REVEALED RELIGION

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 320, 22 July 1925, Page 5

REVEALED RELIGION

MR BRYAN’S SIMPLE FAITH REPLIES" AT SCOPES TRIAL (By Electric Cable—Copyright). (Ansfc. and N.Z. Cable Association). Received .July 22, ID a.in.) Ne w A" or k. .July 21.

Warm passages were trequent hothe opposing counsel at the Scopes trial."

Mr W. Bryan (an ex-candidate for the Tinted States Presidency), who entered the witness box, replying to questions from Mr Harrow (on*' of the foremost lawyers in America) as to whether lie believed llie Bible stow that a whale swallowed .Jonah

and whether lie believed God made a whale big enough or Jongh small enough, declared that (<od could make a lisTi big enough to swallow a man. He nelieved what the Bible said. One miracle was just a s easy to believe as another.

Asked il he believed that Joshua commanded the "sun io stand still, Mr Bryan said he accepted the Bible si Ore absolutely.

Asked what- would happen if the wor Id stood still, be replied that God would take- care ol that. He added that lie (Mr Byran) was there it this trial to protect repealed religion. SCOPES FOUND GUILTY A FI NE OF L"2O EM ROSED (Argus) New York. July 21.

Scopes was lonnu guilty, the verdict being returned after only eight in mutes’ deliberation. Sropc. was fined I**2o AN (APPEAL COMING An appeal is to be lodged in the Tennessee Supreme Court against iT.e Scopes verdict.