…Self — the most popular of all the false gods…
– William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 75.
There is more science in the twenty-fourth verse of the first chapter of Genesis…than in all Darwin wrote.
– William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 94.
What shall it profit a man if he shall gain all the learning of the schools and lose his faith in God?
– William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 118.
…The worship of the intellect — an idolatry as deadly to spiritual progress as the worship of images…
– William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 127.
One can afford to be in a minority but he cannot afford to be wrong.
– William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 189.
…Confucius…Buddha…Mahomet…Hindu [followers of these] except where they have borrowed from Christian nations…have made no progress in fifteen hundred years.
– William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 202.
War is not a private affair; it disturbs the commerce of the world obstructs the ocean’s highways and kills innocent bystanders.
– William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 231.
The preacher should be the boldest of men because of the unselfish character of his work.
– William Jennings Bryan, In His Image (NY: Fleming Revell Co., 1922), 261.
William Jennings Bryan was born this date (3/19/1860) in Salem, IL. He was Democratic contender for the US presidency three-times and Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson until he felt Wilson compromised and Bryan resigned. He has been called America’s best-known fundamentalist between the uncivil war to the great depression.
As a Presbyterian layman, lawyer, and Christian, he defended and won (1925) for the state a victory against the teaching of evolution, in the Tennessee “Scopes Monkey Trial. Bryan College is named for this great man. He is also know for his “Cross of Gold” speech 7/8/1896, Chicago.
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