On page 150 he answered Huxley’s attack on faith.  He says, “Huxley, in ‘Lay Sermons,’ says that faith has been proved a ‘cardinal sin’ by science.  Now this is true enough of credulity, superstition, etc., and science has done no end of good in developing our ideas of method, evidence, etc.  But this is all on the side of intellect.  ‘Faith’ is not touched by such facts or considerations.  And what a terrible hell science would have made of the world, if she had abolished the ’spirit of faith,’ even in human relations.”

In the days of his apostasy he “took it for granted,” he says on page 164, “that Christianity was played out.”  When once his eyes were reopened he vied with Paul himself in recognizing the superior quality of love.  On page 163 he quoted the eloquent lines of Bourdillon: 

  The night has a thousand eyes,
    And the day but one;
  Yet the light of a whole world dies
    With the setting sun.

  The mind has a thousand eyes,
    And the heart but one;
  Yet the light of a whole life dies
    When love is done.

Having quoted this noble sentiment he adds:  “Love is known to be all this.  How great then, is Christianity, as being the religion of love, and causing men to believe both in the cause of love’s supremacy and the infinity of God’s love to man.”

But Romanes still clung to Evolution and, so far as his book discloses, his mind would never allow his heart to commune with Darwin’s far-away God, whose creative power Romanes could not doubt but whose daily presence he could not admit without abandoning his theory.

His is a typical case, but many of the wanderers never return to the fold; they are lost sheep.  If the doctrine were demonstrated to be true its acceptance would, of course, be obligatory, but how can one bring himself to assent to a series of assumptions when such a course is accompanied by such a tremendous risk of spiritual loss?

If, as it does in so many instances, it causes the student to choose Darwinism, with its intellectual delusions, and reject the Bible, with the incalculable blessings that its heart-culture brings, what minister of the Gospel or Christian professor can justify himself before the bar of conscience if, by impairing confidence in the Word of God, he wrecks human souls?  All the intellectual satisfaction that Darwinism ever brought to those who have accepted it will not offset the sorrow that darkens a single life from which the brute theory of descent has shut out the sunshine of God’s presence and the companionship of Christ.  Here, too, we have the testimony of the distinguished scientist from whom I have been quoting.  In his first book—­the attack on Theism—­he says:  (page 29, “Thoughts on Religion”) “I am not ashamed to confess that with this virtual negation of God the universe to me has lost its soul of loveliness; and, although from henceforth the precept to ’Work while it is day’