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

THE AGE and as St. Paul expresses it. our faith ]; vain, and we are of all men most ms
 erable who have believed that book.
 There is no better attested fact in his
 tory than that of the birth. the life, tho | crucifixfon and the resurrection of Jesus | He and the apostles believed the old scrip | lures, and quoted from them all the way l from Genesis down. Jesus refers to right. eoRs Abel, the second child born into the world. The apostles quote from almost | every book in the Old Testament Have our teachers and professors and men oi science become wiser than Jesus Christ and the apostles?
 If man was little better than a monkey when God breathed into him the breath of life, he could have been excused if he violated command. So low was he that little note would have been taken of it. He evidently had but little to lose, cer- tainly too small an affair to make such an ado about it, as We find all down the line Of history in Gods plan to restore that which was lost in Adam Does He wish to restore us back to the state of monkeys?
 Look back through history at the wars and bloodshed over questions pertaining to this subject. The Bible and the doc trines it teaches have been the basis of some of the most terrible wars,
 Come by the cross. witness the cruci- fiXion, stand by the sepulchre, behold the risen Lord. Hear the sons of thunder, the apostles, proclaiming the doctrines of restitution. Listen at St. Peter, in Acts 3:19-2o-21, declaring that this Jesus will come again to restore that which was lost by Adam.
 We have no evidence. that one species of animal ever evolved or passed into another species. We all know that by care and cultivation, plants, fruits, flow CTS and animals have been improved and developed to more perfect form but none passed into other orders or spe- cies. Cows cannot become horses, nor monkeys become men.
 Darwin's theory of evolution has been brushed aside by many equally brilliant writers and scholars. His reasoning has been proven faulty, and he lacks facts for a foundation for his statements Too much of it is hypothetcal; he relies too much on analogy.
 Not long ago at q meeting of scientists Of the Victoria Philosophical institute, a careful analysis of the various theories of evolution was undertaken by such sholars as Professor Stokes, F. R. S., Sir J. R. Bennett vice president, R. S, Professor Beale, F. R. S, and others who declared that no scientific evidence has been found
 
 man evolved from lower order of ani- mal Professor Virchow declared that there is complete absence of any fos- sil type of a lower stage in the develop ment of man. Professor Barrande de- clared that he had found no fossil that showed that one species has developed into another; that no scientific man has found a connecting link between man and the ape. Sir J. w. Dawson, ILL. D., F. R. states that m link connecting man with the lower animals has been found; that he appears to be new departure in creation with no relation to lower ami mals: that no fact of science is more certainly established than the recency of man in geological times. Professor Pas teur. the great bacteriologist, says: Pos terity will laugh at the foolishness of modern philosophers such as Darwin" Virchow, the Russian savant, opposed the Darwinian theory, and said Any at- tempt to find transition from animal to man has ended in total failure"
 In regard to the Great Pyramid, pr. Joseph Seiss says in his books "A Miracle In Stone:' If the primeyal man were nothing but gorilla or troglodyte, how, in prehistoric times, could the builders of this mighty structure have known what our profoundest scholars, after q score of centuries of observation and experiment have found out only imper- fectly?" How could they make and ham dle tools? How could they know the spherity, rotation, diameter, density, lati- tude poles, land distribution and tenn perature of the earth? How could they square the circle, determine the cardinal points, frame charts of history and dis l pensa ations? How could they know when the Mosaic economy would start how ! long continue, and in what eventuate?
 When Christianity would be introduced | what great facts and features it would 1 mark, its characteristics, and when it | would end? How could they know the grand precessional cycle, it's duration l the number of days in a year. the mean | distance to the sun, exact position of the stars at the time the great pyramid was | built? How devise a standard and sys- tems of measure and weights? These are | all nicely marked in the pyramid, show ! ing wisdom possessed in the early stages
 of man that startle the wisest savants, l sages and philosophers.
 | 1t is contended by evolutionists that | mans history dates back many thou | sands of years. Some say millions, be- | cause fossil remains have been found bur
 jed deep under ground. They perhaps
 overlook the fact that when the flood | came, all were swept away except Noah
 and his family, and doubtless many bod ies were then buried hundreds of feet deep.
 The chronology given in the Bible is very | explicit, and no doubt the reason that the | ages of men and the date of their birtl was purposely recorded that we can deter mine where are on the stream of time | It is now only little over GOOD years | since Adams creation, according to the | Bible. We give therefore the following figures:
 To the end of the flood. ............ 1856 yrs | Thence to covenant with Abraham 127 yrs Thence to giving of the law. f30 yrs Thence to division of Canaan. 46 yrs Period of the Judges ................ I50 yrs The period of the Kings ........... 5l3 yrs The period of desolation .......... 70 yrs | Thence to A. D. 1.................... 536 yrs Thence to 1878 ...................... 1872 yrs | IOldi ...................... ocoV y is | Let us imagine a monkey about devel- | open to manhood stage. See him seated at desk, cross legged, cigarette in his | mouth, looking across the street planning how to cheat his neighbor. There he sts | until he wears off that part of his an | atomy fanilarly called a tail. He rises dons q suit of broadcloth, and a beaver | hat, walks out with thumbs in the arm holes of his vest and introduces himSel