96 The Fundamentals had the courage ©f their convictions, and sense of honor enough to compel them to leave the Christian Church, taking with them those of their flocks who think like them and wish to follow, for they may be sure that the pretty little amenities of morality and sociology which they have substituted for the Gospel of regeneration can never take its place, or lead a single soul out of the death and darkness of sin into the life and light that are to be found in Christ alone. Meanwhile, a few naturalists, clothed in sackcloth, may sit about the death bed of Materialism as mourners, and, in despair of finding anything else to fill the niche in their temple of lies left vacant by the removal of their idol, may on occa sion galvanize the remains into an appearance of life. Their clerical sympathizers, too, may refuse to read the death bul letin already issued, or to take part in the obsequies. Never theless, there can be no reasonable doubt in any intelligent mind that Darwinism so far as it relates to man’s origin and that of species in general is dead; and all who believe in a personal God and in a Divine revelation may say of it, para phrasing Cushi’s answer to King David: “The philosophic enemies of our Lord and King, and all of the isms that rise against His truth, be as this dead ism,”
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