The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-02-01

get back after he jumped :? Did he go
to the bottom. or did a shark catch
him !? Well. here is the theory that
God made man by the direct act of
his omnipotence, and that he made
the animal creation by the same act
and all the worlds by the same act.
and on board that theory 5000 Amer.
lean and European scientists have
taken passage, and same night ten
men jump overheard into the sea of
infdelity and atheistic thinning, and
the ten men overheard draw out more
discussion than the 5000 that do not
jump [ am politely asked to jump
with them. Thank you, gentlemen,
| am very much oblidged, but think
l shall stick to the old Cunarder.
Before you choose evolution to the
Pible, want you to understand that
evolution is most dishonest and de-
ceptive. Its first step is misrepre.
sentation when it claims evolution as
an originality with Darwin and Spen-
Ger. Long centuries before either of
these gentlemen were evolved, the
PhGnicians argued that the human
race wobbled out Of the mud. Dem
ocritus, who lived four hundred and
sixty years before Christ, wrote these
words: ''Everything is composed of
atoms or infinitely small elements.
each with definite quality, form
and movement, whose inevitable
union and separation, shape all diff
ferent things and form laws and ef-
fects and dissolve them again for
new combinations. The gods them
selves and the human mind originated
from such atoms" Anaximander
declared that the human race came
from where the sea saturated 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 Dar-
win are trying to galvanize. These
evolutionists are dragging this old
putrefaction three o. four thousand
years old around the earth, Dragging
that they are the authors Of it in ig-
norance of the fact that the idea was
centuries old when Herbert Spencer
found it. A dinner was given at
Delmonico's last November in honor
Of the great discoverer OF evolution.
And the guests sat around the table
eating beef and turkey and roast pig
according to the doctrine of evolu-
ton. eating their own relations, slic-
ing their own cousins, picking the
bones of their own uncles, and
thrusting the carving fork into the
bosom of their own blood relations,
das ashing Worcestershire sauce and
bedaubing mustard all over mem
bers of their own family, aud while
Herbert Spencer reads a patronizing
lecture ON the American servants,de-
clare it is the voice of god and not
of man. There is only one thing
worse than English snobbery and
that is American snob5ery. l like
democracy and l like arisrocracy,
but there is rapidly evolving in this
country detestable ocracy which
Charles Kingsley, after witnessing it
himself, called snobocracy. Is it
honest to palm off this old heather
notion as a modern discovery p?
But I find that when l come to
speak of the dishonesties of modern
evolution | must take another Sab
bath morning for that phase of it, and
then | must take a Sabbath morning
to discuss the objections to the
Bible made by an Episcopal minis
ter in New York, who wants the
Bible expurgated. This morning l
bring my remarks to close by say.
ing that l am not pessimist. but an
optimist, and instead of thinking
everything is going to ruin [ think
everything is going out to salvation
and instead of it being II o'clock at
night for our suffering and dying
world it is 5 o'clock in the morning.
But not through infidel evolution is
the race to be saved and the world
made arborescent, but through
Christianity, which has, directly OF
Indirectly, effected all the good al
ready wrought, and which is to com
plete the worlds reconstruction
LOOK there in the offing!
A ship gone on the rocks at Cape
Hatteras and breaking to pieces, tn
storm in lull blast and the baromete;
yet sinking: Now. what does that
ship want? Development that is
all. Let her develop her cargo
develop her rudder, develop hel
broken masts, develop her part.
ing hulk. develop her passenger,
develop her dying crew. No; | an
mistaken. What that ship wants is
a life boat from the shore. Leap
into her We men at The life station
Steady now till you reach the wrec k
and fetch the women and children
| first and then the freezing and dying
men and wrap them in tiannels and
kindle a cracking, roaring fire, I'LL
their frozen limbs are .hawed out
and between their chattering teeth
you can pour restoration. The
world is on the rocks God launch
ed it we'll enough. but through mis-
pilotage and the sweeping OF the
storms of 5000 years the old hulk is
| in the breakers. What does it
want? Development! The OLD
hulk had got enough Evolution IL
mr.