Data publicării
15.04.1906
Volumul
27
Numărul
8
Turnul de veghe
Views from the Watch Tower
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(II6-U7) 
ZION'S 
WATCH 
TOWER 
ALLEGHENY, 
PA. 
" 
'London, 
Aug. 
2, 
1885. 
" 
'Yesterday 
I 
was 
in 
the 
Natural 
History 
department 
of 
the 
British 
Museum. 
I 
had 
business 
tauching 
some 
fos­ 
sils 
which 
I 
found 
in 
the 
Lattakia 
Miocene 
and 
Pliocene 
clay 
beds, 
and 
about 
which 
I 
wrote 
an 
article 
which 
ap­ 
peared 
in 
"Nature" 
last 
year. 
Mr. 
Etheridge, 
F. 
R. 
S., 
kindly 
examined 
and 
named 
them. 
I 
was 
anxious 
to 
hear 
what 
a 
first-rate 
working 
scientist, 
with 
perhaps 
the 
larg­ 
est 
oppi>rtunity 
for 
induction 
in 
the 
world, 
would 
say 
on 
Darwinian 
Evolution. 
So, 
after 
he 
had 
shawn 
me 
all 
the 
wonders 
of 
the 
establishment, 
I 
asked 
him 
whether. 
after 
all 
this 
was 
not 
the 
working 
out 
of 
mind 
and 
Providence. 
H~ 
turned 
to 
me 
with 
a 
clear, 
honest 
look 
into 
my 
eyes, 
and 
replied, 
"In 
all 
this 
great 
,Museum 
th~re 
is 
n~t 
a 
partie 
Ie 
of 
evidence 
of 
transmutatlOn 
O'f 
specIes. 
Nllle-tenths 
of 
the 
talk 
of 
evolutioni..sts 
is 
sheer 
nonsense, 
not 
founded 
on 
observation, 
and 
wholly 
unsupported 
by 
fact. 
Men 
adopt 
a 
theory 
and 
then 
strain 
their 
facts 
to 
support 
it. 
I 
read 
in 
all 
their 
books, 
but 
they 
make 
no 
impression 
on 
my 
be­ 
lief 
in 
the 
stability 
of 
species. 
Moreover, 
the 
talk 
of 
the 
great 
antiquity 
of 
man 
is 
of 
the 
same 
value. 
There 
is 
no 
such 
thing 
as 
a 
fossil 
man. 
Men 
are 
ready 
to 
regard 
you 
as 
a 
fO'ol 
if 
you 
do 
not 
go 
with 
them 
in 
all 
their 
vagarie!!. 
But 
this 
Museum 
is 
full 
of 
proofs 
of 
the 
utter 
falsity 
of 
their 
views. 
" 
" 
'I 
have 
condensed 
very 
much, 
but 
you 
may 
spread 
this 
out 
over 
twenty 
minutes, 
and 
imagine 
what 
a 
comfort 
it 
was 
to 
hear 
it. 
I 
do 
not 
propose 
to 
$urrender 
yet 
even 
to 
theistic 
evolution, 
which 
seems 
to 
me 
at 
best 
a 
bad 
name 
for 
Gad's 
creation.' 
" 
Now 
we 
want 
to 
hear 
the 
verdict 
of 
bar-room 
s(',ientists, 
saloon 
geologists 
and 
horse-shed 
philosophers, 
who 
are 
more 
anxious 
to 
establish 
a 
connection 
with 
the 
monkeys 
and 
haboons 
than 
with 
Adam, 
who 
'I 
was 
the 
son 
of 
God.' 
,­ 
From 
"The 
Armory." 
ticle 
containing 
the 
testimony 
from 
Mr. 
Etheridge, 
who 
stood 
at 
the 
head 
af 
the 
Natural 
Science 
department 
of 
the 
Brit­ 
ish 
Museum: 
"Our 
friend 
and 
fellow-traveler 
in 
Palestine, 
Prof. 
George 
E. 
