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Show ORIGIN OF SIN, A SUNDAY SEMON The series of evening sermons bj Rev. Carver upon "Evolution and Sin" waa continued Sunday evening, the theme being ''Evolution and the Ori-Sin Ori-Sin of Sin." After at length treating of the answer evolution gives to how sin Is originated and tho bearing which It hao upon tho guilt and sinfulness sin-fulness of oin. It was compared with tho general view held by tho churches today. In treating of tho origin of sin, the Eovcral other leading theories of die origin wcro discussed and of them Rov Canrcr said in part. Thero nover was a better way of describing sin than that verse in James, "Thereforo to him that know-oth know-oth to do good and does it not to him It la sin." Thnt Jb not sin which of aocceity is due to ignoranc-o or corii-pul3'on. corii-pul3'on. Sin Is only sin when the will is free. Gol mado free will in man, but an Leihlntz says, "God Is as little '.ho causo of evil as the current of ihe river 13 the cause which rotards the movement of the boaL" Thero Ib a great difference betweon that which is tho true and tho apparent cause. Tho many Bpeculatlons ns to tho origin ori-gin of sin havo little moro than a speculative spec-ulative valuo. They havo boen as curious as thc-7 have been many. Prof Wlnchell. tho famous geologist, was tho chief exponont of Ihe Pre-Adam -iter theory, whilo no( denying thc-nnlty thc-nnlty of tho raco or tv fact of the atonement, ho did deny that Adam was tho first man. He believed Adam descended de-scended from an Inferior black race and not tho black race from Adam. Taking the scripture stetoraent of Adam's Ad-am's sons finding wives and later of tho "Eons of God" marrjing tho ": daughters of men," ho advances a theory of a race before Adam and from these camo the sin This, however, how-ever, dcB not solve tho problem; it only pusher, it fnrtber away. Tho thoory of pre-exlatant souls is ono that aleo only pushes tho problem prob-lem further away by claiming thnt the souls also had prc-oxlstant sins The theory that the flonl is at each birth given from God whilo thq body 's from the parents ts known as "Cro-atlonali'uii." "Cro-atlonali'uii." It claims pin to ho tho result o' tho depTavlty Inherent In the material body and that the soul from God io ulnlcEs, so tho origin of sin 's In the material body. This makes oin inherent in matter which we do not accent. Loiblntz gave prominence to the theory that sin arose from human limitations. lim-itations. Sin. then, has of necessity arisen from tho original imperfection of the creature This would make Tod as Creator the author of evil In that He was unable to give man a per fect commencement in lifo. The remorse re-morse of conscience does not admit of our being ablo to do good. We could not condemn sin If It were un-woldnble. un-woldnble. Liberty of choice is a testimony to the opposite of inherent weakness. "Reason," pay3 Dr. Strong, "has no other resource than to accept the "Scripture doctrlno that Bin originated originat-ed In man'B free will act of revolt 'rom God, the act of a will which though Inclined toward God, was not yet confirmed in virtue and was still capable of a contrary choice." Dr. W. R. Harper tpeaks of the origin of sin bus "Tho account In Genesis is uoi n allegory nor a myth nor a mere 'egend or tradition; It is an historlca' .'act revealed by God to the flrat men ind preserved in the primitive style of narration characteristic of the nge In which it was written." The Eden itory was intended to make known the act that evil In the world had its orl--in in disobedience to tho divine corn-Hand. corn-Hand. Tho account is historical but 'S Jn other cascn is givon In tho nar-ntive nar-ntive form. Man fell Into sin bj yielding to temptation and thus for- felted that which had been originally provided for him and brought not only upon himself, but upon the posterity the curse of evil In its various forms He failed under the trial to which hla Creator sbjected to him, We glvp this vie of Dr. Harper as ono of interest oecnuse of his wide reading and general advanced views There is an Interesting statement n Dr. Curtis "Tho Christian Faith" It is as follows: 'Let a father once say to a child in tho name of higher con-corn, con-corn, 'Thou shalt not' and there will be the porsonnl battle of Eden over again. God did not want transgression, transgres-sion, but he did want the possibility of it because he wanted personal sainthood. All evil In possibility is tho awful price which had to be paid for any person's sainthood Man fell as a moral person responsibly free, and tho external form of tho temptation, tempta-tion, whether this or that, could mako no essential difference. on |