Revelation Versus Evolution
By Editor
Zion’s Herald is one of the leading papers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. And on the question of the Bible as the revelation of God, it says, “The progress of Christian scholarship has revealed the untenability of the traditional view of the method of revelation. The real method was not so simple. . . . In place of the dictation of a book we have the historic evolution of a divine truth.” Thus the so-called Christian scholarship has substituted evolution for revelation as well as for creation. But in both it is wrong. In creation God “spake, and it was;” and so “the worlds were framed by the word of God.” In revelation also God spoke: for “holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost;” and “the Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.” “God . . . spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,” and “in these last days,” “unto us by his Son.” Ps. 36 : 9; Heb. 11 : 3; 2 Sam. 23 : 2; 2 Peter 1 : 21; Heb. 1 : 1, 2. Accounts of robberies, murders, society sensations, etc., etc., usual and unusual, continue to fill the columns of the daily newspapers. But of such happenings as reported in the dailies, we make no mention in our news columns. On this we hold with Thoreau, who has well said: “If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, we never need read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad of instances and applications?”