The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-01-25

whose final extremity does not ex-
pand into knob, but gently elevates
itself toward the cerulean blue. Oh.
the soothing, sympathetic, angelic
little bulbs! You all know who wear
that fashionl
Here let me inquire why it was in
those grand old mimulous days when
necessitous aspiration was doing so
much for us it did not give us a nose,
uniform and beyond a reasonable
doubt? A nose such as Slawkenber-
gius wore-said to be as large as a
quart cup and as red as a beet?
According to the evolutionists, then.
Survivor Of the Fittest, in its almost
endless vagaries, has stifened the rat
tlesnake's envenomed fang, curved
and strengthened the neck of the
billy goat, pointed the eagles talons,
made the step Of the tiger silent and
stealthy, elongated the cranes neck.
and the ant-eater's nozzle, shielded
the rbinoceros with his pachyderma-
tous hide. armed the crocodile with
lmpervious scales, equipped the cut
tle-fsh with his portable ink-bottle,
endowed the skunk with his gripsack
Of odors, taught the dog to be faith
full, the sheep patient, the cat treach-
erous, and ordained the horse to be the
bond slave Of man, to perform his la
Dor in time of peace, to charge with
him in battle when war rears his
front.
Why did not aspiration for the bet
ter, produce one common form for all
the living, inasmuch as it teaches a
common descent? To answer that
the fttest survivor in various lines is
to assume that somewhere back of all
is an efficient agent, directing and
controlling desire, molding conception
saying to the embryonic cow, you
can conceive for yourself a condition
of meek servitude to higher order of
being, but beyond this, your coneep-
ton cannot extend. This efficient.
far-seeing agent sends forth this fiat
to each of the animal You can be-
come perfect in your kind, but beyond
that, you have no faculty to hope.
The clumsy OK may not envy the
fieeter limbs of the roebuck, nor the
vulture with its carrion craw the more
aesthetic palate Of the partridge. The
! horse may not aspire to be lawyer,
for the reason that horses, in the main,
are honest. A mule, with little cul-
tivation of the voice, might become a
singing master, were it not for his
back-action. He could only keep time
IN one way-"Down, up" with the
accent on the up stroke!
The doctrine of evolution, as re-
marked above, has within the past
twenty-five years become popular; but
let no one suppose that the idea is a
new one. Indeed, you who are ac-
quainted with Grecian literature, know
that it was taught by heathen sages
centuries before the birth of Christ
In the earlier dawn of philosophy,
Anaximander believed, and instructed
his pupils to believe that man was
evolved from fishes and these latter
from mud bubbles. Materialists of
to-day aver that the human lung is
but modified swine bladder.
Do you ask, "Who are the believers
in a doctrine so seemingly without
foundation?" | answer, many of the
ablest Christian scholars and most
pious divines of the present; and to
these may be added the entire body of
skeptics. The idea was revamped by
Mr.. Darwin, and exhaustively treated
by him in his book entitled Descent
of Man. 1t is painful to note the eff
feet upon his mind of the course of
study which led him to adopt this doc
trIne.
Shortly before his death he wrote to
German student at Jena the follow
ing characteristic letter:
DEAR SIR: l am much engaged,
an old man, and out of health, and |
cannot spare time to answer your ques--
tion fully-provided it can be answer
ed. Science has nothing to do with
Christ, except in so far as scientific re-
search makes man cautious in ad-
mitting evidence. For myself, I do
not believe that there ever has been
any revelation. As for a future life,
every man must judge for himself be-
tween conflicting vague probabilities" "
Why MIR. Darwin did not believe in
any revelation may be gathered, par
TALLY at least, from a remark which
he made to visitor in 1881, in sub
stance as follows:
Il never gave up Christianity until
| was forty years Of age, and then
only because it is not supported by
evidence"
What a confession Of philosophic
insanity Here was a man who be-
lieved that he had traced the phenom-
ena of being from its highest develop
ment back through all intermediate
forms to the primordial cell; who, in
the language of Tyndall, could see in
that cell 1.-The promise and potency of
all forms of life," who was satisfied,
from the evidence, that he, himself,
was lineal descendant of the monkey
tribe, and who yet could and did aban-
don Christianity, because, as he said,
it is not supported by evidence! Had
he, in the days of his strength, scan
ned the souls phenomena, as he did
the phenomena of so-called evolution,
we would not have heard him in his
old age, signing out so hopeless SEN
timent.
He finds man endowed with his
wondrous attributes, his far-reaching
sagacity, his keen and penetrating
analysis; above all, he finds him en-
dowed with an aspiration that looks
from the present, with hope, to the
future-that ascends from a contem-
plation of the beauties of nature, to a
communion with natures God; and
yet he says ''this is no evidence" He
sees his fellows practising the behests
of Christianity, dealing Justly, loving