CONTROVERSY PROVES LITTLE SAYS APPLETON PREACHER

"I regard the controversy between" Fundamentalists and Modernists as absurd," said Rev. V. T. Pomeroy of England, Appleton Chapel preacher this week, "because the Fundamentalist's attack hasn't the slightest chance of success. Whatever may be said from a pulpit, it cannot be denied that one lives and profits by a scientifically organized, modern world.

"The Modernists are doing a temporarily necessary job in preventing ignorant people from being misled by the preposterous and outworn notion that there is any conflict between true religion and science.

"I think that there is a distinct danger that, owing to the present furious controversy, men of no great distinction of mind will attain publicity. This will lead to disappointment on the part of those who on certain occasions hear from these men nothing either particularly astounding or anything morally and spiritually creative."