The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

r. a fool 4 sinner Is the biggest
fool you ever looked at
80 the Bible opens with an ae-
count Of that sinless pair, chronicles
| their eating OF the forbidden fruit,
| then God takes up tho Book and un-
folds In His mind Ills plan 10 keep
you out OF he'll. and men trample Y
| beneath their feet as n II didn't
, amkunt 10 passing attention.
Tnvre are few people who maze
no pretensions 10 understand the Bi
! BILE. Why For the simple reason
| that they are too lazy 10 study Il.
You never could hope 20 master
science or literature or history Win
out scanning, reviewing. analyzing
comparing period with period. and
| the contemporsreous history OF the
/ period you viii study. and II you
want 70 understand The divine prob
lem ar Il unfolds itself from the d.
4 vine mind. you have 10 study. FOR
God put no premium on laziness
Few Try to Understand
In John S.lC 8; says For God so
loved the world that He gave his
only begotten Son. that whatsoever
| believeth on Him should not perish,
but have everlasting Hfe,' snd vet
how few people make any pretenee
OF understanding or trying 10 fol
| low the Word of God
Some people give as their reason
for not believing The Bible the fact
| that the, cannot understand T. II
you only believe what you can un-
derstand You will be dumtounded to
ind ont how l!ttie you know.
"ln the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth-not plural
fly. bur one God
"A company of men and women
sat talking. and the question was
asked How many legs has a fly"
lone said three. another five
another seven. another Gine
Finally one woman was brave
enough 10 catch a ay.
II | should ask you how many legs
a ay has venture 70 say there isn't
one person thst could tell me II
you don't know how many legs fy
has, how am ! supposed 10 know
that you know anything about It's
maryeIously constructed feet?
Every iy has a thousand hollow
hairs opening into It's tiny teetr--t,c
EVERY ha1r contains a secretion like
mucilage, 80 that they can climb
wall, or a pane OF glass as easily as
a squirrel can climb tree. and they
can roost on the ceiling upside down
and never fall OF.
you can't explain why a black
cow will eat green grass and give
white milk.
Every fy has 5000 eyes, 1000
distinct and perfectly formed lenses
In each eye, each lens OF which r.
an absolute and perfect prism. and
don't you know that q photograph
has been taken with the lens OF the
eye OF a fly, and a professor recent
ly saw through the lens OF the eye
OF fiy a church steeple three
blocks away
Then say you don't understand
Gods Word You old lobster. there
are lots OF things you don't under
stand, don't forget that for min
ute.
ITO prove there IS nothing mvs-
terious about a fly having 5000 eyes.
II Is known that a certain beetle has
50,0Is eyes. and the common dragon
ny 1--WE used TO call them devils
darning needles when I was a boy1
has 25,0ss eyes. and the common
silk worm moth has 12.500 eyes. 40
there Is nothing mysterious about
fly having 5000 eyes. There are
lots OF things you don't understand
that you believe.
"Supposing could transform this
audience into clinic and ! had a
dead body on the table for my sub
ject.
II bring or the scalpel would
pinkish threads and hold them up.
They are just alike in form. shape
and color and the most powerful
magnifying glass could not distin-
guish one iota 81 difference.
One Is the nerve Of sight and the
other the nerve OF hearing
"Can you explain how Il is that
one nerve VIII take UP the sounds
OF everyday life and through your
ears translate upon your brain notes
OF harmony and discord 90 that you
can tell whether u is the barking
o. 2 dog. the blowing OF a whistle
the cry ~ 2 child?
Can you explain. how Il is that
the other nerve viii take up that
which ia Absolutely impercepti5Is 20
The former nerve. and through The
retina ~ your eyes paint or your
brain the picture of nature. until
you say. How beautiful Is that
flower. How picturesque the hlll'
'Do Won understand it7 No DO
you believe IL? You have 70. or &C.
knowledge that You are a fool
Yes. there are lots Of things you
believe but don't understand Then
don't go 20 he'll because you haven't
sense enough 10 understand AL
there Is IN the Bible There are a
lot of things you don't understand
God Made This World
You don't need TO delve into re
ligion and pass God up because you
haven't mind enough 10 compre-
bend You would have 20 be God
yourself 10 know a. much as God
knows
We take most thinks because they
appear 10 be realize that cres-
| tion speaks of a Creator. a design
az design. hold that that chair
tells me that some mind conceived
II and brought II forth. This chair
didn't evolute
Simply because We dress differ.
entity than they did seventy nvs
years ago simply because W.
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