Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
1 Timothy 4:1
"The silver tongue of the most popular American evangelist of the day, Henry Ward Beecher, argued convincingly that the theory of evolution was the key to many secrets of nature and a constant revelation to man of the works of God (Beecher 1885; Stowe 1934; Caskey 1978).
In England, Beecher's counterpart was the fiery Henry Drummond, who took the message of theistic evolution to the university students and in 1873 joined the evangelical movement led by Dwight L. Moody as his lecturer on natural science.
In the early 20th century another notable American preacher to bring reconciliation between evolution and Christianity was Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Riverside Church in New York City. He was a liberal actively opposed to the fundamentalists for more than two decades. After causing several uproars by preaching against Special Creation, he was asked to resign from his first church in 1922.
With financing by John D. Rockefeller Jr., he had the inter-denominational Riverside Church built for his own use and for the next twenty years brought the modern gospel message to listeners every week on a nationwide radio program."
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