"All Scripture," said Thomas a Kempis sought to be read in the spirit in which it was written." This statement taken from the writings of an Augustinian monk holds true today as much as it ever did in the fifteenth century.

In a large part, the present day controversy between Fundamentalists and Modernists is just this question of the spirit in which the Scriptures were written. Were they written purporting to set forth exact truth in all their details and meant to be accepted as such, or were there parts conceived in the spirit of figures of speech and designed to be taken in the same spirit? If one accepts the first view must he deny science; if one accepts the second, must he deny the Bible?

This is the question which has been argued time and again on the lecture platform, in the pulpit, and in the courtroom; it is the question which at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Professor Kirtley Mather and Dr. John Reach Straton will argue at the Phillips Brooks House.

Lectures of interest being given today are:

9 o'clock

"Political Parties of England and the United States: a Comparison and a Contrast," Professor Elliott. New Lecture Hall Government 1.

10 o'clock

"John Woodman and Crevecoeur," Professor Murdock, Harvard2, English 33.

"Uccello and the Early Florentine Scientists," Professor Edgell. Robinson Hall, Fine Arts 5h.

11 o'clock

"Luther," Professor Howard, Germanic Museum, German 25.

7.30 O'clock

"The Polar Flight of the Norge," General Umberto Nobile, Living Room, Harvard Union.