PEEFACE 5 



Evolutionists are divided into two classes— atheistic 

 evolutionists, who do not admit the existence of a 

 Supreme Being at all, and theistic evolutionists, who 

 travel with the atheists to the Ptginning of life and 

 then assume the existence of GcAas Creator of life. 

 While the theistic evolutionist does not aftirmatively 

 deny God, he is more dangerous to Christian faith than 

 the atheist, because, while claiming to believe in a 

 Creator, he puts God so far away that consciousness 

 of God's presence loses its power to comfort. How 

 can one be conscious of God's presence in his daily life 

 if God has never, since life began, touched a human 

 heart or put His hand upon the destiny of nations or 

 individuals? Evolution also paralyzes the sense of — " 

 responsibility to God. What compelling force can a 

 sense of responsibility have if it must be strained 

 through the blood of all the animal life below man? 

 Nearly all atheists come from the ranks of the theistic 

 evolutionists. • Theistic evolution may be described as 

 an anesthetic which deadens the pain while the patient's 

 religion is being gradually removed, or it may be 

 likened to a way-station on the highway that leads 

 from Christian faith to No-God-Land. 



The special reason for bringing to the attention of 

 Christians at this time the evil that Darwinism is do- 

 ing is to show that| atheists and agnostics are not only 

 claiming but enjoying higher rights and greater privi- 

 leges in this land than Christians ; that is, they are able 

 to propagate their viev/s at pttblic expense while Chris- 

 tianity must be taught at the expense of Christians. 

 Whenever Christians, whether Protestant or Catholic, 



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