Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1913-02-06

llkASlS9R RUSStlll) Man."-Luke 1925
The ddress
opened with Il scathing arraignment of
Higher Critics. Our richly endowed
colleges. he declared, are undermining.
faith in the Bible. which means faith
in personal God, and substituting a
scant recognition of the laws of Ma
ture, devoid of sympathy or mercy
Practically every minister graduated
during the last twelve years has been
a believer in human evolution. Dis
belief in the Bible account of mans
creation in Gods image, means disbe-
lief in fall from that image, disbe-
lief in the need of redemption and rec
onciiatiol, and disbelief in the neces-
sity for the Restitution to be accom-
plished by Messiah's Kingdom. .
Pastor Russell said that he does not
question the sincerity of Higher Crit
les. His. own experiences along; the
same line, forty years ago. give him
great sympathy for them. He insist
ed:. however, that, it is mot honorable
for those who have abandoned the
'creeds to pose before the public as sup
,porters of thoser creeds, and to draw
salaries and receive honorary titles for
undertaking. the faith of the people
while posing as representatives of
Christ and the Bible He declared such
a course dishonest and dishonorable.
The Deluse Corroborated by History.
The speaker held that Higher Critics
approach every Bible topic from the
standpoint of unbelief, and declared
that if they would reverse their posi-
ton and seek for corrobOrations of the
Bible, their success would be better.
These critics, exploring the ruins of
Babylon. found clay tablets rudely pic
turing the ark and containing a few
words about general deluge Instead
of saying that this confirms the Bible
thought they declare that the Israel
ties in Babylon drew their story of the
Deluge from Babylonian legends. How
silly to suppose that the beautiful Gen.
esis account came from a few words
recorded by Babylonians!
Pastor Russell promised that next
Sunday hes.would take up the moral
reasons justifying the destruction of
humanity with the Deluge. Through
his sermons, printed weekly in hun
dreds of newspapers, those desiring
might continue with him the study of
the subject.
Geology Confirms the Mosaic DeIuse.
The great difficulty heretofore has
been to harmonic the story of the Del
uge with the shape of the earth. This
has now been met. The Vailian theory
respecting creation shows that when
the earth was in a molten state, it
threw off minerals in the form of
gases, which on cooling, separated
more or less. according to density, and
must have constituted great rings or
bands about the earth, similar to those
OF Saturn and Jupiter.
AS the earth cooled, these rings &C.
quired separate motions, because of
their distance, but gravitated slowly
toward the earth, the atmosphere pre-
venting immediate precipitation. Grad
ually each would spread out as a great
canopy, gravitating toward the poles,
because of centrifugal force. Finally
the accumulation at the poles would
overcome the resistance of the atmos-
phere, and cause precipitation.
Many such deluges occurred before
man was created. and from these came
mineral deposits. The last of these
rings consisted of pure water, and
spread out as canopy when man was
created.
Frozen In Solid Ice.
Recently, in Siberia. mammoth was
found with grass between its teeth,
frozen solid in thick ice Similarly,
deer was found in polar regions with
undigested grass in its stomach. Evil
IDENTIFY the catastrophe which produced
these results was sudden-such as
would occur. according to the Vailian
theory, said the Pastor.
The breaking of the canopy sent a
great dood of water suddenly from the
poles to the equator. Then came the
glacial period. when icebergs floating
down from polar regions cut deep val
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