
ed through the Southern Press
a book written and Published
by Professor Daw of Baylor
University, bearing the imprint
of The Baylor University Press,
which taught the rankest Evo
lution.
After these years of struggle
and contention, at last the
deadly teaching brought to
Baylor from Wake Forest, has
been overcome.
The following declaration
has been signed by every mem
ber of the faculty of Baylor
University.
First, we would reiterate
the commanding ideal which we
set before us when we dedicat
ed ourselves to our responsible
office, to live devout lives in
the expression of our Chris
tian experience, to keep open,
reverent, obedient minds to
ward all truth, to maintain a
considerate and constructive
attitude toward all inquirers
after truth, and to be faithful
as interpreters and exponents
in all our duties as Christian
teachers.
Second, in regard to the var
ied speculative theories and
hypotheses current in the edu
cational realm we would ex
press it as our conviction that
the evolutionary theory, for ex-
amp)-.i, which all men know has
long and generally been g
working hypothesis or science
and which in its primary sense
of development probably will
■continue to be, HAS NOT,
EVEN AS ITS LEADING
,’ED FROM THE MOUNT OF
! OLIVES.”
Third, we desire to make
these statements in full appre
ciation of the age-old Baptist
principle that no binding creed
should be fastened by any ec
clesiastical authority upon the
conscience of Christians, but
freely of our owm accord, ju^t
as a church or convention may
declare its faith. This w'e dc
in our sincere desire to inform,
through the board of trustees,
the great denomination to which
Baylor University belongs that
we are in hearty agreement
with the fundamentals of Chris
tian faith as held by the Bap
tists, and in order that we may
assure that noble brotherhood
that we are seeking to the lim
its of our ability to discharge
the high obligations that rest
upon us as Christian teachers.”
facing the greatest curse that
ever fell upon mankind since
Adam fell; simply because
Frank Norris is fighting Evo
lution ?
Some men are saying “I am
opposed to Evolution and I
would fight it, but I am afraid
people would think that I am
lining up with Frank Norris.”
Well, if you are not lining
up against Evolution, you are
lining up with the Devil, for
I the Devil is certainly on the
j side of Evolution. When it
j comes to lining up wdth Frank
i Norris or the Devil, let those
■ who will line up with the De
vil.
A dog trees a skunk in your
It is straight-forward, clear- EXPOUNDERS REA D I L Y
cut, ringing, assuring. Why j ADMIT, TRACED THE ORI-
should not every member of
every faculty of all Southern
Baptist Schools sign this de
claration, including the Univer
sity of Richmond, Va., and
Howard Collg'je, Ala.? It would
bring joy %o hundreds of
thousands of hearts.
But The Conflict fight is
against Evolution in our tax-
supported schools; for that is
a violation of Religious Liber
ty guaranteed to us by our
Constitution; and in that fight
GIN OF THE SPECIES NOR
BROUGHT FORTH ONE,
SINGLE CONVINCING
PROOF THAT MAN IS NOT
THE DIRECT CREATION OF
GOD AS REGOKDEP IN
GENESIS. As Christian teach
ers, therefore, feeling obligat
ed to pursue investigation of
i;ruth into all fields of human
knowledge and to set forth as
we find them, we wish to re-
c::-d our ever-growing convic
tion that THERE CAN BE
J. UM mm
iD [mOTIOHISTS
Evolution is doomed—or the NO CONFLICT BETWEEN
Editor of The Conflict is no TRUE SCIENCE AND THE
prophet. j CHRISTIAN RELIGIOIN. Fur-
Gut read and rejoice over | Tier, WE UNEQUIVOCABLY
this noble Texas declaration j ACCEPT THE LANGUAGE
signed by every member of j PRESIDENT E Y. MULLINS,
the Baylor University faculty:
STATEMENT
Baylor University, Waco,
Texas, Nov. 12, 1924. To the
Board of Trustees of Bajdor
University, Waco, Texas.
Dear Friends: We, the
WHICH WAS ADOPTED UN-
A I M 0 U S L Y BY THE
SOUTHERN BAPTIST CON
VENTION MEETING IN
KANSAS CITY IN 1923, adopt
ing as our very own the words
of this great Baptist scholar
academic faculty oi Baylor j and theologian, w'ho was then
Uinversity at Waco, fTie presi-1 president of the Southern Bap-
dent and each individual mem-just Convention, is now presi-
ber thereof, wish to express
-dent of the largest theological
to the board of trustees, in seminary in this country and
writing, what has often beer
expressed for us by the board,
our conventions in regard to
Our common task as fellow-
•workers in belief of the Uni
versity.
