Northwestern Bible School - Scroll Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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lecture for an hour and a half in favor of the evolutionary hypothesis, marshalling fane of mind in the name of facts, multiplying inferences in lieu ot arguments, trying to secure an acceptance of mere speculation by calling it science, and yet the very chart that he drew on the hoard confirmed the Genesis story as to the order of creation. I le had to admit that as one walked upward from the Archcan and Paleozoic, in through the Mesozoic, the Cenozoic, and Quaternary to the present period he passed from vegetable through sea life, and air life, to mammals, and that very order, according to the orthodox chart of present-day Geology and honest biologists, is exactly such as is set down in the opening sentence of the Book Divine. It would hardly he necessary to remark here that the Bible does not require us lo believe that all species of mammals appeared at one time; there is no in harmony between Geology, which will fell you that the lower forms, or p artial mammals, appear first and the more perfected mammals later, and the Genesis account of their place in the creative week. In fact, there is a strong hint in the Genesis account ot this exact order, die living creature is mentioned hrst, ‘‘cattle ' second, and that this is not simply an accident of statement is argued in the circumstance that in the twenty-fifth verse the beasts oL the earth” first, and “cattle” later, and then “everything that crcepeth upon die face of the earth, after his kind.” It is readily conceded according to the orthodox Geologist that true mammals, like cattle and horses, cats, dogs and apes were the last of God ' s creatures before the appear¬ ance of man. One cannot escape a feeling of profound pity lor the hosts ol young men and women who, in many of the Universities of the present moment arc being brought to believe that the Bible is an absurd Book, not only devoid of science but utterly destitute of the simplest veracity, and that its statements are diametrically opposed to discovered truth; and, to believe in it is to be a mental mossbaek, an intellectual indolent, Alas for such nonsense! The greatest thinkers of all centuries have not only believed in the Bible, but have been made great by the Bible. Hie very schools that now seethe with skepticism owe their existence to the plenary powers of Scripture, and the hoys and girls who are being led away from God and the Gospel by certain superficial professors, absurd text¬ books, sovietized influences, would be sitting at home with folded hands and vacant minds and hungry stomachs, and ill-clad forms, or else flapper-like, Hitting from place to place in search of some new pleasure, or looking lor a possible employment, were not for the inspiration, intelligence and industry begotten in the lives of their parents by perusal of and confidence in the matchless Word of God. Geology and Genesis agree in giving man the fourth and last place in creation. The creative week was coming to a close when God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, aficr Our likeness.” In the University lecture to which I have before referred the Pro¬ fessor after having declared the unproven proposition that millions, and possibly billions of years had been required to bring the earth from a molten mass to its present estate, cover it with verdure, and people it with animal life, dared the indefensible speculation as to tire probable length of time to be given to the various ages making up the sum total of a short eternity. Footing his figures he accounted lor it all without giving one single minute to man. In the free discussion that followed, keeping in mind Prof. Conkling ' s recent book The Direction of I Ionian Evolution” and ins unscientific and uiiscri plural suggestion that man had probably been on the earth for the space of three to five thousand years, I asked the Professor why he, being an evolutionist, gave no time or place for man’s occupation of the earth, to which lie candidly answered, and ( think righteously, “Well, by way of comparison it is too short to take account of.” Once more Genesis is confirmed. Man is the completion of God’s creations, as well as the crown of the same! Prof. Keyscr, discussing the order of nature says, “First came the oblique forms of life, which were obviously vegetable; then the primal forms of animal life; then the higher forms; lastly man himself like a crown upon the pedestal ol creation.

