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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
January 1926
An th ropo logy , or the D o ctrine o f M an ---- 7 * DP. p. e . Marsh, London, England It is a great privilege to be able to offer our readAfs a series o f articles by Dr. Marsh on this interesting and timely theme. Tell your friends about them.
“ Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the sod, Some call it ‘evolution’— While others call it ’God.’ ”
|OD said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, . . . . . So God created man in His own image” (Gen. 1:26, 27). "God created man, in the likeness of God made He him” (Gen. 5 :1 ). “ In the image of God made He man” (Gen. 9 :6 ). "Man . . . is the image and glory of God” (1 Cor. 11:7). “ Men which are made after the similitude* of God” (James 3 :9 ),
When we turn to the pages of Holy Writ, we are left to no uncertainty as to the fact and order of God s creation. First, there was the creation of the universe. When that took place we do not know. We are told “ In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth.” , The date in our Bible, B. C. 4004, is man’s insertion and not God’s revelation. There is a simple statement of fact, that the heavens- and the earth had a beginning, and that God created them. Then a n i m a l life was brought into being, and everything is " c r e a t e d” “ after its kind.” Endless variety, s i m i l a r corres pondence in some cases* and abundant in quantity, and last of all the crown ing act of God’s creative skill is seen in the produc tion of man. It will be noted in Genesis, the word “ created” occurs only four times. The word “ Bara” means “ to bring into being, without the aid of pre existing matter.” There are three distinct acts of creation; first, the creation o f unconscious m a t t e r (Gen. 1 :1 ); second, tbs. creation of living organ isms “ after their kind” (Gen. 1 :2 1 ); and lastly, the creation of man In the
"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17). “ The new man that is being renewed unto knowl edge after the image of H im that created Him” (Col. 3:10, R. V.). In the popular mind, psychology has been de fined as the science of the human soul, and its opera tions. The word “ psychol ogy” is d e r i v e d from psyche, which means "the soul.” More recently objec tion has been taken to the definition of psychology as the science of the mind, so some now speak of it as “ the science of conscious ness or experience,” and talk a good deal about con sciousness a n d subcon sciousness. Having defined psychol ogy, it is necessary to begin with man’s genesis, that we may understand the “ exodus'” of his expe rience, the “ Leviticus” of his constitution, and the “ numbers” of his life
T A K E CH R IST T O BE H O LY A New Year's Motto “Holiness unto the Lord” (Exodus 28:36) D r . F. E. M arsh
Take Christ to be holy, He’ll make thy heart pure, He’ll keep all thy life right, He’ll make thee endure, He’ll govern thy being, as you own His s\yay, He’ll sanctify wholly and love all the day. Take Christ in thy heart life, let Him dwell within, He’ll cause thee to live well, He’ll keep thee from sin. Yield to Him thy spirit, thy body and soul. Abide in Him wholly, all let Him control. | Take Christ in thy home life, He’ll sweeten with love, He’ll make it a blessing, a Bethel above; Take Christ in thy business, He’ll make it all right, In all thy transactions, His grace is thy might. Take Christ in thy closet, let Him be thy prayer. Cast all thy care on Him, He’ll keep thee from care. Take Christ in thy service, His Spirit thy power, His love will do wonders, each day and each hour. Take Christ, for you need Him, let Him be thy all, Breathe in His good Spirit, respond to His call; Take Christ in the morning, take Him in the noon, Take Him in the eve’ning, for He’s coming soon. W ritten In D etroit, M ich igan , Septem ber. '1925. T u n e: "T a k e T im e to be H o ly .”
image and likeness of God (Gen. 1:26, 27). A King of Prussia visiting, a school, took up an orange and asked a little girl, “ To what kingdom does this belong?” “ The yegetable kingdom” was the reply. Taking a coin out of his pocket, he asked, “ To what kingdom does this belong?” "The mineral kingdom” was the answer. Then pointing to himself, he asked, “ To what kingdom do I belong?” The little girl did not like to say, “ The animal kingdom,” but at that moment she remembered God made man in His own image, so looking up with a brightened face, she replied, “ To God’s kingdom, sire.” And she was right In so far as she recognized the distinction between a mere animal, and man as identified with the animal king dom, for man is called the “ off-spring* of God,” as owing his being and sustenance to Him (Acts 17:28, 29). •(The word "o ffsp rin g ” means of the same “ kind.” D is used o f Joseph's “ kindred” (A c ts 7 :13 ), of A braham s ‘•■took” (A cts 13:26), of P au l's “ countrym en” (2 Cor. 11:2 6 ), and of Christ being “ the offspring o f David” (R ev. 22:16.)
Materialists declare that man is the product of evolution. There are three schools of evolutionists. The agnostic- evolutionist, who says everything is unknowable and unknown, and therefore we cannot know how things became as they are; the theist-evolutionist, who assumes that God is at the back of all results, but that He works along the line of natural law and by physical force; and the material ist-evolutionist, who denies everything but matter and motion. The materialist would express himself somewhat as follows in speaking of how man came to be: “ A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jelly-fish and saurian. And a cave where cave-men dwell; *
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