Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-26

explain the origin oil the f1rSt matter
and the initial, push or force. 1t has
not pushed the Christian God out Of
existence" The speaker warned his
hearers not to be too anxious to &C
cept the findings of evolutionists. He
quoted DR.. Brass, German zoologist,
as accusing Haeckel of falsifying GER
tain findings to make his theory fiji
the evolutye stages of man, and
Haeckel as cOnfessing to it and say.
ing that hundreds among the most
esteemed biologists did the same.
The majority Of figures m%Orphologi-
cal, ETC., in students manuals deserve
in the same degree the charge of be-
ing falsifed..
Evolution does not explain the orig
in of the universe. 1t is explained as
originated by an All Powerful and
Loving God, who has not only thrown
it into existence, so to speak, but
holds it in being-in other words, a
God Who has created the universe.
Upon this personal Being depends not
only the atom of dust but also the
human being. And because upon this
Being depends man for every second
Of his existence, does he 1--WE to this
Being acknowledgment of depend
ence. And this is the first step In re-
ligion. It is a relationship between
man and God. Man as man, that is,
man as both body and soul, matter
and spirit, must acknowledge this God
and so there will be given on the
part of man, not an acknowledgment
that calls for only the worship of the
spirit, but for the worship Of the
whole man, internal and external.
Man owes this worship to God as an
individual and also as a member Of
society. God is not only the God of
the individual, as an individual, but
is also the God OF the individual as
a member of society. Society no less
than the individual owes what it has
to God and depends as we'll upon
God, and therefore society as a pub.
lie thing owes unto God a worship
like upto its nature, namely, a public
worship. Therefore, it is that We are
bound to acknowledge the God of the
heavens as a public, as well as a pri-
vate, uod. Therefore do we band
ourselves together in societies and in
churches to give unto God what is His
due from us-namely, public worship.
It is not a matter of choice, but is
a mater of obligation, for it is paying
unto the God of the Universe what is
His due.
Tuesday evenings lecture va Civ
en- by the Rev. o. A. Welsh, taking
for his subject, "The Divinity of
Christ. What Think Ye of Chrlst?
Whose Son Is He?
The speaker stated the Catholic
teaching concerning the Person of
Christ, namely, that the Christ of
human history was not merely man,
but God, become man. That He had
a divine nature and a human nature.
That he was not only the Son Of
God in an adaptive sense, but in re-
atty. That he was Cod in the same
sense that God the Father was God,
namely, that he had, with God the
Father and the Holy Spirit, the divine
nature.
He said in part:
"Intdels want us to believe theta
when they say that Christianity is
not unique. That what it teaches was
taught before its advent. That sci
ence will destroy the supernatural
ness of christianity. Science is the
ocean that swallows up personalities.
Primitive peoples have their religions
in which they personify childish no.
,tions. But truth and science, as it
has other religions. will reduce that
of the NaZarene to insignificance.
When thinkers rule His parallels OF
oriental imagery will be forgotten and
His simplicity will not be enough to
admit Him to the academies that
teach mankind.
"Let us say to the infidel that GER
tain circumstances and consequences
of the survival Of Christianity battle
any n%aturalistic calculations and
drive us to the supernatural for any
adequate explanation. Look at Christ.
He steps forth upon the scene of the
worlds history from the door of a
carpenter shop. To all appearances
He has no equipment of deep learn
ing or scientific culture. Many look
ed on Him as a Galilean artisan, pure
and high minded. The most attract
i've personality Of his time. But that
this man should have conquered the
civilized world, becoming the deep
est object Of its science, the unap.
%proachable ideal of its morality, the
supreme object of its worship, the ini-
perishable source of its heroism, the
eternal guide and law-giver of the hu-
man soul, is a result which all re-
searches into comparative religion are
imp0tent to explain.
Think of the initial difficulty: Hs]
is a Jew. No race is more intensely
individual. Yet He is of no a be-.
cause He is of all. Greek, Goth, AIT.
~erican, Briton-all build thir faith
and hope on Him. He is of human
ity, but of a humanity that has at
tributes of the Absolute. In Him we
see the unconditional, which suffers
not from the boundaries of time, or
racial origin, Or transient civilization.
III He were in origin purely natu.
raj, then the claims of His disciples
make Him ridiculous. This unlearn.
ed and lowly Hebrew, this child Of
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