When Professor Schmucker; therefore, speaks of the creation story as

the poetical account of Genesis;

when Dr. S. B. Meeser, of Crozer Theological Seminary, describes the
Scriptures as

the survivals of the fittest of those communion experiences
which men, who have lived intensely in the moral interest,
have had with God;

when Dr. H. C. Vedder, of the same seminary, says the Scriptures

"grew in ... accuracy" as they were written;

when Dr. W. H. P. Faunce, President of Brown University, can say:

Mr. Gladstone's last book is called "The Impregnable Rock of
Holy Scripture." The very title shows a conception of the
Bible at the farthest removed from the present Biblical
scholarship, to which the Bible is a growth, not a rock;

when Dr. Ernest D. Burton, of the University of Chicago, says:

Some among us have been constrained to admit that the books
[of the Bible] are not infallible in history or in matters of
science, and not wholly consistent and therefore not
ultimately and as a whole inerrant in the field of morals and
religion;

and when Dr. Shailer Mathews, of the same University, urges us to think the
gospel

in terms of evolution,

and then shows us what that means to him when he says:

For in the New Testament there are conceptions which the
modern world under the dominance of science [at the heart of
which lies the evolutionary philosophy] finds it impossible
to understand, much less to believe;

these men are simply demonstrating the fact that they still retain their
intellectual integrity and consistency, and that they are therefore
entirely unable to accept the doctrine of evolution and believe in an
inerrant Bible at the same time. That is, the logic of the doctrine of
evolution destroys for them the faith that, in its original manuscripts,
the Bible as it came from God to man was "truth unmixed with error," with
the resulting confidence that He who gave it has preserved it to us by His
providence essentially as it was given.

This means that these men and all who agree with them have rejected that
Word which is forever settled in heaven, in order to accept a hypothesis
which is never settled on earth; that they have given up the Book which has
stood unchanged through the centuries against every conceivable form of
assault, and taken in its place a set of scientific speculations that have
either to be revised