agnostics, we most certainly do not find evolution, but a decided and appalling degeneration. In the noble presence of these world-famous Greeks that have given renown to their age and country, what is Darwin, who acknowledged that atrophy had befallen the higher elements of his being; and what is Spencer, whose fallacious reasonings have come to naught and ridicule; and what is Hæckel, who has been branded as a falsifier of photographs and has been dishonored in his own country? These moderns are poor proofs of their assertions that man, unaided by Christianity, naturally develops intellectually and morally, and becomes a noblesouled personality.

Now, while the agnostics can produce no examples of animals becoming men, Greek mythology gives examples of the contrary process. For instance, the following specimens are found in Smith, Vol. I, p. 672: "Cercopes were droll and thievish gnomes, who play a part in the story of Heracles. Their number is commonly stated to have been two, but their names are not the same in all accounts. Diodorus,

however, speaks of a greater number of Cercopes. They are called sons of Theia, the daughter of Oceanus. They annoyed and robbed Heracles in his sleep. The place in which they seem to have made their first appearance was Thermopylæ, but the comic poem Kercopes, which bore the name of Homer, probably placed them at Oechalia in Eubœa, etc., etc., which derived their name from the Cercopes who were changed into monkeys by Zeus for having cunningly deceived him. This is far more reasonable than the insane speculations of evolutionists.

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Ancient Theism is the crown and glory of Greek philosophy, while modern materialism with its loathsome evolution is our intellectual disgrace. Moreover, it is accomplishing the demoralization of the rising generation. Well may baseminded infidels who have ransacked the earth in their vain efforts to find an animal ancestry for themselves-well may their names fade away into unregretted oblivion-well may their memory rot! Already a general disavowal is beclouding the unenviable memories of the ill-fated Darwin and Spencer and Hæckel; while an unfading lustre like a halo, rests upon the memory of the forerunners and the successors of the

immortal Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Their names are enshrined in all the classic halls of Christian learning throughout the civilized world. Further, it ought to be said that doubtless the two most overrated men in all literature are Charles Darwin, the base-minded, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the feeble-minded. Though they were born and educated under Christian influences, yet they closed their minds to "the truth as it is in Jesus." "As they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind" in the margin, "a mind void of judgment."-Rom. 1:28. Consequently, as Paul says (1 Tim. 4:1), "They depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils." Darwin's name in Westminster Abbey is a desecration of that holy place. Why should the carcasses of infidels be allowed to pollute the sanctuary of the Living God? It is hoped that the rising tide of Christian sentiment will soon demand the removal of this defilement from the Lord's House of Prayer.

The groveling materialist, whose beclouded mind finds congenial speculation in the "mud philosophy," which Carlyle called "the Gospel of Dirt," has vague ideas of all the higher and more sacred realms of human existence, where moral responsibility dictates the right and where emotional felicity approves the good. These ancient sages had fine thoughts on government, ethics, art, literature, and also on celestial things such as immortality, the future state and the Deity. Their consciences dealt honestly and intelligently with ethical problems. Though they may not fully have enjoyed the light of the Mosaic Dispensation, they certainly entered into the Holy Place of the Divine Presence; for all their sublimer reasonings and speculations found rest in Heaven.

But both the ancient and the modern materialists are of the earth earthy. In both thought and speculation they dwell with the worms of the earth and the beasts of the field-and let them continue to study plant and animal life. However, some of them must launch out into speculation and philosophize. Now, if Darwin and his colaborers had confined themselves to scientific research in their own domains, though they were agnostics, they might have had honorable mention and memory as scientists. But when they ventured forth into

philosophy and cast aside the Holy Scriptures, propagating vague and unreasonable theories, they justly brought down upon themselves the scorn of philosophy and the righteous indignation of all intelligent lovers of truth, and the stern rebuke of theology. Their sweeping generalizations based on mere suppositions-the phrase, "we may well suppose," being used by Darwin 800 times-aroused in the minds of thoughtful scientists, philosophers, and Christians a spirit of righteous indignation. Many felt that the good sense of the people was trifled with by evolutionists in using the loosest kind of inductive reasoning. Fallacies were constantly and brazenly pressed into service. Even respectable hypotheses were conspicuous by their absence.

