Fallen Man

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 27, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 21.

Fallen Man.—It is unreasonable to suppose that man, the highest of all God’s creatures on this earth, was created lower in any respect than any of the animate creation. In the use and acuteness of his senses he was doubtless superior to all the lower orders of creation. He was the prince of this world in every respect. But it was man that sinned, it was man that fell, and upon man has rested the heavier curse. In many respects now man is below many of the brute creation, especially in respect to the senses and instinct. The instinct of the brute is truer than man’s boasted wisdom. The senses of the temperate and sinned-against brute are keener than those of intemperate and degenerate man. It is a well-known fact, the St. Louis Republic tells us, that “horses can hear sounds that are not perceptible to human ears. For days previous to the great earthquake in the Riviera, the horses of that locality showed every symptom of abject fear, which continued without change of character (unless it was in the direction of greater frenzy) till the fury of the great convulsion broke forth. Not until a few seconds, however, before the earth began to tremble, did human beings hear the subterranean rumblings. One writer from the scene says that in his opinion the horses knew that the great quake was on the way from seventy-two to one hundred hours before their masters heard or felt the first jar.” In the day of Christ all those who receive him will be restored to man’s first estate, yea, and beyond; they will be like Christ. Every faculty of mind, body, and soul will be renewed.