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these hierarchies, rivets the shackles of his tyranny on an ignorant and helpless
humanity.

Organic evolution, we repeat, underlies it all, and evolutionism is in essence and
practice bestial. Small wonder that the natural outworking of this philosophy is a
condition of immorality and licentiousness among the youth and indeed in the whole
of society that approaches complete promiscuity. Of course in the light of the

“elevating” theory even the continence and regularity of the animal creation must be
discarded as outworn and archaic because of their inferior position in the scheme of
evolution. One modern educator openly advocated complete nonadherence to what he
termed “that oppressive structure called morality.” Small wonder again that the

conditions prevailing are sub-jungle conditions. At a meeting of a church court
sometime ago we heard a young man, a would-be minister of the gospel, but a typical
creature of an apostate ecclesiastical system, deploring to the point of tears “the tooth
and fang and claw” tendencies among the nations. We heard exactly the same young

man in another report laud and recommend so-called educational institutions in which
the dogma of the pit and jungle has full sway. They advocate the cause and deplore the
effect! But enough of this. It is a sickeningly familiar picture to intelligent observers
and heartrending to those who desire the glory of Christ.

Never, We repeat, was there a time when there was a state of such complete chaos,
because men have turned aside from the fountain of living waters and have hewed
themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water (Jer. 2:13), and having

become vain in their imaginations, their foolish hearts are darkened. Having departed
from the authority of the Word of God in spiritual matters, the phobia of destructive
Modernism turns to devour every well-ordered convention that has been established
for the preservation of morals and every sober sanction for the guidance of human

relationships. There is going on in our own country now an organized attack upon the
Constitution of the United States, the finest instrument for the carrying on of
representative government that has ever been implemented by mortal man , the charge
against it being that it is a “relic of the horse-and-buggy age.” It still stands as a final

bulwark against unbridled lawlessness and the release of a further avalanche of
economic imbecilities from a horde of rattle-brained bureaucrats. State, Federal, and
International laws are in a state of atrophy from disuse and nonenforcement. Pacts and

treaties are torn up by the mad-dog nations as they carry on their banditry, while the
so-called democracies stand by with disgusting fecklessness and abject helplessness.

The worship of man and the dethronement of God, the glorification of the present
and the disparagement of the past, an assault upon the sanctity of every institution,

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