Mcminn County TN Archives News.....Robert H. Snyder Letter to the Editor regarding 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial"  September 25, 1925
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Daily Post Athenian September 25, 1925
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thinks it Helped

 
Editor The News:

A great many people wondered if any good would come out of the Scopes trial at
Dayton. Some expressed themselves to me and said they thought it would do more
harm than good.

Thanks be unto the Lord, I can testify of what I have been priveleged to see for
myself and not of another. I have attended in McMinn county and adjoining
counties a number of revival meetings and in any one of them they have had more
conversions of old men than was ever known before. It is just something
wonderful how these men, some of them grandfathers, would be led to accept
Christ as their savior. 

Many of these men were hard-hearted, impenitent sinners, before the trial. Some
attended the trial and all were eager to know just how the trial was going and
would try some way to get the latest editions of the daily papers. In reading of
the trial their minds were opened up to the truth, and Holy Spirit conviction
brought them to accept Christ as their savior. God has been glorified by it. It
is just wonderful how happy they would get, and all this by strong-hearted men
who knew what they were doing and not just women and little children as some
would say.

Christians, take heart and be encouraged. And let every minister of the gospel
preach Christ more boldly, would be what I should say. I am just a humble
government employee; have served in that capacity for more than twenty years and
have witnessed these things. These of whom I write are twice-born men and are
able to testify for themselves. Instead of hindering, the Scopes case has been a
furtherence of the gospel. Scoffing Mencken and Prater would call it
emotionalism, but I would say it was pentecostal Holy Ghost religion. God had
something for Bryan to do that was far greater than to be president and that was
at the Dayton trial. 

R. H. Snyder

Niota, Tenn., Sept. 22, 1925.

 

Additional Comments:
R. H. Snyder of Niota, was a rural route mail carrier and one time Postmaster
for the Perfection community of McMinn County.

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