Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02
@eading fur the Sabbath.
CONDUCTED BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
CREATION.

Justification by faith and the creation of
the world in six days, are two strong forts
at which infdelity, in some shape or form,
has been battering away for ages The
great arch-enemy of all good, gives, by his
actions, clear and unmistakable evidence,
that he regards these two truths as two
mighty pillars in the grand superstructure
of Christian belief and practice. If either
of these pillars is removed, the fabric of
Christianity begins to totter; and if both are
removed it falls.
advance respecting creation are crude and
ill-digested. This is not matter of won
der. In fact, if we discard the Bible we
have no history of creation. Not single
thing in the universe records its own origin
or the origin of anything else. We have no
facts out of which to construct a history of
the origin of anything. BY law which,
for want of better word, we call reproduce
ton, a vast multitude of the creatures which
inhabit our globe are kept in being. Thus
we are able to trace some creatures back, 1t
may be, for centuries but never back to the
starting point. Lay .le Bible aside and
there is no man living, no matter how Gu
rious he may be, nor what his mental abllI-
ty, or how great his pecuniary resources,
who is able to trace himself back through
his progenitors for any very great length of
time. He will soon become beWildered.
The simple fact is, that if the Bible is reject
ed, we know nothing about creation. we
might possibly conclude that at some time
there was a creation, but this is exceedingly
doubtful. All the knowledge which we can
gather about creation or redemption without
the Bible is intinitesimally small. 1t is a6-
solutely not worth notice. With the Bible
as light to our feet and lamp to our path,
we are able to make progress; but without
the Bible we are blind.
In regard to creation the Bible teaches the
following truths: l. God created the world,
both visible and invisible. The first SEN
tence in the Bible announces the fact that in
the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth. It was an actual creation. Not
making new thing out of old material; not
making visible things out of invisible things,
but an actual creation. 2. We are taught
that this creation took place in the begin
ming, and that beginning was about five
thousand eight hundred and eighty-tive
years ago. 3. The Bible teaches us that the
heavens and the earth were created in the
space of six days. Infidel philosophers and
some Christian philosophers, who follow in
the track of these infdels, would have us
regard each one of the six days mentioned
in Genesis as embracing several centuries
This is all nonsense. If day in Genesis
means an indefinite period, no man can
prove it. If the Bible statement is rejected,
anything or nothing may be believed on
the subject. i. The Bible teaches US that
the heavens and the earth were not only
created by God, but they were created by
him for his own glory. 5. In addition to
the above, the Bible teaches that everything,
when first created, was very good.
The last thing which God made, so far as
we are informed, was man. The body of
man was formed out of the dust of the
ground. The language of the record is,
1.-THE Lord God formed man out of the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life, and man became living
SOUL" This was also a creation. The dust
did not develop itself into man, but by
Almighty power the body of man was
formed out of dust. The work was accom-
plished at once. AS the water obeyed Jesus
Christ and was changed into wine, so the
dust obeyed the voice of its creator, and at
his command was formed into the body Of
man. The soul of man was breathed into
him directly by God.
The Bible history of creation has deci-
ded advantage over the theories of philoso-
pliers, in that it is consistent with itself and
magnifes and eXalts God.
n6yTo the storm-tOssed pilgrim on life's