Page:Transactions NZ Institute Volume 9 Supplement.djvu/56

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These are wise and weighty words, and deserve to be pondered by all who take it on themselves to ostracise their fellows on account of their sympathy with modern research. And I have strung these various extracts together in the hope that, coming as they do from leaders in Theology of the Evangelical school, they will carry more weight than anything I could say. I feel very sure, too, that you will pardon my detaining you so long, on the ground that such plain speaking is needed in a community where our Christian young men have been led to think and to act on the idea, that Evolution theories and Christianity are totally incompatible with each other.