The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-24

1 of the European nations now at war, be l ievcs in the inspiration of the Bible.
 was stated in a leading journal recently
 that two-thirds of the presidents of th, | colleges in America are iniides. Highel | criticism, the belief in evolution and so. called science is sapping the very founda.
 ton of our religious fabric. Because i Huxley and Darwin, and other scientists advanced and proved many theories ir
 harmony with well known scientific facts is no reason that we should accept all | their teachings as correct, especially if in conflict with the Bible
 Vice President Marshall in an address before body of college students recently said: Some of our leading institutions have too much so-called science and too 1 little God Almighty" In answer, I will say that if the Bible Is true, evolution is false. If evolution is true, the Bible be- comes book of fiction throughout, a myth, fable vague. vcid and meaning less, and man is left without chart or compass upon a turbulent sea- tossed upon the pillows with no helm or rudder without hope, life a burden, and the fu- ture dark and gloomy chasm across which not ray of light flashes nor a spark appears to illumine the impenetra- bic darkness
 We will not attempt here to prove that IA'N suffice to say that in looking over history, prophecy has been fulfilled in so many instances which have been verified by authors of secular history whose trust Worthlness cannot be questioned, that there is little room to doubt the genuine ness and the authenticity of the Bible as the inspired word of God
 Let us examine this monkey business and the evolution theory little
 A ho t-o tIa..- after the mineral and vegetable kingdoms Were created, then the animal kingdom Followed. This is the natural and conss- tent order of creation. Having pronounced II not only good, but very good God seemed to have paused and reflected, and said, Now let us make man. which followed, and he was made perfect and into his nostrils was put the breath of
 lie. He was created a little lower than the angels and was crowned with glory and honoI, the book says Far above all other earthly creatures, he was made in the image of the Creator Doubtless the image or likeness refers to his mental and moral powers, certainly not to his physi- cal being. He made man and put him in charSe ot all other earthly creatures to have dominion over it
 But by disobedience he fell from that high state of perfection. He lost life, and started downward to a lower stage of ef- ieiency. As proof of this men lived in those days many hundreds of years, while now the average life of man is about one third of century. Scientists today tell us that at the present rate of decay and degeneracy there will not be enough sane people to care for the insane in POO years from now
 Here we stand today, 6OOo years from Adam creation and boast of our superior apllty over those who lived in the early age ot man, yet when we look upon the great Pyramid of Egypt. we behold a non- ument to the superiority of those who lived only 2000 years after Adam. Our best and most skilled scientists and engi- neers look upon that stupendous structure in amazement, and are confounded when they see granite stones weighing 500 tons l 70 feet long and 17 feet thick. elevated tc a point 260 feet above ground and fitted together without mortar, so nicely that l thelr joininss can hardly be detected, and | they are led to eXclaim that we could not even dress those stones with moderr | machinery to say nothing of lifting theu
 to such heights and put them in position | x grand piece of work. wasn't it. to h, i erected by men only recently evolved iron l monkeydom?
 We go back 2oOo or 5000 years for oul | models in sculpture, mural paintings an, | architecture.
 NHo Ndl' temper copper like we temper steel tools? Or who can produce mallea bl, | glass" Or who can embalm as the an | cients did? Who can match Demosthene and Cicero in oratory? Where in the fiel, or jurisprudence can we find the equal q | Moses, the great law-siver?
 Again, if at any period in the world
 history monkeys evolved into state O
 manhood, why do they not continue t do so? Why do we not find them jus
 emerging from monkeydom into stat
 of manhood, losing their hairy coat am
 that part of their anatomy known as | tail2
 1T we accept the evolution theory. "
 deny the possibility of the transgressio
 aad tail of Adam. for he, having jus
 emerged from monkeydom, was at tn l very bottom of the scale and could no | fall to q lower point.
 If 'e did not fall there would hay
 been no need of a Redeemer to restor
 what was lost, no restitution would hay been necessary
 l Therefore we would eliminate the Christ ! and the prophecy concerning Him. an
 the whole scheme and all religious fabric fall to the ground and the Bible is useless