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

which the Bible treats is the one, line
along wrich we have made no pro
gress. That is the Science of How te
Live. We go back to the Old Testa
ment for the foundation of our stat
ute laws, and we &c back to the Ser
mon on the Mount for the rules that
govern our spiritual development.
"The bright spots of my life are
the days in which l learned that l had
been a help in bringing men back to
God. There is more happiness IN
bringing souls back to God than in
three presidential nominations.
, sThe atheist is like the man who
blows out the light. I know what he
has done, and l can light it again, and
express my opinion of him. But sup
pose he comes up and says, I beg
your pardon; I am afraid that light
is so near you that it will hurt your
eyes, He then moves it back and
back until finally l do not see the light
at all. This is the man l am afraid
of. The higher critic moves the light
away, little at time, and finally
takes it out of sight.
"There are some honest friends OF
the Bible who count themselves high
er critics. These men are trying to
make the Bible suit the men who are
criticizing it. But head is worth
little except to find reasons for doing
what the heart wants to do. Out OF
the heart are the issues of life. There
is not a thing that a wicked heart
wants to do that an intelligent brain
can not find reason for doing. The
higher critics who are trying to
please such men are attempting the
impossible task of suiting the Bible
to a skeptical brain.
"Few men are brazen enough to
call Christ :: bastard, but that is ex-
actly the belief of most of the higher
critics, many of whom teach in our
colleges. They say they do not be-
lieve/ in the virgin birth. They go
through the Bible and reject every
thing they do not think reasonable.
If we have to nave Bible that seems
reasonable to every man who reads
it, we must have a good many differ
ent kinds of Bibles to fit the differ
ent reasonings of different people
and of the same people at different
times. 1t must at last be brought
down to the mind that can least COM
prehend the Infinite,
''The greatest enemy of the lie
is the numerous, enemy, and the num-
erous enemy today is the believer in
the Darwinian hypothesis that man
is lineal descendant of the lower
animals. believe this is the great
est menace to the church today-the
doctrine that man was not created by
God, as recorded in Genesis, but is
blood kin to the brutes below him.s
eve have now found nearly one
hundred specimens Of vertebrate life
in the early rocks, and more than
half of them live today. In not sim
gle case is there any material change
from the time they were buried in
the rocks until today. Now, if this
is true, is not that an argument
against the hypothesis tha. every
thing we see is the result of change?
''There is not an illustration in all
Gods universe, so far, of one single
species coming from another-and
vet the whole Darwinian hypothesis
rests upon the assertion that in the
beginning there were just few in
visible germs of life, and that every
thing came from them. If that were
true, we could find evidences of
transition everywhere, but there is
not single example to be found
not single one in process of s;fansi-
tion.
"There was a time, according to
evolutionists, when animals had no
eyes, and, as they now have them,
there must have been time when
they came. Since God is not allowed
to make an eye, it just happened.
"These people will not let God
work; they shut Him out of His own
universe; and then try to explain how
things happen. This is one guess.
The guess is that there was a time
when the little animal did not have
any eyes, and, as it was time for II
to have an eye, there just happened
no design about it, it just happen
ed-that little piece of pigment
(some call it a freckle) came on~the