548 T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S It was a matter of choosing among the Roman Catholic, the Christian Science and the Congregational gatherings,—and naturally we chose the last, seeking for bread where the bread box was supposed to he. Having seated ourselves in a rear pew, we were tapped on the shoulder by a benign-looking gentleman who, in a winning voice and manner, in vited us to go forward. We hesitated for a moment, but the sweet voice of the preacher conquered and we proved too late the truth of the saying that “ He who hesitates is lost.” The service opened with a short address to the Sunday School children, given by the minister, which he termed “ A Nameless Sermon” . It might well’ have been termed “ An Aimless Sermon” , for he told them the story of Naaman the leper, and the little captive Hebrew maiden, assuring them that this story taught us “ that there were many simple remedies which Nature had provided for our ills, if we were only wise enough to find out about them.” Of course, with our enlightened intellects we were able to see at once how he sought with muddy waters to obscure the miracle which God wrought! We were prepared now for his sermon which he preached from the first chapter of Genesis, that portion of Scripture so dear to the heart of the evolutionist. Evolutionists simply dote on Genesis. They lay the founda tion of their structure upon the back of Moses, as did this one. We will not weary our readers with the sermon, but just give a few sentences which we are sure will greatly edify them. If any one is unable to fathom their depth and meaning, it is not the fault of the preacher, but simply the fault of his untrained mind! These men do not pretend to furnish brains, but just bones from the burying places of their forefathers! Listen: “ The first five books of the Bible are supposed to have been written, by Moses, and it is really remarkable that it was possible to write such an account so many thousand years after the events took place, with such limited scientific knowledge as was then possessed, though, of course, Moses had access to the libraries of Egypt.” “ The conflict in the Garden of Eden was simply a conflict between the sub conscious and the conscious mind. The sub-conscious mind represents the body; the conscious mind, the spirit. We ( !) have set these at variance, calling one “ evil” and the other “ good” . This is where we ( !) have made a mistake. The one is simply the downward pull of heredity; the other the upward urge of the Spirit of God. The outcome of life depends on whether a man, of his own free will, chooses' to give the preference to the one or the other— the upward urge of the Spirit, or the downward pull of heredity. If he chooses the latter, then he sinks to the level of his forefathers ( !) and thus deprives himself of the benefit of the development which has come with the present age.” We judged this was a quotation verbatim from one of the big-brained men who so easily put it over upon the unsophisticated. Just at this juncture we felt a strong downward pull to leave, but when we thought of our poor forefathers,, and how they did their best to give us the Bible, we felt an upward urge to say something in defence of them, and concluded to steady ourselves between two opposite pulls. “ Moses, in giving his account of the Garden of Eden, made the same mistake ( !) , attributing these two influences to separate sources, and then introduced a middleman, who, in course of time, came to be designated as “ the devil” . (We have always had a grudge against the middleman. He is the man that keeps the prices up. Here is an easy way to dispose of this problem: Let the consumer buy of the producer, and that will be the end of the devil!)
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