Show THE FALL OF MAN the theory of evolution has baa always been regarded as incompatible with the bible history of the fall fail of man mac the former seeks to trace the human family back to lower forms forma of life from which the development physical moral and intellectual has taken place gradually and almost imperceptibly abe be latter represents man as appearing on earth capable of exercising do minion over the creation and consequently possessing a high degree of development moral and intellectual from which a retrogression occurred evolutionist a have ahert lore jore generally relegated the history of the fall to the domain of the myth amythe an effort has baa been made by the president preal dent of the bowdoin ool col leue leize william Wil lisin dewitt hyde byde to reconcile the two contradictory kiewe he think mao man commenced big career on earth in a state of innocence but this was the innocence of moral the lall fall was wag simply a transition from the stage of blind animal conscious nebs dome to one of responsibility luo incurred urrea by we ability to choose between different courses of action accordingly the fall was necessary to human evolution by it hoeness holi nees and sin became equally possible and one or the other must be chosen agit it Is a fall forward he argues on to a plans plane where he can not maintain his bis must either consciously climb higher or else deliberately sink eink lower than the be plans plane of nature whence be came the fall of man marks the point where be ceases to be an obedient servant of nature and Is in forced to become either a wilful rebel against divine and human law or else a reverent child of his bin heavenly father and a loving brother to bis bin fellow mev men this may be an ingenious way of paraphrasing the language Jao guage of sacred writ into the terms of modern speculative philosophy but the resift will loot dot be acceptable to a sound theology the bogy there way may be much in the scripture account of the lall fall that Is difficult to co understand without witti out the light thrown upon it by the divine revelations given in this age as to fo mans origin and his mission on an earth but the particulars given about that momentous event are plainly contradicting the supposition that it was merely an evolution from the moral state or of an animal into that of an intelligent being the history of the first sin bin sets bets forth that it was preceded by a conviction of duty on the part of our progo progenitors they know knew the will of the lord jord there wap however a contemplation of the pleasure the transgression might pro duce and the conscience became weaker as the thoughts were made familiar with the proscribed fruity fruit then there was the hope that the sin might be indulged in and the be consequences averted from this bis moment desire became more intense and at last just the act was aade the history ot of this first sin is in fact the history of every sub st quent individual transgression as cau can be testified to by experience in all ages agee to say that it was a fall upward or forward SP Is ia virtually to deny the moral lesson the inspired account undoubtedly intends to con vey the fact ie that some seme modern philosophical systems like fike many older ones have no room for a redemption and consequently must look upon the fall as a fiction enose not blinded by the pretensions of the wisdom of the world know that both are real and confidently look for a restoration of all things to its primitive state not one of animal innocence but to a state of glory in which sin and all its consequences ue does shall be stamped out through the b power of him who came to save gave that which was lost as a consequence of the fall |