The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-07-13
ORIGINAL MAN.

We last week drew attention to the absurdities
and contradictions of scientific agnostics and diests
touching the origin of man. In this materialistic
age it is impossible for the proud man to make for
himself reputation promising some duration of
time except in the domains of the material and
philosophic sciences, in romantic literature or in
the field of art. In the great Protestant world
reaction has set in against the Bible which the sects
had perverted into religious fetch. Unfortu-
naely this spirit of discomfort has taken on most
seductive form and assumes a most dangerous APP
pearance,
The critical examination into the origin and in
ternal construction of the Sacred Books to which
some one gave the misapplied term of 'higher crit
icsm" threatens the disntigrqtion of Protestant
belief and the disappearance of Christianity itself
from entire communities This decomposition Of
religion has been going for years in the
New England states and the disntegration has
compelled the closing of many churches the sale
of numerous meeting houses and reduction in the
salaries of many of the ministers and preachers.
The investment of these sectarian states by the
Irish and French-C Canadian forces is given as the
reason for the decline of Professionalism in these
no-popery strongholds, but at most, and all that
may be proved after study of the subject is that
the Irish and French-C Canadians were and are but
secondary agencies in the destruction of Protestant
belief. For hundred years Harvard university
was the intellectual and religious lighthouse for
Boston and Boston was the center of culture for
New England and the Club of the Universe" Har-
ward set the pace, Boston hit the clip and the New
England states moved faster. By an inevitable
but insiidous process of filtration the infdelity of
Iary ,orH ipto no ro11Irit op1 iuh
schools of Boston and percolatng into the churches
and colleges of New England poisoned the wells of
orthodoxy We doubt if there can today be found
professor in Harvard or a minister of any stand
ing in Boston or New England who believes in the
inspiration of the Scriptures the supernatural
birth of Christ the Resurrection of our Divine
Lord. In word the living faith of the fathers IS
a corpse on which the maggots of materialism are
fattening.
The distinguished Dean of American Natural
sts the DR.. Theodore Gill; to whom we devoted
some attention last week, and who traces back the
beginning of the human race to a "wormike
thing" was in his time an ''honor man" of Har-
ward Some one has said that man must be brave.
if he has a lady with him, to refuse tip to the
waiter and the courage of the scientific writer who
today, and in America, stands up for the Biblical
creation of man must be of high order To meet
a foe in combat demands but an attribute of the
bulldog, but to face the contumely, the scorn the
ridcule and the loud laughter of horde of writers
and critics calls for high order of bravery indeed
An editorial writer in of our exchanges,
which has a wide circulation, said the other day,
at is now finally settled and that beyond success
full contradictions that the Biblical narrative of the
creation of man is myth" This self opinionated
oracle tossed off this opinion of his as if it were
an accepted aphorism a Manhattan cocktail
When the scientists another name for free-think-
ers and infdes--can name for solitary tribe
nation or family of sayages which ever became
civilized by its own spontaneous effort it will be in
order to discuss the evolution of man from an ape
or worm. Before the theory of the descent of
man from an ape and his development into hui