The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1913-01-03

In our scheme Of Lessons we return
to the Old Testament and confine our
study for the ensuing year to the first
six books Of the Bible.
The word Genesis means begin.
nings," and in the book of that name
we see recorded all the information
Of the beginning of things that our
heavenly father deemed necessary IN
the development OF the scheme Of re-
demption.
After all the assaults Of its enc
mics, and Of the skeptics, the, first
verse of the book of Genesis contains |
all the clear, concise, and positive
knowledge man possesses about the
origin Of this Universe. God Gre
ated," rot, God is all and all is God"
Pantheism has no ground upon which
to stand. "1n the beginning God ere.
ated," therefore he is above and was
before the heaven and the earth.
The beginning Of all right thinking
and true living, Of every proper rela-
ton of life, is God and yet we are
Withholding that knowledge from
young America upon the specious
plea that the bible Is sectarian.
Truth of the Trinity.
Following this statement Of the Gre
alton come the steps of rehabilitation,
for the words in verse two denote
waste void, or confusion and one
Hebrew scholar contends for the word
ruin" See also Isa 45:1S R. V. Thus
1t seems that upon this created earth
there must have come a judgment,
presumably upon some pre-Adamite
race and that what follows, verse two.
Is not the original creation but the
steps whereby this earth was made
ready as a habitation for man.
Lord Kelvin said, scientific thought
is compelled to accept the idea of Gre
alive power" There Is wonderful
agreement between modern science
and the account in Genesis: % The
biblical accounts by their wording
provide for both creation and the evo-
lutionary development Of created
things; (2) Science has failed to pro.
duce matter, life, or the soul Of man;
and Of these in each instance the
bible says Cod created while Of 81
! else It says he made.
The great truth Of the trinity Is re
: vealed in these first three verses Il,
! God, v. 4; (2) Spirit, v. 2; and 81
l "God said"-the word, see John Ill
Verse five does not call the light
> day meaning twelve hours, but rather
: a period Of time, just as we speak o.
an Arctic day." which is six months
Animal life cannot assimilate these
elements unless they are already fixed
in organic vegetable life. How ant
where life originated no science has
discovered. Pasteur's dfctum that
1T is nothing but life which gener
: ates life," still stands mistaken. And
90 the constant and only satisfactory
: answer to the questions, how, where
, and why, Of all these things of this
material universe is God. God ere
ated, God made, he created, and ther
set into being those forces and law
whereby the earth, the sky, the SUI
y and the moon have gone on with un
;. broken regularity. He made possible
. those processes whereby man devel
u ops, the oak grows, and animal ant
D. D. vegetable life reproduce each ate
;, its own kind.
4 But creation was not yet complete
Man, the last created, was the crown
% ing glory of this earthly creation
. Verses $3.50 will be studied in con
. nection with next weeks lesson AM
>. are referred to here simply to give
- complete account Of creation. !
:, >, would be we'll, however, to refer t
the fact that the great God and Gre
ator made provision for the immorta
q souls Of mankind by arranging for nj
D training in the knowledge and charat
ter of himself, the father, by the II
'r stitution of the Sabbath, as soon a
he had prepared a place IN wbic
man was to dwell.
The dignity and majesty Of the lar
10 guage of Genesis is sublime.
~ Astrologers tell us that our sun an
- solar system is only one OF perhaps
~ million others. A recent writer tell
10 us that a ray Of light which woul
~ travel the equivalent OF nine time
h. around the earth in one second Woul
take nine years to travel across tn
M great nebula in the constellation {
q. Orion. And "God made" all OF TILL
20 "The fool hath said in his heart Their
oa IA no God" and 1t is the man nez
Of door to the fool who tries to stlp'
late what God ought or ought not
liz do.
IN What a beautiful story this is
tell to children. A mother drew ne
three-year-old sons attention to tn
beauty of field and mountain an
a added God loves the beautiful an
N. loves little boys too" Neither spok
|e. for a moment. Then the son aske
a his mother If she were prayin
d. Eyes" said the mother. "Then
[c- want to say prayers too" said tn
ts bow. It is tremendous responsible
ay fly to give to others their first ide
|e- If God. May God keep us all on th