THE CREATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 4694, 14 June 1882, Page 2

THE CREATION.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sib,— Yoa will readily admit a few of my brief observations on Mr Denton's lecture on "Is Darwin right ?" For myself I quite believe Darwin is right as regards bis con* elusions in respect of man passing through stages. But what I wish to call attention to is the account given by Moe63 of the oteation of man. This account in the book of Genesis is generally misunderstood. Moses only gave us of manuscripts, useful and proper for generations to come, and left out others that were not necessary to us, such as the book of Jasher, the Wars of Jehova, and the enunciations of others. This account is greatly misunderstood more especially by the elite— church— and philosophers generally. The creation is there, speaking of the creation of minds in matter and not of the animal substance or matter that envelops the man— or mind; at the same time of course it includes the matter. The two great lights in the Heavens do not refer to the sun and moon in our natural heavens, but the lights in the heavens of the thing just emerging out of its menkeyhood,or mind in matter, He breathed into bis nostrels the breath of lives — our version is in the singular and all others in the plural — these lives are two, viz.', the will and the understanding, or intellect and will. Now, Mr Denton is finite like us all, and makes full admission of a "God or Creator, the Infinite and eternal spirit." Following up this, Mr Denton says he "cannot believe in the being that came down here in the shape of a man. " Now, why Mr Denton can believe in the former and not in the latter is a puzzle to me. Does Mr Denton ignore the power of this " God, the infinite and eternal spirit," creator of a universe, to overshadow one of His finites, with hia own very self, Many speak of humanity in the very nick of time, to snatch it from the brink of destruc tion Why, love and wisdom, God, would hava been clean gone had he not done so. He— God — was the soul in the body of the man, the only man, by the woman Mary, and at the same time omnipresent. Mr Denton thinks in fifty years things will be made very nice by freethought, which only leads to free love ; but Mr Denton does not know that the tail of the dragon before that time will sweep ita "Fourth" of America, and then its due share of Europe, into where there is no God at all. It was the greatnlta and not the meftnntM

of your God that came into the man and formed that eternal union of the divine and the human — the emanation or outflow — which is called the Holy Spirit, and of which everyone can have who honestly desires it. It is better to have a God you know than one yon don't know, you know. That's all, just now ; and many thanks for your indulgence,-—! am, &c, John Moßeth, senr. P.S. — Had Charles Darwin known a little more truth, he would have gone on and told Mr Denton and others the true tale of the man coming through the little monkey and going back to the big baboon ; in which case the body does not get smaller, but simply the soul leaves the body to live as big as in his manhood. Poor thing ! — J. MoB.