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Comments On Chairman Prices Lecture On
The Origin ST LaT3EaSe."

Prices lecture, Parson Peveler arose
and said in part:
"Genllemen, hope that you shall
not regard me as presumptious and
eager to criticise the Chairman of the
Club. l simply want to state that |
must dissent 10 some Of Judge Prices
statements, made during his lecture
this evening, and especially in regard
to one item in referring to Adam as
simply being the first man OF the
Jewish history, and he qualified that
statement by intimating that there
were other people existing before
Adam. Now do not profess to be
4 philologist or to understand all
language and tongues. do not con
test Judge Prices ability as a scholar
and extensive knowledge and inform
alton. | profess to know something
of the bible and the scriptures of di-
vine truth. Ihave studied the bible,
the word of God, all my life; my
mother taught it to me when was
small, and l have long tried to
preach it to the world as the truth.
Now | believe that Adam was the
first man who ever lived on the earth,
created in the image of God. | be-
ieve that Eve was the first woman
and when Adam and Eve were Great
ed they began to talk and then Ian
guage commenced. rs have al
ready said, do not doubt Judge
Prices great ability and extended
comprehension of things, but | am
aware that great and learned men
are liable To err and to make blund
ers and mistakes in their conclusions
of the truth of things. Now there
are a number of smart alecs that are
ready to deny the statements OF the
scripture. prefer to believe the
bible rather than Chairman Prices
prehistoric surmise and speculation.
believe that every thing was created
about six thousand years ago, as the
bible states"
DIR. Fades then arose and said; "I
do not profess to be a linguist and
archeologist, preacher and theolo-
gian, but profess to be physician
and to have a knowledge of physics,
of the construction and constitution
of the human body, of physiology,
IudtUmy and hygiene.-I haze de
voted considerable study to pharm-
acy, anlhropology and pharmaco-
peia, and to know the results and eff
fects of medicine. | have no doubt
that Parson Peveler is earnest and
sincere in his belief in the teachings
of the bible. believe in scriptures
and | believe them to be authentic;
and if all that is contained in the
bible are facts, then there are two
facts recorded in the bible that sub
stantiate Chairman Prices assump-
tion and allegation. That people
co-existed with and prior to Adam,
/ shall refer to them for the Parsons
consideration.
You remember that the bible states
that when Cain left the family of
Adam he feard that somebody would
kill him, and he travelled eastward of
Eden to the land of Nod. The ge-
ographical location of the land of
Nod is undetermined. Josephus re-
lates that Cain travelled over several
countries to reach the land of Nod.
1t might have been Africa or Europe.
However, Cain found and married a
wife in the land of Nod, away from
Adams family, and he built a city.
This clearly proves that there were
other people in the world, perhaps,
different race at that time. Such
goes to establish one fact
ask the legal members of the
Club if this is not a prima facie ev-
idence that other people existed in
the world besides Adams generation.
And it is further stated in the scrip
lures, that the sons of God beheld
the daughters OF men and took them
for wives, and that there were giants
in the world in those days. Now the
children of Adam must have been
the sons of God, claiming to be his
special people; but nothing is said
about giants being among them; but
the people with whom Cain allied
himself must have been the sons and
daughters of men and a distinct peo-
pie from Adams generation and had
giants among them. 1t is said that
1.-TWO established facts prove point, {"
so | must conclude that Chairman