The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

fool you ever lootru at
so the Bible Spens with ar AZ
count OF that sinlArs pair. chronicle
their eating Of tHe forbidden fruit
then God takes up\the Book and ar
folds in His mind Hts plan 20 kee
you out OF hell. and men trample !
beneath their feet as II II didn'
amount 10 passing attention.
There are few people who max,
no pretensions 10 understand the 81
Die. Why? For the simple reason
that they are too lazy 10 study H.
You never could hope 20 maste
science or literature or history with
out scanning. reviewing. anslyzing
comparing period with period. an'
the contemporare ous history o. M
period you will study. and II yol
want 20 understand the divine prob
lem as Il unfolds itself from the di
vine mind. yen have 20 study, FOL
God put no premium on laziness.
Few Try 20 Understand
in John sale u says: For God 50
loved the world that He gave n:
only begotteu Son. that whatsoever
believeth on Him should not perish
but have everlasting lie and yet
how few people make any Pretence
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 they cannot understand IT, Il
you only believe what you can IN
derstand you will oe dumfounded 20
ind out how little you know
I'm the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth-not A plural
fly. but one God. u
a company OF men and women
rat talking, and the question was
asked How many legs has ry"
zone said three. another Eve,
another seven. another nine
Finally one woman was brave
enough 70 catch a fy
II should ask you how many legs
a fiy has venture 10 say there isn't
one person that could tell me. II
you don't know how many legs fy
las, how am I supposed 20 know
hat you know anything about It's
constructed feet.
Every fy has a thousand hollow
1afry oprnsas late is Tiny feet. and
Every hair contains a secretion Ike
nuciIage, so that they can climb a
wall. or a pane OF glass as easily as
. squirrel can climb a tree, and they
IAN roost on the ceiling upside down
md never fall OF.
"You can't explain why black
low will eat green grass and give
white milk.
Every fy has 900 eyes, 1000
distinct and perfectly formed lenses
In each eye. each lens OF which Is
IN absolute and perfect prism. and
ion't you know that photograph
has been taken with the lens OF the
eye OF fy, ard a professor recent
" saw through the lens OF the eye
Of fly 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 q min
ute.
ITO prove there is nothing mys-
FERROUS about hy having 5000 eyes
L Is known that a certain beetle has
50.016 eyes. and the common dragon
fy 1--WE used 70 call them devils
farming needles when I was 8 boy
has 25.0ss eyes, and the common
silk worm moth has IL 500 eyes. 40
here Is nothing mysterious about a
iy having 5000 eyes There are
OTIS OF things you don't understand
hat you believe.
"Supposing ! could transform this
audience into a clinic and I had a
lead body on the table for my sub
ect.
II bring on The scalpel: would
make an incision and remove two
,inkish threads and hold them up
They are Just alike IN form, shape
md color and the most powerful
glass could not distin-
yuish one iota OF difference.
One is the nerve OF sight and the
,ther the nerve OF hearing
Ahh NbA ~ NAdAA flDN II u NIldA
me nerve viii take up the sounds
" everyday NE and through your
,ars translate upon your brain notes
u harmony and d!scord 40 that you
ian tell whether Il f. the barking
81 dog the blowing OF whistle
the cry OF child
"Can You explain how r. IS that
AE xasE
which r. absolutely imperceptible "a
the former nerve. and through tbs
retina OF your eyes paint on your
brain the picture OF nature. Until
you say. How beautiful IS that
flower. How picturesque the hill
"Do you understand it, 40. Dc
you believe 81? You have 10. or ac
knowledge that you are a-fool
"Yes. there are lots OF things yOt
believe but don't understand Their
don't go 10 hell because you haven
sense enough 70 understand al
there Is IN the Bible. There are 2
lot OF things you don't understand
God Made This World
you don't need 20 deive into re
ligion and pass God up because you
haven't mind enough 20 c0mpre
bend. You would have 10 be God
yourself 20 know as much as God
knows
We take most thinks because they
appear 20 be realize that crca
ton speaks OF a Creator a desigr
Of a design hold that that chair
tells me that some mind conceived
II and brought II forth. This chat
didn't evolute.
Simply because we dress differ
entity than they did seventy ~,
years ago: simply because vi
plough with steel plough instea,