And this is what Science asserts, while we of the outer churches, through cowardice or indolence--too often, alas! through our own skepticism--have allowed Science thus to obscure the issue.

We have fatuously thought to surrender the sin of Adam, and still to keep a Saviour--not perceiving that we must keep both or neither.
"There is the issue.

The Church says that man is born under the curse of God and so remains until redeemed, through the sacraments of the Church, by the blood of God's only begotten Son.
"Science says man is not fallen, but has risen steadily from remote brute ancestors.

If science be right--and by _mere evidence_ its contention is plausible--then original sin is a figment and natural man is a glorious triumph over brutehood, not only requiring no saviour--since he is under no curse of God--but having every reason to believe that the divine favour has ever attended him in his upward trend.
"But if one finds _mere evidence_ insufficient to outweigh that most glorious death on Calvary, if one regards that crucifixion as a tear of faith on the world's cold cheek of doubt to make it burn forever, then one must turn to the only church that safeguards this rock of Original Sin upon which the Christ is builded.

For the ramparts of Protestantism are honeycombed with infidelity--and what is most saddening, they are giving way to blows from within.