'September:1931 EVOLUTION COULD NOT PRODUCE . THE GOSPEL * ’ - - | [Continued front page 392] I said, “Doctor, how did it all happen? Tell me about it.” He replied, “I was brought up in a Christian home. I was disposed to believe the Bible, but I went to A-------- University. While there, I came to my room, one night from a Sunday service, where I was urged to accept the gospel message. The Bible my mother gave me lay open -ori my table. I looked at it and said, ‘It may be true, and it may be false—probably false.’ I accepted the theory of evolution and have been satisfied with it until now. But it gives me no light for the future. Can you help me?” “Doctor,” I said, “let us go back in thought to the little room in A------- ----. It is Sunday night, and your mother’s Bible is on the table. Now say with me: ‘It may be true, and it may not be true, but in the light of all that it is and all that it has done, it probably is true. I will take it by faith.’ ” No one ever did that and had a doubt for a dying pil low! And no one, no matter how exhaustive has been his research in the realm of the natural, who faces eternity without simple and unwavering confidence in the written and the incarnate Word, has assurance of heart and peace of tnind in the dying hour. Evolution may fascinate a man in life, but it cannot comfort him in death. The gos pel can and does. Appeal Wins Widespread Response It is announced by the Administration of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles that contributions to the emer gency cash fund of $10,000.00 for each of the three months of July, August, and September have been re ceived from hundreds of friends from all parts of the world. The Administration expresses its deep apprecia tion of the .generous and ready response to its urgent appeal. Friends who have not yet forwarded their gifts still have ample time to do so. VICTORY h e n y o u a r e fo r g o tte n , o r n e g le c te d , o r p u rp o s e ly s e t a t n o u g h t, a n d y o u sm ile in w a rd ly , g lo ry in g in th e o v e rs ig h t— that is victory. When your good is evil spoken of, when you are crossed, your taste offended, your advice disregarded, your opinion ridiculed, and you take it all in patient and loving silence— that is victory. When you are content with any food, any raiment; any climate, any society, any solitude, any interruption —that is victory. When you can stand face to face with waste, folly, ex travagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it all as Jesus endured it —that is victory. When you never-care to-refer to yQurself in conversa tion, or to record your own good works, or to itch after commendation,- when you can truly ‘‘lové to be unknown” --thatAs victory; ; •:
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conditions that prevailed before the deluge. We are thus brought by archaeological discovery to antediluvian tirpe$ spoken of by the-prophets, by our.Lotd’, and by the apos tles Paul ancl Peter,- in'their references-to Noah and his - “days.” ? : - ro - The fourth chapter of Genesis covers a millennial per iod of the world’s history. At its close, it enumerates the rise of arts and sciences. The discoveries at Ur attest the accuracy of that chapter in a remarkable degree. Having pierced, the, clay deposit attributed to “Noah’s flood,” the archaeologists have come across, a fascinating,page of human history. The men of those early times knew well how to build houses and how to engage in the business affairs of normal daily life. The ladies of the period practiced the art of self-adornment much as society women do today, even to the use of- the manicure set, the vanity-bag, and the lipstick. But tragedy is written large over the discoveries; for human remains have been found in crouching posture, the faces buried in the hands as though overtaken by some terrible catastrophy. Is it possible that we have here conclusive evidence of the awful judgment that fell when the patience of God and the preaching of Noah came to their appointed end ? “And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth” (Gen. 6:7). Genesis 10 has been well described as “the title-deeds of the nations," while the discovery of the temple towers (Zigguratts) of Mesopotamia have cleared up the mystery of the destruction of the tower of Babel and the con fusion of tongues. In the light of modern discovery, we now bfelievd that the building of that tower was the first organized attempt to introduce the apostate religious sys tem of Nimrod', for the small chamber at the summit of the tower was designed for idolatrous purposes. Professor A. H. Sayce affirms that the Babylonia of Abraham’s time was a far more highly civilized country than either Great Britain or America were one hundred and fifty years ago. Schools'and colleges abounded, and a very high state of civilization prevailed. Contract tab lets for the purchase of land arid the building of houses, legal documents, and marriage contracts are common dis coveries. We can imagine Adam, Abel, Cain, Enoch, Methuselah, Noah, Abraham, Job (Job 19:23-27), the patriarchs, and the prophets living and moving in the midst of advanced learning. How appropriate are the words of Hebrews 11:26, concerning Moses who esteemed “the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt” ! Turn where we may throughout the Bible, even to such an obscure reference as that found in Ezekiel 16, verses 3 to 45. It is explained by the fact that the Amor- ites and the Hittites became one people, the result of the union being the city of Jebus “which is Jerusalem.” No E vidence F or E volution Not’the slightest evidence is to be found anywhere to substantiate the evolutionary theory. Man is invariably found in a high state of civilization, the creation of God, occupying a distinct, place in the plan and purpose of God, entirely separate from the animal creation and on a dis tinctly higher J>lane. He was created a fit person to enjoy communion with God, but he fell—and great and awful are the eviderices of that terrible event. We would again urge our readers to become students of biblical archaeology; for, in the light of present-day discovery, our precious Bible becomes more and more endeared .to- us than ever. “Thy word is truth” (John - I .i;-;::’ i ;':")
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