We appreciate the freedom of
investigation, of teaching and
of discussion which inheres in
the very conception of a uni
versity, without which free
dom a univeristy would be a
president of the Baptist World
'Alliance, when he said: “WE
RECORD AGAIN OUR UN
WAVERING ADHERENCE
TO THE SUPERNATURAL
ELEMENTS IN THE CHRIS
TIAN RELIGION. THE BI
BLE IS GOD’S REVELATION
OF HIMSELF THROUGH
MAN MOVED BY THE HOLY
SPIRIT, AND IS OUR SUFFI
CIENT, CERTAIN AND AU-
misnomer and would have no | THORITATIVE GUIDE IN
adequate purpose. At the same
time, we also recognize the
inviolate obligations ever rest
ing upon teachers to distinguish
carefully between mere hypoth
eses and established facts, and
to resist the tendency of some
textbooks to use fresh discover
ies of truth or alleged discover
ies of truth as convenient wea
pons of attack upon the facts
of religion. We further re-
RELIGION. JESUS CHRIST
WAS BORN OF THE VIRGIN
MARY THROUGH THE POW
ER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
HE WAS THE DIVINE AND
ETERNAL SON OF GCD.
HE WROUGHT MIRACLES,
HEALING THE SICK, CAST
ING OUT DEMONS, RAIS
ING THE DEAD. HE DIED
AS THE VICARIOUS, ATON
ING - SAVIOR OF THE
He never defends himself.
He never asks anybody to de
fend him. He does some things
which th ,Edi/qr of THE CON
FLICT tiiinks' are wrong. He
considers it ;i fearful wrong
to try to inj-ire the influence
and good naue of great, use
ful men, and to try to cripple
great Christian institutions.
And Frank Norris doubtless
thinks that The Editor of THE
CONFLICT does some things
that are wrong. On the other
hand, J. Frank Norris has
been treated wrong. But let
the people say what they may,
God i. using J. Frank Norris.
He has held a.nd is holding,
the greatest meetings ever held
by any Pastor of any denom
ination in America; and no
man dares to say that he is
not preaching the Gospel. Paul
rejoiced that even though some
men preached Christ from em'y
and strife, the Gospel wag
preached. But some never re
joice that Frank Norris is
preaching the Gospel witli such
power and that the Gospel he
preaches is being used of God
to the salvation of multitudes.
The Editor of THE CON
FLICT supplied for EYank
Norris six weeks, a few /ears
ago. He went to F'ort Worth
expecting to find a mush-room
church built up by sen-
sationtlism. He found, instead
one of the most spiritual
churches he has ever known;
he met old ex-saloon keepers,
ex-gamblers and ex-drunkards
who were decent, godly men
who had been led to Christ by
Frank Norris.
But let us grant that every
thing said against Frank Nor
ris is true—shall we become
neutral on the greatest issue
that Christianity ever faced,
simply because Frank Norris
is fighting Evolution? Shall we
remain inactive when we are
back yard and you say, “I would
shoot the skunk, but I am af
raid that some one might
think that I am lining up with
the dog!”
A dog is battling with a
rattlesnake in your back yard
where your children are at
play and you say, “I would
kill the rattlesnake but I am
afraid some one would think I
am lining up with the dog!”
A tramp is trying to choke
poison down your child’s throat
and a slouchy, boot-legging
negro is trying to save your
child, and you say, “I would
knock the poison from the
tramp’s hand and save my
child, but some one might think
that I am lining up with the
negro!”
And yet here are the Evo
lutionists choking Evolution
down the throats of our chil
dren and forcing us to pay
their salaries with our taxer
for them to destroy the faith
of our children in God’s wore
and in the Savior, damning
fifteen per cent of them the
first year in College, thirty per
cent the second year and forty-
five per cent the third year,
and yet you stand by and say,
“I would fight Evolution, but
some one might think that I
was lining up with Frank Nor
ris!” you poor little back-bone
less, effeminate, shrivel-souled.
boot-licking time-server! Slink
away and save yourself.
Because Frank Norris is
fighting Evolution, therefore we
will turn our schools over to
Evolution; because Frank Nor
ris is fighting Evolution, there
fore we will not fight and
let the Evolution school-teach-
i ers destroy the faith of our
j children in God’s word; be
cause Frank Norris is fighting
! Evolution, w'e will not fight it,
' but let the Evolution school
I teachers destroy our children’s
faith in the virgin birth of the
Saviour and in his deity; be
cause Frank Norris is fighting
Evolution, therefore we will
I not fight, but will let the Evo
lution school teachers destroy
the faith of our children in
Christ dying for our sins to
redeem us from all iniquity; be
cause Frank Norris is fighting
Evolution, therefore we will
not fight it, but will continue
to pay our taxes to pay the sal
aries of the Evolutionists to
damn our children.
Let those who will follow
this course, but as for THE
CONFLICT, we will fight this
God-defying, Bibje-destroying,
Christ-betraying, faith-destroy
ing, Constitution-trampling, an
archistic Evolution till this
right arm and this tongue and
brain are palsied with death.
If Frank Norris fights it, we
will, too; if the Jews fight it,
we will, too; if the decent in
fidels fight it, we will, too;
if the Catholics fight it, we
will, too.
Let the prejudice-arousers
sneak around and whisper and
back-bite and say, “THE CON
FLICT is lining up with Frank
Norris and with the Jews, and
with the Infidels, and with the
Catholics!” We welcome into
the ranks every man who will
strike a blow at this hydra
headed monster that is sweep
ing from college presidencies,
and professorships, from ed.
torial chairs and school-rooms.
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