BIOLOGIST WILL 'VOLUNTARILY' LEAVE HIS BAPTIST CHURCH ON ONE CONDITION
Riverton, New Jersey (JFK+50) On August 22, 1925, Associated Press reports government biologist Dr. Henry Fox says he will "go voluntarily" from Tattnail Square Baptist Church "provided the deacons and congregation" go on the record as "denying the right of the individual Baptist to be the sole judge of the soundness of his doctrinal views."
AP says that Dr. Fox was dropped last year from the faculty of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia "for teaching evolution" and had been asked to "quit the denomination of alleged unorthodoxy" by Tattnail Square Baptist Church.
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The situation heated up when Dr. Fox's attempt to transfer his church membership to a New Jersey congregation was denied by Tattnail Square Baptist "on the grounds that his public utterances were not consistent with Baptist belief."
SOURCES
"Fox Resists Church In Evolution Row," The New York Times, August 23, 1925, www.nytimes.com/
"Scientist Fights Church Expulsion," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., August 22, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
