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    The Church, the Schools and Evolution
    The Church, the Schools and Evolution
    The Church, the Schools and Evolution
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    The Church, the Schools and Evolution

    By J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

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      The Church, the Schools and Evolution - J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Church, the Schools and Evolution, by J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

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      Title: The Church, the Schools and Evolution

      Author: J. E. (Judson Eber) Conant

      Release Date: September 28, 2009 [eBook #30126]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHURCH, THE SCHOOLS AND EVOLUTION***

      E-text prepared by Terry Weiss, Jeff G.,

      the Toronto Baptist Seminary Library,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      1

      THE CHURCH

      THE SCHOOLS

      and

      EVOLUTION

      By

      J. E. CONANT, D.D.

      Bible Teacher and Evangelist

      Author of Why the Pastor Failed, Is it Scholarly to Be Orthodox? Is Atonement by Substitution Reasonable? Divine Dynamite, etc.

      Chicago

      THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASS'N

      826 North La Salle Street

      2Copyright, 1922

      by

      J. E. CONANT

      3FOREWORD

      The following pages have grown out of a paper, following the same outline more briefly, which was read before the Pastors’ Conference of the San Juaquin Valley Baptist Association, the largest association in the Northern California Baptist Convention. At the close of the reading a request for its publication was enthusiastically and unanimously voted.

      The author has since divided the paper into two chapters; in the first chapter has added to and classified the quotations concerning evolution, has enlarged the remarks on the influence of evolution on Scripture doctrine, and has both enlarged upon and entirely rearranged the matter of the second chapter, in an attempt to make it both more obvious and more conclusive to the reader than it was felt to be to the hearers.

      The term Church in the following pages is intended to cover that fellowship, of every name, which includes all who have been really born again. When organized church fellowship is referred to, the whole evangelical Protestant fellowship in general is meant, as distinguished from Roman Catholic, Greek church, or any other non-evangelical faith, although true Christians are to be found within every fellowship. The term Schools, in its larger meaning, includes all institutions of learning maintained at private, denominational, or public expense; more specifically, 4 those dominated by the present evolutionary philosophy are meant. With notable exceptions in a few schools that refuse to be so dominated, the whole educational system in general, especially in the Northern States, has practically capitulated to the evolutionists, and the schools that have so surrendered are particularly in mind in the following discussion.

      It is but a humble effort to point out what is obviously the only possible solution for the present distressing and destructive controversy between the Church and the Schools, but the author fondly hopes that it will prove to be a real, even though small, contribution toward the ending of that controversy.

      It is sent out with the prayer that He who is Truth incarnate may lead those in both the Church and the Schools who really want to know the truth at all cost to a common attitude toward Himself, to a common, because truly scientific, method of investigating truth in both the natural and the spiritual realms, and therefore to a common goal which will unite them against all those forces that seek to capture both the Church and the Schools for the enemy.

      J. E. Conant.

      5CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I

      THE PRESENT CONTROVERSY—THE CAUSE

      CHAPTER II

      THE PRESENT CONTROVERSY—THE CURE

      7The Church, the Schools and Evolution

      CHAPTER I

      The Present Controversy—the Cause

      It must be so self-evident as to be axiomatic that there are two distinct realms in God's universe. One is the realm that contains the Creator, and the other that which contains His creation. Of course, if we are pantheists, we will not admit that classification; but those who believe and accept the Word of God are not pantheists.

      It is inevitable, therefore, that the facts, the verities, the truths of the universe should be classified according to their realms; those having to do with the Person and relationships of the Creator being separable into one realm, and those having to do with His creation into another.

      That this classification is universally recognized, is a matter of common knowledge. That class of truth which has to do with God we call supernatural, or spiritual, truth, and that which relates to His creation we call natural, or scientific, truth.

      It is precisely because of this classification that there are two separate institutions in the world, each of which is working in one of these realms. The Church accepts it as her function to receive and propagate spiritual truth, as God has revealed Himself in His character; while the Schools accept it as their function 8 to study and teach scientific truth, as God has revealed Himself in His works. This is the entire logic of the existence in the world of these two separate institutions, both of which are engaged in the investigation and propagation of truth.

      But although the Church and the Schools are entirely separate institutions, and although they are engaged, one in the spread of spiritual truth and the other in the diffusion of scientific truth, yet truth is an eternal unity. This must be so, in the nature of things, for all truth proceeds from and reveals the one and only God Who is its Source and of Whom it is the consistent and perfect expression.

      Conflict between these two realms of truth is, therefore, eternally impossible. Men talk of a conflict between science and the Bible, but no such conflict exists. If there is any contradiction, it is not between the statements of Scripture and the facts of science, but between the false interpretations of Scripture and the immature conclusions of science. Herbert Spencer was right when he said:

      It is incredible that there should be two orders of truth in absolute and everlasting opposition.

      Not until God begins to contradict Himself will these two realms of truth ever be in conflict with each other.

      The Church and the Schools, then, can never be in conflict until some abnormal condition creeps into the one or the other; for, although working in different realms of truth, each is yet receiving revelations of the one God who can never be in conflict with Himself.

      When these two institutions are in normal condition, each will not only not destroy the work of the 9 other, but each will make every possible contribution to the success of

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