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Genesis, but that God’s days are geological days, as extensive in time as the rocks will require when once the truth of their creation is clearly known Here then we have Genesis and Geology speaking together concerning the formless and nebulous state of our original world; and they are clearly together when order emerges from chaos in answer to the Word of God, “Let the earth bring forth grass and lifts its prophetic face to the freshly revealed but imperfect rays of the sun, and is followed in quick succession by herbs and trees, the law of whose generation was established once and forever, “After its kind.” All claims that this original life was produced by a shining sun, by spontaneous generation, by inherent potencies, by any conceivable power apart from the God of Genesis, are not science but pure speculation; and Geology itself gives such theories no approval, and in the light of the Book of Genesis, they are nothing better than godless unbelief. We arc not ready to admit with so-called thcistic evolutionists that the speck of protoplasm is as perfect a proof of God as is a completed universe. Logic insists that if men make such a speck the only god of the universe they render some intelligent account of the origin of the speck itself, and further account for the infinite potentialities in that speck, which if it wrought out a universe, must have been not only as powerful but as infinitely wise as the God of the Bible. For while the illimitable number of planets, and unthinkable systems that fill infinite space impress us to the point of awe, we can come hack to the single perfected feature of life, namely the eye, and if we attempt to account for it; have coerced from our lips— “only Godl 17 It is little wonder that Charles Darwin, long after he had written The Origin of Species” candidly exclaimed, “The eye, to this day, gives me a cold shudder.” It will continue to give an ague to any godless atheist who looks into its limpid depths, and recognizes the infinity of wisdom in its organism and function. Geology and Genesis agree in giving fish and fond the second place in creation. “And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath lile, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven In the language of a believing Scientist, We are not compelled to suppose that every class of winged fowl and every class of sea monster was actually brought into existence during that period,” blit that certain and prophetic features of both appeared in that exact place is put past controversy by the investigation of tins cemetery of the centuries, Oherlin’s great geologist tells concerning the beginning of animal life upon the earth and sea, that it was lirst peopled with animals not having a backbone, such as the various kinds of shell fish, and later fishes with a backbone, then amphibious life, the frog and reptiles. The origin of birds is less determined. There seems to be no doubt that they preceded the earliest mammals.” How remarkable! Moses had not opened the bowels of the earth to discover their contents. In spite of his matchless mind and his evident learning, it is not the least likely that by pick and shovel he first pursued nature’s order and then later recorded it in the first hook in his Pentateuch. The parallelism there between these two records is exactly such as to exclude the explanation of a fortu¬ nate guess, and to compel the view that science properly interpreted, and inspiration correctly understood, speak together. Once admit the opening sentence of Scripture In the beginning God,” and nature’s puzzles are no longer unsolved or insoluble Once admit the truth of that opening sentence and we have an instant, adequate, and only conceivable explanation, and the same shibboleth for Geology and Genesis being alike voiced in the first instance through the stones of the earth, and in the second, through human speech, they answer the one to the other point by point to the last particular. Geology and Genesis agree in giving vertebrate animals third dace in creation. One night in Pol well Hall, the University of Minnesota, I listened to a biological teacher

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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS F ROM various walks of business and professional life, from paths distinctly different, from tliis city and others, called together tor one purpose, come Northwestern’s board of directors Their work, though of great importance, is not done in the open; conse¬ quently, they are unknown by the great majority of students; but their services are appreciated Dr, Riley, the president of this group, is the pastor of the First Baptist Church of this city; Dr. Earle V Pierce, of Lake Harriet Baptist; Dr G. G Validity nc, of Park Avenue Methodist; John A. Siemens, of First Baptist, Hastings; and Peter MacFarlane, of the Union Gospel Mission, St Paul. A J Bisbcc is an accountant with the Mallet and Carey Grain Company; A. O. Bjorklund, an attorney for the Soo Railway Company; J. Colgate Buckbee, president of the Bureau of Engraving; E. A. Crosby, treasurer of the Minneapolis Street Railway Company; C, K IngersolL cashier for the Van Dusen Harrington Elevator Company: N. T. Mears, president of the Buckbee-Mears Engraving Company; W. H. Schmelzel, an influential business man oL St, Paul; C. T. Shoop, an instructor at the University of Minnesota; S, Marx White, a physician; and Archer Young, a prominent business man of Faribault Dr. Pierce and Mr. Buckbee are missing irom the picture below. THE FORUM HE student body organization of “Northwestern is called “The Forum ’ It has for its purpose the fostering and cherishing of loyalty, throughout the student body, to the Scriptures; and to create a recognition, on the part of the individual student, of his personal responsibility toward the student body and the school in maintaining inviolate the tenets of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in sustaining the highest possible standard of Christian character and conduct. It also provides opportunity for student expression on matters concerning the student body, such as prayer meetings, fellowship hours, and social affairs. The members of the Forum cabinet arc constituted of the Forum president, who is elected annually by the student body, and two representative members from each class, elected annually. This year the office of President has been filled by Gerald Grotey. The Senior representatives are Victor Sawatzky, vice-president, and Twylali Wanous, treasurer. Junior representatives arc Nina Johnson, secretary, and Wesley Johnson, Freshman representatives were Beatrice Slaikcu and Harry Marcilliotte for the first se¬ mester, and Irene Campa and Mark Cambron tor the second semester.