Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-22

Il 1L9 LoA1cu IN o0ctE V0Ah8kbs oue
| looking at swiftest gaKelle or tropical bird
Of most famboyant wing to surved gyand.
| est courser's neck we feel no cousangoinity.
The highest, the mightiest, tl,s swiftsst the
brightest OF them are 10000 kthons b.
meath the nature with which We are CON
scious Of being endowed. Is ~ not that
we are stronger than they. for the lion with
one stroke OF his paw would send us into
the dust. 1t is not that We have better eyo.
sight for the eagle can descry Q mole mile
away. II Is not that We have more velo-
city for the roebuck flashes out Of our right
only here and there seeming to touch the
earth. The most of them surpass Us in
feetness OF foot or keenness Of nostril or
strength of limb, but not withstanding sal
ssme one has put within US IN impression
OF our celestial pedigree.
Not of the Molllsks, not OF the Rhisopodsy
not Of the Mammalia. not OF tho primal
germs but OF ths living and ominipotent
God! Lineage OF the skies Genealosy OF
heaseni tell you plainly IL the muskrat
was your father and the opposum your
mother and the kangaroo your great aunt
and the toads and the Swapping tprlos
your illustrious predecesnoeA NJ &thog.
was 30is = kno1, feeffE II thfifIs ne
through and through with such nDuttar-
able ecstasy that oil the arguments drawn
from zoology and morpholoyy And anthro-
pOlOgy anu phleOutOiORy. 'r.."
shsii Never sAske ny Belief
Evolution makes everything . mystery and
the more they writs and the more they
talk, and the more they explain, the more
the mystery. One mystery breeds hfty
mysteries, and The City hatch out q thou
ssnd. Now suppose we admit God aud by
the admission Of this one great mystery
settle all the other mysteries. can easier
believe that Ged made man by IN act Of
his power than realize that he was Eve mil
lion years being evolved. There would
have been as much miraculous power In
turning an ape into man as to make .
man out and out The one joO was as big
as the other. Suppose we let God have q
little place in his world. Suppose II We
cannot have him make all creatures we let
him make one or two. Suppose We build
him little place ip our world where he
can stay without interfering with evolu-
tionistS. No." says Darwin, and
he spends years in raising fan-tail
pigeons To see il he cannot get a pigeon
10 cross over TO tnething that is not
pigeon, quail or barn iowl, or brown.
thresher. No, nothing but n pigeon. And
Others have experimental with or and
sheep and dog and cat, but they become
nothing else save when they become
hybrid, and then they pass over into ex.
tipctlon. The only successful attempt 10
psss over from the dumb brute 10 articu.
late man was the one that Baslam wit
messed in the beast he rode, aud the angel
OF the Lord, with drawn sword, stopped
that evolutionist But five will not let
God make a man. why not let him make n
horse. No" says Huxley, we must not
have God anywhere
2 About the Premises.
He says in his lectures the horse came from
~ IT,, sLa Ii.
from the proto- hippus, and the proto hip.
pus from the myo.hippus and the myo.
hippus from the meso-hippus, and the
meso-hippus from the orohippus. and so
all the species are for millions and mill
lions OF years to be traced back until 40
can get back to the moneron without hav-
ing any God intermeddling with the crea-
tiOn and the moneron Is so near lifelen
that Ernst Haeckel says IL could make L.
self by spon taneous generation. Very mar
row escape from the necessity Of having a
God,
The whole idea of evolution seems to i'm
ply that il there be God and they rather
think there is none, IL there be q God lie
did not exactly know what he wanted at
the start aud has been changing his mind
ever and anon through the ages. But ]
think that God made everything j"s, right
and that the harmony OF the world depends
species into another species, but in all stay.
ing what they are. Once upon time In
an amphitheatre Of the forest convention
Of the animal creation was called.
gorilla of Western Africa stood up aud
with club from the jungcs pounded or.
der and then took chair Of twisted forest
roots, and the delegation Of birds took
their places in the galleries OF the hills
and the treetops, andthe
Delegation or Reptiles
took their places in the pit Of the valley
and the intervening tiers Of rocks were
occupied by the delegation Of intermediate
animals On one table OF strata, under Q
plasscsse, were fOnr or five primal germs,
and in a cup few drops Of protoplasm.
The gorilla, pounding sgsin for order,
cried: 80, We beasts and birds aud reptiles.
! have called you into this convention 70
propose that we move Oh and up into the
human race and be beasts no longer. Too
long already have we been hunted and
cae.d and harnassed and whipped and
made TO serve or follow" At this utter.
ance the roar OF enthusiasm on the part OF
the convention was like that OF many
menageries when the keepers undertake to
feed them, and il seemed as though they
we're ready to march right on and up and
take possession OF the earth. Bat ap old
lion arose. and at his voice all others
hushed. He was very old, and his nsne
wss white and he trenbled with age, an
ne said: Peace, my brothers and sisters
Of the forests, we will be happier IL We stay
where we were made. Our Creator under.
stood " bat was best for US" But st that word
all tine convention broke out like House "
Commons when the Irish question oomes
up. or the American Congress the night oil
adjournment. and the serpents hissad the
lionine Gsmbeita, aud the frogs croaked
their con ntempt, and the bears growlsd th.ir
dissent, and the tigers snarled their pro.
test. and all the insects
Buzsed with Excitement,
and there was a thrasbing out Of adder's
sting and swinging Of elepbsntine trunks
an the stroke Of pain and the gnashing OF
terrible teeth and plunging Of besk and
a tearing OF claw that threatened the mas.
sacre OF the entire convention wnsn
forest smphitheater, and lifting
the upholstery Of the leaves and
pushing back the door OF the tree branches
appeared Audubon and Agasiz and Sill
man and Moses and proceeded 70 qucil the
mutiDy. Afasiz declared he had sesrchei
their ancestral records and found that they
always would be brutes and never could
possibly be anything else, and Audubon
with his gun brought down bald headed
euElC kuhoicH hoh s1o 6eboff~'e
struck reptile that was trying 10 crawl up
one pillar to higher place. and Silliman
hurled rock OF tertiary formation At one
OF the refractory mammals, and Moses
thundered Every fish after It's kind, every
| bird after its kind, every creature
after its kind" and at chat Mosaic utter.
ance the parliament Of brute creation was
! was prorogued and sent home 10 their con
stituents, and the bats flew out into the
| night and the lizards SUNK under the rocks
| and the gorilla went back to bis African
! jungle, and a hungry wolf ate mp the pri.
NAL germs in passing, and . clumsy buffalo
upset the protoplasui, and the lion took b
his lair and the eagle to his lyric and th1
whale TO bis submarine palace OF crystal
and coral, and there was peace. Peace In
the waters. Peace In oil the fields. Aar
in bis place. The beasts in their place.
Evolution Is not only infidei and Asheis
tic and absurd, it il also brutal in - ten
denotes. II there 10 sn5thing that voult
have q tendency to make Q man hestial |
is the thought that be 10