Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

400 BIBLE nl-:vmw Aug.-Sep.
In reading the Scripture, we do not notice any interference
with man's
mundane affairs until that time when
the children of men began to build what is known as the
tower of Bable (Gen. xi); namely, when the inhabitants of
the earth, having one identical view upon worldly affairs,
came to a mutual agreement, and sought to perpetuate
their unity by rearing an intellectual system of thought
and by those means penetrate into the secrets of heaven;
and this without surrendering their desire to live an
animal life.
That this ideal was brought out into phenomc na by the
construction of a tower appears to be a historical fact;
but when the Lord brought disaster upon them by confounding
their language, it caused the builders to misunderstand
each other; and becoming divided in thought
and separated, the different groups thus forn, ed established
different tendencies of mind, contrary views, new
habits, variation in dialect; in short, the disaster put
upon each group a different stamp, and created the impression
among nations that they are strangers to each
other, and that the interest of one is superior the interest
of the other; and as man sought happiness thru poss-
.ession of mammon, and in the joys of a sensuous life,
war and destruction became the means of settling diHi~
culties arising between them.
That this dispersion was
essential is plain from the fact that mankind, united all
upon one belief, grown up and matured in one faith,
resting upon a false 'foundation which is generation,
could never be made to rise any higher in their aspirations,
therefore, could never reach unity with God, and
inherit immortality in form and function.
To achieve progress, man must encounter different opinb
ions, as well as contrary views upon religion, philosophy,
politics, finance, and social questions, and thru suffering,
for, "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission"