New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1917, Page 5

BLAMED FOR THE WORLD WAR Pastor Harriman Also Declares Reformation Was a Failure How evolution—belief in the survi- val of the fittest, Prussian philosophy | —-has been responsible for the world war, was argued last night by Rev. N. M. jarriman of the People’s church in the fifth sermon in his series on “Evolution”. Pastor Harriman also spoke of the Reformation, the 400th anniversary of which was observed yesterday by Protestant churches, and he explained why, in his opfaion, it had heen a failure. An abstrect of the address follows: ‘“‘No devil?” a great Boston divine once exclaimed, ‘It is vastly to the credit of human mature that there is a devil. If human nature. had to sioulder all the devilish work that is going on in the world, one wguld be ashamed to be human.’ ‘““This serieg of sermons is not oc- cupied primarily in attacking evolu- tion. Nor even in vindicating the Bible. The ‘deeper topic is righteous- ness versus unrighteousness; the su- pernatural versus the natural; God versus Satan; God's method of dealing with man’s sin. as revealed in the Bible, versus man's method of meet- ing the awful prcblem. And because evolution is a prominent illustration of the many fruitless and inadequate attempts to solve this problem, con- trjing the Bible solution, I have prapared this series. “And tonight I come to a very inter- esting study of this larger aspect of my subject, under the topic: ‘The Bible and the World System.’ It is the 400th anniversary of the Reforma- tion. I shall show you how Satan’s great ‘world system’ created the con- ditions calling for reformation, and how when reformation came he side- tracked it by hitching it to his world system. From that I purpose to show You that the present great world war is due to evolution, Germany apply- ing literally the evolution theory of ‘the survival of the fittest, to rid her- self of the threat of surrounding world powers against her right to ‘a place in the sun.’ Both these great world movements present very illum- inating illustrations of Satan’s many devices to thwart God, the - latest being evolution. Parting of the Ways. “Whether history or allegery, some- thing corresponding to the Genesis account of the Reginnings of things and the origin of sin and the fall . certainly occurred back at the fountain head of history. No explanation but the Genesis account is either possible or scientific. Lt that stand as dog- matic if you please; but I find no other explanation which meets all the issues involved: ABEer 3 “God created. God loved. God warned. God provided, Man doubted. Man coveted. Man disobeyed. Man fell. And because all man's interests were on the side of obedience, an outside agency is called for to account for his sin. Hence the scientific need of Satan. Without the fact of Satan and temptation, you cannot scientifi- cally account for man's revolt from God. And you will notice that every attempt to shy the Genesis account also shies the awful fact of sin or minimizes its nature. “Here begins the Satanic ‘World Bystem.” Man met the issue natural- Iy: he himselt sought to cover his nakedness with fig leaves. History or allegory, that being occurred Just there ih history. Besides it also oc- curred that other thing, the superna- tural way of meeting the need: God of obedience to law no man living will be declared righteous before Him. Law simply brings a sure knowledge of sin. But now a righteousness com- ing from God has been brought to light apart from any law, both law and prophets bearing witness to it— a righteousness coming from God, which depends on faith in Jesus Christ, and extends to all who believe.’ | —Rom. 3:10-12, 19-21, Weymouth's translation. The Reformation, “Under the impulsive power of this ‘righteousness of God' the infant church withstood persecution and turned the world upside down,” God : the Holy Spirit working through i them. Over against them, dogging their footsteps, the Jewish Sanhe- drim who delivered Jesus to be cru- cified tried to exterminate them. But under their persecution they throve and increased. “It was the degenerate Jewry in league with the world system, seeking to destroy God's system. It was nat- uralism versus supernaturalism; man’s way versus God's way. “And when God’s way could not be silenced by direct attack, Satan was ready with another scheme: he stirred up the Roman emperors to persecute the infant church. The catacombs are the record of this attempt. Blood flowed in rivers. Roman arenas drank the blood of martyrs, while savage lions tore their flesh and man- gled their poor bodies. That, too, failed; and Satan’s master stroke fol- lowed: he harnessed the supernat- ural power of the church to the royal charjot of the emperor Constantine, and made Christianity the state re- ligion. God’s way and man’s way be- came one; Christlanity was swallowed up in the pomp and circumstance of imperial power; a churchly hierarchy sprang up; a head was given to it, who crowned and uncrowned kings; the supernatural power went out, and Christianity became the head of the world system. “Then followed a carnival of crim~ and slaughter. The descendants of the martyrs of the catacombs became the lordly and pitiless persecutors of their own brethren. Martyrs by the million gave up their lives for al- legiance to God's way. The church became the authority, instead of the Bible. Men took the place of Christ in forgiving sin. Instead of faith in Calvary's sacrifice, as