For Special Attention of High School and College Students
If some bright sunny afternoon you take a walk and see a newly built house open for inspection, you might very likely go in. On entering you would carefully note the arrangement of the rooms, color and type of finishing, lighting facilities, and many other things. You would also consider all the unique features, and the little handy built-in conveniences here and there. After making mental note of all, you would probably leave and continue your walk.
Further on you see another new house; and you are, of course, interested to see and compare it with the one so recently surveyed. As you begin your inspection tour, you are impressed with certain similarities in general design with the first house. Continuing your observations, you find many of the details are strikingly similar to those in the house previously visited.
Now I want to ask you a question: Do you suppose that you or anyone else would for a passing moment think that the second house had evolved from the first one? Would certain resemblances bring anyone to the conclusion that the latter was an outgrowth, a development, or an offshoot of the former? Of course not! The only sensible or logical conclusion would be that the same architect had designed both houses.
All this is very simple. Yet how sad to see the utter folly of poor vain man, who, when he sees certain anatomical resemblances between man and some animals, reasons that man has evolved from an ape, and is not a creature direct from the hand of God. How much more really intelligent he would be if he were to acknowledge the finger of God, and his own responsibility to his Creator. Many who are high in the ranks of those who have great stores of this world’s wisdom and knowledge have gone completely astray. Back of it all is the desire to do away with the thought of having to meet the God who created them. Unconverted man is still like Adam when he sinned in the Garden of Eden – he ran to hide himself from God. Natural man today still desires to hide from God, and will grasp at the smallest straw in the vain attempt to lull his conscience to sleep. He wants to forget that he must give account to God, and does not seem to care how senseless, or even ridiculous, he may appear, if he can but succeed in any small measure.
They may be your teachers, and in many things may be highly intelligent men or women; but if they deny that man is a creature direct from God, they are totally and willfully blind. The time will come when it can be said of them, “The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the Word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?” Jeremiah 8:99The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them? (Jeremiah 8:9).
Such people are but blind leaders of the blind, and together they will fall into the pit. It might be said of them,