Show A it PlO HUM 1 lilI Jill VAST Professor Hinders Petri the great groat l In n a lecture delivered be before tore fore ore a London audience n a short time ago ogo set forth proofs which In his opinion ion established tho the very high an nn antiquity of man moan upon this earth eurth He lIo contended that there thore Is 18 nn an un unbroken Unbroken broken chain of ot historic record going back hael to years ears before Christ and objects of at art and Industry dating 2000 years yeara further urther back Hut nut this thle does not notI lie ito argues make the time beginning of his history hl history I tory tor Civilization came to Egypt from some Borne othor other country Early graves graven have pictures of ot a n race raco resembling re Bush Bushmen men and und beyond these there are pic pie pictures tures of women captured belonging to ton toa n a 1 still earlier race living probably In Inthe Inthe inthe the pal ago The world has witnessed a I great change lately In liB Ideas lIens about the tho age of ot man on elul h To fo some Rome the time evi ovi evidences dences deuces of seemed sc to fur furnish nish destructive de weapons W against the reliability of tIm tho historical statements of the tho Hebrew records Out hut It Is la clear that there Is 19 a n good deal of theorizing about the tho correct deductions from the tho finds of scientists OR as there has been about time tile chronology of at Moses I I And It ItIs itis Is b safe late to conclude that It Is at nt least l as difficult to rend read n a 1 correct chronology from Crom the time finds In time tho different strata tit or the time earth as 8 It Is to 10 construct such sucha n a 1 chronology Y from the recorded ages of the prominent figures In sacred writ or the tho earliest historical records of at any people Why WImy Wh time the conclusions of archie ts on chronology should l be so eo much more moore Infallible than those of oC Biblical Is not apparent Probably Probably ably both bolh need neW adjustment and nn l lit Iii all nil probability when all nil the facts are known and correctly Understood there will wl be no discrepancy between them It Is now customary among a n great many to think of man as ns appearing at nt first as very Or little removed r from rom the anthropoid ape from which he Ite laid hud evolved From this title begin beginning beginning beginning ning he lie gradually grew and attained the physical Intellectual and moral p ur r tf lIon he now lI This growth win IvaN W slow and ages It Is assumed must lie He between the first humble beginning and the tho present result Some Bome Relent scientists lets Isis seem seam em to have hae a II tendency to Interpret Inter Interpret pret finds to fit this theory theor their deductions have hare on that account t by b no means the tho same saine value as aim their statements stR of facts taets It Is proved pro we e believe that no one has hIlS as AI yet found any nn remains of that man just Juit evolved from from the ape And yet et he must have luw rosined roamed the earth for tot ages arft before he Was capable of ot evolving a n still higher typo type The ear earliest e r lINt liest human skull ever eer found seems Hems to tobe tobe be tie about bout as II well developed as that lust of the time average human being of today toot No matter how ho far ar back we WI go ge human conditions i seem e in to be very cr much as they thea are nrc at prevent present We find of and less I civilized races nice of ot people with only on common capacities and occasional geniuses in various branches of oC activity The existence of ot otman man amen on this thle earth tarth with his capacity for Cor thought sentiment religion relillion and must latest r t remain a profound my ft tery terr unto we san OlIn Recent accept the t that tb t represent Mm him as ft the child of ot God tent lint to Inhabit tiia tbs part of Ilia vast aRt mansion for tor Infinitely wise WIM and Ind Rood good purposes There t It Isi one OM plain that come cometo to ni iii both th from history hl lol and tb the monument i insets ment 1111 of ot antiquity and anti that U Is l till that unless u the MIls mods of hu ho human man society see are cured tred for fin M a well III aa as a at the t fr aJ want wants there then win will II b m an aD toward enervation of ot body baity and ami soul am and ROO by II hardier raw rains PAlace of ot learning and altars altar tf et f wor r skip Arp tp are art rIM lId lr the clINt dat pf et ages tho thoM thee who c reared them 1 ava av themselves up to material in Interests t eres tS O on only onI fl ly I neglecting tho the soul for tor the body duty for tor pleasure for tor self Then Timen their doom carne camo swiftly That Is l a n alesson alesson lesson losson from the past peculiarly peculiar Import Imort Important ant to our own time |