May 1928
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Trained and intelligent chimpanzees, running errands for their masters, carry ing baggage in the railway stations, serv ing as w.atchmen in city buildings or plowing in the farmers’ fields, sweeping the floors or washing the windows in homes, are among the biological “might- have-beens” suggested by a recent remark o f Dr. W. Reid Blair, head of the New York Zoological Park and student of Animal Intelligence, before a section meeting o f the New York Academy o f Medicine. This gentleman believes that if men had selected chimpanzees instead of dogs for domestication, it is impos sible to say how greatly their intelligence might have developed. Exactly so! Per haps by this time they would be sitting in our congressional halls and standing behind our pulpits. It is strange that our Evolutionist friends have been so back ward in getting together with these de lightful creatures! * * * Here’s a news item headed: “ Bryan Could Laugh at ’Em.” It goes on to break the news that the famous “Hespero- pitheous tooth” found in an ancient river bed in Nebraska and put forth by the scientists of the American Museum of Natural History as proof that an ape man lived millions of years ago in America, has positively been identified as the tooth o f a wild pig. That settles an other warm controversy that has been waged among the scientists, and permits the Fundamentalists again to breathe easily. That old tooth was thrown up to Mr. Bryan in his monkey controversy and it was considered especially impor tant that the tooth was dug up in the Com moner’s own state. How little does a pig realize how much trouble and ex pense it may cause the world. * * * Hendrick Van Loon in a magazine article makes the assertion that “anyone now. 45 has’ lived through a more mud dled and disreputable age than any other child eve! born. And curiously enough that very era will be forever associated with the greatest scientific development the world has ever known. I have, come to have very profound and deeprooted doubts,§£ he adds, “whether Science, as practiced at present by the human race, will ever do anything to make the world a better and happier place to live in, or will ever stop contributing to our general misery as whole-heartedly as it has been doing for these last umtedee years.” ♦ * * A .writer in the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate makes the following timely statements: “A lawless age needs to learn Jesus’ unselfish respect for author ity. In His own time the statutes were largely made by a foreign power and the religious rules imposed by a selfish ecclesiasticism, while in our day demo cratic procedure is generally followed both in Church and,State. In disregard ing a few o f the traditions, He obeyed the
soul-winner believes there is going to be a hell for the Christ-rejecter. * * * A few months ago The Bible Cham pion published an attack upon a Methodist leader who termed himself “an Essential- ist,” declaring that if he were - sound in the Faith he would not hesitate to call himself a Fundamentalist. Now we find Dr. Harold Paul Sloan of New Jersey, who is called “the Martin Luther of Methodism,” the outstanding leader of the opposition to Modernism in his church, publishing a magazine called The Essen- tialist. Will the good doctor’s orthodoxy now be called in question ? He is the pro moter o f the organization known as “ The Methodist League for Faith and Life.” ♦ * * Colonel Jeffrey, in a tract which makes a searching examination o f the Modern ist position, quotes the principal o f a large Modernist college as saying:: “While it is correct to say that there is no Mod ernist theology, it would not be correct to say that there are no approximations toward one, or that there will not be one at no distant time.” But may we ask of what earthly use would a •theology be to men who believe that truth is not static but dynamic? According to their own theory, there is no final statement of truth and if the Modernists had a creed they would have to revise it to suit every new pronouncement o f science.”
Writes a disappointed father: “ I sent my boy to college, With a pat upon his back; • I sent ten thousand dollars,' y-. And got—a quarterback.” * * * Why run to catch up with the crowd ? It always turns back. * * * The editor of the Chicago Journal re marks that as some drinks play havoc in an empty stomach, so some ideas act in an empty head. * * * Dr. Woolever is authority for the state ment that “ In the early days of Method ism it was the rule that each member- should get another member every year. In 1926 the Methodist Episcopal Church did not register a net increase of one member for each minister;” * * * Mrs. Helen B. Montgomery has made the statement that “ The^ greatest disaster to Protestantism, is to weaken too much and too rapidly oUr denominational loy alty.” We believe there is 'a great ele ment o f truth in this declaration. There are too many engaged in the wrecking business and far too few devoting them selves to constructive things. Let us be sure; we have something more workable to offer before we start wholesale blast ing o f the evangelical denominations. * * * Have you stopped to think that Atheism is songless, except for its nerve-wracking jazz? Christianity alone abounds in soul stirring song. Heathen religions are not tuneful. Unbelievers have . nothing worthwhile to sing about. An item in The Advance says: “Judaism said: ‘Oh, come, let us sing unto the Lord’ ; and when Christ came the angels greeted His birth with a song, and since then Christian song has gained in fulness and strength of voice with each century.” We will do well to be on our guard against1 modernistic depredations of our hymn books. * * * Why is it that when a man like Dr. Fosdick wants to take a fling at Bible doctrines, he usually bases his attack upon an extreme interpretation and seeks to make it appear that this has been the commonly accepted belief? The doctor recently preached a sermon against the Bible doctrine o f future punishment, quoting an evangelist to the effect that “hell was located 18 miles below the ground and gradually filling up.” As we understand the Scripture teachings, no one has as yet been assigned to hell, spoken of as “ the lake o f fire, which is the second death." I f hell now exists, we certainly do not know where it is lo cated. W e are sure of one thing: every
Make This Your Prayer This beautifully human prayer is nearly 300 years old, having been written by Thomas Elwood in 1639. Oh, that mine eyes might closed be ... To what concerns me not to see; That deafness m i g h t possess mine ear To what concerns me not to hear; That truth my tongue might. always tie; From ever speaking foolishly; That no vain thing might ever rest Or be conceived in my breast; That by each deed and word and thought Glory m a y to. my G o d be brought. But what are wishes? Lord, my eye On Thee is fixed, to Thee I cry; Wash, Lord, \and purify my heart; And make it clean in every part, And, when ’tis clean, Lord, keep it so, For that is more than I can do.
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