which
men are imagined already to be going. It also has the effect of altogether
reversing the emphasis in the work of the Church with the lost. According
to Dr. Burton, it transfers it

from the salvation of the individual, with emphasis upon
rescue from future woe, to the creation of a human society
dominated by the spirit of Jesus.

And Dr. Gerald Birney Smith, speaking of present-day missionary methods,
says:

Humanly determined programs are being substituted for
dogmatic decrees in the work of the churches. This is genuine
democracy. The missionary enterprise is rapidly being
conceived as a democratic social program rather than as the
rescue of a few individuals from the divine wrath....
Education is coming to be a primary means of accomplishing
the missionary task.

Such a mission to the lost would be altogether unthinkable if men were
believed to be spiritually dead. For dead men are helpless to adopt
principles and strive after ideals. Dead men do not need education, they
need life.

Any one of average intelligence can see at a glance that these two programs
of salvation are headed in opposite directions. By one we strive after an
ideal; by the other we quit all striving and surrender to a Person. One is
salvation by a human resolution to press toward the pattern set before us
by the "Flower of the Race"; the other is salvation by a divine rescue from
that natural hatred of purity and holiness which made possible the murder
of the Son of God. By one program we adopt the principles and follow the
spirit of the life of Christ; by the other we trust in the merits of the
shed blood and substitutionary death of Christ.

These two programs are mutually exclusive. Thus the evolutionary philosophy
utterly destroys the doctrine of the new birth.

7. The logic of evolution destroys the doctrine of the =holiness of God=,
for it makes God the =author of sin=.

Le Conte says:

If evolution be true, and especially if man be indeed a
product of evolution, then what we call evil is not a unique
phenomenon confined to man and the result of an accident [the
fall], but must be a great fact pervading all nature and a
part of its very constitution.

No thinking man can get away from that conclusion. For if evolution in any
form is a fact, then the thing the Bible calls sin was either somehow
embedded, by a competent and responsible Creator, in man's very
cons