The Union Daily Times

MINISTER RAPS "ROT" IN SCHOOLS
Fort Worth, Texas, May 1.—The vicious attacks against the authorities and integrity of the Holy Scriptures and the fundamentals of the faith are being made daily in educational institutions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, were the outstanding charges hurled at heads of the denomination tonight by the Rev. W. E. Hawkins, Jr., a Methodist evangelist, when he spoke before the Fifth World Conference on Christian Fundamentals.
Hawkins presented a number of witnesses, mostly students from Methodist schools, to substantiate his claim of heresy in educational circles.
The college of bishops and other ecclesiastical leaders of the denomination as well as the membership as a whole were scored by the speakers for permitting this alleged condition to exist.
The sensational charge against the Methodist schools came at the close of a day replete with thrills for those interested in religion. Dr. T. T. Martin, a Baptist evangelist of Blue Mountain, Miss., fired a broadside into the "education system of any state that will permit a system of instruction intended to rob a child of its belief in the Almighty God and the infallibility of His written word."
Dr. Martin quoted several passages from text books used in Southern states in which the scientific theory of evolution was taught and shouted: "Down with such rot. Will a child believe its preacher when he says 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth' when his school teacher tells him that the earth's just arrived."
"Will a child believe that God made man in his own image and every living creature after its kind, when his school teacher tells him that things were brought into their present shapes after thousands of years of basking in the sun?"
Throughout the day attack after attack was hurled at the heads of teachers, preachers and laymen who teach or uphold modern thought in theology. That the time has come for a separation of the branch of the church which holds to the literal interpretation of the Word of God and that part of it which considers part of the Scripture allegorical was expressed on every hand.