The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-03-26

bers of the Foreign
n Missions Investiga-
tion Committee,
R6zm<5 o;;S=1 viz, Gen. w. P.
Ss2.s2Nk 9ssLlj Hall, United States
f Army; Prof r. n.
Robson, DR.. L. W. Jones, Mr.. J. T.
D.TPyles, Mr.. =. w. v. Kuehn and Mr..
n. b. Maxwell, all of the United States.
Pastor Russell opened his address by
remarking that although the Interna-
tional Bible Students Association,
which appointed the Committee Of
which he was Chairman, held British
Charter and might be supposed by
come to make full or partial report in
London Of its findings, he regretted
that they would be disappointed. The
Committee felt that it should make
but one report, and advice received In
dicated that considerable preparation
had been made for the Committees re-
ception In New York City on Sunday,
March 81.
However, said Pastor Russell, things
are marvellous today, and with the
wonderful facilities for communica-
ton, Britishers, as well as the people
Of the United States and Canada, will
receive the report at practically the
same time-through hundreds of their
prominent newspapers
sa Very Significant Text.
His text was this: God hath made
Of one blood all nations Of men, for to
dwell upon the face Of the earth; and
hath determined the times before ap-
pointed and the bounds Of their habita-
lions, that they should seek the Lord,
II hAply they might feel after Him and
find Him" (Acts xvii, %, 27) BE
said
Our text is taken from Saint Pauls
address to the Athenians, whom be
found so religiously inclined that they
had erected an idol to every known
deity, and then one prominently ITO the
unknown God" The words of my text
have been repeatedly borne in upon my
mind In my sojournings Of the past
four months. | maryeled as perceiv-
ed the thoroughness of the division of
the human family as result Of the
confusion Of human language Time
and again the Apostles statement that
God had determined the bounds Of
their habitations'' impressed me.
Our text explains the matter: it
was Of God; and we will doubtless yet
see more particularly than now how it
worked some good for aIl-staying the
downward tendency Of sin.
OF One Blood All Nations.
MY wider contact with humanity i'm
presses the Apostles declaration that
our various nationalities are all of one
blood-or are of one original parent
age. And in this scientists, usually
wholly out Of accord with the Bible,
agree. They do not claim that our
race evoluted from many monkeys, but
merely from one pair. 1t seems strange
indeed to me that some of these learn
ed gentlemen so persistently bend their
efforts to antagonize the Bible-en-
deavoring to prove a human evolution
in conflict with the Bible declaration
that God created man in His own
image ikeness-an that the present
diversities of degradation are all re
suits Of Adams fall from Divine ia
vor, through disobedience, under the
sentence of death.
Even If some divisions of our race
do bear stronger resemblance than
others to the ape, this is surely not
scientific proof that they eyoluted from
the ape Just as reasonably might we
argue the reverse, that they are more
depraved section Of humanity But
we do not so rate It On the contrary,
the most savage peoples seem to have
mental organism capable of quite a
considerable development under favor
able conditions, even of a few years.
Indeed, when we consider the In
ferior station of CONAN In all the
heather nations, and the darkness of
the mothers mind and her detection
and hopelessness and the tendency of
these to mark her offspring, we do not
wonder at the sad faces of many Of
heather lands, both male and female
Indeed, on the contrary, we are aston
fshed as we compare some of the low
est types Of Christendom with some of
the degraded types of heathendom-
surprised that the difference is not
greater. The explanation for it all is
that we have not had the true type of
Christianity. Our Christianity has
been so mixed with superstition and
20 impregnated with error that Church
family, taken as a whole, in the four
hundred millions of Christendom. is a
hybrid thing-a SANDER upon the name
Christian and upon the teachings Of
Christ.
And, by the way, remind you Of
Saint Paul's explanation of the deera-
cation OF the heather, az set forth in
the first chapter of his Epistle to the
Romans. He tells US most distinctly,
az the Old Testament does, that man
originally knew His Creator and was
In fellowship with Him, but that he
gradually slipped away from this into
greater and greater depths Of degrade
don, mental, moral and physical. Let
me read Saint Paurs words: when
they knew God, they glorifed Him not
Is God. neither were thankful, but be-
came vain In their imaginations and
their foolish heart was darkened Pro-
Tossing themselves to be wise, they be-
came fools, and changed the glory Of
the incorruptible God into an image
made like to corruptible man, and to
birds and four-footed beasts and creep
ing things CONTRARY to Divine In
structions they imagined that the rec
ignition of God In all these various
creatures would increase their rever-
ence and make them better and more
thoughtful of the lower creatures But
herein they were foolish.] Wherefore,
God also gave them up to uncleanness,
through the lusts of their own hearts,
to dishonor their own bodies between
themselves. And even as they
did not like to retain God In their
knowledge. God gave them over to a
xeprobate mind. to do those things
which are not proper."-Rom 1, 21-28
Feel After God and Find Him."
But the feature of our text which
most particularly impresses me is
Saint Paufs declaration that God de-
termined and appointed in advance the
ttnes of these nations-when they
should be brought in contact with the
hight Of Divine Truth. to the intent
that the reverential quality, inherent
In the race, might exercise itself and
feel after the true God and haply find
Him.
We see that in Divine providence the
&~x1,A ~ tho noev1a1 Aruf TfvIfo6 q, )ol