Post, 
is, 
as 
our 
readers 
are 
aware, 
a 
man 
of 
ex­ 
tensive 
attainments 
and 
wide 
and 
acute 
observation 
of 
facts 
and 
phenomena-in 
short, 
a 
man 
of 
science 
in 
the 
true 
sense. 
On 
the 
alert 
for 
whatever 
is 
worthy 
of 
study, 
it 
was 
a 
matter 
of 
course 
that 
while 
recently 
in 
London 
in 
quest 
af 
instruments 
and 
apparatus 
for 
the 
Medical 
UOl­ 
lege 
at 
Beirut, 
he 
should 
spend 
some 
portion 
of 
his 
time 
in 
the 
British 
Museum-that 
immense 
storehouse 
of 
all 
that 
remains 
to 
us 
of 
the 
arts, 
the 
learning 
and 
life-conditions 
of 
the 
ages. 
Treated 
with 
the 
utmost 
courtesy 
by 
the 
large 
circle 
of 
noted 
men 
and 
scholars, 
Dr. 
Po.st 
very 
naturally, 
in 
the 
course 
of 
his 
visits 
to 
this 
great 
center 
of 
attrac­ 
tion, 
came 
in 
contact 
with 
Mr. 
Etheridge, 
than 
whom 
no 
one 
is 
more 
able 
to 
interpret 
and 
sum 
up 
whatever 
is 
there 
to 
be 
seen. 
Indeed, 
he 
had 
a 
special 
errand 
with 
him, 
and 
it 
thus 
fell 
out, 
in 
common 
phrase 
in 
a 
good 
sense, 
that 
the 
recognized 
British 
expert 
in 
all 
these 
matters 
was 
'inter­ 
viewed' 
by 
our 
American 
missionary 
and 
man 
of 
science 
as 
to 
his 
conclusions, 
his 
summing 
up 
of 
the 
bearing 
of 
the 
entire 
deposit 
there 
collected 
in 
the 
department 
of 
Nat­ 
ural 
History, 
and 
set 
in 
order 
as 
nowhere 
else 
in 
the 
world. 
And 
thanks 
to 
a 
correspondent, 
a 
former 
colleague 
of 
Dr. 
Post 
we 
have 
here 
an 
account 
of 
Mr. 
Etheridge's 
conelu­ 
sion~. 
They 
are 
given 
only 
in 
summary, 
but 
are 
clear 
and 
satisfactory 
as 
to 
what 
may 
be 
learned 
from 
a 
full 
study 
of 
the 
remains 
of 
all 
pre-historic 
periods. 
Their 
decisive 
hearing 
on 
the 
controversies 
of 
the 
day 
will 
hI' 
apparent 
to 
all. 
It 
is 
seldom 
that 
so 
much 
that 
is 
significant 
and 
en­ 
titled 
to 
great, 
even 
conclusive 
weight, 
is 
embraced 
in 
the 
same 
space: 
It 
strikes 
us 
as 
quite 
pharisaical 
on 
the 
part 
of 
the 
ma­ 
jority 
of 
mankind 
to 
make 
a 
great 
ado 
over 
the 
shortcom­ 
ings 
of 
the 
rich, 
when 
in 
their 
own 
hearts 
the 
majority 
well 
know 
that 
the 
only 
reason 
they 
did 
not 
do 
likewise 
was 
that 
they 
did 
not 
have 
the 
opportunity. 
God 
forbid 
that 
we 
should 
say 
that 
there 
are 
no 
honest 
people 
in 
the 
world, 
but 
our 
experience 
with 
humanity 
leads 
us 
to 
the 
conclusion 
that 
the 
majority 
have 
their 
price-some 
higher 
and 
some 
lower. 
Experience, 
tao, 
shows 
that 
those 
who 
decry 
cupidity 
in 
other.s 
are 
themselves 
frequently 
found 
wanting 
when 
tried 
in 
the 
balances. 
