Religion: Monkey into Pulpit

"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a monkey again just for tonight."

Not a Keith circuit clown, nor a newspaper colyumist, nor a child "playing animals" gave voice to this utterance. It was the Rev. Z. Colin O'Farrell announcing his text for a sermon against Evolution in the First Baptist Church of Butte, Mont.

Gloom pervaded the church, save for the glare of one spotlight playing upon the speaker's platform. There stood the Rev. O'Farrell, gesticulating, shouting to make himself heard above a strange series of interruptions. Beside...

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