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432____________ _____________ _______________________ pant, the God-fearing, Bible-reading. loyal. Proteatant American.” The Bible went out of the schools because the Jews and the Catholics were supposed to have rights In the schools, and now Darwinism,— the origin of materialism, If not of atheism,— has been substituted in its stead. Since when did modernism come to own the public schools, and the old time American descendants of the Puritans that made civil isation possible cease to have any claims thereupon? It is a known fact that the tendency of this theory Is to the baldest and boldest atheism. Of all countries of the world. France has suffered most from the fruit of atheism. Her observing thinkers are not insensible therefore to the dangers attendant upon Darwin’s teaching. When Darwinism was at its height of popular acceptance, "L ’Universe,” a leading paper of that land, said: ’’When a hypothesis tends to nothing less than the shutting out o f God from the thoughts and hearts of men, and the diffusion of the leprosy of materialism, the savant who invades and propagates this is either a criminal or a fool.” But the last and worst effect remains to be stated. Us final effect is Immorality In conduct and anarchy In government. I need not lay emphasis o if “ As a man think- eth in his heart, so is hp.” The moment you deny a per sonal God you remove from man the essence of account ability to any being higher than himself, and immorality is the sure result. The moment you dispute the authority of the Bible you dissolve the only known basis of morals and ethics, and governments cannot exist apart from them. When the God of our fathers is dethroned and the moral codes of the Bible are no longer held to be binding, the effect for us will parallel that through which France passed. It is only 150 years since they did both. As one writer has said: “ Her flourishing manufacturing cities fell into decay; her fertile districts returned to native wildness; a period of moral and Intellectual decadence ensued, and the whole nation plunged by a swift descent to the bloody abyss of the revolution by the way of anarchy, ruin, and the Reign of Terror.” Think you It will be different this time? I tell you, Nay! The doctrine of Charles Darwin, In proportion as It dom inates the future, and to the extent of its final acceptance, will make the recent baptism of blood, brought on by Nietzsche and Treitschke under the domination of that biological theory, as compared with the baptism yet to come, as a local shower to the flood that will prevail over every mountain. ••The survival of the fittest” Is a soft-sounding phrase, but when it is interpreted in the light of “ the struggle for existence,” It becomes a startling menace. Fill a nation with the conceit that "We are the superior race, and all the women of weaker nations are our natural prey, and the men of such nations our legitimate servants,” and you turn the world into a slaughter house, and, as one has said, •‘There Is no logic to show why such a code of international ruffianism is wrong or at all blame-worthy If the evolution ary theory be true.” Its premises granted, an Armageddon is the result. I am no alarmist, but I am not blind! The triumph of Darwinism would Introduce the day of the Great Tribulation!
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