For 
instance, 
one 
of 
the 
most 
prom­ 
inent 
of 
these 
life-insurance 
prf'~idents 
went 
into 
office 
as 
a 
thorough 
reformrr; 
he 
heartily 
reprobated 
the 
shortcom­ 
ings 
of 
his 
predecessors. 
DO' 
we 
not 
usually 
find 
it 
the 
same 
with 
politician,s' 
The 
reformer 
of 
one 
election 
needs 
to 
be 
reformed 
at 
anoth('r 
elr('tion. 
The 
trouble 
is 
that 
the 
whole 
human 
family 
is 
weak 
and 
imperfect 
through 
the 
fall, 
anJ 
while 
they 
wou'n 
<10 
good 
evil 
is 
present 
with 
them, 
and 
the 
temptations 
which 
assail 
are 
mare 
than 
their 
char­ 
acters 
will 
stand. 
As 
for 
the 
stronger 
characters 
in 
the 
world, 
those 
moulded 
and 
fashioned 
by 
the 
power 
of 
divine 
truth, 
they 
are 
rarely 
put 
in 
such 
po.sitions 
of 
honor 
and 
trust, 
being 
too 
much 
out 
of 
harmony 
with 
the 
warld 
and 
its 
spirit 
to 
be 
chosen. 
Even 
the 
preachers 
are 
accused 
of 
wire-pulling- 
in 
connection 
with 
their 
securing 
desirable 
charges 
and 
principal 
offices 
in 
their 
denominations. 
Our 
Lord 
did 
not 
tolerate 
unrighteousness 
or 
injustice 
in 
any 
.sense 
of 
the 
ward, 
and 
his 
most 
scathing 
criticisms 
were 
hurled 
against 
the 
Pharisees 
because 
of 
their 
hy­ 
pocrisy, 
because 
they 
pretended 
to 
be 
better 
than 
they 
really 
were. 
This 
gives 
us 
the 
thought 
that 
in 
the 
Lord's 
estimation 
honesty 
is 
one 
of 
the 
noble.st 
traits 
of 
character, 
and 
that 
it 
would 
be 
more 
pleasing 
in 
his 
sight 
for 
his 
fol­ 
lowers 
to 
acknowledge 
that 
the 
whole 
world 
is 
imperfect 
through 
the 
fall, 
and 
that 
all 
need 
the 
divine 
mercy, 
and 
to 
point 
each 
other 
forward 
to 
the 
glorious 
kingdom 
of 
righteousness 
which 
the 
Lord 
alone 
can 
establish, 
than 
that 
they 
should 
self-righteously 
point 
at 
the 
few 
evil-doers 
,:"ho 
llad 
good 
opportunities, 
and 
attempt 
to 
justify 
the 
mo.. 
JOl'lty 
of 
the 
race 
as 
though 
they 
were 
perfect, 
sinless. 
Let 
us 
watch 
anu 
pray 
again.st 
the 
temptations 
which 
lie 
in 
our 
path: 
let 
us 
sympathize 
with 
the 
exposure 
of 
every­ 
thing 
that 
is 
sinful; 
but 
let 
us 
not 
glory 
in 
the 
righteous­ 
ness 
of 
the 
mo.jority, 
who 
have 
not 
been 
found 
unfaithful 
because 
they 
llave 
not 
been 
tempted 
in 
any 
considerable 
measure. 
Let 
us 
sympathize 
wit.h 
the 
stopping 
of 
wrong 
doings 
while 
sympathizing 
also 
with 
the 
wrong 
doer 
and 
with 
the 
whale 
world 
in 
its 
depravity. 
Let 
us 
remember 
that 
the 
world 
has 
not 
the 
advantage 
of 
the 
higher 
ambi­ 
tions 
and 
the 
new 
nature 
which 
are 
possessed 
by 
the 
Lord's 
<,onsecrated 
followers 
and 
let 
us 
have 
sympathy 
with 
them 
while 
hoping 
and 
waiting 
and 
praying 
"Thy 
kingdom 
come' 
thy 
will 
be 
done 
on 
earth 
as 
it 
is 
d'one 
in 
heaven." 
