The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-05

the descent ef man from the faoukcv. 10 speak the very truth. hc Is nes worthy et such percentage. l. ls not the teachings of these schools ,aai he descended from the monkey. Along the line of the de yelopuaer, of the higher ;hirgS tracing them back. they are found to go hack to less comph a;ed. and $ II less. and stsil less II yoa take the oak and the pine. they arc as ,af apar, is possible, !; would seem. You 70 back enc sep and they still are widely apart. You go back again a step. and s,lll another. and II is not untii you SC; back ,o the moses sh2. you had the starting pom, where inc peculiar quail tues of each oi these ante aud are tound Then these qualities branch and unfold gradually. one running oa; into the oak family. and the other running out iE;o the pine family. And the theory n re- gard 10 the descent of man along the line ef the monkey is that, when you 90 back of the monkey one generation, two gen. erations. three generations. yoa come to a point of time in which we have a com mon ancestor. and ,hat then there was ,his sariauon which hes a; the foan- dation of the parwinian system, and that the monkey ~.,h his bone anu HibsN NCAtk V+A tHai( way . and man. with his nerve ard hsain. went of the other from that common an- cestor. and ,ha; man deScenas and ua- folds in the li-e of his distinctive pecu liarites. whilc the grea, Si,aian tube come up along their lnc. l. $ ,he grea;. great greai-grandfathes of the merkey that is our ancestor.
 Well. noa. wl,hoat stopping to diseu ss this, and only saying taa; there Is no proof ye,-:here is nei even sneh proei as creates the same probability that eNis,s m regard ;o other departments ot evoia- on-,here ate grca, many things m the doctrine ot evolution ,ha: mus, be taken for granted. and yet you cannot help Il. see a road gong into a riser l see, away down the stream. a road emerging. have never crcpt along the bottom to sec that there als continuous road, nor has anybody else. and vel. nybody rid ing 10 tha; bank. seeing where ths road ends on this side and where another road begins on tha, side. will say Why. there is ford" You have %; no proof of 1t. and yet from the very nature of ,he mind you would connect ihetwo. and very properly.
 H0 AHtttttHS At4 ttN tttastsC>i7 VI NtNh shall have "a speak litllc more III eNtcn- sion Tn ! few momcnss namely: Il guess. T sasacioGs guess. winch conforms to facts and cNpialns lhA: s,h I ;hroNs the hght oi sola,laa on ebss -le i iesllons. winch has no dtsagreeea en; a' any po,nt ]. that k .i sUiiiElon. ground ipi eA .deneezA for belief. shai have i9 >hou ia mo. ment that | aa> the eniy ground on winch many ei the mes mpattaHi uHi- Yofsaliy ac, epteG science stand and sa there arc many Ia, uni many points where there is Il broad 5a,i astNecn the hIther and ihe ihnheF side 0dt there k this to be remarked that these guiis m many lines are gradually filling up. and that every Ten years connects semc lines and other Ines, and that there tore there A presumption that those that are widely separated yet-between the conclusion theory and the facts m the case -tha, they too wall follow in the analogy of the others and will gradually Jose up, so that we shall have an nconiroverible chain of facts running from the theory
 from the hypothesis back ,he whole his- tory m facts. There k found. racing back the human family. ro human skeleton. in clay. in sand, n rock. iha; is an intermc- diary hnk between the animal and the man.
 There IS i vast gu.f there. Iat we are to bear m mad that he world has scarcely been searched ye, by the geolo- gis,s. We do not know what may exist IL is only fair n say. therefore. that Il is problematical.
 Now am going ;o ;asc :, a; the strongest. not ,ha, l an actually pre- pared 10 believe and 10 demonstrate iha, man IS an extension favorable and pro- gressive from the infenor tribes, bu, talk ing for granted that he IS. now then how IS t going 10 affect the srea, executive doctrine of christianity existence of God : design the doctrine of divine provi- dence the doctrine Of prayer: the ques- tion Of the bible the character Of man as a sinful being the doctrine of conversion :: the church and it's institutions and inn mortality or existence hereafter
 My own impression IS ,ha, all those doctrines are on the eve of having sub tended under them ,he fruits of science, and that there IS coming to us here not the skepticisms or the heresics that are nov so much dreaded. bu, we are going to have laid under these great executive doctrines of christianity a foundation that no man can snake. even taking this es- tremes, view. Nay The modified view. which IS held by Miyari. probably by Charles Dars though he has gwen no absolute statement on ,ha; sublec;-he held by Gray held by Prof. Wallace. ~ho vas the contemporary diseoverer with Charles Darwin oi the theory 0. descen and de- selopmen, they holding ina, man ln part IS an animal, showing unmsslakable evidence of haY.ng beea developed from lower ,ribe. but admitting and attempt, ing to prove. n some degree. hat there came ID special creaiise aci m hls case by which be &aS clothed xi,h 4 higher reason. with moral seas.b.liy. wIih im- agina,ion. ~ith sense ot 'hc beautiful. and that man IS d, once creature de- scended from God in hik higher qualities and from ihe natural Iaan-,he animal mAn-in his lower estate and that. as to