The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-28
DR. STAGG BREACHES ON MODERN FAITH Explains Difference in the Con-
 ditions of Faith MAN IS LEARNING MORE Says Twentieth Century Man Will Have More Faith Than the Nine
 teenth Century Man-Earth
 Governed by Rules.

preached from First Corinthians 13-10: When that which is perfect Is come, then that which is in part shall be done away" from which text he preached on the diffi- culties to faith in our age.
 Dr. Stagg said that in time men will always be asking questions, and that the answer to many they will only obtain in eternity. In part he said:
 This is true because it is impossible for tke fathers mind to be fully understood by the child until he comes into the fathers house. God will always remain unknowable as long as men dwell in the flesh, but that knowledge of second causes dwarfs In any particular the first cause, men have long since gotten over. Fred erick Robinson was the prince of preach- CTS, but he was looked on by his own congregation as destroyer of faith be- cause he believed more in God than he believed in prayer. and he thought that God had ordained laws for the governing of this world. and therefore it was not necessary to be everlastingly petitioning the Almighty to make it rain on a certain day in a certain spot when the Lord may have intended for the very absence of it to be a blessing to other parts of the world.
 "rhe trouble with the whole matter is this: Men have not learned that when you have explanations of second causes that the first cause is thereby made more mys- terlous. Under the operation of the laws which science has discovered we live hap oily and more intelligently in this world, but this world is a greater mystery to the cultivated scientist than 1t ever was to the old Jew or our fathers. When it is said in Genesis that God made the world in six days, and you ask me if Moses believed that 1t was six literal days. I say, Yes, l think He did; but when you ask me if I believe it, I say, days, l say, Yes, I think he did; but difference the answer is this: "A world builded in great stretches of time, and a world made in six literal days makes no difference as to the worship and glory that should be given to the great God who is the Maker of all
 Has Saved Faith.
 Twenty years ago A. A. Hodge gave an answer to our Investigating age about the creation of man that has saved the faith of many a mortal He said that im- mediately God made all things out of nothing, but that in mediate crea- ton God made what appeared out of pre- existing clements For instance when you put a man in a crucible and burn him up a good sized thmble will hold his ashes because the most of him has gone m. ft, lyo a obf xxal,f fob means that man is made out of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus. lime and many other elements found in air, in water and in dust. all of which means that in mediate creation God made man out of pre-existing clements, and in immediate creation God made all things out of nothing, which brings the faith of our fathers and the faith of the now lv- ing scientist to the same thing in this particular-God Is the Maker of man in everything that teaches the absolute.
 "It is not irreverance to say that this age knows more about the operation and control of natural laws than the age of Moses or of David or of Solomon. It is simply the statement of a fact emphasized and confirmed by Jesus Christ Himself. He said that John the Baptist was the greatest born of woman, but that the smallest man in the world who lived un- der the light that the Son of God brought to the world knew more about God than John and all who lived before John. AL bert Russell Wallace. speaking from the standpoint of science, said the nineteenth century put down twenty-four first rank discoveries against fifteen that had been made by man in all the centuries he had lived in the world which means that men now know more than their fathers did about this cosmic grammar and that God is more mysterious 10 them than to their fathers. for who. by searching, can find out God. The perfect has not come yet, and will not until that which is In part is done away.
 Language of Scientist.
 To speak in the language of the sci enlist, fin the last twenty years. by means of special analysis, men have learned concerning the most distant heavenly bodies their component matter, their de-