The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1894-01-07
GENESIS AND EVOLUTION.

As those who manage our Sunday school
lessons have brought us and oil our chill
dren face 10 fscs with the great question OF
evolution in our Sunday school lessons.
have felt il a duty to sly q word for the
integrity OF Moses and the truth Of his
record OF creation.
may be psrdonsl for saying have for
more than hfty yeaFs had the pleasure of
studying zoology and geology with the
greatest scientists OF the world In our sci
entifc associations and in their published
works. AZ a Christian scientist. too.
have studied with special care the bearing
OF ell scientific discoveries on the record in
Genesis Aud since our children are now
asked to study she record in our Sunday
SCH ools, aud as some OF the Rev. ID. D.'s
who prepare these lessons say they do not
know whether Adam was crested or de-
seended from the monkey, 10 is time to see
what the Bible s'ys on this subject whether
We i'm rov, monkeys OF men created
In the image Of God, the loving father.
The rroof 10 almost absolute that Genesis
was written some sixteen hundred yeas
before the Christian era, though some daie
It az late o. Ezra's time. or 535
D.
Is positive IL was Substantially as now 2s0
b. G., when the Alsxandrisn scholars made
the Greek version, and sundrY copies went
into different parts OF the world what
ever its soutos. whatever its date. the proof
IL absolute that il contains true record of
the creations OF the earth. its plants ana
animals aad man.
This most remarkable and absolute
history the nations have ever known opens
with the most sublime declaration in the
annals Of the woTld-"In the beginning
God created the heavens and the esrth."
There is nothing like it in Aristotle. Homer.
Cicero Sheridan or Webster.
2-How dad Noses know there Was time
when the earth was % hot II was waste and
voia" Of all living things Al all events be
said a. and science proved IL trae tnou-
sands Of years after ho put it on record.
Sin the process Of tiFas the earth cooled
down and the vspors in tho aimosphs G
vers condensed into clouds in the air aud
into the waters upon the earth. "And
darkness was upon the face Of the deep"
when / made the c oud the garment
thereof and thick darkness a swaddling
hand for o." Ths sun could not shir Q
through the thick clouds and IL was da X.
but the earth continued TO cool down
and the dark clouds were condensed uron
the earth aud the light Of the sun. created
IN ths beginning. shined through as In a
cloudy day, and the day and night became
ohvioas And God said let there be lighr'
and God divided the light from
she darkness. And God called the light
day nnd the darkness be called night"
5-As yet there we're no mountains on the
earth and
"a shorslsss ocean tumbled around the
globe
AZ tbs interior Of the earth cooled down
aud contracted the colder "a face would bs
wrinkied aud the corrughtions would rise
above the waters. "and God said let the
waters under tho heaven be gathered to-
Rether into one Ilnce. and let the dty land
appear" Science hos mapped out those
/ nrst lnnds in tho continents.
G-Nosss SAYS that the earth brought
forth grass, herbs yielding seed after his
kind. snd Trees bearing fruit" So ap-
penred she plant old With its thres great
e.asses-grass. corn. trees-uith their see d.
and fruits 90 iced the animals yet 20 come.
And God created great sea monste &.
AMI every living creature that movsth.
which the waters brought forth abundSutlY
alter their kind. and every winged fowl
after his kind" So the animals Of the ssa
we're first created. then the winged ores-
lures Of the land.
s-"And God made the beast after lis
Kind. aud the cattle after their hind. and
every thing that oresPeth upon the ground
after lie kind" Here We have the creation