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of to-day--reason unguided by the Divine Revelation. Only in twoways can general infidelity (such as the above) be obviated; eitherignorance and bigotry must be cultivated and fostered, or the Biblemust be studied in the light of itself, and the traditions of menrejected, totally. The last is the right way, but will not be followed.The former will not succeed, for knowledge is being increased andthe masses will not long remain in ignorance; hence losing theirbondage to tradition, and being without a true knowledge of theBible, the mass of the nominal Church is hastening into infidelity,under the leading of false teachers who still cling to the nameChristian, though they have rejected the doctrines of Christ.====================R736 : page 6EVOLUTION AND THE BRAIN AGE.An exchange giving a report of a recent lecture on Phrenology,says of it: "He showed how man had first been in a stage ofexistence in which his animal nature predominated, and the almostpurely physical ruled him; then he slowly grew from one state toanother until now, when the average man has attained to a conditionin which it might be said, he is coming under the rule of the brain.Hence this age may be regarded and designated as the Brain Age.Brain pushes the great enterprises of the day. Brain takes the reignsof government; and the elements of the earth, air and water, arebeing brought under subjection. Man is putting his hand on allphysical forces, and slowly but surely attaining such power over thedomain of nature as gives evidence that ultimately he may exclaim,in the language of Alexander Selkirk, 'I am monarch of all Isurvey.'"The above is in perfect harmony with the latest discoveries of socalledscientific thought on the subject. Notably, within the pasttwenty years the theory of Evolution has been making rapidprogress among all classes of thinking people, until now it isconsidered a mark of ignorance and "old fogyism" to thinkotherwise.Hence, were it not that we see a necessity for it we should nottrouble to contradict or refute this, more than many other claims,"babblings and oppositions of science, falsely so called." 1 Tim.6:20.R737 : page 6The danger which we see is this: The suggestion seems to someminds reasonable and consistent, and in this day many seeminclined to reject the Bible, or place it on a level with heathenmythologies. The tendency is first to neglect and ignore itsteachings on this subject; secondly, to claim a harmony betweenScripture and the Evolution theory; and finally, either to so wrestand twist the Scriptures to make them conform to what is termed