Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-28

sire. their loss c. happiness is not due
to the increased blessings, but to the
improper and unthankful manner III
which they have received themf
Would not philosophy alone, apart
from the Bible or religion. have warn
ed them that. even if their theories
were true, it would be unwise to cult
the minds of others?
~ Let US now analyze the foregoing
complaints. Who can prove to US that
there is no living and true Goe-that
there is merely a god Of nature, blind
! force? Who can explain to US the
bit around the sun. and which has
given us summer and winter. cold and
heat; has given us mountains and val
legs. hills and plains, in pleasing varie-
ty and loaded with minerals most use
full to us and merely waiting our heav-
en-directed genius to bring them forth
for the blessing of our race, and to
make of earth the Paradise Of God?
| What philosophy can prove to Us
that these things have happened by
| chance and that we are wrong in ac-
cepting the Scriptural suggestion, ebay
unto day uttereth speech and night
unto night showeth knowledge, and
| there is no place where their voice is
| not MISUNDERSTANDING an AH-Wise
and benefcent Creator? We know that
| the wisdom and benefcence of our
| Creator were hidden from our mental
view by our superstitions and irration-
al creeds of the past. but now, as the
electric light las superseded the tallow
candle, so Gods Word today is shin
ing forth 10 those who have eyes to see
| its beauty.
| Let US not boast ourselves as pos
sessed of so much greater courage than
had some in feudaI times. Let us note,
on the contrary, that the patriotism
which demanded and got the Magma
| Charta" of our liberties was as noble
and courageous as any that we have
| today, or more so. Our freedom from
some of the superstitions of the pest
| is the result of the spread of educa-
ton, and we must thank neither our
| selves nor our forefathers for this
widespread education; we must thank
the Lord for it. 1t came upon the world
in spite of the opposition of the rich
and the indifference of the poor. 1t
came because Gods due time for it
| had arrived.
| Tho Ccrin+Y1roc fYIIv accura ne tha I
it is a special mark or evidence
that the New Era of Divine blessing,
] prophesied in the Scriptures long ago,
is now at hand. Compare ST. Peters
words (Acts iii, 1920 with the words
of the Prophet Daniel Daniel xii, H.
Rightly understood and appreciated
the very arguments used to oppose God
! are grounds for sincere praise and
| gratitude and hope for the future.
A Word to Higher Critics and EvoIu-
tionists.
The law of sin and death is referred
to in Scripture. We grant. as al
thinking people must, that the teach
| ings of the creeds formulated in the
| 1dIh ASCSy tCSpCNLAA1S3 ItN WI bNAN "
the dead, are absurd; and more thar
this we hold that they are unscriptural
that they were conjured mp under su
perstitious fears, and that certain sym
bolical pictures of the Bible were wrest
ed to the support of those misconcep
tons of the Divine character and Plan
But does the rejection of those alb
I surd theories disprove an intelligent
Creator and disprove the Bibles dec
laratiou that He is a God of Love, an(
that there is a rational explanation o.
the present reign of sin and death, ant
rational basis for hope for the res
direction of the dead, under the glori
GUS reign of Emmanuel, the Prince o.
Life, and the blessings which Hi
Kingdom will surely bring to every
member Of our race?
That the human family is in a veal
and depraved condition, mentally, NOR
ally and physically, is beyond dis
pute; and evolutionists have not proven
the Bible in error in its explanation
that present weakness, mental, mora
and physical, is proof of degenerate.
which came to our race because O
sin. Consanguinity between the hu
man and the ape has not been proven
but if it had been there would be jus
as much ground for reasoning that
monkey is a degenerate human as TO
claiming that humanity are evoluteC
apes.
In opposition to this irrational theor.
we note that mankind in general, ever
those of humble birth, have organs O
the mind which they rarely use, ant
which cannot, therefore. be said to b.
evoluted by them; and those organs
are not the lower but the higher ones
the nobler ones. These qualities O
mind are present but dormant, merely
waiting to be quickened into activity
This fact favors the Bible view tina
mankind are fallen and that few arr
living up to even the best of the i'm
paired organism which they possess.
The evolutionary theory, that W,
should live and die simply for the ad
vancement of future generations, ma.
! PAOfC dI thNCht1NC W SOihNs OhS AA w
judgment these will be few. OF ia
greater interest is the Bibles teaching
that the present is the night time. ii
which our friends and ueighbors AM
ourselves, one by one, fall asleep II
death; and that Gods Infinite Wisdom
and Power and Love have provided ;
resurrection of the dead. both of tn
just and the unjust-the just to glory
honor and everlasting life, the unjus
to glorious condition very differen
from the present reign Of sin and dealt
under the reign of the Prince of Life
with glorious opportunities. for thou
sand years, of uplifting blessedness
Then everlasting life will he the re
ward to the faithful and appreciative
Discomfort the Viper of Anarchy.