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race? What mockery to petition or implore, if God 

 neither hears nor answers. Elijah taunted the 

 prophets of Baal when their god failed to answer with 

 fire; ** Cry aloud/' he said, ** peradventure he sleep- 

 eth." Darwin mocks the Christians even more cruelly ; 

 he tells us that our God has been asleep for millions of 

 years. Even worse, he does not affirm that Jehovah 

 was ever awake. Nowhere does he collect for the 

 reader the evidences of a Creative Power and call upon 

 man to worship and obey God. The great scientist is, 

 if I may borrow a phrase, '' too much absorbed in the 

 things infinitely small to consider the things infinitely 

 great." Darwinism chills the spiritual nature and 

 quenches the fires of religious enthusiasm. If the 

 proof in support of Darwinism does not compel accept- 

 ance — and it does not — why substitute it for an ac- 

 count of the Creation that links man directly with the 

 Creator and holds before him an example to be imi- 

 tated? As the eminent theologian, Charles Hodge, 

 says: "The Scriptural doctrine (of Creation) ac- 

 counts for the spiritual nature of man, and meets all 

 his spiritual necessities. It gives him an object of 

 adoration, love and confidence. It reveals the Being 

 on whom his indestructible sense of responsibility ter- 

 minates. The truth of this doctrine, therefore, rests 

 not only upon the authority of the Scriptures but on 

 the very constitution of our nature." 



I have spoken of what would seem to be the natural 

 and logical effect of the Darwin hypothesis on the 

 minds of the young. This view is confirmed by its 

 actual effect on Darwin himself. In his " Life and 



