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60 THE ORIGIN OF MAN 



In Kentucky the fight is on among the Disciples, and 

 it is becoming more and more acute in the Northern 

 branches of the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches. 

 " A young preacher, just out of a theological seminary, 

 who did not believe in the virgin birth of Christ, was 

 recently ordained in Western New York. Last April 

 I met a young man Vv^ho was made an atheist by two 

 teachers in a Christian college. 



These are only a few illustrations that have come 

 under my own observation — nearly all of them within 

 a year. What is to be done? Are the members of 

 the various Christian churches willing to have the 

 power of the pulpit paralyzed by a false, absurd and 

 ridiculous doctrine which is without support in the 

 written Word of God and without support also in na- 

 ture? Is "thus saith the Lord" to be supplanted by 

 guesses and speculations and assumptions? I submit 

 three propositions for the consideration of the Chris- 

 tians of the nation: 



First, the preachers who are to break the bread of 

 life to the lay members should believe that man has in 

 him the breath of the Almighty, as the Bible declares, 

 and not the blood of the brute, as the evolutionists 

 affirm. He should also believe in the virgin birth of 

 the Saviour. 



Second, none but Christians in good standing and 

 with a spiritual conception of life should be allowed to 

 teach in Christian schools. Church schools are worse 

 than useless if they bring students under the influence 

 of those who do not believe in the religion upon which j 

 the Church and church schools are built. Atheism j 



