Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-02-09

u ENTIENE En- 1T is SeTfOntouSIN sup
posed and urged by erolutionlsts, or
rather it is hoped by rheistc evolu
t;onists and intidels, the world over,
that Mr.. Charles Darwin has forever
settled the question of creation of the
world and its billions of sentent life,
"trom monai to man vet every scien-
tist knows that the cham of animal
life from the earliest Eozonic age to the
present dav, has been broken time and
again, and the new start OF sentIent
beings in after ages was so syncronous
that 1t would be difficult TO tell which
of the MANY forms that made their
appearance begin life first; IN fact
radiates, mollusks and articulates
seem from the best authorities 10 have
ali started abreast. When the yerti
brate animals were introduced in the
devonian age, from their position IN
the rocks four principal varieties
eemed to have lived at the same.
The Eoznon Cauedense, the earli
est known form Of life does not seem
to have any successor. The Lauven-
tiam cyclones OF fire aud earthquakes
wiped out all animal lie uhlIll the
soluvi Ii age, then life began again
under entirely different forms, as IN,
dicated above S. diverse however that
it requires a stretch of the imaglna
ton TO find any likeness between them.
To tell Of the failure Of animal lie
in the various ages would be hey ond
the intended scope of this paper. In
the Tertiary | will note, that Great
BrltIan had fifty sev, mammals and
down to modsrn period size still re-
taines twenty nine. AID the bones OF
tile Oldest, are oG the yery same form
as the bones of the most modern.
But the strongest proof that Ne have
upon thus subject, Is " has We u lily see
before our ewes: Like LsqefS Hkc =
Some times, OF course, vita variations
ofcolorIn domestic animals, but no var.
iatlou of bones or form worth notice.
The great stumbling block 10 esola
tlonlsts, IS the fact that man has lam
gua.e, brut' have not. Second -
M.u Is a responsible GeIug. majority
of sci, ntlsts admit this. Ii then man
is responsible creature, II becomes our
oppouenis-lt IS their solemn duty,
Ia tell us when aud where III the ioug
line &c animal lIfs m'an b~eaEns res
ponsible Was It " hen lie descended
from from the monkey: When aud
here did his maJrsty-the monkey
get au immortal soul, or the power Il
transmit that which the poor brute
never pretended 10 have.
Be II remembered that evolut!ouists
after the school Of Nr. Darwin deny
revelation, and therefore deny any
miraculous Interposltlol Of Divine
wisdom III his own Kingdom, thxreloTs
If miracles are not IN order, aud man
is still responsible, the spiritual as
well u. the physical body must hay.
been evolved from tie long line oi
animal lie leading down To proto.
plasm. Consequently, TO cay the lea,t,
protoplasm must have contain, d (po-
tentlAiIy ut least the seeds of iunor
talIt,: and then IS = necessary coTollory
protorlasn aud all senilent life from
the earliest ages mast have known oil
hereafter. Will tie thsIsiIc eyolu.
tionisis dare accept thi course Of
reasoning. But do not rest the case
here, bnt will repeat again, that JAKE
btge,s Ike, and that the natural laws
ale the same now as they were in the
beginning OF time: What's ever Il
man SONS that shall lie reap is not
only good Billie doctrine in spiritual
affairs, but is al,o the vcrv .mbodl
ment Of The natural laws.
Pastusres experiment. proved that.
tac."Ila produced bactorIa, vibrio II
vibIIo, PcneciilIum pen, clllium
aud the torula toruia. seen proper
liquid. 30 II is proven by repeated
experiments that If We SOW the seeds
OF any disease incident to the human
family that disease shall We reap.
When The "geImshomo' transmits
the germs OF lie 10 fertllize the ovale
OF living life he transmits at the same
/ tine the germmules of an Immortal
soul, or We must fly to miracles to
animate the embryo with Immortality.
at some other period of its existence.
1.-THE conception of the hysical body
does not IMPLY the conception of the
spiritual body then according to dies
TIC hNpothesIs IL miracle must be in
kod 10 fill the void.
If miracles are true to day then then
they were true in the days of Adam,
If true then and now, they attest be.
yond a doubt that Diviye Revelation,
as We have it, handed down by prophets
and apostles, are true beyond peradven-
ture,--rhey are tue and true they are
Th,n all lile-'pangemesis," war
created, either by hat, or ty direct
manipulation in person or proxy.
The trouble is that scientists OF
neither school have not gone fan
enough in true philosophy, they have
halted at the hall way station.
In many cases they evidently hav,
been afraid of the legitimate end Of
their own lcgic.
In conclusion, say without fear OF
successful contradiction that the i'm
mortal soul is u real entity, but of to,
refined II nature however, to be seeI
or handled 10y us in the flesh, it il
composed Of at, ms and miracles, an,
calI br transmitted but not transmuted
it is united in itself by the COHESIVE
laws of nat.rc like another substance
Granting the above, which is tru'
according TO science, the modern da,
philosophers will have to seek fo
other arguments than ''transmulatior
of specIes' to make good their boll