Tracing Our Ancestors: Were they descendants of apes or of Adam?

193 Pages·1934·5.3 MB·English

by  HABERMAN

TRacing
OUR
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by Frederick Haberman
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T HE KIN GDOM P RE SS
St. Petersburg, Florida
COP'JJrighl 1934
THE KINGDOM PRESS
RespecifullJ) Dedicated
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President Franl~lin D. Roosevelt
In (he hope Owt it noill help him in guiding our nation
through this period of chaos ana transition- bJ) explaining
the (rue origin of our race, our mission, and our destin]).
The author is greatly indebted to The Covenant Publishing
Co. of London and Messrs. Williams and Ncrgate. Lon
don. for their kind permission 10 reproduce their plates.
PREFACE
AI times like the present, when many realize thai we are living in a
period of transition from the old order into a new and when everybody
is wondering where we are going to under the New Deal. it may seem out
of place, at first thought,to write a book dealing with our ancestors and
where they originated; yet it will be found that the question of our origin
is also intimately connected with our destiny. A wanderer who has no
recollection of where he came from has a poor chance of reaching his
destination. And so it seems 10 be the way with our people.
That America had losl her way our nation began to realize 111 the
spring of 1930. Ever since then our people have been wandering in
circles. trying to find a way out of the Depression that had effected the
whole world, but us more than any other nation. Why in our country,
the richest in the world, with untold wealth of soil, mines, and streams,
one-third of our people should be destitute we could not understand.
Hitherto we had been the leaders in material progress and suddenly that
progress stopped end the Crisis affected us more than any other civilized
nation. America was puzzled.
With the coming of President Roosevelt a great renaissance began
III our land. Under his energetic leadership reform measures have been
instituted, .....hich, whether they will bring the hoped-for results or not, arc
radically different in principle from the old established form of economics
and statecraft. Hitherto America has been the "land of the free." where
each individual was free to do his best or his worst with the least inter
ference from the government. But with the coming of the New Deal
I' n E F A CI'~
and itssupervision of all industries. partnership with the farmers. N. R. A.
codes. dcmetallization of our currency. and billions of Federal money
for loans and for starting work for the jobless. thinking people are be
ginning to see that we are standing on the threshold of a New Era; and
the eyes of the world arc turned toward America.
Since the crisis made itself really felt in the spring of 1930 every
established theory of philosophy. economics, and even of general education
has been badly shaken. and many have been upset Very few of the old
ideas seem to work any more, not even the practice of working hard and
saving up. Men who had worked for years and invested their savings
for a rainy day found their savings swept away by the Deluge. Even
our educators havelearned to see that the very efficiency which they drilled
into their students only precipitated the Crisis. The plight of our college
graduates is pitiful. All the education and science which they acquired
through years of study and training the world has no use for or at least
no monetary reward for. Over a million holders of college degrees are
jobless. All their hopes and dreams of becoming Doctors. Lawyers.
Architects, Engineers. or Nursesseem to be ended the moment they receive
their diplomas; and they. as well as the students still in the colleges. are
wondering what they really strove and studied for. Material Progress
and Evolulion have been made the religion of our colleges; yet both of
them seem to be out of gear.
Surely the present impasse in which our civilization finds itself ought
to raiseseriousquestions in the mindsofour educatorsand leaders. whether
our whole modem philosophy of life. based upon the theory of organic
evolution. has not been founded upon the wrong premises.
After a century of scientific progress and striving for the material
things of life. an ever-increasing number of our population found that the
things they strove for were farther from their grasp than ever. After cen
turjes of rapidly increasing rationalism and materialism and selfish striving,
the present crisis has forced upon millions of our people and upon our New
Administration the necessity of going back to the principles which were
PREFACE
taught by Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, which are the principles
of His Kingdom. expressed in the single dictum, "Love thy neighbor as
thyself."
It is a striking picture of the changing spirit of our times thnt
Mr. P. W. Wilson in his article. "Christ's Precepts in the New Deal."
in the January Hcol>iew of Rel>ieD>s should say of Christ: "The whole of
what has been called His plan of salvation. His organization of rescue,
His liberations and development of abundance, is founded upon recipro
city: live in the life of ethers, the life that is love. Mankind is still
staggered by this omnipotent paradox, and rebels against it. But we are
learning by hard experience that there is no other way of living at all
unless we live for others. It is the rule of the family. It must become
the rule of society and of nations."
Such sentiment, expressed in a leading American monthly devoted
primarily to political and business affairs. and uttered on many occasions
by President Roosevelt and members of his Administration. and reechoed
in the hearts of millions of disappointed people in our land. means the
greatest moral revolution in the history of civilization and shows that we
are standing on the threshold of a New Era. America which started a
Revolution 160 years ago is starting a still greater one today.
For almost a hundred years the tenets of an organic evolution have
been taught in our colleges at the expense of the spiritual teachings of our
Bible. and now. after a hundred years of rationalism and apparent failure,
our leaders are compelled to go back to the Old Book and its statements.
We are living in a period of startling changes and all the signs indi
cate that still greater changes are ahead of us. Many of our established
theories have been shaken and our philosophers and intellectuals are greatly
confused, For ages they have tried to explain a Godless universe and the
evolution of man from the lower forms of life. as contrary to the teachings
of Genesis. Hundreds of theories have been postulated, all of them
different but every one of them ignoring the statements of Scripture. The
latter themselves have been subjected to severe criticism. particularly the
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Old Testament; yet its historicity is being verified by the discoveries of
archaeology every day, as this volume will show. And now when all of
men's conceptions and philosophies have been tried and found wanting,
our statesmen are turning to the pages of the Bible for guidance and help,
That Old Book has outlasted the wrecks of time; it isstill the best seller
and the most up-to-date of all books. When scenes are changing so
rapidly today, its prophecies are always ahead of the events, as students
of the Bible are aware. The Words of its Divine Author and His
Precepts alone can solve the problems perplexed humanity is facing and
will face until they are heeded.
A great awakening has begun among our race and a still greater
one is yet to come. The fact that this present revolution began in America
may be merely a matter of Evolution in the eyes of our intellectuals, but
those good people have been badly mistaken in many things lately and
may be mistaken again. They are very much disappointed today that our
American prosperity and leadership has so abruptly terminated, but they
have never concerned themselves with the cause of that prosperity and the
reasons for the leadership of our race-the so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
In the answer to these questions may also lie the solution to many of our
present problems. As I said to begin with: A wanderer who has no
recollection of where he came from has a poor chance of reaching his
destination. Therefore, let us inquire into the origin of our race.
St. Petersburg, Florida, January, 1934. - F. H.