Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-02-09

hear Christ's account Of natural evolu.
tion-Matthew, XIV, 10: "Out Of the
heart evolveth evil thoughts, murders.
adulteries, fornication, thefts, false wit
ness, blasphemies. Give natural evo-
luton full swing and it would evolve two
hemispheres Of Sodomic morals, two
hemispheres Of crime, two hemispheres
Of penitentiaries, two hemispheres of lag
arettos, two hemispheres Of brothels.---
Sing Sing and New York Tombs, and
Shoreditch, London, and Oowgato. Ed
inburgh, are only vast carbuncles on the
face and back Of natural evolution. just
opposite are the statements of Scripture
and evolution. The one says better apd
better gets the world by its own natural
Improvement. The Bible says the heart
is deccitful above all things and desper-
atcly wicked. When you can evolve
fragrance out of malodor and an oratorio
out of a saw-sharpening, and a barrel Of
Fall pippins out of a basket Of decayed
crab apples, then you can by natural ev-
oluton from the human heart develop
goodness, Before you choose evolution
to the Bible | want you to understand
that evolution is most dishonest aud de-
ccptive. Its first step is a misreprosent-
alton when it claims evolution as an orig
inality with Darwin and Spencer Long
centuries before either Of these gentle
men were evolved the PhGnicians argued
that the human race wobblcd out Of the
mud. Democritus, who lived 460 years
before christ, wrote these words: ''Ev-
erything is composed of atoms or infin-
itely small elements. each with definite
quality, form and movement, whose 10.
evitable union and separation shape all
different things and form laws and effects
and dissolve them again for new combi-
nations. The gods themselves and the
human mind originated from such at
oms" Anaximandsr declared that the
human race came from where the sea sat
uratcd the earth. Lucretius assumed
the same idea in his poems. Evolution is
an old, dead, heather corpse, which, set
up in the morgue, Spencer and Darwin
are trying to galvanize These evOlu-
tionists are dragging this old petrefac-
ton Of 1000 or 1000 years old around
the earth, Dragging that they are the
authors of it, in ignorance Of the fact
that the idea was centuries old when
Herbert Spencer found it, A dinner is
given at Delmonico's last November in
honor of the great original discoverer Of
evolution. And the guests sat around
the table eating beef, and turkey, aud
roast pig, according TO the doctrine Of
evolution, eating their own relatives,
sicing their own cousins, picking tho
bones of their own uncles, and thrusting
the carving fork into the bosom Of their
own blood relations, dashing Worcester
shire sauce and bedaubing mustard all
over members of their own family, and
while Herbert Spencer reads patronix-
ing lecture on the American people, the
American snvants declare it is the voice
Of God and not of man. There is
only one thing worse than English snob-
berry, and that is American snobbery. I
like Democracy and ! like aristocracy,
but there is rapidly evolving in this
country detestablo ocracy, which Chas.
Kingsley, after witnessing it himself,
called snobocracy. Is it honest to palm
of this old heather notion as modern
discovery?
How history repeats itself David
was pursued by Sauls men, and Michael,
David's wife, pretended he was sick up
stairs, and after David had escaped out
Of the window she put in tho bed an
efigy or image Of David on bolster Of
goats hair. But, after while, the men
Of Saul insisted upon going upstairs and
there they found it was only an image Of
M escaped monarch, and they cried
why hast thou deceived me SO p Thus,
again, the world is deceived and the evo-
luton theory Of Lucretius and Anaxi-
nander and Dcmocritus has escaped and
in place thereof is put TO bed this image,
this doll baby OF modern evolution, which
is only an effigy of u departed monarch
Of other days, and well may the world
cry out as did the men Of Saul TO Mi
chael, "Why hast thou deceived me so p
This morning bring my remarks to
close by saying that | am not pessim-
list, but an optimist, and instead of think.
ing everything is going to ruin think
is going on TO salvation, and
instead Of its being | o'clock at night
for our suffering and dying world, it is
half-past s o'clock in the morning. But
not through infdel evolution is the race
10 be saved and the world made arbores-
cont, but through Christianity, which
has directly or indirectly effected all tho
good already wrought and which is to
complete the worlds reconstruction.
Look there in the ofiing. A ship gone
on the rocks at Cape Hatteras and break
ing to pieces, the storm in full blast and
tho barometer yet sinking Now what
does that ship want? Development, that
is all. Let her develop her cargo, de-
velop he rudder, develop her broken
masts, develop her parting hulks, develop
her passengers, develop her dying crew.
No, I am mistaken. What that ship
wants is life-boat from the shore. Leap
into her ye men at the life station l.
Steady now, till you reach the wreck,
and fetch the women and children first
and then the freezing and dying men,
and wrap them in fannels and kindle
roaring fire, till their frozen
limbs arc thawed out, and between their
teeth you can pour restoration.
The world is on the rocks. God launched
IL we'll enough, but through mispilotage
aud the sweeping Of the storms Of 5000
years the old hulk in tho breakers
What does il want Development. The
old hulk has got enough evolution in her
10 guard masts and sails and helm, and
put herself toward quiet harbor. No;
no. She wants the life-boat, and it is
coming. Cheer, my lads, cheer Com
ing from the shores Of heaven, taking
the crest Of ten waves at one sweep Of
the shining paddles Christ is standing
in it with many bleeding wounds Of brow
and hand and side, showing that he has
been long engaged in this work Of res
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