Giants in the Earth in Those Days
By G. C. Hoskin
"There were giants in the earth in those days." Gen. 6:4. THERE are very few of us who have not smiled more than once over fairy tales of giants, that were told us when we were boys and girls. Little did we think it probable that such men and women really did exist on our earth. But when we read of it as a fact and matter of record in Holy Writ, the story changes, and somehow we want to learn more of this great people. So we read on for a few chapters, and there we find their history. The preceding chapter gives their complete genealogy. It is a brief bit of history. But there is enough of it to show that the forefathers of the human race were men of giant stature and intellect. The record says they "became mighty men," "men of renown." Then we go back to the first chapter and the twenty-seventh verse of the same book, and there it is written that "God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them," and that it was done about six thousand years ago. In further study, we see the reason for the present deterioration in the human race, clear, logical, conclusive, and supported by facts. And still, some people, some who have dug deep into the great storehouse of science, claim as their parents, monkeys and frogs and tadpoles, and try to make everybody else acknowledge relationship. They call it evolution. In reality it is "devilation." But that shows the extent to which the mind can become befogged when God and His records are left out of the reasoning. Away with such vagaries! Our fore-parents were giants in physique and intellect, and we will attain to the same if our characters are such as will stand before the Lord Jesus, our Saviour, at His soon coming.