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books on psychology, and yet they are held before the 

 students as better authority than the unchanging Word 

 of God. 



Is any other proof needed to show the irreligious in- 

 fluence exerted by Darwinism applied to man ? At the 

 University of Wisconsin (so a Methodist preacher 

 told me) a teacher told his class that the Bible was a 

 collection of myths. When I brought the matter to 

 the attention of the President of the University, he 

 criticized me but avoided all reference to the professor. 

 At Ann Arbor a professor argued with students against 

 reHgion and asserted that no thinking man could 

 beheve in God or the Bible. At Columbia (I learned 

 this from a Baptist preacher) a professor began his 

 course in geology by telling his class to throw away all 

 that they had learned in the Sunday school. There is 

 a professor in Yale of whom it is said that no one 

 leaves his class a believer in God. (This came from a 

 young man who told me that his brother was being led 

 away from the Christian faith by this professor.) A 

 father (a Congressman) tells me that a daughter on 

 her return from Wellesley told him that nobody be- 

 lieved in the Bible stories now. Another father (a 

 Congressman) tells me of a son whose faith was un- 

 dermined by this doctrine in a Divinity School. Three 

 preachers told me of having their interest in the sub- 

 ject aroused by the return of their children from col- 

 lege with their faith shaken. The Northern Baptists 

 have recently, after a spirited contest, secured the 

 adoption of a Confession of Faith: it was opposed by 

 the evolutionists. 



