Will man’s attitude toward Darwin’s God be the same as it would be toward the God of Moses?  Will the believer in Darwin’s God be as conscious of God’s presence in his daily life?  Will he be as sensitive to God’s will and as anxious to find out what God wants him to do?

Will the believer in Darwin’s God be as fervent in prayer and as open to the reception of divine suggestions?

I shall later trace the influence of Darwinism on world peace when the doctrine is espoused by one bold enough to carry it to its logical conclusion, but I must now point out its natural and logical effect upon young Christians.

A boy is born in a Christian family; as soon as he is able to join words together into sentences his mother teaches him to lisp the child’s prayer:  “Now I lay me down to sleep; I pray the Lord my soul to keep; if I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.”  A little later the boy is taught the Lord’s Prayer and each day he lays his petition before the Heavenly Father:  “Give us this day our daily bread”; “Lead us not into temptation”; “Deliver us from evil”; “Forgive our trespasses”; etc.

He talks with God.  He goes to Sunday school and learns that the Heavenly Father is even more kind than earthly parents; he hears the preacher tell how precious our lives are in the sight of God—­how even a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice.  All his faith is built upon the Book that informs him that he is made in the image of God; that Christ came to reveal God to man and to be man’s Saviour.

Then he goes to college and a learned professor leads him through a book 600 pages thick, largely devoted to resemblances between man and the beasts about him.  His attention is called to a point in the ear that is like a point in the ear of the ourang, to canine teeth, to muscles like those by which a horse moves his ears.

He is then told that everything found in a human brain is found in miniature in a brute brain.

And how about morals?  He is assured that the development of the moral sense can be explained on a brute basis without any act of, or aid from, God. (See pages 113-114.)

No mention of religion, the only basis for morality; not a suggestion of a sense of responsibility to God—­nothing but cold, clammy materialism!  Darwinism transforms the Bible into a story book and reduces Christ to man’s level.  It gives him an ape for an ancestor on His mother’s side at least and, as many evolutionists believe, on His Father’s side also.

The instructor gives the student a new family tree millions of years long, with its roots in the water (marine animals) and then sets him adrift, with infinite capacity for good or evil but with no light to guide him, no compass to direct him and no chart of the sea of life!