The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-01

surface of the earth, is a composition
iof greater or less number Of these.
Out of these fifty-four simple elements
the whole volume of creation is com
posed. There is abundance of evi-
dence to prove that the above fifty
four elementary substances THEM
SELVES had a beginning And every
one OF these substances have refer
ence and adaptation to those Of the
others, properties that attract or repel.
which qualities them to coalesce with
the others Il assert. without fear of
contradiction" says Prout in his trea-
tiles on chemistry that the molecular
constitution of matter is decidedly arti-
lfcial." And Sir John Herschel as
lserts, that every molecule or atom of
lmatter has all the characters of
manufactured articlei" consequently.
mo ATOM can have been eternal.
I'VE need not insist on the refine
ments of science" says a famous
Iscientist, interesting and conclusive
as they are, or to deal only with that
1.-THE eyes Of all can see, and their
lhands handle, but let us take our
lstand on the GRANITE ROCK. the
basis OF the earths crust-even this
Is . compound, being made up Of
Iquartz, feldspar, and mica. Whatever
theory we may adopt to account for its
Iorigin, granite must have preceded
lstratified rocks, for these, as is evil
Ident and universally admitted, were
Originally formed out of its pulverized
crystalline particles; and STRAIT
FLED ROCKS must have preceded the
soil, which is composed out Of them
land rests upon them; and the SOIL
must have preceded vegetation, for
this grows out OF it; and VEGETA-
ITI0N must have preceded animals, as
these subsist upon it, no Ii Z thing
being capable of extracting = food
directly from the ground Hence, all
lanimals, all vegetation, all soils, and
all stratified rocks must have had a
beginning; for each of these has de-
rived its existence from what was in
being before it." 1t must appear, then,
that the infidels eternal series of men,
or animals, Of plants, etc, must have
been simply impossible.
Ono of tho most ,.a,,, n ri HI foot,,r,.,
of the sacred Scriptures in the record
ing of the creation, is that nowhere
is there anything said or any informa-
tion given as to WHEN this globe
was brought into existence; it simply
states the grand and important fact,
that "in the beginning" whenever that
was, God created the heaven ard the
earth" And, as we said before. this
would allow for all those millions OF
ages that may have elapsed, during
which all the physical changes and
operations described in geology were
going on. However, as the Bible ac-
count of creation does not inform us
at what time, so neither does it in
what form it was at first created.
Naturally, in newspaper article, one
feels his limitations, both as to time
and space, and much could be said
that would bring out more clearly GER
tain statements that would throw ad.
ditional light upon the opie, were he
no circumscribed. Nevertheless. to
those who have not made any very
close Investigations into these matters,
it will not be amiss to give the results
of an old Bible students discoveries,
and in as brief form as possible.
! 1t Is well for the humble Christian
to be put on his guard against the
various subtle forms of unbelief that
, have sprung up in recent years. In
these papers ! desire to show that
/ modern destructive criticism" is but
, o niore refined method of assailing the
) Wofl Of God than that employed by
! blatant and blasphemous infidelity
Like PLATE and Herod of old, the two
{ have joined hands in the crucifying of
| the Christ afresh.
Modern criticism has ventured to
undermine and assail nearly all the
books of the Bible, but none with such
/ boldness and vehemence as the
! Pentateuch, (that is the five books Of
5 Moses). unless it be the prophecy of
Daniel And this is Satan's cunning;
t for If the foundation books of the
/ sacred Scriptures are discredited then
/ the whole superstructure of the Book
| falls. A good man of the so-ealled
9 theologians of the day have joined the
) ranks of infidelity, and like Jehudah
. of old are now engaged in the BIAS
t phemous task of cutting the Word cf
g God to pieces. Yet these same reY
7 erend apostates would be ingulted ii
: one were to class them with CELSIUS
/ and Porphyry, or Spinosa and Hobbies,
t or Bolingbroke and Hume; yet, to our
D mind they are infinitely more danger