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chemical forces which are inherent in matter” ( “History of Creation,” Vol. 1, p. 20). It would seem that mechanistic monists of every sort believe in their hearts that this “machine of the universe” is under the control of an Absolute Being. How else can their statements be explained? Who are the Monists? Their name is legion and they are growing in numbers, their ranks being .constantly replenished by the classes graduating each June from college and university. They not only include philosophers like Dr. John Dewey hut poets like Tennyson and prose writers like John Burroughs. Why do I admire Burroughs? Because we had so many things in common. I, too, know and love the call of the birds; the thrill that comes from the tug of a bass at the end of a line; the life of field and forest; and the laws and theories in books. For so many years I, too, believed the Bible stories to be myths, fables and legends. I, too, believed in evolution, naturalistic philosophy, and destruc tive Biblical criticism. But I thank God that I never put these early ideas into books to poison the minds of the oncoming generation. I am often grieved to learn that some truly great man like Luther Burbank has drifted into materialism. Once more, I should like to warn college students as to whom they shall follow as they formulate a philosophy of life. As much as you love Whitman’s poems will you follow him when he says, “I am stuccoed with birds and quadrupeds all over. The reptile was our ancestor; we were cradled in the old seas; we are kin to the worm and the mollusk” (Bur roughs, “Accepting the Universe,” p. 276). The philosophical results of Darwin’s hypothesis of nat ural selection are mechanistic monism. Darwin, it would seem, changed his philosophy twice. As a young man he was a Deist. Later he was an agnostic materialist. In his declining years he was a theistic evolutionist. The thought-provoking words of Prof. O’Toole are refreshing in a time like this when materialism is rampant among us: “The human mind knows that it knows and understands that it understands, thinks of its own thoughts and of itself as the agent and subject of its thinking. It is conscious of its own conscious acts, that- is to say, it reflects upon itself and its own acts, becoming an object to itself. * * * In introspection, that which observes is identical with that which is observed. Now such a capacity of self-observation cannot reside in matter, cannot be spatially commensurate with a material organ not inseparably attached thereto.— The power of perfect reflection, therefore, must reside in the spiritual soul, and cannot be bound to, and coextensive with, a material organ” (“The Case Against Evolution,” p. 225). Listen also to these words of Professor More: “In our eagerness to get away from the medieval idea of man as divine, for whom the universe was created and by whom alone its phenomena can he comprehended, we are now busy in the effort to class him with the amoeba and with the lump of earth from which his body is fashioned. Yet, in spite of the speculations of centuries we have not advanced a step beyond the noble and dignified description of the creation as given by the Hebrew prophet in the book of Genesis. We can dismiss his story of the Garden of Eden as an allegory, but when he stated that man was created out of the dust and that God breathed into him the breath of Life, all was said of that supreme mystery which can be said” (“The Dogma of Evolution,” p. 243). When men say that “all physical energy becomes kin etic energy, or the momentum of masses, and the law of the
In the Twinkling of an Eye By Sidney W atson
A most amazing, gripping novel, which holds reader s interest on each page and gives a very vivid picture of the events as they will so natu rally come about on that day when “ In the Tw inkling of an E y e“ Christ shall gather the believers out of the world. T his volume is very different from all others touching this su bject. You will never for get it. O rd er a copy at once. C loth, $ 1 .2 5
The Mark of the Beast
Scarlet and Purple By Sidney Watson
By Sidney Watson This is the vivid, story form portrayal of that awful period of distress which is coming upon the earth immediately after the second coming of the Christ. “The Mark of the Beast” is so little understood by the average Bible student that this amazing story makes vital a truth we should know. Many find this volume so thrilling that they read it at one sitting. Cloth,*$1.25
God’s good news regarding his Princely Son, our Saviour, is beautifully woven into a novel and shows the effect of this fact upon the lives of the characters in the story. The scarlet life line will become more precious to you as you read this helpful, thoroughly interesting story. Order a copy for yourself and a friend. Cloth, $1.25
The Passing of the Word
By H elen Henskaw A “college girl” story, in which Marion, the nature- lover, falls in love w ith Miss Holman, then in love with Christ— then “G ene” enters into her life— he is not a Christian. M arion’s m other thinks it foolish of her to let this m ake any d ifference. Ju st what would you do? T h is book brings its readers a num ber of situations for serious consid eration; y et it is so delightfully norm al that you will enter into its pages w ith great eagerness. C loth, $ 1 .5 0 Fine Gold A Missionary Romance of South America By Josephine Hope Westervelt Ju st the book you, who are interested in South America, will appreciate. The missionary viewpoint is given of some of the government projects which were discussed in a> recent National Geographic Magazine, and with this a very delightful autobiog raphy of a modern hero. You will like to own this book and to give it to others. Cloth, $1.50 God’s Best Secrets By Andrew Murray If there ever was a man since the days of the Apostle Paul who has dwelt in the secret place of the Most High where he could and did learn God’s Best Secrets, that man was Andrew Murray. And he is giving us eight of these best secrets in this book,— The Secret of Adoration, The Secret of the Abiding P res ence, The Faith Life, The Secret of Fellowship, The Secret of Inspiration, The Secret of Intercession, and The Secret of United Prayer. W ritten in the last days of his long and useful life, this book brings his last word to the Christian Church. The book is made up of ^ight sections, each containing thirty-one short chapters. Each chapter has a Scripture heading so that it is particularly helpful when used for daily meditation. Cloth, $2.00
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