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that the Bible by which they lived, and the earth on which they lived, were in disagreement. Whatever “ antagonism” any one finds now is a manufactured one. Why this, statement from these learned men, formulated with such evident care? Who wished it? Have the humble Christians asked for it? A class of scientists have gone so far in their arrogant evolution propaganda, that equally well qualified scientists have begun to refute their un founded claims. The noise of battle has attracted general attention, and devout people who had paid little attention to such things, are awake to the attack being made on their Bible. The evolutionists see breakers ahead for their craft. This statement is a mental opiate, designed to lull the people into further indifference, while they continue to push their evolution propaganda.-ifiRev. A. S. Hunter.
RECONCILING RELIGION AND SCIENCE The Sunday School Journal for August, 1923,* p 451, says: “ Forty distinguished Americans in positions of lead ership in the religious, scientific, political and business world, met recently in Washington, D. C., and formulated a statement that denies that there is any antagonism between science and religion.” The list of names appended is headed by Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Methodist Episcopal Church, which should make it of interest to Methodists. What does Bishop Mc Connell, as a representative Methodist and a religious leader, have to say through that statement? To what does he, in the eyes of the public, commit his church, including you and me? The concluding paragraph, as it appears in the Journal, is sufficient here. Let us analyze it as we go along. “It is a sublime conception of God which is furnished by science;” (this is not necessarily the Bible conception of God.) “ i ; and one wholly consonant with the highest ideals of re ligion;” (even among Christians, “ religion” is about as un certain as the weather, so where does that leave us?) “ . . . when it represents Him as revealing himself through countless ages in the development of the earth as an abode for man;” (a revelation of God through nature, instead of that through His prophets, apostles, and only begotten Son.) " . . . and in the age-long inbreathing of life into its constituent matter;” (how far is that from pan theism?) “ . . . culminating in man;” (that makes man the culmination of a process of the “ development of the earth,” or, in plain words, evolution, not creation.) " . . . with his spiritual nature and all his God-given powers;” (therefore, not only man's body, but his spirit and intellect as well, are there made to be the culmination of evolution.) How do you like that? Does it represent you as a Meth odist and a Christian? Ostensibly, those men set out to show you and me that there is no antagonism between sci ence and religion, and they wind up by making an antagon ism where none exists; for, we may suppose they mean the religion of the Methodists and others, derived from the Bible. Compare their “ sublime conception of God which is furnished by science,” with the simple Bible record. The Bible tells us that when God had made man’s body out of the dust of the ground, He “ breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.” That is the Divinely inspired account of man’s origin, both body and spirit. Physically, he was of the earth; spiritually, he was the breath of God. Those men make their science to say that, instead of God breathing life into the body He had made, He had previously inbreathed life into all mat ter, and man was evolved out of the life-pregnant matter; his spirit as well as his body. Are those two ideas iden tical? Do they harmonize? How about antagonism there? Who made it? There is no antagonism between the Bible and science, or between Christianity and science; never was, never can be. Both the Bible and science are from God, therefore both are true, consequently they must harmonize. No one ever thought of anything else, till some one jumped to the conclusion that geology shows the Bible to be mistaken as to creation. Then another jumped to the further conclu sion that some stray fossils, etc., prove that evolution, not creation, is the way things came about. Through the centuries, multitudes have believed the Bible as God’s revealed word of truth, have lived and died by it, and left assurance of triumph through faith. They never dreamed
What God Says abou t- GOOD MEN
“There is none good but one, that is God” So there aren’t any good men,-—never have been any. Yes, there was one good man and that was the man who spoke these very words,— Jesus Christ,—but He was God. • Indeed, that is what he expected the young man to infer when he replied to him. This young fellow in the enthusiasm of the moment had rather carelessly said, “ Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life? And Jesus said, “Why do you call me good?” There is no such thing as a good man; God alone is good,--—and He wanted that young man, as He wants every man, to say—you are God for you are good. Any man that will believe in his heart that Jesus Christ is God,— mind you, not was God, but is God, that man will not have to do anything to inherit eternal life,— he has it. Eternal life is the gift of God to any one who will believe his son. ♦Mark: 10:18. Copyright, 1921— J. A. R. We are glad to again call the attention of the readers of The King’s Business to the enterprise organized by a group of Christian laymen to promote the publication of syndicate matter, similar to the sample given herewith, in secular papers through the country. The Testimony has had marked acceptance here and there throughout the country and the articles have been published as far away as in a Honolulu paper, day after day. The matter has been chiefly successful where some layman, or group of laymen, or a pastor of a church, has in terested himself in it and advocated it with an editor of a local paper, and supported it by prayer. The “ What God Says Testimony” seeks fellowship of prayer and testimony among like-minded believers through out the country, and the Secretary, Mr. Clowes, will be glad to hear from any pastor, or layman, whose heart the Lord touches to believe that the Testimony could be published in his town paper. The plan is to induce secular news papers to purchase the syndicated material which will be furnished them by the testimony, thus putting it on a self- supporting basis. The address of the Secretary is as follows: Walter F. Clowes, 209 West 38th Street, New York.
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