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 story of Divine creation of man as taught in the Bible and teach instead thereof that man descended from a lower order of animals.

This act became the law in Tennessee on March 21, 1925.

This act in part reads as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Tennessee, that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the universities, normals and all other public schools of the state, which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the state, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.

Since the act involved in this investigation provides that it shall be unlawful to teach any theory that denies the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, it is proper that I call your attention to the account of man's creation as taught in the Bible, it is proper that I call your attention to the first chapter of Genesis, reading as follows:

Reads First Chapter of Genesis.

"In the beginning the Lord created the heaven and earth.

Second—"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Third—"And God said, let there be light: and there was light.

Fourth—"And God saw the light, that it was good: And God divided the light from the darkness.

Fifth—"And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Sixth—"And God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Seventh—"And God made the firmament, and divided the watterswaters [sic] which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; And it was so.

Eighth—"And God called the firmament heaven, And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Ninth—"And God said, 'Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so.

Ten—"And God called the dry land earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He seas: And God saw that it was good.

Eleventh—"And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit trees yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: And it was so.

Twelfth—"And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the trees yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind; and God saw that it was good.

Thirteenth—"And the evening and the morning were the third day.

Fourteenth—"And God said let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.

Fifteenth—"And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth; and it was so.

SixtenthSixteenth [sic]—"And God made two great lights: The greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also.

Seventeenth—"And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.

Eighteenth—"And to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

Nineteenth—"And the evening,