The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-27

know what science it contradicted.
Mcconnell claimed there were men
in every age who imagined they knew
everything, but they would have
laughed to scorn 500 years ago or 100
years ago the very idea that electrical
power would be transmitted around
the world They would have scoffed
simply because at that time they knew
absolutely nothing about electrical
power.
What If those old scientists had been
told in the Bible they would be able
to see a mans broken bones wiggling
inside his body, Mcconnell asked. They
would have declared such a statement
sufficient to slay belief in the Bible,
yet Prof. Roentgen discovered the X
ray which does show mans bones wig
Cling about inside his body.
Mcconnell claimed that no concep-
tion was other than divinei He de-
manded that the judge tell him where
life came FROM
The evangelist and judges opinions
coincided as to the foundation OF the
earth, which evidently had once been
nebulous. mass which something had
set in motion, and that gravity, affin-
ity, cohesion brought 1t together in a
great ball of gas and fire; for years it
was molten fire, then cooling fire and
matter, and no life, either vegetable or
animal, could by any possibility exist
upon it then.
Very evidently there 'S'as time
when no life existed upon the earth.
Then, whence came the life which is
now here? 1t had to create itself or be
put here by some being capable Of
creating life.
God the Author of Life.
Dirt has no intelligence, Mcconnell
asserted, but the life working in it
has intelligence. Can dirt originate
something greater, something bigger
than itself, he asked.
Il say God Almighty put every life
germ on the earth that's here now
therefore all life is divinel" McCon-
nell declared. you say nature con
ceived; / say God made the laws Of
propagation, and that there's not sin.
gle scientific department which claims
to know anything about life. Various
departments simply watch the work
ings and witness the power and nature
of the life germ by what it does, but
they get only the external demonstra-
ton. God gave vegetation and ami
mails power to transmute life-then
man.
Two thousand years ago God saw
that man couldn't get moral strength
out of what he ate, so He gave to the
world the germ of divine life that came
forth in Jesus. He endowed Jesus
with powers no other man ever had
because He wanted men to have what
they needed. If the Bible hypothesis
is accepted it solves all riddles.
Suppose, Jesus Is the son of God,
no mystery regarding His power, His
miracles obtain. If He was God you
can account for the strong character
of Mary's son; If God, you can account
for His resurrection; il God, you can
account for His power to transform
and regenerate the heart of the sin
ner and open the heavens for him; If
God, Christianity is a mystery no
langerl"
God asked men to test Him, McCon-
nell said, and although there was more
than sufficient historical evidence to
prove Christianity more than mere
or human credulity, yet
Jesus Christ says, '1'll prove it to
each individual man if he'll let me.
Is the best teacher, McCon-
nell finally developed powerfully, and
he told how two nights after his talk
with the jurist, Judge Lewis walked to
the front of the Rockfort meeting
place and said to two little girls on
the bench, 'Dearies, will you let Uncle
Lewis sit here between your" He had
accepted Jesus of Nazareth as the son
of Godi
Skeptic is Convinced.
Ten years later Mcconnell went to
Rockport to lecture, and the first man
whose hand he grasped was Judge
Lewis The judges eye had the light
Of great calmness and his first words
We're, Brother Mcconnell, know that
Jesus OF Nazareth is the son Of Godl"
The next year his son reported to the
evangelist that Judge Lewis died and
his last words were, q know Jesus is |
he SON. and he finished the SEN
Lence in the other world.
mo honest man has ever been in
ured by accepting the greatest truth
he world has ever known!" McCon-
lell cried.
Give Jesus Christ a fair. square
'hance and an honest heartl" he