' 
EVOLUTION 
IN 
THE 
BRITISH 
MUSEUM 
, 
The 
w?rld: 
perhaps,. 
~old's 
no 
other 
such 
single 
cO'lIec­ 
hon 
of 
sCIenhfic 
CUl'loslhes 
as 
can 
be 
found 
in 
the 
British 
M.useum. 
Gallery 
after 
gallery, 
<,nbinet 
after 
cabinet 
and 
mlle 
aft('r 
;nile 
of 
shelving, 
exhibit 
a 
hewildering 
~rray 
of 
beasts, 
buds, 
fishes 
and 
moving 
creatures 
of 
every 
kind, 
stuffed 
and 
preserved. 
along 
with 
prehistoric 
relics, 
fossil 
forms 
and 
all 
the 
various 
spe<,imens 
of 
organic 
life. 
Here 
waulJ 
be 
the 
place 
of 
nll 
others 
for 
the 
scientific 
skeptic 
of 
the 
day 
to 
trace 
the 
lineage 
of 
which 
he 
boasts, 
ano 
to 
(lcmonstrn,te 
hi,~ 
o('s('ont 
from 
the 
prehistoric 
monkey. 
But, 
unfortunately, 
the 
men 
who 
have 
the 
greatest 
oppor­ 
tunitil'S 
do 
not 
always 
mnke 
the 
hest 
improvement 
of 
them: 
and 
a 
large 
proportion 
of 
the 
tn 
lk 
about 
scientific 
infidelity 
comes 
from 
men 
who 
know 
nothing 
of 
science. 
The 
editor 
of 
tho 
"~ew 
York 
Evangelist" 
publishes 
the 
following 
ar. 
WHEELING 
AND 
LOUISVILLE 
CONVENTIONS 
The 
interest 
in 
Wh<>eling 
seemed 
to 
warrant 
us 
in 
giv- 
liaIll.Son 
filled 
the 
appointments 
and 
had 
excellent 
hear­ 
il1~ 
it 
a 
8e<'011<1 
one-dav 
convention 
sooner 
than 
usual- 
ings 
at 
both 
se!!sions. 
Our 
thought 
is 
that 
it 
requires 
sev­ 
on 
March 
Ill. 
The 
topic 
for 
the 
public 
service 
was 
"Res- 
eral 
discourses 
to 
mature 
the 
interest 
first 
aroused, 
and 
that 
urrection 
of 
Damnation." 
The 
forenoon 
discourse 
was 
of 
the 
thousands 
who 
hear 
with 
some 
degree 
O'f 
interest 
given 
in 
Odd 
FellO'ws' 
Hall 
and 
was 
well 
attended 
by 
the 
only 
a 
small 
number 
are 
to 
be 
expected 
to 
have 
the 
deep 
interested, 
though 
not 
publicly 
announced. 
That 
discourse 
interest 
which 
could 
only 
be 
looked 
for 
in 
the 
fully 
eonse· 
was 
published 
in 
the 
secular 
journals 
which 
many 
of 
you 
erated 
of 
the 
Lord 
''3 
people. 
The 
dear 
friends 
at 
Wheeling 
receive. 
The 
afternoon 
discourse 
was 
for 
the 
public. 
The 
did 
nobly 
and 
feel 
very 
much 
encouraged. 
services 
were 
held 
in 
Court 
Theater, 
the 
largest 
auditorium 
Louisville, 
Ky., 
had 
its 
first 
one-day 
convention 
on 
March 
in 
the 
city; 
the 
attendance 
was 
large, 
and 
tbe 
attention 
25. 
The 
locally 
interested 
were 
ably 
seconded 
in 
their 
ef· 
and 
interest 
manifested 
were 
very 
gratifying 
indeed. 
