4 PREFACE 



rately than any one else had done. While the two 

 propositions which he advanced to explain man's de- 

 scent from the brute, viz., " natural selection " and 

 " sexual selection," have been largely discarded, the 

 idea of a brute descent still lives among evolutionists 

 and, in my judgment, is at present the only serious at- 

 tack upon the fundamental fact of God and upon the 

 great and controlling influences that rest upon belief in 

 God. 



Darwin's views made the holder thereof an agnostic, 

 led him away from belief in the Bible, God, and Christ; 



^ and, as I prove in this lecture, .the natural tendency of 

 Darwinism is to lead those astray who put their faith 



• in evolution. I speak now of the tendency. It is dan- 

 gerous not because ahvays fatal but because it is so 

 often fatal. Only a small percentage of those who 

 take smallpox die of that disease, and yet we quaran- 

 tine against smallpox, and no one is permitted to com- 

 municate the disease to others. The spiritual mortal- 

 ity, as I show by quotations from Leuba, is greater 

 among those who adopt Darwinism than is the 

 physical mortality among those who are afflicted with 

 smallpox. 



The tendency of Darwinism, when taken seriously, 



f is to undermine faith, first, in the Bible as an inspired 

 book, and then in the miracles because contrary to 

 evolution; next, repudiation of the virgin birth and the 

 resurrection of Christ because miraculous, and the 

 rejection of Christ as Son and Saviour. Lastly, Dar- - 

 winism leads to the denial of the existence of a per- 



I sonal God. 



