Is any other proof needed to show the irreligious influence exerted by Darwinism applied to man?  At the University of Wisconsin (so a Methodist preacher told me) a teacher told his class that the Bible was a collection of myths.  When I brought the matter to the attention of the President of the University, he criticized me but avoided all reference to the professor.  At Ann Arbor a professor argued with students against religion and asserted that no thinking man could believe in God or the Bible.  At Columbia (I learned this from a Baptist preacher) a professor began his course in geology by telling his class to throw away all that they had learned in the Sunday school.  There is a professor in Yale of whom it is said that no one leaves his class a believer in God. (This came from a young man who told me that his brother was being led away from the Christian faith by this professor.) A father (a Congressman) tells me that a daughter on her return from Wellesley told him that nobody believed in the Bible stories now.  Another father (a Congressman) tells me of a son whose faith was undermined by this doctrine in a Divinity School.  Three preachers told me of having their interest in the subject aroused by the return of their children from college with their faith shaken.  The Northern Baptists have recently, after a spirited contest, secured the adoption of a Confession of Faith; it was opposed by the evolutionists.

In Kentucky the fight is on among the Disciples, and it is becoming more and more acute in the Northern branches of the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches.  A young preacher, just out of a theological seminary, who did not believe in the virgin birth of Christ, was recently ordained in Western New York.  Last April I met a young man who was made an atheist by two teachers in a Christian college.

These are only a few illustrations that have come under my own observation—­nearly all of them within a year.  What is to be done?  Are the members of the various Christian churches willing to have the power of the pulpit paralyzed by a false, absurd and ridiculous doctrine which is without support in the written Word of God and without support also in nature?  Is “thus saith the Lord” to be supplanted by guesses and speculations and assumptions?  I submit three propositions for the consideration of the Christians of the nation: 

First, the preachers who are to break the bread of life to the lay members should believe that man has in him the breath of the Almighty, as the Bible declares, and not the blood of the brute, as the evolutionists affirm.  He should also believe in the virgin birth of the Saviour.

Second, none but Christians in good standing and with a spiritual conception of life should be allowed to teach in Christian schools.  Church schools are worse than useless if they bring students under the influence of those who do not believe in the religion upon which the Church and church schools are built.  Atheism and Agnosticism are more dangerous when hidden under the cloak of religion than when they are exposed to view.