had some information given to him
that will give us a hint of what is going on. He says:

Having had opportunity to make a personal investigation, I
feel it my duty to warn the lovers of the Bible of the
insidious attacks which are being made upon every vital part
of the Word of God. A father tells me of a daughter educated
at Wellesley who calmly informs him that no one believes in
the Bible now; a teacher in Columbia University begins his
lessons in geology by asking students to lay aside all that
they have learned in Sunday-school; a professor of the
University of Wisconsin tells his class that the Bible is a
collection of myths; a professor of philosophy at Ann Arbor
occupies a Sunday evening explaining to an audience that
Christianity is a state of mind and that there are only two
books in the Bible with any literary merit; another professor
in the same institution informs students that he once taught
a Sunday-school class and was active in the Young Men's
Christian Association, but that no thinking man can believe
in God or the Bible; a woman teacher in a public school in
Indiana rebukes a boy for answering that Adam was the first
man, explaining to him and the class that the "tree man" was
the first man; a young man in South Carolina traces his
atheism back to two teachers in a Christian college; a senior
in an Illinois high school writes that he became skeptical
during his sophomore year but has been brought back by
influences outside of school while others of his class are
agnostics; a professor in Yale has the reputation of making
atheists of all who come under his influence--this
information was given by a boy whose brother has come under
the influence of this teacher; a professor in Bryn Mawr
combats Christianity for a session and then puts to his class
the question whether or not there is a God, and is happy to
find that a majority of the class vote that there is no God;
a professor in a Christian college writes a book in which the
virgin birth of Christ is disputed; one professor declares
that life is merely a by-product and will ultimately be
produced in the laboratory; another says that the ingredients
necessary to create life have already been brought together
and that life will be developed from these ingredients,
adding, however, that it will requi