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...Some of my ancestors have hung by their necks, but none have hung by their tails," said Dr. John Roach Straton last night at the Phillips Brooks House, speaking on "Evolution versus God, Monkey Men, and Monkey Morals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVOLUTION ROOT OF ALL EVIL--STRATON | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

...They are novelties," said Dr. John Roach Straton when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the teachings of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, prominent New York Modernist clergymen. "They appeal to curiosity and to vanity. They tell their congregations that everything is all right. Instead of rebuking sin, they soft-soap. What is the use of a preacher if everything is all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Virgin Birth "Beautiful and Satisfying" Says Straton; Hits Grant and Fosdick | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

Asked to define the beliefs of the Modernist, Dr. Straton replied: "The average Modernist preacher could put on the point of a pin what he does believe but it would take a ten ton truck to hold the things he does not believe. What they should do is get out of their present churches, and establish churches of their own, converting people to their beliefs if they can, instead of standing still, and knocking to pieces the very foundations of the Christian religion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Virgin Birth "Beautiful and Satisfying" Says Straton; Hits Grant and Fosdick | 3/26/1924 | See Source »

...graduate of Mercer University, Georgia, Dr. Straton was ordained a Baptist minister in 1900. He has won numerous oratorical prizes, and other prizes for articles. He has been prominently identified with education and the church during the last twenty-five years, until today he is one of the foremost exponents of Fundamentalism. Tonight he will present his side of the question in answer to Percy Stickney Grant's recent speech at the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL BALANCE GOD AGAINST EVOLUTION | 3/25/1924 | See Source »

Preceding the lecture, there will be a dinner for Dr. Straton at Phillips Brooks House, at which cabinet members of the Phillips Brooks House and Harvard Christian Associations will attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL BALANCE GOD AGAINST EVOLUTION | 3/25/1924 | See Source »

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