The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-08-16
THE HERALD AND NEWS

They are robbing our boys and girls
of spiritual life; professor can not
cram enough intelligence into boys
brain to offset the shr:nkage Of
the heart when he takes God cut. |
have reached this conclusion: that if
we are not allowed to defend the Bi-
bic, they should not be allowed to
attack it and rob our children of their
faith and hope.
II have pointed out what seems to
be the natural consequ~lces of Dar-
winism. Nietzche took this hypothe-
sis, brought man down to- a brute Da-
sis, taught that might makes right
and laid the foundation for the great
est war that man ever knew: He got
; it from Darwin. He says Darwin was
one of the three great men of his CEN
tury. He praises Napoleon as great
est because he made war respect
able again. l have there quotation
from an editor in Paris written when
there was a a peace meeting there,
some twenty-one years ago: The
spirit of peace has fed the earth be-
cause evolution has taken possession
of it. The plea for peace in past
wears has been based upon the divine
| nature and divine origin of man. Men
were looked upon as the children OF
one God and war was, therefore, fra
tricide. But now that men are con-
sidered children of apes, what mat
! ters it if they slaughter one another?
This was fifteen years before the war
began.
I sThe reason this pernicious evo-
luton doctrine has not done more
harm is that it has not reached the
mass of the people. 1t is those who
have the most education who have
been injured most by it. It has not
misled the mass; the people,. as rule,
do not believe in the ape theory.
"Darwin gives US family tree
which begins in the water with larvae
and then traces the line of descent to
European apes. Over eight hundred
times he uses the phrase, we may
we'll suppose Compare this phrase
with the Bibles Thus saith the Lord
The Bible is built upon the rock and
the other upon hypothesis. When
they tell you that their sciences are
the most important, you can answer
that there is a science more lmpor-
tant than any they teach IN the
schools. It is the science Of How to
Live. It is more important that you
trust the Rock of Ages than that you
konw the age of rocks. When those
who teach the physical sciences look
down upon those who preaehthe COS
mel. tell them what Paul said, that the
things which are seen are temporal
the things that are unseen, eternal.
,"Mr.' Roosevelt, when s'president
talking to the Harvard law students
told them that there was scarcely
great conspiracy against the pubic
welfare, that did not have harvard
brains behind it. This might have
been said of any other university as
we'll. Many graduates go out with
no sense of responsibility to God or
society; they. are the bulwark Of ev-
cry unrighteous cause, the defenders
Of every vicious system. When re-
form starts in this country, it starts
with the masses. Reforms do not
come out of the brains of scholars
"some of these young men grad
nate from our colleges, go into busi-
ness and become prohteerss They 40
not commit petty larceny; sometimes
they go into glorifed' larceny and use
the lawyers who come out of our col
leges to keep them out OF the penl-
tertiary. We have to enact child Ia
bor laws to keep them from dwarflng
the bodies and souls of little chill
dren. Antitrust laws are necessary
IN keep them from running small COM
petitors. 8,
! "I believe the brute in man IS
brought out largely by the theory that
makes man believe he is blood rela-
tive to the brute. Man must be
brought back to God, to belief IN
! the Bible as the Word of God and TO
a love of Christ as the Son of God. "