Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-21

not "a worthy 10 live a. we who sur
yiyed? No, no. IL was not the sur
vlvaI ~ the fittest. Did EllswoFt,s and
Nathaniel Lyon fall on the Northern
side aud Albert sidney JOHNSON and
Slonewail Jackson fall on
tile other eide because they wer,
not 20 1T to live a. the soldiers
who returned home in safety No;
l.nlsied be the tongue that iarcs -ay II.
What has been the history of many 81
your families Was II not In many
eases the hcalthiest physically and TIE
brightest intelIectuaIiy that was taken
by dt8thg la many CASES u your OBJ
ser..ation il has been the death Of the
iittesf. In all communities il j. often
tlie case that many 81 the grande@i and
the most useful aud The ntst sublime
natures are taken. while Iuauy Of the
ueane.t and lowest and widest continue
10 show that the bible il right and
that evolution j. wrong IN theory. /
tell you that there has teen no
natural progress. Where j. the
hDrsa driven through any Of our
PARKS worthy II have the picture 81
his neck and eye and nostril and
/ haunehe. put beside the war horse
+ ilIat Job heard neighing and champ
Z ing the bit for the battle. The pigeons
are not ar wis. as five hundred years
ago when they were carriers and took
the mails as swiftly a. oar modern eX-
press rail train. Beside the great
beasts that walked the earth in oIden
time a modern elephant j. n cat. and
beside the great SEA monsters that
swan the deep the whale j. q minnow,
the cOuies have not learned anything
about climbing. nor the hounds any
thing about hunting, nor the ,ys:;:s.stI
aUOlt Matching. nor the condor any
thing abeat iiying. nor the owl any
thing about musical casiences for 600
years
Aud 81 to eur race. we began with
men sca !est high, and now the aver
agc IT, fyr feet three The ancient-
lived 3ei fsi, 50. eDo years, and tile
average now Of life il less than thirty.
While we are far ahead OF the ancients
III some things, In other there has
been retrogressiuu instead OF advance
meut In York Cathedral window re-
pairs have he.n effected within "A few
years. but the modern paintings Of the
windows ia THAI cathedral are far in
fcrloT to those made there four or five
hundred years ago. Natural develop
( Inrnt OF reptile, and qnidruped, and
( bird. and man. Nothing. Vast inn
I pr0yements. but through quite a diff
I creui source, a. | shall show YOU in
/ two or three minutes. Let us see what
evolution has done for China. There
I II has had unlimited swing for
Z thousands Of Year,, aud only
here and there interfered with mis-
-IOnary stations by that defi,nct book
commonly called the scriptures. What
advancement. Not the live hundred
.nllliOntb part o! an inch. From our
! Christian civilization some went i'm
and built a frw mites of railroad track
( but II was torn up by natives and
( abandoned. They worship the same
/ wnsslen good OF red paint and the
same ancestral tablets, aud in the same
I way drown female children as NUS.
ance, and eat with the same chop
sticks, 10 in India, except where
/ christianity has invaded it, no adj
/ vancelnrnt. So in Arabia. 50 in Tur.
1 KY, 80 in the case %, the majority OF
I tiie worlds inhabitants the same ir-
/ noTant, besotted, cruel, shameless hui
/ mnnlty. The natural evolution of The
, human race - downward.
70 show that evolution ia anti-Bible
hear Chrisi's account OF natural evolu-
ton Matthew, XIV, ~: "Out of the
heart evolveth evil thoughts murders.
adulIerit-, foundations, thcns. false
( witness, blasphemics.n Give natural
evolution tut swing and ii would
evolve two htmiSpheres Of SOdomic
IN rails, two hemi-pheres of crimes,
two henisphercs of penitentiaries. two
/ heml7pheres of Lazarcttos, two henis-
+ pheres oi brnthels. Sing Sing and
. New York Tonhs, aud Shureditch
! Inndon. and Cuwgate, Edinburgh. are
I. only vast crbuncles on the face and
back ot natural evolution, Just opuo-
sste are the statements of Scripture and
evolution. The one says better and
better gets the world by its own mt
ural improvement. The Bible saws
che heart Is deceillul above all things
and desperately wicked. When YOU
cdu evolve fragrance out of malod1
aia an otatoriO out OF "A saw-sharpeu.
luE and a barrel OF tall pippins OFT of
a BASKET OF drcaycd crab apples. then
Nnn can by natural evolution from
the human heart develop goodness
Before YOU chopSe evolution To the Bi.
hle want you 20 understand that cyn-
i"Iinn ~ most dishonest and deceptive.
ite illrt step is a misrepr
Whch II claiulS evolution as an origi.
nailly with Darwin and Spencer.
l"iE centuries before either OF these
gcHtlcmvu were evolved the phoni-
"aus argued THAT the human race
Wooded ont ol the mud Deulocritus.
who lived $50 years before Christ
wrote these words; 'Evcrythinr Il
e9iaposcd OF atoms or infinitely small
elements. each with definite quality
,sst.. Ia. -. 4
uuion and separation shane all diff
ecu things and form laws and effects
ani ul-SoiNe them again for new combi.
nations, The QodS Themselves and
The human miud originated from such
+ atoms Matchmaker declared that
4 the human race ctme from where the
"a saturated the earth. Lucretius rs.
s'uned The same idea la his poems
! Evolution Is an old, dead, heathrD
forpse, which -ot up In the morguc
spencer aud Darwin are trying To cal
vHuiSo, These cvolutlunists are drau-
riug this old petrcmctjun OF 2.O1l or
+ uh years old around the earth. bran.
/ Elng that they are themthors of il. in
/ ignorance Of tho laei that the idea was
centuries Old when Herbert Spencer
! 'uund it, \ dinner is given at Del
mpnWos hast November in
honor OF the great original dis
I c4Nerer of evolution And
j the guests sat around the table eating
( hetl, ana turkey and roast pig, ac-
( eardlng 70 the doctrine OF evolution.
/ eating their own relatives. slicing
tlelr own cousins, picking the bones
I oi their own uncles, and thrustiug the
carring FORK into the uoSom of their
! own blood relations, dashinr Wprc,s.
X 'cfeh're sauce anu bcttunhing mustard