Show S b J 5 Z i REASONS WilY WHY I BELIEVE THAT MAN LIVED BEFORE ADAM AND I THAT EVES EVE'S TEMPTER WAS ONE OF TUESE AND NOr A I t REV DR R. R GRANVILLE LOWTHER i vt J 7 o JA J PRE PRE-ADAMITES PRE PRE-ADA UTES AND THE TEMPTATION I By the Rev Kev Granville Lowther Our defence in the heresy trial upon two of ot the esp specifications Is substantially as follow The ot the universe Is First f God second emanation from God t. t i t third Involution or God In all things fj rth evolution as a process of crea- crea I JHon Ul 11 life had primarily one substance dJ j Is therefore good The first phys phys- form torm of life was protoplasm and andoni orri oni It have evolved the material crea- crea s. s There are many forms of th the of life but It Is only only o She a life One intelligence guides It It one principle characterizes it He Is above I J all and In you all There There- reo Is not so In essence but Is 15 a misuse e or lack of dee de- de e of powers that are In their aure good when kid God finished the work of crean crea- crea t n he said It was all very good I 1 lower a-lower ower form of life though coming i God do not recognize their origin the Uie majestic oak the fowl of heaven t splendidly trained of our dorae do- do I rae tlc UC animals do not know that kid God ma e them and while they manifest his his glory to higher orders of beings they have no concepts the of divinity that Is within them It was In the nature of Infinite love loveto loveto to create a I. I race of beings that should consciously know their Creator A race that should hear when he speaks answer an an- when he calls study his laws do dohis dohis his will and reciprocate his love To use UP a figure of speech h He made man out Jut of the dust of the earth but It was wasby wasby by the slow process of evolution from lower to higher forms of life covering the periods called days In the first chapter of Genesis Adam and Eve were the highest type of a race of ot mammals that had reached a degree of ot intelligence which to them made a revelation of God possible Such evolutionists as Darwin Spencer Huxley Huxley Hux Hux- ley and Tyndall have shown the IJ f. f H v. v v n 9 n Vf v v. v vf v v v v. v y t t A A Kansas T City Ran Kan a doctor doctor of divinity Is facing the cha charge ge of ot heresy fer maintaining the Eves Eve's s V tempter was no serpent but a man t According to this accused heretic the Rev Granville Lowther there Lowther-there there were other men on earth b before Adam V IP V. V These Thes others were Tere not much higher than the beasts lie says Indeed they appear to have be ame e creatures crea- crea creat t S tures that science looks for as a link in the ord r of nature between bet man and the apes The The- act that tha l 5 brought death into the world and loss of Eden in that God had specially endowed our first p parents rents i with a degree of ot conscience unattainable by the men around them I. I V. V This Kansas divine is a student of modern knowledge a reader of Huxley T Tyndall Darwin Sp Spencer He Vt V- V t Is even formally accused by his brothers of the Met Methodist conference of being an evolutionist 5 Dr Lowther has worked together the statements or of Genesis and the the facts of biology so as to tp evolve olve a quite V unusual theory of ot the universe This theory he supports with an appeal to authorities both sacred and t J lar 5 t ft v ft ft ft K ft M II M II ui K III VL III v. v v. v x WL II ML at v. v r. r ft ft ts ft ft ft ft ft f ft ft ft ft ft Po v Po I evolution of man man from pre existing forms of life Is reasonable The mythology poetry poetry- and figures of ot speech in our account of creation are beautiful when their real place in literature liter lter- ture Is understood but are not to be interpreted literally Science teaches us that tho t before man appeared the earth swarmed with animal ani ani- mal life Now either God made man out of pre existing life or he made him out of dust as a a. potter otter mixes and molds his clay If this theory be correct cor cor- then thE thEa a surgical operation was necessarY necessary ne ne- a rib from which to tomake tomake make a woman Just why she was not made of the same materials and in the same manner as man the advocates ates of this theory do not explain We lay it down as a general rule that the process of nature now observable Is the process of nature from the beginning beginning begin begin- ning for law is universal and a unit If we know the nature of temptation today we ma may know the nature of temptation in all past ages and the temptation of the first pair The temptation of men today Is largely an appeal to the flesh against the spirit Paul sa says s 's I find this a law that when I would do good evil is present with me a law of my members warring against the law of ot and bringing me into captivity If we know the law of the production of the sexes toda today it would take a strong preponderance preponderance pre pre- of evidence to show that any other method had been used e do not say that the making of Adam from the dust of f the ground by byan byan an instantaneous process w was s impossible ble for nothing is impossible with God but that it is highly Improbable We hold that he came from the dust by the slow process of evolution Dr In his Pre Adamites shows that there Were vere many species of mammals at that time and some were equal in intelligence to the vest lowest tribes of men round found today In Africa The ale ape and the orang families have vocal organs and a language containing containing con con- a vocabulary of f ov over r fifty words t According to our to-our our Bible account the animal that tempted Eve walked upright upright up up- right used a language that she could the logical logical logi logi- understand and an argument cal sense of cf which she understood we conclude there therefore fore that he was a a beast of the field belonging to thecla the cla class s of mammals but little r removed moved in wisdom from Adam and Eve This tempter was called serpent Inthe in inthe the first place bec because use of the subtle and serpentine character of the temptation of the appetite appetite ap ap- 11 appealed It-appealed app aled to the indulgence petite and the ascendancy of the flesh over the spirit In the second place it is known that the original form of o writing was picture language and the picture of a serpent would be bp the mot most natural figure with which to express the temptation By Byl a perfectly natural transition of thought In the course of centuries the abstract idea would drop from the mind and the sign stand for the thing signified This 1 is to today to- to day when the heathen build images representing their Ideals of and then worship the image It i. i seen when Christians lose sight of the spirit spiritual ual Import of baptism and expect re regenEration regeneration re- re generation by water A third reason in support of our our hypothesis lies In the fact that it is comm common l in all lands to call persons with dominant traits of or character by the name name of the animals possessing these characteristics Christ called Herod a fOx Judah was wasa a lions lion's whelp We Ve have e many Christian Christl Chris Chris- tl tian n names such as Lion Bear Bird Wolf Crow and Fox The ensigns on the flags of nations are the British Lion the Russian Bear American Eagle Southern Confederate Ser Ser- pent Jent It does no violence to Scripture inter Inte interpretation nor to any principle of truth to say that tHe s rent was a very cunning man or- or or Satan appeared in the form of such a man rather than to suppose what is impossible toC today ay and contrary to all aU known laws of pf life that all real serpents walked upright reasoned reasoned rea rea- and talked Why was Adam callad a son of God was the first of his race to come into conscious knowledge of pd He was as far above the other members mem- mem mem members bers of his race as Abraham Moses David and Isaiah were ahe ahead d of the people of their age Into him God had breathed consciously the breath of life He had possessed physical life before but here he was born o of God In the sense of spiritual legen regeneration and was a son of God in a a- newer and higher sense than before Adam and and his his descendants coming Into conscious knowledge of God were called sons of f God But th the sons of God took unto themselves sons of the daughters of men Who were these daughters of men Other members ol of the anthropoid family w who o had not nol come into a conscious knowledge of God If there were no other members of the same family how dl did l Cain find his wife In the land of Nod We do not hold t that at any of these theories theories the the- ories are essential to nor that thai they are fundamental in religion but every logical mind asks how ane and why and of all the explanations we have seen this view is to us the most reasonable I |