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40 THE OEIGIN OF MAK 



Will the believer in Darwin*s God be as fervent in 

 prayer and as open to the reception of divine sugges- 

 tions ? 



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 bom 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 re- 

 veal 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 ca- 



