The Washington herald., 1918-01-30
Word Of God to. Last
Throughout All Time;
Mans Folly Pictured
EVENING SERMON
Nuts for Skeptics to Crack

ence or literature or history without
scanning. reviewing. ahalyzing. COM
pairing period with period, and the
contemporaneous history OF the period
you will study, and II you want to
understand the divine problem as It
unfolds itself from the divine mind.
yon have to study. for God put no
premium on laziness.
In John 31s 1t says: For God 20
loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believ-
eth on Him should not perish. but
have everlasting nfe," and yet how few
people make any pretense Of under
standing or trying to follow the Word
Of God
Some people give as their reason for
not believing the Bible the fact that
they cannot understand 1t. II you
only believe what you can understand
you will be dumfounded to md out
how little you know.
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth-not a plurality.
but one God
II / should ask you how many legs
a fly has venture to say there isn't
one person that could tell me. II
you don't know how many legs q
fly has, how am I supposed to know
that you know anything about its
marvelously constructed feet?.
Every fly has q thousand hollow
hairs opening into its tiny feet. and
every hair contains a secretion like
mucilage, SO that they can climb a
wall. or a pane of glass. as easily
as a squirrel can climb q tree, and
they can roost on the ceiling upside
down and never fall on.
You can't explain why a black
cow can eat green grass and give
white milk.
Every fly has 5000 eyes, 1000 dis
tinct and perfectly formed lenses in
each eye, each lens of which Is an
absolute and perfect prism, and
don't you know that q photograph
has been taken with the lens of the
eye OF q fly. and q professor re-
Gently saw through the lens of the
eye of fly q church steeple three
blocks away?
Then don't say you don't under
stand Gods word. You old lobster.
there are lots of things you don't
understand-don'tf forget that for a
minute.
Nothin Mysterious.
To prove there is nothing myster-
ious about a fly having 5000 eyes.
1t is known that a certain beetle has
5O.016 eyes. and the common dragon
fly 1--WE used to call them DEVILS
darning needles when was a boy).
has 25,08S eyes, and the common
silkworm moth has 1880 eyes, so
t. al
fly having 5000 eyes. There are lots
OF things you don't understand that
you believe.
supposing could transform this
audience into a clinic and I had q
dead body on the table for my sub
ject-
I bring on the scalpel; would make
an incision and remove two pinkish
threads and hold them up. They
are just alike in form, shape and
color, and the most powerful magnify
ing glass could not distinguish one
iota Of difference.
One Is the nerve of sight and the
other the nerve of hearing.
Can you explain how 1t Is that one
nerve will take up the sounds Of
everyday life. and through your ears
translate upon your brain notes of
harmony and discord. SO that you
can tell whether 1t Is the barking
OF q dog, the blowing Of q whistle,
the cry OF a child?
Can you explain how II Is that the
other nerve will take up that which
10 absolutely tmperceptible to the
former nerve, and through the retina
Of your eyes paint on your brain the
picture Of nature until you say.
How beautiful Is that flower, How
picturesque the hiIlr'
Do you understand itr No. Do
you believe it7 You have to, or
acknowledge that you are a fool
Yes, there are lots of things you
believe but don't understand. Then
don't go to hell because you haven't
sense enough to understand all 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 religion
and pass God, up because you haven't
mind enough to comprehend. You
would have to be God yourself to know
as much as God knows.
We take most things because they
appear to be. I realize that a creation
speaks Of q creator, a design of a de-
signer. I~hold that that chair tells
me that some mind conceived II and
brought 1t forth. That chair didn't
evolute.
Simply because We dress differently
than they did seventy-five years ago;
simply because we plough with a steel
plow instead Of q forked stick, / hold
that some mind conceived this old
world and that some mind brought It
forth. and, hear me. I don't believe
that this world came about by chemi-
cal force or the ''fortuitous concurrence
Of atoms"
That Is asinine, idiotic nonsense. I
would never let any public school
teacher cram that down my children,
and when they come home and say
"So-and-so told us,"-I say you tell
that teacher that she Hes"
God made that thing Just as Il Is.
don't allow them to turn the faith
Of my children one iota from the fact
that this old world Is Just as God AL
mighty made It.
Il hold that a design tells of q de-
signer. / no more believe that this
world was made by chemical forces
than believe book of botany. de-
scribing flowers, was made by chem
ical forces.
II you believe q monkey sat on q
cocoanut tree and "shied" cocoanuts
at his neighbor. all right; but don't
connect me with your old, prehistoric
theory Of evolution or, we will lock
horns
II could walk onto q platform
or behind q pulpit in a swell stone
church and make q break like that
they would call be philosopher.
I would call q man that made a
statement like that q "fool-oso-
pher." don't believe that the