The 
forts 
to 
make 
tbe 
convention 
a 
success 
by 
dear 
friends 
re­ 
number 
present 
was 
estimated 
at 
1,400. 
At 
this 
meeting 
siding 
in 
nearby 
communities. 
Their 
mutual 
efforh 
under 
announcement 
was 
made 
for 
two 
chart 
talks 
on 
the 
follO'W· 
the 
Lord's 
blessing 
and 
providential 
guidance 
resulted 
in 
ing 
Sunday 
in 
a 
smaller 
auditorium. 
Brother 
A. 
E. 
Wil· 
a 
great 
arousing 
of 
the 
people 
of 
that 
vicinity. 
[3758] 
(116-117) It strikes us as quite pharisaical on the part of the majority of mankind to make a great ado over the shortcomings of the rich, when in their own hearts the majority well know that the only reason they did not do likewise was that they did not have the opportunity. God forbid that we should say that there are no honest people in the world, but our experience with humanity leads us to the conclusion that the majority have their price—some higher and some lower, Experience, too, shows that those who decry cupidity in others are themselves frequently found wanting when tried in the balances. For instance, one of the most prominent of these life-insurance presidents went into office as a thorough reformer; he heartily reprobated the shortcomings of his predecessors. Do we not usually find it the same with politicians? The reformer of one election needs to be reformed at another election. The trouble is that the whole human family is weak and imperfect through the fall, and while they wou'd do good evil is present with them, and the temptations which assail are more than their characters will stand. As for the stronger characters in the world, those moulded and fashioned by the power of divine truth, they are rarely put in such positions of honor and trust, being too much out of harmony with the world and its spirit to be chosen. Even the preachers are accused of wire-pulling in connection with their securing desirable charges and principal offices in their denominations, Our Lord did not tolerate unrighteousness or injustice im any sense of the word, and his most seathing criticisms were hurled against the Pharisees because of their hypocrisy, because they pretended to be better than they really were. This gives us the thought that in the Lord’s estimation honesty is one of the noblest traits of character, and that it would be more pleasing in his sight for his followers to acknowledge that the whole world is imperfect through the fall, and that all need the divine merey, and to point cach other forward to the glorious kingdom of righteousncss whieh the Lord alone can establish, than that they should self-righteously point at the few evil-doers who had good opportunities, and attempt to justify the ma. jority of the race as though they were perfect, sinless, Let us wateh and pray against the temptations which lie in our path: let us sympathize with the exposure of everything that is sinful; but let us not glory in the rightecusness of the majority, who have not been found unfaithful because they have not been tempted in any considerable measure. Let us sympathize with the stopping of wrong doings while sympathizing also with the wrong doer and with the whole world in its depravity. Let us remember that the world has not the advantage of the higher ambitions and the new nature which are possessed by the Lord’s consecrated followers and let us have sympathy with them, while hoping and waiting and praying, ‘‘Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven.?? EVOLUTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM _ The world, perhaps, holds no other such single collection of scientific curiosities as can be found in the British Museum. Gallery after gallery, cabinet after cabinet, and mile after mile of shelving, exhibit a bewildering array of beasts, birds, fishes and moving creatures of every kind, stuffed and preserved, along with prchistorie relies, fossil forms and all the various specimens of organie life, Here would be the place of all others for the scientific skeptic of the day to trace the lincage of which he boasts, and to domonstrate his descent from the prehistoric monkey. But, unfortunately, the men who have the greatest opportunities do not always make the best improvement of them: and a large proportion of the talk about scientifie infidelity comes from men who know nothing of science. The editor of the ‘‘New York Evangelist’? publishes the following ar ZION’S WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, Pa. ticle containing the testimony from Mr, Etheridge, who stood at the head of the Natural Science department of the British Museum: ‘“‘Our friend and fellow-traveler in Palestine, Prof. George E, Post, is, as our readers are aware, a man of extensive attainments and wide and acute observation of facts and phenomena—in short, a man of science in the true sense. On the alert for whatever is worthy of atudy, it was a matter