MODERN Modernism takes its direct descent
from Higher Criticism. It builds its castles on the shifting sands of the
so-called “assured results” of “critical Scholarship.” But the true origin of
this deadly heresy can be traced to a garden—which garden all Modernists do
their best to legendarize—therein the first tragedy of Modernism took place. “As
for Modernism, ” said the Warden of a Madras College, “people make a mistake
when they think it is a new fad or that it is of a mushroom growth. Modernism,
as a certain mode of thinking, is as old as Mother Eve.” How very true, for
Satan was the first of the cult and on his first introduction to—or rather
intrusion on—the human race, his first words were: “Yea, hath God said, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”