New Britain herald., 1917-12-26
PASTORS SERIES ON
 EVOLUTION RAPED
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turning prodigal? Did he ask him to believe something? Is there any thing about Jesus ever having offered
 a sacrifice? He went into the Syna-
 gogue, something not known till short
 ly before, not into the temple. He formed no church. and never men, toned Popes, or Elders or Deacons or Bishops and Archbishops.
 Then you talk foolish talk about the lend of the world", as though
 there were a single sign that it will last for as many millions as it has already.
 Do you think people arc afraid of this thing that Jesus predicted was to come in the lifetime of some before
 Him and which has not yet?
 Among the uncertainties of what
 Jesus did say about most things, this
 Is the least doubtful, for the disciples
 and all His followers for 8 generation
 firmly believed it?
 The Bible, the greatest among sa-
 cred books, has fallen into neglect
 through the senseless claims of such
 people as you, claiming its infa1Hbili-
 ty, it's equal value in every part, it's
 plenary inspiration in spite of it's
 stories of lust and murder and name
 less other atrocities, it's, crude scienti- f1c statements, it's exaggeration of
 many things, as for instance the num-
 Der of Israelites that left Egypt, how
 two mid-wives served all these wo-
 men. The story of Benjamin, that
 little one' who turned out. to have a
 wife and ten children, of men living
 q thousand yeears. of giants, the sons
 of the Gods. It's plain contradictions
 on nearly every page, differing stories
 of the Blood of the Exodus, the
 statement of Enoch and Elijiah being
 translated and the statement of John
 that no man hath ascended, and that
 mo man hath seen God at any time"
 when Moses and others said they had
 seen Hitn at various times. Why sane
 men make such claims in the face of
 facts is incredible to the ordinary
 man. The claim for it's scientific ac- curacy, that it was not made to teach science does not excuse misstatement when mentioned at all, but then it's
 theology is worse, if possible than its science. We believe neither it's theol- ogy or it's science now.
 The claim of "all true or all false" is responsible for much of its neglect. People know it is not nearly all true and they reject it all. Your state ment that man is no better than he ever was is utterly untrue. Will you dare say that the primitive man, with the stone tools, Che probably lived ages without even these) is the equal of Moses, of Blato, of Jesus, of Wood row Wilson,, The Adam of science l and the Adam of Genesis resemble each other more than you might
 think. Adam, a naked savage, with out comb Or brush, without fire or 1 tool, liar and a coward, hiding in the bushes. 7 No there is a great ad- vance since we. discover the stone age man, and as the time between this | man and Plato Is as but a moment l in the ages that must have elapsed l before he arrived at that low stage 1 compared with ours. Who dare limit l the possibilities of man, when you 1 study his rise to his present estate comp pared with what we first know of him? No, there is more real religion in | the world than ever in its history. The
 phase called Christianity like those
 preceding it, is. passing having served
 it's noble purpose, but it must change
 greatly if 1t does not pass in the not distant future. Do not fear that God will not take care of His creation
 Judaism in its original form has all
 but passed, but modern, reformed Ju-
 daisnn is at this hour the sanest' the l most needed. and of the most uniVer-
 sal application of any other, and 1t is