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Show , - . '' , 4 z , ,,,, , Vzz' 4 , 'i - USAC BACCALAUREATE Foundation For Faith calendar's zero hour was not before the time of - Adam, but to it as to nevertheless leave but one justifiable conclusion that the Mayans were descendants Of Adam, end their By ELDER HENRY D. MOYLE Of the Council el the Totive itaivalsereate sermon eyed Before, graduates, faculty; And friends. el the Utah State Agricultural College, Sunday, Joao 3, 131., $O LONG as a real need for s - Baccalaureate Service its an Integral part of our commence' meat exercises is truly felt by faculty and student body alike, graduates of our colleges and will not enter upon the next phase of their lives without at least a moment's re upon the importance to them of a faith in Godmorel important by far than all else. It must be of significance to us that no other history ever found antidates the recorded history we kave of God's deal-lot- s with manwhether we respect It now or not The Bible leaches back to a time beyond which no record exists, beyond which we have any real evidence of man's existence upon the earth, speculations of men to the contrary notwithstanding. Most, if not all, of their colljectures have been exploded. Were there any doubt about the record of Adam's creation, that is if Adam had been by a race of men on this earth prior to his day, one of two things might well be expe- o-elose - , . , , THREE USAC STUDENTS WINNERS IN NATIONALEDITORIAL CONTEST Utah State Agricultural College students are enfong the 30 finalists chosen from more than 400 contestants in the Logan H. Roberts International editorial- contest on "Drinking: Personal or Social Respondo '' , sibility?"' z The students and the titles of their editorials are: , NaVee Harris, "Drinking: A Community Problem"; Leo rBen dixe a, "What Are Your Chances?" and Milo S. Hadlock, "The Responsibility of Society." They will receive'part of the $1100 in awards to,be tor. School the at Roberts Mr. Intercollegiate given by Alcohol Studies at Cornell College. Mount Vernon ' Iowa, June 17 to 22. All 30 finalists will receive a scholarship to, the intercollegiate school and 15 of the 30 will receive 'cash awards. The 400 entries represented 86 colleges and universities all over the United States and Canada. Many schools 'sent 30 to 35 entries and one college had 75 students parUSAC students wrote editorials ticipating. Twenty-fiv- e for the contest. The intercollegiate school and the, Roberts awards are For 7 annual functions of the hdercoliegiate Association Study of the Alcohol Problem, Columbus, Ohio. The association is the only agency specializing in objective educastudents In the United tion on this problem for college States and Canada. LOGAN--,Thre- s 40 chronology went back to Adam's creation, no matter bow far they had departed from the God of Adam, 3200 'years later. Likely no other archeological finding is any more helpful in establishing my thesis. EV THE FIRST PLACE, what motive could Adam have had to his claim had he had earthly parents? In the next place how could be have concealed parentage or the race of which they were a part? Had the whole story been a fabrication, how present, has been worshipped that impels us so go forward-- tould it have been so successful- by many as the Creator of to exert ourselves to become accapable of ever ly perpetuated to the exclusion Heaven and Earth and all things complished of all other records --- now for service? Why do we congreater over 6000 years? Can we ig- therein. Even that God who, stantly delve deeper into all nore the testimony of those when he Auld completed his fields of learning? work, "saw everything that be who followed Adam? seem to possess the same riiii the children of So far as e know all of the had made and beheld' it was attrib-hterr' 7 Adam in the early generations righteous children of Adam and good." (Gen. 1:31) their children's children knew OF THESE PEOPLE who have of time, extending constantly of their origin and did not ques- ' thus worshipped Him, Peter, our never ending search for tion it. On the contrary, for the apostle of old, said: "But ye truth. For such an attribute to eight generations born during are a chosen generation, a royal have continued in man throughthe lifetime of Adam, prophets priesthood, an holy nation, a out all generations of timethat testified of the manifestations of peculiar people; that he should is to learn, must establish the the God of Adam unto them. anew forth the praises of him fact that we are the offspring of E of the sixth generation who bath called you out of Deity"For the Glory of God of 0;n, posterity, born when darkness Into his marvelous is Intelligence." Adam was 632 years old, we light." (I Peter, 2:9) It necessarily follows we can are told walked with God for And so I say It is Important please Him best by constantly elled-7either that some cir- 300 "and he was not, for this to reflect upon the gaining knowledge. In his writcumstances of their existence God years took him." Noah's father, more day serious things of life and ten work there is no stifling of or have been would preserved was 56 years old when seek a reason for our existence Intellect but encouragement to Sound similar to the record of Lamech, Adam died. Noah was of the to know from progress eternally. No learning Adam: or that one of the ninth upon earth generation after Adam. we came as well as our Is forbidden. The limits of the numerous children of Adam Now even in the days of whence ultimate destination. intellect, If there be any: is the would have denied the claim of men began to study and We might will ask ourselves only boundary. Adam as the father of all liv- Adam, to sub'experiment. They what Is there in us The Bible therefore tails for ing. Was Adam the sole survivor ject all things tobegan their will. seriously from an of earlier race? If so, "Abel was a keeper of sheep," whence did his father come? We "Caio was a tiller of the . know not. "Enoch was the There is an interesting side- - ground," a city," builder of "Jabal light thrown upon this subject was the father of such as dwell by the archeologists of Central in tents and of such as have ' America. One of the most bril"Juba!, he was the liant and universally accepted, cattle," of all such as handle the father as" Dr. Sylvanua G. Morley, an and organ," and "Tubalsedate of the Carnegie Institute harp an Instructor of every of Washington, after a lifetime coin, artificer in brass and iron." . of exploration and study, tells were an intelligent peo- ' -,-,.., They us in his book entitled "The not readily deceived. ,f,,,,,,r401.11, t,lits 1; Ancient Maya," that these peo- ple,None of these so questioned, - pie had a more accurate system 6, t:). . far as we know, their origin. 