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America are seldom to be warmly approved. ’’■ In our own city there is one church, through whose efforts homes are used for Week Day Bible Classes, in which classes the children commit to memory hundreds of selected Bible verses and where the Word of God obtains a fixed place in the minds and memories of the children. • Should not every pastor in the land who has a Bible which he believes is the Word of God, give greater emphasis to the importance of the fathers and mothers touching the lives of their children with the touch of Christ, and thus helping to lay the foundation deep and strong for faith in the Word? —T. C. H. CHEATING THE CHILDREN The Bible has been banished from the public schools and Satan has secured an entrance for the propaganda of his devilish delusion of evolu tion. Now he has also fastened his fangs on the little children in the Sunday Schools. If God’s people were as. wide-awake as are the devil’s servants, it would be a cause of rejoicing, but they are for the most part “ sleepy saints.” “ The Mayflower” is a Sunday School paper for the kiddies, published by the Congregational Publishing Society, and has a wide circulation. In one issue of this little paper last year appeared an illustrated article on “ Hoofs, Claws and Paws,” in which was pictured the so-called develop ment of the paws. The following is a quotation: “ ‘Were our toes once as long as our fingers, like the monkey’s?’ Betty laughed as she asked the question and looked a t h e r dainty shoes. ‘I suppose they were, my dear, for man once walked on all fours, and climbed like th e monkey. L ike the monkey, too, he had a n atu ra l coat of hair, and had no need of clothes. It was by covering th e body more and more w ith clothes th a t mankind gradually lost th e hairy covering.’ ” Every Sunday School teacher that believed and used that story was an instrument of Satan, poisoning the minds of the little children with teaching that never has had any authentic proof, and laying the founda tion for the denial of the first chapter of Genesis, and making little skeptics of the children. What sort of followers of the Lord Jesus Christ could they be ? Would not most of the mothers in the home accept the papers as endorsed by the church and begin to adopt the teaching of evolution, and so the home become a Bible-denying home ? Is there any suggestion in this to arouse in your hearts a holy desire to help save the children- and thus help save the church; and by saving the children and the church, save the nation? —T. C. H. THE DEADLY DRIFT Forty years ago Robert Ingersoll was reckoned as the leading enemy of the Bible in our land. Evangelical churches repudiated him. He could find no place on a Y. M. C. A. lecture course in the country. Ingersoll was the fruitage of Thomas Paine’s seed-sowing. Today In- gersoll’s seed-sowing is having its fruitage in little Ingersoll imitators who are hailed with childish glee and welcomed into so-called evangelical
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