Excerpt from Improvement Era, Vol. 28: October, 1925

In the preface of this book, the author explains that it is for children, and adds that the boy or girl of average ability upon admission to the secondary school is not a thinking individual. What ever'may be said in favor of teaching evolution to adults, it surely is not proper to teach it to children who are not yet able to think.

The evolutionist does not undertake to tell us how protozoa. Moved by interior and resident forces, sent life up through all the various species, and cannot prove that there was actually any such compelling power at all. And yet, the school children are asked to accept their guesses and build a philosophy of life upon them. If it were not so serious a matter, one might be tempted to speculate upon the various degrees of relationship that, according to evolutionists. Exist between man and other forms of life. It might require some very nice calculation to determine at what degree of relationship the killing of a relative ceases to be murder and the eating of one's kin ceases to be cannibalism. But it is not a laughing matter when one considers that evolution not only offers no suggestions as to a creator. But tends to put the creative acts so far away as to cast doubt upon creation itself. And, while it is shaking faith in God as a beginning. It is also creating doubt as to a heaven at the end of life. Evolutionists do not feel that it is incumbent upon them to Show how life began or at what point in their long drawn out scheme of changing Species, man became endowed with hope and promise of immortal life. God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their Creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them. Christ has made of death a narrow, star-lit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow; evolution strikes out the stars and deepens the gloom that enshrouds the tomb.

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