MODERN Modernism takes its direct descent
from Higher Criticism. It builds its castles on the shifting sands of the
so-called āassured resultsā of ācritical Scholarship.ā But the true origin of
this deadly heresy can be traced to a gardenāwhich garden all Modernists do
their best to legendarizeātherein the first tragedy of Modernism took place. āAs
for Modernism,ā said the Warden of a Madras College, āpeople 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.ā How very true, for
Satan was the first of the cult and on his first introduction toāor rather
intrusion onāthe human race, his first words were: āYea, hath God said, Ye
shall not eat of every tree of the garden?ā