The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-26
BACK TO GOD

The supreme need OF the day is to
get back to God-to love of God that
fills the heart, the mind and the soul,
and dominates every impulse and en-
ergy of the life.
Evolutionists are leading their fol-
lowers away from the Creator, away
from the Word of God, and away from
the Son of God. They teach that man
is the lineal descendant of the lower
animals--that he has in him, not the
breath of the Almighty but the blood
of the brute. They tear out Of the Old
Testament the first chapter of Gene
sis, and then, having discarded the mi
racle, they tear out the first chapter Of
Matthew and deny the Virgin birth of
the Savior. They would, in effect, de-
throne Jehovah, strip the Bible of its
claim to inspiration, and libel the Mas
ter, by branding him as the illigiti-
mate son of an immoral woman. Their
creed denudes life of it's spiritual ele-
ments and makes man a brother to
the beast.
Materialism has so paralyzed the
mental machinery of the evolutionists
that they cannot comprehend spiritual
things. They can understand how
gravity, though an invisible force, can
draw all matter downward to the
earth, but they cannot understand how
an invisible God, all-powerful, all
wise, and all-loving, can draw the
souls of men upward toward his
throne. Their minds are open to the
most absurd hypothesis advanced in
the name of science, but their hearts
are closed to the plainest spiritual
truths.
These opponents of british phil
osophy have entered our universities
with holiness; they have crept into
some of our Christian colleges by
stealth; they have even wormed their
way into a few Of our theological
seminaries. They make agnostics and
atheists of a multitude of trusting stu
dents; they turn many young men
away from the ministry; they palzy
the zeal of some who stand behind the
pulpit.
1t is time the Christians Of the
country should understand the ravag-
es that the groundless hypothesis of
Darwin is making. 1t is depriving the
church of the support of young men
and young men who ought to be it's
leaders; it furnished 'Neitzsche with a
basis for his Goddess philosophy
philosophy which led the world into
it's bloodiest war-and it is bringing
chaos into the industrial world. What
can be done to combat it and to save
church and civilization from it's be-
numbing influence?
First, those who preach and teach
should be called upon to announce
their views so that their positions
may be clearly understood. Every
citizen has Alright to think as he
pleases-to worship God according to
the dictates of Jhis conscience, or to-
refuse to worship him. That is an in
alienable right that should not under
any circumstances be interfered with,
but those who employ a minister for
themselves or an instructor for their
children have right to know what
the preacher is to preach and what the
teachers are to teach.
Second, only Christians should be
permitted to teach in CHRISTIAN
schools and colleges, If denomination
al schools cannot find Christian in
structors to teach every branch of
learning that needs to be taught they
have no reason for existence.
Third, Chistian taxpayers should
insist upon REAL neutrality in re-
ligion wherever neutrality is neces-
sary. The Bible should not be at
tackled where it cannot be defended. |
Professors, paid by the public, should |
not be permitted to undermine the
religious faith of students. No amount |
of education can compensate for the
destruction of faith. Out of the
hearts, not out of the head, are the is
sues of life; as man thinketh in his |
heart, not as he thinketh in his head,
so is he.
The sin of this generation is mind
Worship worship as destructive as |
any other form of idolatry. To your
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