a means of sal- vation, infants were regenerated and made Christians by the pouring of water. Men went mad with power, and the heart of pity and love went out of them till blood, the blood of their own brethren, seemed the only thing that could appease their mad- ness. Then came The Reformation. Failure of the Reformation. “But the Reformation failed to sep- arate God's system from the world system. The Bible was restored; that NEW BRITAk{ DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1917, Dane, who went to Greenland in the 156th century. The Fellaheen of Egypt, squalid and ambitionless, is said to be the degenerate descendant of the builders of the pyramids. Mex- ico and South America have races which tell the same story of degenera- tion. And in our own boasted moderr. civilization degeneracy 1s greatly on the increase. Insanity is claiming its victims in ever increasing numbers far outstripping the increase in popula- tion. 'The U. 8. Census Bureau de- clares that during a recent period of six years, while population increased 11 per cent., insanity increased 25 per cent. Degeneration written on every- thing. Evolution has found this a hard fact to admit; instead of a power in nature te evolve higher from lower, this law of degeneration shows that there is no such power in nature, un- assisted from the outside; but that, on the contrary, left alone nature goes the other way. sgurvival of the Fittest. “How, then, shall the world be saved from extinction? How shall nations ever grow and become great? God’s answer is: ‘Regeneration is the cure for Degeneration’. The world's answer is: “The survival of the fittest’. The adoption of that doctrine by Ger- many Is responsible for the great world war. The Present World War. (“Germany, surrounded and shut in by competing great world powers, be- gan years ago to dream of a war which should free her forever and keep from further danger her ‘place in the sun. In 1911 occurred the Morocco - incident which nearly plunged Europe in war. “German philosophers, ever since the time of Frederick the Great, had pondered over the problem of de- generation and how it could be pre- vented, and that only the strongest could survive eventually In this sel- fish and savage struggle for pre-emin- ence. It wag seen to be wholly sel- fish. Therefore why any qualms about relying wholly upon power, strength? “This doctrine had become well di- gested by the nation, especially by the ruling class, when the Morocco in- cident startled the thinkers of Ger- many into the discovery that in Ger- many's recent commercial struggle she had become so absorbed that she needed to be stirred out of her re- liance upon peace pursuits, and to know again that her survival depend- ed upon the stirring up of her war- like spirit. “In October, 1911, after the narrow avoldance of war over the Morocco incident, one of her most brilliant writers, Gen. F. von Bernhardi, put out a most remarkable book, ‘Ger- many and the Next War.’ Here was sounded a bugle note of alarm and danger~=a call to arms. ‘“‘His declared aim in writing the was much. Faith in Christ alone for salvation wag restored: that was much. The right of every man to worship as his conscience led him was restored: that wae much. The power of the corrupt Christianity, drunk with blood and worldly dominion, was partly broken: that was much. “But God’s way of salvation by re- generation of the individual and re- liance alone upon supernatural pow- er, was not fully restored: the church was left still harnessed to the world system, dependent largely upon the favor of the world system; therefore courting the favor of the world sys- tem, or at least always open to that temptation; and never able to give a clear testimony to the supernatural way of God. “And to make complete the effort to rob the reformation of its super- natural power, Christian ethics with- out regeneration were grafted upon the world system, and the church set about the task of making the world a safe and comfortable and good place for unregenerate men to live in, and went abroad preaching ‘the kingdom of God'—a state of unregen- erate people, trying by human effort covered their nakedness with ‘coats of skin’ And there started that red stream of sacrificial love that cul- minated in Calvary. For does not the record say that when God Trebuked Satan he also promised a Dellverer trom his dominion? ‘I will put en- mity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt briust his heel.’ History or alle- gory, ‘something corresponding to that sccurred right there. It is the only scientific explanation of Satan’s long dominion over the world, a dominion to be wholly broken only when the ‘seed of the woman’, who conquered Satan on Calvary, bruising his heel to the death, comes back again to sarth to complete the work and hurl him headlong into the ‘lake of fire. “The two ways appear again, right there at the beginning, when the two sons of the fallen pair come up to mako their sacrifices before God. Cain, the firstborn, comes up as the natural man, in self will and without consciousness of sin and guilt. Abel comes with the blood of sacrifice. And right there, in these two broth- ers, the ways part. Cain goes out from God, marked with the earth mark, and starts the ‘World System’ of man's greatness, building citles and developing useful arts. Abel's bloody sacrifice is the scarlet thread +hat marks the way of God’s children cver since. The great redemption ‘starte on its weary and toilsome way; and beside it starts the way of man. The one the way of sacrifice; the oth- er the way of self justification. The one God’s way; the other, man's way. The one, supernatural; the other, nat- ural. The one, creation; the other, evolution. The one, God's righteous- ness; the other, man's righteousness. Our Text. “There is not one righteous mam. There is not one who is really wisQ nor one who is a diligent seeker aft er God. AIl have turned aside from the right path; they have every one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what is right—no, not so much as one.'