Evolution has no scriptural argument. -- The two accounts mutually exclusive. -- Bible account appealed to by all Scripture writers as Fact. -- Evolution's interpretation of Scripture. -- Christ's testimony to the facts of Scripture. -- Evolution and Bible doctrines. -- Importance of Adam as basis of Scripture doctrine. -- Man's state and remedy as given by Evolution and by the Bible. -- The future of the Bible and of Evolution. -- Evolution in its logical form is Atheism.--Evolution a relic of heathenism.--Testimony of James Freeman Clarke, Sir J. William Dawson. 120 CHAPTER VII. THE SPIRITUAL EFFECT OF EVOLUTION. Must affect the spiritual state. -- Effect on candidates for ministry. -- Latent effect on faith. -- On experimental religion. -- Evolution as a state of heart. -- A comfortable theory to the impenitent. -- Prepares for "isms." -- Weakens pulpit power. -- Eliminates faith in the supernatural and eternal. -- Education's place in modern giving. -- Is this the last form of unbelief? -- The common people and the Gospel of the Cross. 137 PREFACE. Evolution is claimed by its advocates to be the greatest intellectual discovery of the past century, and, by some, the greatest thought that ever entered the mind of man. In the words of its greatest philosopher, Herbert Spencer, "It spans the universe and solves the widest range of its problems, which reach outward through boundless space, and back through illimitable time, resolving the deepest problems of life, mind, society, history and civilization." It has woven into one great philosophy the history of the material universe, the entire organic creation, man and all his faculties, the whole course of human history and the origin and progress of all religion. It also undertakes to account for the Bible, for what is popularly called higher criticism represents the biblical branch of Evolution. It has reconstructed the Bible and remanded its miraculous narratives to the realm of myth. It has formulated a theology in which the most sacred doctrines of evangelical belief are discarded. In its central theory of the origin of man, it vitally affects the doctrines of the nature of man, of sin and penalty, man's need and the work of Christ. It even touches the person of Christ, for many of its advocates say that He too comes within its scope. In its radical and most consistent form, it utterly discards belief in God. Most of the great teachers of Evolution, such as Ernst Haeckel of Jena, are and have been atheists.