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they reject the virgin birth of Christ and the resurrec- 

 tion. They may still regard Christ as an unusual man, 

 but they will not make much headway in converting 

 people to Christianity, if they declare Jesus to be noth- 

 ing more than a man and either a deliberate impostor 

 or a deluded enthusiast. 



The evil influence of these Materialistic, Atheistic or 

 Agnostic professors is disclosed by further investiga- 

 tion made by Leuba. He questioned the students of 

 nine representative colleges, and upon their answers de- 

 clares that, while only fifteen per cent, of the freshmen 

 have discarded the Christian religion, thirty per cent, 

 of the juniors and that forty to forty-five per cent, of 

 the men graduates have abandoned the cardinal prin- 

 ciples of the Christian faith. Can Christians be indif- 

 ferent to such statistics? Is it an immaterial thing 

 that so large a percentage of the young men who go 

 from Christian homes into institutions of learning 

 should go out from these institutions with the spiritual 

 element eliminated from their lives? What shall it 

 profit a man if he shall gain all the learning of the 

 schools and lose his faith in God ? 



To show how these evolutionists undermine the 

 faith of students let me give you an illustration that 

 recently came to my attention: A student in one of the 

 largest State universities of the nation recently gave 

 me a printed speech delivered by the president of the 

 university, a year ago this month, to 3,600 students, 

 and printed and circulated by the Student Christian 

 Association of the institution. The student who gave 

 me the speech marked the following paragraph : "And, 



