The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1922-05-27
Bryan Flags Darwinism
AS Attack Against Bible
"Impregnable Rock of the Scriptures Will
Stand" He Says, in Spite of the Contra
Teachings of This Theory.

in the winter house, or the winter
part of the palace, with the princes
about him. the king heard the warn
ings of the prophet. A Ere was
burning in the brazier before him
and into this nre he threw the roll,
three or four leaves at a time,
which he cut out with his penknire
as they were read by Jehudi. The
next verse tells US that neither the
king nor any of his servants were
afraid; they did not rend their gar
ments nor give any Of the custom
AIRY evidences OF grief or regret over
the sacreligious act
The Penknife of Criticism.
II jeremiah were living to day
he would not have to change the
wording OF the text materially to
describe the work of the destructive
critics as they cut the Bible into
pieces with the penknife Of critics. SIN
and cast the fragments into the fire
Whether they are actuated by the
same reason that led Jeboiakim to
mutilate and burn the roll contain
ing the warnings which the Lord
uttered through jeremiah cannot be
known without an inquiry into their
own lives: They may have some OF
the pride that made Jekoiakim take
offense at a reminder of his sins
and of tie punishment with which
the Lord threatened him.
These critics repudiate the ac-
count of the fall of man as indig-
nantly as the wicked Judaean kins
regulated Jeremishs description
OF the fall OF Israel and are as in
different to the means by which man
Is to be restored as Jehoiakim was
to the plan offered for the restora-
ton OF Israel.
These "whittlers of the word" be-
gin at the first chapter of Genesis
and employ their penknives ON the
Mosaic account of mans creation.
cause man is merely q descendant
of the Brute.
Attacks on the Bibles Veracity.
Even II this doctrine did not af-
feet mans philosophy of life, such
an hypothesis ought not to be &C
cepted without proof because Of the
attack IT makes upon the veracity
of the Scriptures. As the Bible has
But one central thought, namely
man in his relation to God. an IN
dictment OF the Bibles account OF
mans creation, IL proven, weakens
the foundation upon which confid-
ence in the Bible rests.
But when IL Is seen that the over
throw of the Bible account of mans
creation changes the whole philos-
ophy of life. one understands how
before conceding the evolutionary
hypothesis.
IL man is placed upon the earth
I for a purpose. created by specia!
act of God and made a part of the
Makers plan, his highest duty. as i,
should be his greatest pleasure. Is
to learn Gods will concerning him
and to do 1t. II, on the contrary
he is a blood relative of the animals
of the field and of the beasts of the
forest, duty cannot be an imperativ.
word to him.
If he is the child of the Almighty
made In the Fathers image, he can.
| not escape a sense of responsibility
for thought, word, and deed. II. or
the contrary, his family tree Is a,
| Darwin outlines IL and he must
count every form of life as ancestry
Tor collateral relatives, he car
scarcely feel that he is accountab i,
fer anything that he does.
A sense of responsibility, when
strained through the blood OF fish
reptile, bird and beast, loses it.
power to bind that which We know
as conscience, II with such an an
cestry man can claim to have q
conscience.
Robbing Christ of His Glory.
But the harm done by the critic,
is not confined TO the destruction
of reverence for God and the weak
ening of the desire to please Him
the reasons that lead to the rejec
ton of the Bible account of man
creation lead logically to the re
lection of everything else in tn,
Bible that distinguishes 1t from
writings of uninspired men.
Darwinism eliminates all the
miraculous. The miracle is incon.
sistent with evolution: for this rea.
son one of the prominent leader,
of evolution has recently tried tc
annihilate all the miracles with ar
ALTERATION. He says. Miracles are
! scientifically improbable, historical.
| ly unreliable, practically undesir,
able, and. therefore. unbelievable