TRAPPED BY FLAMES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 207, 21 November 1927, Page 16

TRAPPED BY FLAMES

MOTHER ESCAPES THROUGH WINDOW WAKENED BY INFANT’S COUGH (From Our Own Correspondent) WAIHI, To-day. A four-roomed house, ocupied by Mrs. D. Coutts, in Seddon Avenue, Waihi, was destroyed by fire at an early hour on Sunday morning. Mrs. Coutts, who occupied the rear bedroom with a four-vear-old son, was aroused at 1.30 a.m., by the child coughing and found the place enveloped in smoke and flames. She found it impossible to reach the door, so had to scramble out through a window to save herself and child. The house, which was owned by Mr. Robert Aitken, of Pukekohe, was insured in the State Insurance Company for £IOO. The furniture was insured, but the amount is not available. made every species with an infinite capacity for variations, but no species could cross the line and become another. While most biologists believed in evolution, all biology denied it. Evolution could not explain the origin of life, it could not explain the origin of specives, and it would not account for the origin of man. Theistic evolution was an utterly unsatisfactory attempt to avoid the complete breakdown of the theory of evolution when it was faced with the facts of nature and became another. The supreme danger of evolution lay not in the realm of biology, but in the carrying over of its unproved hypothesis as if it were a fact into psychology, philosophy and theology. University students were being taught that the mental, moral and spiritual attributes of man had arisen by an evolutionary process from the instincts of the lower animals. Ho concluded: “Once evolution is accepted, the Divine record of the fall of man and the sinfulness of human nature is repudiated, hence there is no need for the atoning work of the Cross of Christ—the very foundation of the Christian faith.”