The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-27

l tne sturgeon now. DarWtn's whole Sys.
tenn Is guess, and Huxley and Hers.
chel and Spencer and Tyndall come and
help him guess, guess about man, guess
about the brute, guess about the world,
but as to one solid foot of ground to
staRd on they never have had 1t. set
against all the visionary theories
Of these men the self-cOnsciOus-
ness that we are not the blood
relations Of the dog that fawns at our
| feet or the swine that wallOws In the
mire, or the spider that crawls up the
wall or the FISH that fOps in the frying
pan, or the crow that descending on the
field erOaks. We know 1t would be an
outrage to put in our Bible beside the
record, abraham begat Isaac and Isaac
begat Jacob and Jacob begat Judas" the
record: Microscopic animafcule begat
/ the tadpole and the tadpOle begat the
fish and the fish begat the reptile and
the reptile begat the quadruped and the
| quRdruped begat the. Orang-Outang and
the Orang 0utang begat man. Our mon
key race originally climbed trees, but
after awhile they lost their prehensile
power and were no longer able to climb
with any facility. 80 they gave up mon
keydOm and set up in business as the
human race. Failing as monkeys they
succeeded as man. According to eVolu-
tiOn a man is only bankrupt monkey.
pity the person who does not feel in
every nerve, muscle, bone and mental
faculty, spiritual experience the fact
that he had higher parentage and q
grander origin than the beasts that per-
ish. However squalid and debased the
condition Of men and women, though
they are stranded on the rocks of crime,
and we shudder as they pass, something
tells us that after all they belong to the
great brotherhood and sisterhOOd Of the
human race, and our sympathies go out
for them. But looking at Swiftest ga
zelle or tropical bird Of most flambOyant
wing to the curve Of the grandest cOur-
ser's neck, we find no cOnsanguinity.
The highest, the mightiest, the swiftest
the brightest Of them are 10000 faith
Oms beneath the nature with which we
are conscious of being endowed. 1t is
not that we are stronger than they, for
the lion with one stroke OF his paw
would send us into the dust. II is not
that we have better eyesight, for the ca
gle can decry mole mile away. 1t
is not that we have more velocity, for
the rOebuck flashes out of our sight,
only here and there seeming to touch
the earth.
Not of the mOllusces, not of the rhizO-
pods, not Of the mammRlia, not Of the
primal germs, but Of the living, Omnip-
Otent GOdl Lineage of the skiesl &C.
nealOgy Of heavenl l tell you plainly,
if the muskrat was your father, and the
OpOssum your mother, and the kangaroo
your great aunt, and the tOads and the
swapping turtles your illustriOus prede-
cessOrs, my father was God. know 1t,
l feel 1t. 1t thrills me through and
through with such unutterable ecstacy
that all the arguments drawn from ZOO
lOgy and mOrphOlOgy and anthropOlOgy
and paleOntOlOgy shall never shake my
belief. Evolution makes everything Q
mystery, and the more they write, and
the more they talk, the more mystery.
One mystery breeds fifty mysteries, and
the fifty hatch out thousand. Now,
suppose we admit God, and by the ad-
mission Of this one great mystery settle
all the other mysteries. I can easier be-
lieVe God made man by an act of his
power than realize that he was 100000
years being evolved. There would have
been as much miraculous power in tur-
ming an ape into man as to make q
man out and out. The one Job was as
have little place In his world. Sup
pose, If we cannot have him make all
creatures, we let him make one or two.
Suppose we build him a little place In
our world where he can stay without in
terfering with eVOlutiOnists. mo"
says Darwin, and he spends years in raj
sing fan-tail pigeons to see II he cannot
get pigeon to cross over to something
that Is not q pigeon. quail,a barn fowl
or brown thrusher. No, nothing but
a pigeon. And Others have experiment
ed with OK, and sheep, and dog, and cat,
but they have become nothing else save
when they become q hybrid and then
pass over into extinction. The only sue
cessful attempt to pass from the dumb
brute to articulate man was the one
that Balaam witnessed In the beast he
rode, and the Angel of the Lord with
drawn sword stopped that evOlutionist.
But If we will not let God make man,
why not let him make hOrsep NO."
says Huxley, I'VE must not have God
anywhere about the premises" He says
in his lecture the horse came from the
pleiO-hippus, and the pleiO-hippus from
the prOtO-hippus, and the prOtO-hippus
from the myO-hippus, and the myO-hip-
pus from the mesO-hippus, and the mesO-
hippus from the erO-hippus, and 30 all
the species are for millions and millions
of years to be traced back until we can
get back to the mOnerOn without having
any God intermeddling with the erea-
tiOn, and the mOnerOn Is 80 near Iffeless
that Ernst Haeckel says 1t could make
itself by spontaneous generation, very
narrow escape from the necessity Of
having God.
The whole idea of evolution seems TO
imply that If there be God, and they
rather think there Is none, he did not
know exactly what he wanted at the
start, and has been changing his mind
ever and ever anon through the ages,
but think God made everything Just
right, and that the harmony Of the world
depends not on the advance of animals
from one specie into another specie, but
in all staying what they are. Once upon
a time In an amphitheater of the forest
a convention Of the animal creation was
called. A gorilla Of Western Africa
stood up, and with club from the Jun
giles, pounded order, and then took a
chair Of twisted forest roots. And the
delegation Of birds took their places In
the galleries of the hills and treetops,
and the delegation of reptiles took their
places in the pit of the valley, and the
intervening tiers Of rocks were occupied
by the delegation Of intermediate ami
mails. On one table of strata under a
glass case were four or FIVE primal germs
and in cup few drops of prOtOplasm.
The gorilla, pounding again for order,
cried: 30, ye beasts and birds and rep
tiles, have called you into this con-
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