of course that while recently in London in quest of instruments and apparatus for the Medical Uollege at Beirut, he should spend some portion of his time in the British Museum—that immense storehouse of all that remains to us of the arts, the learning and life-conditions of the ages. Treated with the utmost courtesy by the large cirele of noted men and scholars, Di. Post very naturally, in the course of his visits to this great center of attraction, came in contact with Mr. Etheridge, than whom no one is more able to interpret and sum up whatever is there to be seen. Indeed, he had a special errand with him, and it thus fell out, in common phrase in a good sense, that the recognized British expert in all these matters was ‘interviewed’ by our American missionary and man of science as to his conclusions, his summing up of the bearing of the entire deposit there collected in the department of Natural History, and set in order as nowhere else in the world. And thanks to a correspondent, a former colleague of Dr. Post, we have here an account of Mr. Etheridge’s conclusions. They are given only in summary, but are clear and satisfactory as to what may be learned from a full study of the remains of all pre-historic periods. Their decisive bearing on the controversies of the day will be apnarent to all. It is seldom that so muth that is significant and entitled to great, even conclusive weight, is embraced in the same space: *¢ London, Aug. 2, 1885. ‘¢¢ Yesterday I was in the Natural History department of the British Museum. I had business touching some fossils which I found in the Lattakia Miocene and Pliocene elay beds, and about which I wrote an article which appeared in ‘‘Nature’’ last year. Mr, Etheridge, F. R. 8, kindly examined and named them. I was anxious to hear what a first-rate working scientist, with perhaps the largest opportunity for induction in the world, would say on Darwinian Evolution. So, after he had shown me all the wonders of the establishment, I asked him whether, after all, this was not the working out of mind and Providence. He turned to me with a clear, honest look into my eyes, and replied, ‘‘In all this great Museum there is not a particle of evidence of transmutation of species. Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation, and wholly unsupported by fact. Men adopt a theory and then strain their facts to support it. I read in all their books, but they make no impression on my belief in the stability of species. Moreover, the talk of the great antiquity of man is of the same value. There is no such thing as a fossil man. Men are ready to regard you as a fool if you do not go with them in all their vagaries. But this Museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views.’’ «¢¢J have condensed very much, but you may spread this out over twenty minutes, and imagine what a comfort it was to hear it. I do not propose to surrender yet even to theistic evolution, which seems to me at best a bad name for God’s creation.’ ’? Now we want to hear the verdict of bar-room scientists, saloon geologists and horse-shed philosophers, who are more anxious to establish a connection with the monkeys and baboons than with Adam, who ‘‘was the son of God.’’— From ‘‘The Armory.’? WHEELING AND LOUISVILLE CONVENTIONS The interest in Wheeling seemed to warrant us in giving it a second one-day convention soonér than usual— on Mareh 18. The topie for the publie service was ‘‘ Resurrection of Damnation.’? The forenoon discourse was given in Odd Fellows’ Hall and was well attended by the interested, though not publicly announced. That discourse was published in the secular journals which many of you receive, The afternoon discourse was for the public. The services were held in Court Theater, the largest auditorium in the city; the attendance was large, and the attention and interest manifested were very gratifying indeed. The number present was estimated at 1,400. At this meeting announcement was made for two chart talks on the following Sunday in a smaller auditorium. Brother A. E, Wil liamson filled the appointments and had excellent hearings at both sessions. Our thought is that it requires several discourses to mature the interest first aroused, and that of the thousands who hear with some degree of interest only a small number are to be expected to have the deep interest which could only be looked for in the fully conseerated of the Lord’s people. The dear friends at Wheeling did nobly and feel very much encouraged. Louisville, Ky., had its first one-day convention on March 25. The locally interested were ably seconded in their efforts to make the convention a success by dear friends residing in nearby communities. Their mutual efforts under the Lord’s blessing and providential guidance resulted in a great arousing of the people of that vicinity. [3758]

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