1 of chronology than the Gregori- Many attested ' thereto. .'vs an System with which we, are all ADAM'S PROGENITORS would inand actual the that - .. familiar, A., .. 9 a, 0. have iscoveream' a pos' 1, "''''''''..--ouguration of the Maya calendar t''' 1:' ; -: terity as it multiplied, or .1,:i.11) probably took place 353 years Adam's sons would have found , B. C., 28711 years after its zero ' 1 "'N,....00,,,a, sem trace of their progenitors date. He writes: on this earth Adam had ki beyond corn110951E1X it may have .., menced with a supposititious they exisited. The record of any At ' event like the Creation of the such disagreement might well t) 4 World from which the chronolo- - have come down to Moses, along a with did record.-i- t gies used in the Greek and Jew-- 1 is an ,1,1 : so fact that astonishing tsh churchea, as well as in the much detail is The ,, pid family bible, are reckoned. Bible discloses nopreserved. i k effort to elhn- , rerhaps it may even have been 'nate 1., any detail of history, counted from the supposed date 1 of the birth of their gods, in whether it supports or opposes i which Indefinite - and remote the claims of the righteous. Adam's posterity during his 1 past we must leave this ques-tion as yet undetermined." Dr. lifetime was not united in I Morley did not intimate a pos- worshiping Caod. I sib) connection- - to birth of a free will from the beginning. J, Adam. He assumes the Mayans There were those among them ' were aborigines. But to me it is of an inquisitive mind as well - quite probable: zero hour was as wicked ones. , e N. one with an open mind the creation of Adam. The t ' ' Church fixes date of the can read the Books of Moses : 5509 B. C. The Jews without realizing that Moses as 3761 B. C. The old family their author had a great mass , ' 4004 B. C. Adding to of accumulated 'past history at hie ' the118711, 153, brings the Mayan his command, or else received 1 zero date as 3231 B. C., not too through direct revelation from ,, far from the Jewish, as some of God the facts thus recorded. In . ---either event, Adam was the beus might weliexpect. ' t , You are free tes., draw your ginning and to be the beginning awn conclusion. Of 'Oneihing 1 there bad to be a Creator. It am sure on the basis of, the is this Creator of Adam, the God ' ELDER HENRY D. MOYLE findings of Dr. Marley andAis of this earth, who, in aU generais soh of the vicissitudes of life that eau disturb 'There Th May e tions of thne from Adam to the -.- , I int faith bt God, nor is there contemporaries. any problem which arises , in ills that cannot be overcome by force of that same a s T 11 I W $ , 6CHURCH SECTION W . hoe 6; 1951 faith.' , es thered ., - ' - ',.-- ; 1,,,,,,,, () be , -- They-exercis- ed - I l N5.. ... ' - - ',1,-.. ' -- , . 'rn .... , rks -, - serious reflection; sufficient te include its pages in our studies to be followed hereafter as we through life. Why journey should we eliminate from ma lives a study of God. We should let a faith in God develop with. In us, unhindered by any prejo. dice, if it will. I AM CONVINCED that the great majority of illidents in this great institution are serioul minded. They can state a reason of their own for the hcr4 that is within them, Phca.e130111 graduating have met every re'ouirement for gradoation in or. der to realize one hope Thus the hours and days and years of hard work and study; of sacrifice upon the part 01 .parents and families, as well, has not been aimlessly expended. It is my purpose today to en. courage a continued expansion of your activities, a broadening of your knowledge - the construction of a foundation firm and substantial for your faith in God. To bring into your lives and into your work a purpose and a reason, a faith from which r need deviate. There is none of the vicissiof life than can disturb, in man, a true faith in God, nor are there many, if any, problems which arise in life that cannot be overcome by force of that same faith. After all, Paul wrote: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped4or, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews II:I) Paul's great knowledge of the gospel of life and salvation, led him tooquote from the Psalms and say: "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou snidest him a little lower than the angels; 'thou' erownedst him with glory and honour, and diest set him over the works of Thy hands; Thou hadst put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, be left nothing that Is not put under him. But now we see, not yet, all things put under him." (Hebrews 2:6-1MAN IS DEMONSTRATE lus day, as you well ability "to put all things in subjection under his feet," but he oftimes overlooks that this subjection may be for evil as well as good, and forgets the admanmonition of the Savior : , , - you-neve- i - ''. , -- - 1) a kind. "For what Is a man prelited if be shall gala the whet world and lose his owl met, or what shall a mast give Is -, exchange for his seal. "For the Sea of Mina shall come In the glory of his Father with his angels; ead then be shall reward every man aecerding to his works." ,,,- (Matt. IS:26-27- - ) Let us therefore not forget, as we go forth this day to further fulfill the purpose of our creation, that it is all important that under subjection our soul and establish an ibid-lag faith in God as well as to things of subjett the earth to our will and our we-brin- the-mater- - ial way. "Re not deceived. Ged b not mocked, for whatseem a maa seweth, that shall be aim reap." -- "For be that sewetb to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but be that emeth to the Spirit ail of tboa Spirit reap life everlastliet - (Gal. 6:7-L- ) excludes 0, It is a wise man who from Is that good eoensi"deg , t:0 ra i do not ask men to do, or think, or to worship as I, for while "I claim the privileP of worshiping God according te the dictates of0my own conscimelt the same ence, I worahlf2 them let privilege, how, where or what they Inal-l- ' But this I would ask that sa men might know of that which has produced faith In others I , al knew the Bible to tentall th. Ceadlieed ea yap 11 . ' 1 . I, 1 . '' - - , . , |