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156 APPENDIX. 
“What is the result of Darwin’s theory? What, 
would you suppose, would be the result? Here is a boy 
reared in a Christian home, learning the first child’s 
prayer and then the Lord’s Prayer; he talks to God, asks 
for daily bread, pleads for forgiveness of sins, and de- 
sires to be delivered from evil. He reads the Bible and 
finds that the heavenly Father is more willing to give 
good gifts to His children than earthly parents are. 
Then he goes off to college, and a professor takes a 
book six hunderd pages thick and tries to convince him 
that his body is a brute’s body. ‘See that point in the 
ear? That comes from the ape,’ etc. Darwin also tries 
to convince the child that there is nothing in the brain 
that is not found in miniature in the brain of the brute. 
“Then he says that the morals of man are a devel- 
opment from the brute. First, second, third, fourth, fifth, 
sixth — and no mention of God or of religion. No men- 
tion of conscience. When the boy goes out from school, ~ 
if he believes Darwin and believes his teacher, the Bible 
is to him a storybook. Christ is reduced to the stature, 
of*a man with an ape for an ancestor, on His mother’s 
side, at least — and, as many teachers believe, on His 
Father’s side also. 
“Are you surprised when I tell you that within a 
month I met a young man twenty-two years of age who 
said he had been made an atheist by two teachers in a 
Christian college?” : 
A good answer to the evolutionistic view of creation 
was given by a Decatur, IIl., Baptist minister, whose little 
girl one day came home from school and said. : 
“Do you know, folks used to live up in trees like 
monkeys.” 
“Not your folks,’ the minister answered. “Your 
folks came down from God, not up from slime.” 
