every believer is baptized by the Holy Spirit
into the Body of Christ.

But even so, the word "buried" still stands in the first passage above, and
a burial has to do with the dead, not with the living. Being "buried,"
therefore, when the Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ, it is "into
death," not into an enlarging life, because we are so completely dead that
the baptizing Spirit sets the "old man" forever aside as utterly
unimprovable, in order that He may make us "partakers of the divine nature"
by which we become a "new creation" in Christ.

All this, however, is utterly intolerable to the consistent evolutionist.
For if man is dead and therefore unimprovable, that makes progress upward
impossible, and, if that is impossible, the whole doctrine of evolution is
at an end.

And so the evolutionist assumes the presence of life, and conceives the
race to be progressing upward out of crude forms and unethical conceptions
toward God. It is perfectly consistent, therefore, that he should seek to
stir man's noble aspirations and should present high ideals for him to
strive after. For it is not life man needs, they say, it is simply
conversion to higher ideals and aspirations in life.

Hence Dr. E. D. Burton is in perfect harmony with this evolutionary
conception when he says:

Jesus was a teacher of great principles, which it is
incumbent upon us to apply to the multitudinous phases and
experiences of life, and the embodiment of an ideal, which it
is ours to endeavor, as best we can, to achieve.

Dr. Herbert L. Willett, of the University of Chicago, was also in harmony
with all this when he said in an address heard by the writer:

It is the task of the Church to interpret to the world the
ideals of Jesus for men to strive after.

And Dr. J. H. Coffin also voiced the evolutionary position when, in
speaking of conversion, he said:

It is conversion =to= something, namely, the =principles= of
Jesus.

Now when the logic of this conception is followed out, it turns evangelism
into religious education. And so it is easy to see why the advocates of
evolution are stressing religious education with increasing insistence. For
it is through the methods of religious education, according to Dr. Burton,
that the lost are being

led to adopt the principles of Jesus and to accept his
leadership quietly and gradually.

This makes regeneration simply an added impulse in the direction in