Thus, it is seen that this disgraceful craze for an animal ancestry was built up on nothing but suppositions. Consequently, it requires very little learning or courage to defy the animalizing evolutionists - these agnostics, infidels and atheists; these benighted materialists-to give philosophical data for evolution. In the after-parts of this book it will also be shown that it has neither scientific nor Scriptural data. It is amazing that this intellectual inanity has had such a rage in our country and has so sorely afflicted our schools. All unbelievers are making frantic efforts to propagate this mandishonoring and God-denying, Satanic explanation of the Cosmos to the mental and moral debasement of the rising generation. Slanderers of our divine humanity!

Even tyrannical Napoleon had sense enough to say to the deists, the infidels of his day, that they made up "for not believing in God, by believing everything else." Recently in Germany, England, and in our own country, skepticism has been aggressive, and some professors of religion and some professors of learning have been "tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.”—Eph. 4:14. But throughout Christendom the great body of the people has not lost common sense and still prefers the beautiful Garden of Eden account of our creation to the miserable "mud philosophy," or any amoeba-suppositionscience of the ungodly. The intelligent and thoughtful are

retaining their faith in their Creator's Holy Inspired Word concerning our origin and the glorious verities of Christianity. It is now proper to ask for

THE SUFFICIENT REASON AND THE EFFICIENT CAUSE

Does materialism, from a philosophical point of view, present a sufficient reason? or from a scientific point of view furnish an efficient cause?

In answer to these questions it is axiomatic to say that everything must have a cause and that no result can transcend its cause. Examine the pretensions of this antiquated evolution which has been palming itself off as something quite up-to-date in science. Begin with its material phases and see if efficient causes can be found for the wonderful results which are mentioned by materialists with a great show of confidence. Superficial minds in their unthinking way are apt to accept material causes for the Cosmos. But the deep-hearted and noble-minded of all nations, who have sincerely followed the light of nature in their search after an efficient cause, will be led into the Presence of the Great Creator. It has been shown that the wiser ancients readily discerned that ex nihilo nihil fit-"From nothing, nothing can come." Therefore, matter did not create itself. To assert that it did is absolutely irrational. But matter is here, and, according to the common belief, the Supreme Being is here, and the important questions are these: Did matter make God, or did God create matter? This is the crux of the whole question.

Happily the facts of human experience give a clear, definite and rational answer. In our dual being mind and matter are so mysteriously correlated that there is only one personality. Then, in the individual person, as a general rule, which is the prime factor? Is it mind, or is it matter? In the normal person does the mind govern the body, or does the body govern the mind? Except among the abnormal, those over whom the passions run riot, the physical nature is not in control. Indeed, it is universally conceded that"the mind is the man," and that the body is only the tenement of the soul. The mind, then, is that spiritual something within us which thinks and reasons, which discerns and

knows, which has an intuitive sense of right and wrong, and which responds to the ought and the ought not. It is that dominating presence within which constitutes our proper personality, and to which our material body automatically and spontaneously renders obedience and service. This proves that the mind is the superior part of our nature.

Further, the supposition that matter is eternal has been shown to be unreasonable. It has been well said that the molecule bears the stamp of being a "manufactured article." Wisdom is seen everywhere in wonderful adjustments-the wing of the bird to air, the fin of the fish to water, the eye to light, the ear to sound. Also, the mineral kingdom feeds the vegetable kingdom, while it in turn feeds the animal kingdom. Suitable food has been prepared for the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air and the beasts of the field. These wonderful provisions and adjustments—and millions more could be mentioned-prove that power, wisdom and goodness have been exercised.

Then, do not the mountains and the oceans speak of wisdom and power? Who laid the foundations of the earth in the great deep? Who "stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing"?-Job 26:7. Who created the light and sent it forth to illuminate this vast universe? Who bringeth out the constellations in their season? Who marshals the hosts of heaven, and who guides the planets in their courses? Whence came the wonderfully balanced centripetal and centrifugal forces which keep the planets in their orbits? This whole Universe with its myriads of wonders and its numberless and vast constellations proclaims that their Author must be a Being of infinite power.

Also, this Author must possess infinite goodness. Who can look up into the heavens in a starry night and see Orion in his splendour, Sirius in his solitary grandeur and the Milky Way "the Way of the Gods"-and not be filled with wonder and reverence? and not be moved to worship and adoration? We are living in a universe where benign influences encompass us on every side. There is a bright side to life. There is more light than darkness; there are more balmy breezes than driving storms, and smiling nature seldom