Evolution in the Public Schools
Writing in the New York Independent of June 19, Henry Goodwin Smith, D. D., professor of systematic theology in Lane Seminary, speaks of the evolutionary doctrine of the origin of man, which has supplanted the former belief in the creation of a perfect human pair six thousand years ago, and says that this doctrine of man's origin by evolution from the lower forms of life is "taught explicitly" "in the public schools, the colleges, and the universities of our country." Can any Seventh-day Adventist wonder, then, that so much stress has been laid by those who have had in charge the molding of our educational work, upon the necessity of a separate system for our children and youth from that which is furnished by the world? When it is a fact, as this authority states, that not only in the colleges and universities of the country, but in the common schools as well, this anti-Christian doctrine of evolution is "taught explicitly," what stronger reason could there be why Seventh-day Adventists should feel it necessary to withdraw their children from these schools?