THE K I N G ' S B U S I NE S S 991 lowed there would Be no wars, no political burdens on men’s wearied shoul ders, no problems of economics, no famines, no hatreds, no strife. Here ,is the solution' of it all—here in the Holy Book that God wrote. And yet the world will not let itself be guided by it. A~plain book, easy to under stand, and yet its meaning so often distorted. It is to be wondered at that God is so patient with the world.” These words do not sound like the average daily paper but express the heart belief of thousands of Christians and should be trumpeted from every pulpit. Shame on the church or the preacher that God has set aside because of unbelief in the Bible and in whose stead He uses a reporter of a daily paper to be His messenger. m h . p. GULPING DOWN CAMELS “ Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel” (Mt. 23 =24). The ancients drank their wine from open bowls and it was often neces sary to strain the wine through a cloth to remove the gnats which got into the liquid. The literal rendering of the text is: “ Ye filter out a gnat and gulp down a camel. ” The scribes and Pharisees, painstaking as they were in regard to some trivial details of religion, dould gulp down camels, hump and all, and, the camel, remember, was pronounced by the Levitical law as unclean for food (Lev. 11 A). The gnat-strainers and camel-swallowers are by no means an extinct tribe. . We have religious leaders today who strain out the supernatural from the Bible because the miracles are contrary to human reason, yet they can turn around and swallow the camel of Darwinism without choking to death. Here are some samples of what is taught in our school books, state ments which some of our broad-minded brethren swallow with relish, as doing less violence to reason than the teachings of the Word: Prof. D. W. LaRue, in his “ Psychology for Teachers” says, “ We are all descended from a simple, wormlike creature. The segments of our back bone are memorials of the segments of its body.” Equally interesting is the statement from p. 197 of Simmions’ “ Practical Psychology” : “ At one stage of evolution, the duck’s foot was not webbed; but several thousand years back he decided to live in the water. Where upon he began to desire and eventually evolved a foot adapted to swimming. The crane got his long legs because he wished to wade. The beaver devel oped his broad trowel-like tail because he wished to erect a dam.: Man got- his hand because he wished to become a builder, and his frontal brain devel opment because he wished to become a thinker.” : A learned professor taught the young folks of Philadelphia that “ Evi dence that early men climbed trees with their feet lies in the way we wear the heels on our shoes—more at “the outside. A baby can wiggle its big toe without wiggling its other toes—an indication that it (sic) once used its big toe in climbing trees. We often dream of falling. Those who fell out of the
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