The Holt County sentinel., 1913-01-03
LESSON FOR JANUARY s.
THE CREATION.

LESSON TEXT--Genesis LIS. Z. D. ~.
i:. Is. q. q. q. 81. -
GOLDEN TExT--'ln the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth"
Gen. IL.
In our scheme Of Lessons we return
to the Old Testament and confine our
study for the ensuing year to the hrst
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 ~
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 ere
sted." not, God In all and all 10 God"
Pantheism has no ground upon which
TO stand. In the beginning God ere
ated.' therefore he IL above and IVES
before the heaven and the earth.
The beginning Of all right thinking
and true living. Of every proper rela-
ton Of life. IL God and yet we are
withholding that knowledge from
young America upon the specious
plea that the bible N sectarian.
Truth Of the Trinity.
Following this statement Of the ere
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 lisa 45:lSR. V. Thus
It seems that upon this created earth
there must have come judgment.
presumably upon some pre.Adainite
race and that what follows, verse two.
10 not the original creation but the
steps whereby this earth was made
ready Az habitation for man.
Lord Kelvin said scientific thought
Ia compelled TO accept the idea Of ere.
alive power" There IL "a wonderful
agreement between modern science
and the accoun, IN Genesis: % The
biblical accounts by their wording
provide for both creation and the evo.
lutionary development OF created
things: 81 Science has failed to pro.
duce matter. life. or the soul Of man:
and OF these In each instance the
bible snys God created while Of oil
else II says he made
The great truth OF the trinity 10 re-
vesled In these first three verses ~
God. " 1; t2) Spirit. " .: and tS
God ssid"-the word see John III.
Verse nve does not call the light
day meaning twelve hours. but rather
u period Of time. Just as We speak Of
an Arctic day" which 10 six months.
Animal life cannot sssimilate these
elements unless they are already nxed
In organic vegetable life. How and
where life originated no science has
discovered. Pasteur's dictum that.
1T 10 nothing but life which gener-
ates life" still stands mistaken. And
10 the constant and only satisfactory
answer to the questions, how, where
and why, OF all these things Of this
material universe 10 God. God ere.
sted. God made. he created and then
set into being those forces and laws
whereby the earth. the sky. the sun
and the moon have gone on with I'M
broken regularity. He made possible
these processes whereby man devel.
ops. the oak grows, and animal and
vegetable life reproduce each after
Its own kind.
hut creation was not yet complete
Man. the last created. was the crown
Ing glory OF this earthly creation.
Verses ?6.30 will be- studied in con
nection with next weeks lesson aud
are referred to here simply to give .
complete account OF creation. II
would be well. however. to refer to
the fact that the great God and Gre
ator made provision for the immortal
souls OF mankind by arranging for his
training In the knowledge and charac-
ter OF himself, the father, by tho In
stitution Of .the Sabbath. ~ soon -
he had prepared a place In which
man WAS to dwell.
The dignity and majesty Of the Ian.
guage Of Genesis 10 sublime.
AstroloGers tell US that our sun and
solar system is only one OF perhaps Q
million others, A recent writer tells
us that a ray Of light which would
travel the equivalent OF nine times
around the earth In one second would
take nine years to travel across the
great nebula In the constellation of
Orion. And God made" all Of this.
THE fool hath said IN his heart there
IL no God" and it is the man next
door to the fool who tries to stipu.
late what God ought or ought not to
do.
What beautiful story this il to
tell TO children. A mother drew her
three-year'old sons attention to the
beauty OF field and mountain and
added God loves the beautiful and
loves little boys too" Neither spoke
Tor moment, Then the son asked
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