Again we ask how Paul the Apostle could have known this. The answer is simple: he did not know and could not have known. The only possible explana tion for his anticipation of this modern wisdom, then, is to concede that he spoke and wrote as he was moved by the Spirit of God. Thus the Almighty in revealing His will for our generation anticipated the wisdom of our day, that His Book might be in absolute harmony with the advancing wisdom of men. The foregoing illustration very na turally and logically suggests the equally remarkable fashion in which this same writer, Paul the Apostle, has ut tered conclusions in harmony with our modern science of anthropology. In his magnificent address to the Areopagites, preserved for us in the seventeenth chapter of Acts, this great logician offers seven reasons for saying that man can
find God and truly apprehend Him. The third reason in this series of seven is the argument from anthropology. The Authorized Version presents the argu ment in these words, “ And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth:” It is a fact that the word “ blood” is not found in many of the old manu scripts of the New Testament. For this reason it is omitted from the American Revised Version, which merely states, “ And he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth.” Using the more familiar version that is known as the Authorized, we can find no present scientific argument with this statement of Paul the Apostle. If an inquirer should bring into the labora tory adapted for this type of work, seven drops of blood, and should ask the classification of each specimen of blood, the problem would be simple for the worker who is trained in this field of science. If these seven drops of blood had come from the veins of a horse, a cow, a sheep, a goat, a chicken, an ape, and a a man, a scientific investigation requir ing only a relatively few minutes would show positively from which kind of crea ture each specimen of blood had come. If, however, the same investigator should bring into the laboratory seven drops of human blood and should ask for a classification of mankind from these drops of blood, he would seek such information in vain. It is utterly im possible to tell the difference, by any now known technique, between the blood of a Chinese and an Anglo-Saxon. It is equally impossible to tell the differ ence between the blood of a German and a Japanese, Scotch, Irish, English, African, Mongoloid or Caucasian—they are all just human blood. There is no known method of analysis that will teach us any thing about the creatures from whom these blood drops were derived, except only the simple conclusion, that he was, in each case, a human being. If the older rendition should prove to be incorrect, and the right statement is, “ God hath made of one every race of men,” anthropology can still find no fault with whatever that “ one” is in tended to be. Anthropology recognizes one genus, namely, the genus homo. Of the genus homo, there is only one known species, the species sapiens. Therefore, man is classified as the homo sapiens, re gardless of the color of his skin, his so- called racial distribution, or peculiarity of vocabulary. One species, of which there are several recognized varieties, is the latest dictum of the science of an thropology. Did Paul know this? In the day when he walked the earth, race prejudice had perhaps reached its highest development, because of the pride resident in Roman psychology. Yet this man, who was born a Roman, anticipating all of the wis dom of our generation as far as it might be applied to the species that is called (Continued on Page 22) T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
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