DARWIN AND HIS THEORIES FROM A RELIGIOUS 

 POINT OF VIEW. 



" Surely in such a man lived that true charity which is the very 

 essence of the true spirit of Christ." — Canon Peotheeo. 



u The moral lesson of his life is perhaps even more valuable 

 than is the grand discovery which he has stamped on the world's 

 history." — The Observer (London). 



" Darwin's writings may be searched in vain for an irreverent 

 or unbelieving word." — The Church Review. 



"The doctrine of evolution with which Darwin's name would 

 always be associated lent itself at least as readily to the old promise 

 of God as to more modern but less complete explanations of the 

 universe." — Canon Babry. 



" The fundamental doctrine of the theist is left precisely as it 

 was. The belief in the great Creator and Ruler of the Universe 

 is, as we have seen, confessed by the author of these doctrines. 

 The grounds remain untouched of faith in the personal Deity who 

 is in intimate relation with individual souls, who is their guide 

 and helper in life, and who can be trusted in regard to the great 

 hereafter." — The Church Quarterly Review. 



"It appears impossible to overrate the. gain we have won in the 

 stupendous majesty of this (Darwin's) idea of the Creator and 

 creation." — Sunday- School Chronicle. 



" It is certain that Mr. Darwin's books contain a marvelous 

 store of patiently accumulated and most interesting facts. Those 

 facts seem to point in the direction of the belief that the Great 

 Spirit of the Universe has wrought slowly and with infinite pa- 

 tience, through innumerable ages, rather than by abrupt interven- 



