New Britain herald., 1917-10-29
EVOLUTION BLAMED
 FOR THE WORLD WAR
Pastor Hartman Also Declares Reformation Was a Failure

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 How evolution-belief in the survi- val of the Attest, Prussian philosophy has been responsible for the world war. was argued last night by Rev. N. II. Hartman of the Peoples church in the fifth sermon in his series on Evolution.
 Pastor Hartman also spoke of the Reformation. the AO0th anniversary of which was observed yesterday by Protestant churches, and he explained why, in his opinion, it had been a failure.
 An abstract of the address follows:
 No devil?' great Boston divine once exclaimed. 1t is vastly to the credit of human nature that there is 8 devil. If human nature. had to shoulder all the devilish work that is going on in the world, one would be ashamed to be human
 ''This series of sermons Is not oc- cupied primarily in attacking evolu- ton. Nor even in vindicating the Bible. The deeper topic is righteous ness versus unrighteousness; the su- pernatural versus the natural; God versus Satan; Gods method of dealing with mans sin. as revealed in the Bible, versus mans method of meet ing the awful problem. And because evolution is a prominent illustration of the many fruitless and inadequate attempts to solve this problem, con- tr31Seting the Bible solution, I have prepared this series.
 Ard tonight come to very inter esting study of this larger aspect of my subject, under the topic: The Bible and the World System.' It is the 4c1th anniversary of the Reforma- tion. l shall show you how Satan's great world system created the con- ditions calling for reformation, and how when reformation came he side tracked it by hitching it to his world system. From that I purpose to show you that the present great world war is due to evolution, Germany apply ing literally the evolution theory of the survival of the fittest, to rid her. self of the threat of surrounding world powers against her right to a place in the sum- Both these great world movements present very illum- mating illustrations of Satan's many devices to thwart God, the latest being evolution.
 Parting or the ways.
 ~Whether history or allegery, some thing corresponding to the Genesis account of the beginnings of things and the origin of sin and the fall certainly occurred back at the fountain head of history. No explanation but the Genesis account is either possible or scientific. It that stand as dog matic if you please; but find no other explanation which meets all the issues involved.
 God created God loved. God warned. God provided, Man doubted. Man coveted. Man disobeyed. Man fell. And because all mans interests were on the side of obedience. an outside agency is called for to account for his sin. Hence the scientific need of Satan Without the fact of Satan and temptation. you cannot sclenln- cally account for mans revolt rom God. And you will notice that every attempt to shy the Genesis account also shies the awful fact of sin or minimizes it's nature.
 "Here begins the Satanic World gystem.' Man met the issue natural ty:, he himself sought to cover his nakedness with fig leaves History or alleeory, that being occurred just there if, history. Besides it also oc- cured that other thing, the superna- tural way of meeting the need: Goa covered their nakedness with coats or skin' And there started that req stream of sacrihcial love that cul- minated in Calvary. For does not the record say that when God reouked Satan he also promised DenVerer from his dominion? I will put en- mity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head. and thou shalt briust his heel. History or alle- gory, something corresponding to that occurred right there. It is the only scientific explanation of Satan's long dominion over the world, a dominion to be wholly broken only when the seed of the woman, who conquered Satan on Calvary, bruising his heel to the death, comes back again to earth to complete the work and hurl him headlong into the lake of fire
 The two ways appear again, right there at the beginning, when the two sons of the fallen pair come up to make their sacrifices before God. Cain, the frstborn, comes up as the natural man, in self will and without consciousness of sin and guilt. Abel comes with the blood of sacrifice. And right there, in these two broth CTS, the ways part. Cain goes out from God, marked with the earth mark. and starts the World System of mans greatness, building cities and developing useful arts. Abels bloody sacrifice is the scarlet threac that marks the way of Gods childrer ever since. The great redemption starts on it's weary and toilsome way and beside it starts the way of man The one the way of sacrifice; the oth CT the way of self justification. Th' one Gods way; the other, mans way The one, supernatural; the other nat ural. The one, creation; the other
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