Claims of Evolution. — Interest in subject. — Effect on Christian belief. — Opinion of eminent scholars. — Effect on the common man. — Evolution being accepted on exparte evidence. — Question too important to be left to science. — The average man capable of understanding the arguments. — The court of last resort.

Meaning of Evolution. — Conversational and scientific use of the word. — Le Conte's definition. — Spencer's Spheres of Evolution. — Theistic and Atheistic Evolution. — The origin of man, the vital point. — The Bible account and Darwin's.

EVOLUTION IS AN UNPROVEN THEORY. Nearly all evolutionists admit this. — Citations from Tyndall, Spencer, Huxley, Prof. Conn, Whitney, Dr. J. A. Zahm, Dr. Rudolph Schmidt, and others. — Evolution rejected by many and opposed. — Complaint of Prof. Haeckel on this. — Prof. Virchow's opposition. — List of scientists who do not advocate Evolution. — Discarded theories of the past. — Uncertainty of scientific theories in general.

The four problems facing Evolution, the origin of matter, of force, the formation and orderly adjustment of the universe and the origin of life. — Evolution makes no attempt at the first two. — Spencer admits it is the unknowable. — Lord Kelvin's testimony. — Prof. George Frederick Wright on the Nebular Hypothesis. — The solar system unique. — The fire-mist and its wonderful contents. — Failure as to origin of life. — Le Conte's theory. — Testimony of Tyndall, Wilson, Conn, against spontaneous generation.

Evolution's great field. — No case of evolution known —No cause of evolution known. — How evolution originated species. — Argument from Geology. — Geologists opposing it; Sir J. W. Dawson, Sir R. Murchison, Barrande. — Prof. Conn's admissions. — Haeckel's admissions. — The argument from Morphology. — Rudimentary parts. — The Eohippus, "Old Horse." — Argument from classification of species. — No agreed classification. — Evolution's phantom tree. — No changes in Egypt's 4,000 years or prehistoric man's longer time. — Distribution of plants and animals. — Argument from Embryology. — The three-fold argument of Evolution. — Facts opposing Evolution.

The vital question. — All evolutionists agree here. — The two accounts of Bible and Evolution. — Arguments from origin of species. — Argument from similarity of structure. — Argument from human characteristics. — Rudimentary organs in man. — The "gill-slits." — How the brute became man. — Prof. Edward Clodd's account of "The Making of a Man." — Morris' description of primeval man. — The Theistic Evolutionist's Adam and how he fell. — The Missing Link. — The Calaveras skull. — Neanderthal skull. — Haeckel's "Pithecanthropus-Erectus." — The Colorado monkey's skeleton. — Croatia skeletons. — Argument from the brain. — Prof. Clodd's story of how man got his brain. — Argument from language. — Prof. Max Mueller's protest. — Argument from prehistoric man.—Antiquity of man. — Testimony as to man's recent origin from Prof. George Frederick Wright, S. R. Pattison, Prof. Friedrich Pfaff, Winchell, Dr. J. A. Zahm.—Argument from uncivilized races. — Argument from history of limits of man's history. — Evolution and religion. — Evolution's ethics. — Christian experience.—Christ and evolution.

Four steps necessary to proof, Facts, Classification, Inferences, Verification. — Fails to account for facts. — Has no classification. — False in inferences and has no verification. — Rests on imagination. — Tyndall's "Scientific Use of the Imagination." — Evolution theDoctrine of Chance revamped and clothed in scientific terms.

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.

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 the last form of unbelief? — The common people and the Gospel of the Cross.