To the Editor of the "Norta-Cuina Dairy News."
S1r,—Who is right? Canon Barnes of Westminster or the Dean of the Shanghai Cathedral? vide an article in the "Literar Digest," and the course of rid dresses which are to be completed by the Dean on Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. at the Cathedral.
Until I read the article in the "Literary Digest," I had no idea that any of the Anglican clergy still upheld the old theory of a different creation of man to the evolutionary process necessary for all the other creatures of God, which, it seemed to me, at the time of Professor Darwin's death and interment in Westminster Abbey, when the highest dignitaries of the Church and State acted as the pallbearers of his honoured remains, left no question of the endorsement of his doctrine as to the evolution of. man, as well as of all other of God's creatures.
Canon Barnes has declared that the story of the Creation and Fall is mere allegory, and that actually we are evolved from some "fundamental stuff in the Universe'—- and our Dean last Wednesday refers to the "controversy that is raging round the narratives of To those in search of the truth I would recommend a little book by Sir Oliver Lodge, "The Substance of Faith," a very clearly expressed and inexpensive work, which, venture to think that many will be grateful to me for calling their attention to.
Truth must ultimately prevail, and the sooner the better. It cannot be indefinitely postponed, however many houses of cards collapse in the process of establishing it and revising old faiths and creeds.
I am, ete., Veritas-Shanghai, Feb. 22.
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