6 PEEFACE 



desire to present to students their interpretation of 

 Christianity they build their own colleges with their 

 own money, employ their own teachers, and give to 

 the school a name which indicates what is being 

 taught. Is there any reason why atheists and agnostics 

 should not be compelled to do likewise? If they desire 

 to teach that there is no God and therefore no Bible 

 and no Christ, why do they not build their own col- 

 leges and support them? Christians do not deny to 

 atheists the right to dispute the existence of God or to 

 agnostics the right to declare themselves without an 

 opinion on the subject; Christians do not deny the right 

 of atheists and agnostics to teach their views; Chris- 

 tians would put all on the same level. The question 

 in dispute is whether atheists and agnostics have a 

 right to teach irreligion in public schools — whetlier 

 teachers drawing salaries from the public treasury 

 shall be permitted to undermine belief in God, the 

 Bible, and Christ by teaching not scientific truth but 

 unproven and unsupported guesses which cannot be 

 true unless the Bible is false. 



The reader may know more of the character of 

 " In His Image '* by the following summary: 



Chapter I deals with the existence of a Supreme 

 Being, all-wise, all-powerful, and all-loving — self-ex- 

 istent and the Creator of all things. Under this head 

 attention is called to a rebuke which Tolstoy delivered 

 to " the cultured crowd *' who think that religion is a 

 superstition, good enough for the ignorant but un- 

 necessary when one reaches a certain period of in- 

 tellectual development. It is this idea of substituting 



