The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-11-29

to the increased blessings, but to the
improper and unthankful manner IL
which they have received them
Would not philosophy alone. apart
from the Bible or religion, have warn
ed them that. even If their theories
were true. it would be unvise to cult
vate them in their own minds and in
the minds of others?
(2l Let us now analyze the foregoing
complaints. Who can prove to us thai
there is no living and true God-that
there is merely god OF nature, blind
force? Who can explain to us the
power which holds our earth In its or
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
TINT these things have happened by
chance and that we are wrong in ac-
ceptlng the S"rptural suggestion, DAY
unto day uttereth speech and night
unto night showeth knowledge. and
there is no place where their voice is
not heard -proclaiming an All-Wise
and beneficent Creator: We know that
the wisdom and beneicence of our
Creator were hidden from our mental
view by our superstitiOns and irration-
al creeds OF the past. but now. rs the
electric light has superseded the tallow
candle. so Gods Word today is shin
ing forth to 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 feudal 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 past
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.
The Scriptures fully assure US that
it is 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, 19-2D 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 Crisics and Eyolu-
tionists.
The law Of sin and death is referred
TO in Scripture We grant. as all
thinking people must, that the teach.
ings OF the creeus formulated in the
Dark Ages, Respecting the torture Of
the dead, are absurd; and more than
this we hold thar they are uuscriptural;
that they were conjured up under su-
perstitious fears, and that certain sym
bolical pictures OF the Bible were wrest-
ed to the support of those misronccp-
tons Of the Divine character and Plan.
But does the rejection of those alb
surd theories disprove an intelligent
Creator and disprove the Bibles dec
laration that He is God of Love, and
that there is rational explanation of
the present reign of sin and death. and
a rational basis for hope for the res
direction of the dead, under the glori-
Gus reign of Emmanuel. the Prince of
Life, and the blessings which His
Kingdom will surely bring to every
member of our race?
That the human family is in a weak
and depraved condition. mentally NOR
ally and physically, is beyond dis
pute; and eyolutionists have not proven
the Bible in error in its explanation
that present weakness, mental, moral
and physical, is proof of degeneracy
which came to our race because Of
sin. Consanguinity between the hui
man and the ape has not been proven,
but If it had been there would be Just
as much ground for reasoning that a
monkey is degenerate human as for
claiming that humanity are evoluted
apes.
In opposition to this irrational theory
we note that mankind in general. even
those of humble birth. have organs OF
the mind which they rarely use, and
which cannot, therefore, be said to be
evoluted by them; and those organs
are not the lower but the higher ones,
the nobler ones. These qualities of
mind are present but dormant. merely
waiting to be quickened into activity
This fact favors the Bible view that
mankind are fallen and that few are
living up to even the best of the i'm.
paired organism which they possess.
The evolutionary theory, that we
should live and die simply for the ad-
vancement Of future generations, may
prove an incentive to some, but in our
Judgment these will be few. OF far
greater interest is the Bibles teaching
that the present is the night time. in
which our friends and neighbors and
ourselves, one by one, fall asleep in
death; and that Gods Infinite Wisdom
and Power and Love have provided n