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break this mainspring, it is the duty of the moral, as 

 well as the Christian, world to combat this influence 

 in every possible way. 



I believe there is such a menace to fundamental 

 morality. The hypothesis to which the name of Dar- 

 win has been given — the hypothesis that links man to 

 the lower forms of life and makes him a lineal de- 

 scendant of the brute — is obscuring God and weaken- 

 ing all the virtues that rest upon the rehgious tie be- 

 tween God and man. Passing over, for the present, 

 all other phases of evolution and considering only that 

 part of the system which robs man of the dignity con- 

 ferred upon him by separate creation, when God 

 breathed into him the breath of life and he became the 

 first man, I venture to call attention to the demoraliz- 

 ing influence exerted by this doctrine. 

 f^ If we accept the Bible as true we have no difficulty; 

 in determining the origin of man. In the first chap- 

 ter of Genesis we read that God, after creating all 

 other things, said, " Let us make man in our image, 

 after our likeness ; and let him have dominion over the 

 fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over 

 the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creep- 

 ing thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God cre- 

 ated man in his own image, in the image of God cre- 

 ated he him; male and female created he them.'* 



The materialist has always rejected the Bible ac- 

 count of Creation and, during the last half century, 

 the Darwinian doctrine has been the means of shaking 

 the faith of millions^^t is important that man should 

 have a correct understanding of his line of descent. 



