New Britain herald., 1917-11-05

side to do this work. None but tho regenerate are looked to. to spread the knowledge that man may be regen- erated. Either she must do 1t. or 1t will go undone. This is Gods plan. Not through merely good people, III the sense of well-meaning and mor- ally upright people, did God plan to send the Good News of salvation. but through those who personally know the pardoning and regenerating pow CT of such g. faith. Not even by an- Rels therefore, did God plan to spread the gospel message. but just by hu- mans whose hearts burn with grat- itude and love. going forth under tho Inspiration of that love and empow- cred by the indwellinE Holy Spirit.
 Someone tells an imagined con- versation taking place in heaven be- tween the ascended Lord and some bright anxel, on his arrival there from his mediatorial visit to earth. It is something like this: Son of God. how have you left earth and come hack before the world knows what you have done for its salvation?' T have left my church to go and tell them But, Son of God. they arc hut a little handful of people, and common people at that. uneducated and mostly poor; how did you dare? If they fail. what other provision did vou maker I made no other provision the Son of God is supposed to have replied, no other provision Do you get the connection?
 Evolution and Salvation.
 "Cripple The Church and man is robbed of his only chance of salva- ton. This h SatAn's strategy. Hence hix interest in going into the field of theoloxy and Bible criticisn. Hence the awful, unspeakabie. sin when mon accept financial support from churches founded to propagate the Bible story of salvation, and with that support and under the guiSe of true shepherds of Gods precious flock pro- cecd to tear to ptocee that Holy Bible. the only medium through which wa knew anything about supernatural way of salvation! It Is aw1ul! Tho light of tho world which Jesus said His Church was became savorless, fit only to 'ho cast out and trodden under foot of man. while that which should have been preserved. rots and is cast away! Oh, what call for separa- ton! Oh, what a responsibility upon true believers! And this going on everywhere! And Jesus at tho door! Jesus. opon blind eyes, in pity open blind eyes, Jesus. everywhere, before you return.
 Evolution and Criticism.
 Not content with attacking the Bible in the story of creation. evolu- tion proceeded to attack every part of it, substituting the theory of develop mont everywhere for Gods super natural and instantaneous working.
 Moses authorship of the first five books was disputed on all sorts of grounds. A collection of myths and allegories and folk lore is perhaps the favorite way of accounting for these books and other books; but in all of their theories to throw discredit upon the Bible appears the trail of the ser pent:tr truth grew up naturally, instead of being written by the hand of God through holy men of God who 'spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost
 Since everything came through development. much of the matter at- tributed to Moses they said was inn possible for various reasons. For instance, there was no settled lan- guage or literature at the time. They said that appeared only afterward by the law of development. Many of the things stated as historic could not have occurred, they clam ored, for things had not developed to the stage which made them possible at those times. And while they reasoned from their evolution premises, and dreamed their dreams, and flattered themselves upon their wonderful dis coveries that proved the Bible un- true, To, the pick and shovel of un- covering buried civilizations with rec ords written in their clay cylinders of the very events recounted in the Bible-whole libraries of these clay cylinders. Thus does God mock al the wisdom of unbelieving man, and vindicate the Old Book, His very voice speaking from the dumb earth. The work of archaeology Is Gods hand writing upon the wall of the banquet hall of evolution's sacrilegious carni- val.
 Degeneration and Crisis.
 Evolution would have the world believe that in mans history and in tho history of nature. everything zoe. forward by development. evolution. But in mans history as in natures history. as we saw last Sunday night the progress is always backward degeneration written on everything.
 And this is just as true in the matter of religion as elsewhere. In this is revealed a most wonderful and instructive law, though so far it as l know has never received a name. Ac- cording to its working, man religious ly and morally has been kept going by periodic crises in his history. These crises have been Gods super natural interferences, picking man up again and again. at the foot ot his toboggan slide, lifting him back to a working level by supernatural intervention. and starting him on AEain. And, with every new start he