The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1923-06-14

perfect, no change would be neeessar,
man hlm self is undergoing change
Once the race lived to be n tbansa,,,
years old. Now the duration of hn
man life is less than ne-tenth Of that
: Mans case is not one of evolution
but OF devolution- There is proof fol
: TINS statement not only in the Bible
but iD the realm of science.
DR.. James G. Walsh, professor Of
psychology at Cathedral College New
York, addressed an audience in Bos-
ton in December, 1916, in which he
made the following statement:
Man has not progressed The un.
happiest age of the world is right now.
The happiest was the 18th century
Man thinks he is progressing, but [
want to puncture this compIacency Of
ours. There has not been new thing
III architecture for 400 years. The
greatest novel ever written was 3l2
years ago: vervantes' Don Ouixote.
The greatest play ever written was
Aeschylus Prometheus. Homer the
wandering Greek poet, wrote the great.
est epic poem centuries before Christ
Printing was invented about 1850, ana
the finest printing was done between
1890 and 1920.
There are only twent.5 nine pos
sible jokes and seventeen of these are
found in Latin and Greek. Our nu-
NOR is worse today than it ever was |
Wisdom written by an Egyptian faith
Ell to his son 200 years ago has not
been surpassed We have no original
culture. 1t is all initiative. There was
only one original culture in America.
That was about 600 AID, among the
Maya Indians of Yueatan. They had
the finest civilization known in sculp-
ture, art and humanity -
Prof. Townsend, in commenting or
the address of Dr. Walsh, says:
''The earliest ethical codes that
have been discovered, those of the an
cient Egyptions and Babylonians, In
loftiness and purity, quite put to blush
modern systems of ethics except where
Bible revelation has cpme in touch
with the people. In word, every dis
covery during the last twenty-five and
more years in these different fields of ,
ands learning, those of
geology, history, archaeology, anat-
omy, philology, ethics, and religion,
have demonstrated the fact that so
far as is known, the first inhabitants
were not brutes, nor even barbarians.
Is evolutionists tell us, but had bodies y
just as perfect, brains and intellects
Just as capable of working and lang
lages just as complete in expressing
thought as those of any people now :
living.
Gods work is perfect in all its parts.
# there are imperfections, they are :
lue to man s meddlesome interfer- !
nee. We note the perfection of Gods \
work in realms that we all under I
tand. 6
Gods law is perfect. The laws that E
iod gave to Moses some 5400 years =
go: have required no revision through =
a centuries. Human laws change
very time a legislative body meets.
Iuman institutions change. The laws
aust change to conform with changing
onditions. In contrast with human :,
avs, it is worthy of note that not :
ingle item has been changed in the ;,
EN- Commandments. They are as :
luch in harmony with the spirit OF !
he times as they were when first Civ :
n thousands of years ago. Though
given to the Jews, the Ten : :;
have been adopted in y
very civilized country as the founda-
ion of all laws.
Light is another example of the per- -
action of Gods work Note the con y
rast between the sun and all systems
E artificial lighting. How crude is
rtificial light when compared with ,
ne sun-God's light First the tai u
,w-dop, then the candle, then the pc ~
.oleum lamp, then gas, and finally -
ectricity. Each was a great step IN III
nvance of its predecessor And we p
ay reasonably suppose that the end III
: Improvement is not yet in sight. ID ID
IL the progress that has been made v
artificial lighting has taken place "
thin the life time of many now nv '"
%. We do not know what the next ~
injury may bring forth, but whatever
improvements men may make on the
ectric light, it is certain that God $
pht-the sun-will not be surpassed. W
od has not found it necessary, from Jt
e day of creation until now, to Sc
Iange his lighting system to conform tn
ith changing conditions. Why is thts ia
. IT is because Gods work is per In
ct. q
I,ocometion. This is another field
which man has made great progress
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