The evil influence of these Materialistic, Atheistic or Agnostic professors is disclosed by further investigation made by Leuba.  He questioned the students of nine representative colleges, and upon their answers declares that, while only fifteen per cent. of the freshmen have discarded the Christian religion, thirty per cent. of the juniors and that forty to forty-five per cent, of the men graduates have abandoned the cardinal principles of the Christian faith.  Can Christians be indifferent to such statistics?  Is it an immaterial thing that so large a percentage of the young men who go from Christian homes into institutions of learning should go out from these institutions with the spiritual element eliminated from their lives?  What shall it profit a man if he shall gain all the learning of the schools and lose his faith in God?

To show how these evolutionists undermine the faith of students let me give you an illustration that recently came to my attention:  A student in one of the largest State universities of the nation recently gave me a printed speech delivered by the president of the university, a year ago this month, to 3,500 students, and printed and circulated by the Student Christian Association of the institution.  The student who gave me the speech marked the following paragraph:  “And, again, religion must not be thought of as something that is inconsistent with reasonable, scientific thinking in regard to the nature of the universe.  I go so far as to say that, if you cannot reconcile religion with the things taught in biology, in psychology, or in the other fields of study in this university, then you should throw your religion away.  Scientific truth is here to stay.”  What about the Bible, is it not here to stay?  If he had stopped with the first sentence, his language might not have been construed to the injury of religion, because religion is not “inconsistent with reasonable, scientific thinking in regard to the nature of the universe.”  There is nothing unreasonable about Christianity, and there is nothing unscientific about Christianity.  No scientific fact—­no fact of any other kind can disturb religion, because facts are not in conflict with each other.  It is guessing by scientists and so-called scientists that is doing the harm.  And it is guessing that is endorsed by this distinguished college president (a D.D., too, as well as an LL.D. and a Ph.D.) when he says, “I go so far as to say that, if you cannot reconcile religion with the things taught in biology, in psychology, or in the other fields of study in this university, then you should throw your religion away.”  What does this mean, except that the books on biology and on other scientific subjects used in that university are to be preferred to the Bible in case of conflict?  The student is told, “throw your religion away,” if he cannot reconcile it (the Bible, of course,) with the things taught in biology, psychology, etc.  Books on biology change constantly, likewise books on psychology, and yet they are held before the students as better authority than the unchanging Word of God.