The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1909-09-29
PEOPLES
Pastor Brooklyn
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imperfection. Of sin. Is general. We
were born In sin, shapen In iniquity;
In sin did my mother conceive me-"
A general realization of this fact
prevails amongst intelligent people.
Whether the how and the why, the
philosophy of the matter be discerned
or not. the fact Is recognized. How
ever We may theorlze that the same
Creator who made the angels pure.
happy. holy. sinless. also made us.
we nevertheless are aware of the fact
that We are not pure, holy, sinless,
indebted. Righteousness should not,
however. be considered the phenome-
non. but the original. proper condition
Of things. Sin Is the phenomenon,
the popularity. the disorder--the dis
arrangement Of the proper order
which previously prevailed and by
right should everywhere prevail.
Nowhere In the world do we find
any explanation Of present conditions
that Is satisfactory to us. except In
the Bible. which teaches that Gods
Work Is perfect: that he made man in
his own image and likeness: that sin
full ambition brought In rebellion
against the Divine regulations and
that present disorders are the result
of that rebeNion-human degradation,
mental. moral. physical-dying-death.
1t Is true that human philosophy has
sought to solve the question Of mans
condition of sin and imperfection
aside from the Bible. Its claim is
that the Bible record Is untrue; that
man was never perfect; that man
never fell from perfection into sin
and death: that man. consequently,
needs no Savior from sin and death
aud no restitution to original perfec-
tion-to original Edenlc perfection.
Its claim Is that II there Is u personal
God. he is not exercising any special
powers. but merely allowing so-called
Laws of Nature TO operate.
II claims that In the surging Of the
salt waters OF the ocean photoplasme
! life was generated. and that the micro
scopic germ polly wogged and evolut-
ed into thousand different forms
worms and snakes, fish and whale.
beasts and birds and reptiles; and that
finally one division of the pollywog
family attained to monkeyhood. and
gradually getting used to stand on his
hind legs. became a man. 1t ignores
II It does not deny. sin and Its down.
ward tendencies. which we all know
afliict the human family and must be
struggled and fought against. It dc
MES the need of Savior, an Advo
cate. a Mediator; and It holds that
each generation Of humanity dying
helps onward the succeeding genera
ton to grander development and thai
eventually human perfection will b.
attained by the evolutionary process
by mans own exertion. regardless OF
whether there is n Creator or not.
We can only assume that this Ev0'
luton theory found friends and advo-
Gates because the Bible teaching has
been so grossly misunderstood. 1t has
been misrepresented as teaching that
practically all of the human family
were born under q Divine sentence of
eternal torture and that only the few
reached In the present life by the Cos
pei can by faith In the Savior and by
thorough going conversion to saint
ship escape eternal torment and gain
eternal blessing. Thinking people. not
surmising that the Bible Is misrepre-
scented by its own friends. by the
ereeds In general hnye looked about
for u substitute. Evolution. although
quite unsatisfactory to them. furnish
ed the only substitute they could think
OF. while 1t ignored the Bible.
What the Bible Teaches.
Now as the electric lights supplant
the taliow dip. concordances and other
Bible study helps assist us to a proper
understanding OF Gods Revelation. One
and thus gradually the errors of gross
darkness and superstition which pre-
vailed no generally In the dark ages
fee away. and the Lamp Of Divine
Truth gives forth a brilliant ray which
| fully satisfies oar heads and hearts,
and glorifies our Creator.
In the light of this newly-trlmmed
Arc-light OF Truth. Gods Word. we
may now see that the real penalty for
sin Is not coming eternal torment at
the hands OF e-proof demons. but In
stead the reign Of sin and death. Now
We may see how disobedience on the
part Of Father Adam brought upon
him death sentence. II dying condi-
ton. and that these. transmitted from
parent to child. have Increased the
calamity. century by century. until to-
day, amongst the most civilized, one
out Of every one hundred and flfty
adults Is In an insane asylum
tally dead TO the extent that he IL un-
able to care for himself. Millions more
of our race are In prisons and peni-
tentiaries because of moral blemishes,
because born 10 sin and shapen In
Iniquity," they have inherited vices
which have been nccentuated by asso-
citation with each other All over the
world. too. we have hospitals ana In
arInaries and cemeteries. The reason
Is exactly what the Word Of God
teaches. namely. 1.-The wages Of sin is
death" 1.-The soul that slnneth It shall
die" The great disease Of sin. started
by our first parents Ia Eden, has
spread as a plague amongst all their
| children, blemishing some specially In