—Paul's quota- tion from Psalm 14:1-3. And Paul's inspired comment is this: ‘But it cannot be denied that all that the law says is addressed to those who aro living under the law, in ofder that every mouth may be stopped, and to counterfeit Christianity by stirring one another up to do ‘good works’ and so bring in the kingdom. From that abortion of the Reformation the church has stumbled down through the intervening centuries, not knowing what was the matter with it; and it does not know today. In every crisis it stirs itself up with exhortations to be more zealous In ‘good works'; in- sists that things are improving, that men are growing better; one more long pull and strong pull and we shall land the world in the millennium! And thus it stumbles on into the great apostasy; thus it will continue to stumble on, dreaming its futile dream of world peace and world righteous- ness, till Christ appears to wake it from its sleep upon the knees of the world Delilah, and in the throes of the Great Tribulation it will turn to Him again, and shake itself loose from the world system; but it will be in martyrdom. Like the poor Ar- menians, living in a worldly Chris- tlanity, when the test comes of apos- tasy or martyrdom of Christ or anti- Christ, they will choose Christ and he martyred for their choice. God’s sys- tem and the world system will never be wholly disentangled until Christ Himself comes back to earth in power and great glory to judge the nations. Evolution and the World War. “Returning to the great {llustration of the teachings of evolution, the present great world war that is de- luging the world in the blood of our best, I must briefly recall to your memory three teachings of evolution. The first is what is known by evolu- tion as ‘degeneration’. This is the counterpart, in the realm of science, of ‘depravity’ in the realm of relig- ion. It admits that there is in na- ture a lack of power to rise of itself ~—that left to itself nature goes back- ward. ‘Reversal to Type' is another @spect of the same law of ‘progress backward.” Cultivated plants and ani- mals, ieft to themselves, revert to their type. RBeautiful roses, the re- sult of cultivation, left to themselves revert to the common dog rose. Won- derful varieties of pigeons, the re- sult of intensive breeding, left to themselves revert to their type, the common dup-colored pigeon with the regular stripes under the wings. In the same way, man goes backward. that the whole world may awalt sen- tence from God. For on the ground The Eskimo is declared to be the de- generate descendant of the noble book was to rouse Germany from her debilitating dream of peace, and stir herself to grasp her destiny as not only a world power of the best type, but her destiny as a world ruler. Listen to this: ‘The value of war for the political and moral development of mankind has been criticised by large sections of the modern civilized world, in a way which threatens to weaken the defensive of states by un- dermining the warlike spirit of the people.” ““Again: ‘Mighty deeds raised Ger- many from political disruption and feebleness to the forefront of Euro- pean nations. But we do not seem willing to take up this inheritance, e The Germans were formerly the best fighting men and the most warlike nation of Burope. For & long time théy have proved them- selves to be the ruling people of the Continent by the power of their arms and the loftiness of their ideas. In striking contrast to this military aptitude, they have today become a peace-loving—an almost too peace- loving—nation. A rude shock is need- ed to awaken their warlike instincts, and compel them to show their mili- tary strength.’ The book was writ- ten to warn them of peace, and stir them to war. “Again: ‘It has always been’, H. Von Treitschke tells us, ‘the weary, spiritless, and exhausted ages which have played with the dream of per- petual peace.” Again: ‘This desire for peace has rendered more civilized nations anaemic, and marks a decay of spirt and political courage.’ strong helthy, and flourishing nations increase in numbers. From a given moment they require a continual expansion of their frontiers, they require new ter- ritory for the accommodation of their surplus population, Since almost every part of the globe Is inhabited, new territory must, as a rule, be ob- tained at the cost of its possessors— that is to say, by conquest, which thus becomes a law of necessity. The right of conquest {s universally acknow- ledged.” “Again: ‘At the mament that the state cries out that its very life is at stake, soclal selfishness must cease and party hatred be hushed.’ Treitschke says: ‘A thousand touching traits testify to the sacred power of the love which a righteous war awakes in noble nations.” ‘“Again: ‘These efforts for peace would, if they attained their goal, not merely lead to general degeneration, as happens everywhere in nature where the struggle for existence is eliminated, but they have a direct damaging and unnerving effect.” Have I demonstrated my paint? “Is i» not a lurid sidelight upon evolution to learn that this law of ‘the survival of the fittest,’ which is rampant in the sphere of human life and soclety, was the law appealed to in Germany as the only way of obtain- ing and maintaining supremacy in the world? Yet who cannot see that when God’s way of survival is rejected that is the only way to stem the tide of degeneration? “And since the struggle for sur- viva] is wholly selfish, who shall dis- pute Bernhardi’s frank avowal that the power to conquer constitutes the right to conquer? And the attempt to introduce into International inter- course laws based upon Christian eth- fcs, instead of laws based upon re- generation, is what makes all the con- fusion, and is the reason why we abominate Bernhardi’s next step, viz that nations can recognize the binding force of no pledges or treatles when THEY GAVE HER VINOL And She Soon Got Back Her Strength i New Castle, Ind.—"The measles left ' me run down, no appetite, could not rest at night, and I took a severe cold which settled on my lungs, so I was unable to keep about my housework. My doctor advised me to take Vinol, and six bottles restored my health so I do all my housework, including washing. 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It is a direct | issue between Christianity and so- called “Christian civilization.” As a | police regulation, making the |world | better for unregenerate men to live ! i, we must stand for Christian mor- | als in the world struggle: but we are | destined to find that there is nothing | permanent in this: we must have su- pernatural deliverance, before we have permanent peace. “ ‘But now a righteousness coming from God has been brought to light apart from any law . . which | depends on faith in Jesus Christ and extends to all who believe.’ “Next Sunday night I shall finish | this serles, showing you how evolution has played havoc in the church, | through injecting into all the Bible | doctrines of supernatural and in- | stantaneous working, a vitlating and | deadly element of natural evolution, toward a goodness fit for heaven by man’s own efforts at goodness.’” SUGAR SHORTAGE S0ON T0 BE MET Administration Believes Imports aod Beet Product Will Suffice Washington, Oct. 29.—By diverting the 26,500 tons of neutral sugar re- cently obtained by the Food Adminis- tration to manufacturers, it is believed that the sugar scarcity has been great- ly relieved, and that within the next few weeks it will disappear. Sugar obtained for France in this country and released to this Government costs 60 cents a hundred pounds more than the price the Government has de- sired to maintain for the general pub- lic, and all this supply was absorbed by the manufacturers. By this action the necessity of consumers paying higher than the basis fixed by the Gov- ernment was climinated. In the opinion of the Food Admin- rator, there will be sufficient sugar in the market from Cuba and the beet sugar districts of this country within the next few wecks to meet a present shortage. The scare last week, while Jjustified, it is announced, did not war- rant retailers increasing the price, but it served notice on the public that con- servation was necessary. So far as the Food Administration has been able to learn, the amount of sugar in a Buffalo warehouse, reported at 150 carloads, js approximately 62 carloads. This amount is not consid- ered excessiva for the purpose of keep- ing in operation several large con- denscd milk manufacturing plants near that city. The sugar is the prop- erty of those concerns. The contin- uous operation of these plants is re- garded as essential. ‘The Food Administration issued this statement last night: “Of the 26,600 tons of sugar just released to the American market by France, 12,000 tons was neutral sugar recently bought for France and 14,500 tons bought for France months ago through the British Royal Commis- sion. The additional 16,500 tons of su- gar which is expected to be released to the market rhis week, is owned by the Russian and Finnish Governments and is reported to be held by Grace & Co., New York. This firm is power- less to rclease this sugar without per- mission from the cwners. “Denial was authorized by the Food Administration today of the published report that C. A. Spreckels of the Fed- eral Sugar Refining Company was the only man who had not come in with the Administration. In fact, it was stated, Mr. Spreckels, for the Federal Sugar Reflning Company, has not only signed the contract with the Admin- istration but was the first one who did. “Regarding Mr. Spreckels’ state- ments that the Administration 1s rty- ing to force holders of neutral sugar to take a loss on the sugar, this 1s em- phatically denied, as the Food Ad- ministration has an option on all of the neutral sugar at the price neutral countries paid for the same, which, when the duty is added, makes the average cost of same 50 cents per 100 pounds over the price the Food Ad- ministration is trying to maintain for the benefit of the entire consuming public of the United States. ‘““While it would appear from state- ments that he Administration is try- pounds is a trivial item, it represents over $20,000,000 per annum on the sugar consumed by the American public, and 50 cents per 100 pounds, the actual difference, represents double the amount. 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