The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-27


Peace, my brothers and sisters of the
forest; we will be happier II we stay
what we were made. Our Creator un-
derstOOd what was best for u.s." But at
the word all the convention broke out
like House Of Commons when the IT.
tsh question comes up. or the American
Congress the night Of their adjourn
ment. And the serpents hissed the leo
nine Gambetta, and the frogs crOaked
their contempt, and the bears grOwled
their dissent, and the tigers snarled
their protest, and all the insects buzzed
with excitement, and there was a thrus-
\ ting out Of adder's sting and a
swinging Of elephantine trunks and
the stroke OF paw and the gnashing
OF terrible teeth and a plunginR
of beak and tearing Of claw that threat
ened the massacre of the entire cOnven-
ttOn, when fortunately at the door of
this forest amphitheater, and slifting up
the upholstery Of the leaves and push
ing back the door of the tree branches,
appeared Audubon and AgaZil and Silli-
man and Moses and proceeded to Quell
the mutipy. Agaziz declared he had
/ searched their ancestral records and
found that they always had been brutes,
| and from his wide observation and study
had concluded they always would be
and never could possibly be anything
else; and Audubon with his gun brought
down bald-headed eagle, which tum-
bled from the galleries and struck a
reptile that was trying to crawl up one
pillar to a higher place, and Silliman
hurled rock Of tertiary formation at
one of the refractory animals and Moses
thundered Every fish after its kind, ev-
cry bird after its kind, every creature
after its kind" And at that Mosaic ut
terance the parliament Of brute crea-
tiOn was prOrogued and sent home to
their constituencies, and the bats few
out into the night, and the lizards skunk
under the rocks, and Ithe gorilla went
back to his African jungle, and a hun
CRY wolf ate up the primal germs in
passing, and clumsy buffalo upset the
prOtOplasn, and the lion took to his lair
and the eagle to his eyrie, and the whale
to his submarine palace Of crystal and
coral, and there was peace. Peace in the
air, peace in the waters, peace in all the
delds-man in his place, the beasts in
their place.
Evolution is not only infidel and athe-
istic and absurd; 1t Is also brutal in its
tendencies. II there is anything that
would have a tendency to make man
bestial it Is the thought that he Is des-
cended from beast. According to that
theory we are only herds of superior cat
tie, a sort Of Alderney among other cows.
We brOuse on more delicate pasture than
many other animals, but we are only
like the superior breed of sheep which
the stOck-raiser keeps in q better stall
than the other flOcks, a sort of South
down among sheep, and as we come of
this origin we are like them to die. All
the scientists who are eVOlutiOnists ex-
press no expectation Of a hereafter.
They tell US the mind is only another as
n Thnnnhtd lw
molecular formations. When the body
dies the entire nature dies. The slab of
the sepulchre Is not milestone on the
journey upward, but a wall tncarcer-
ating the mind in eternal nOthingness.
They are all dead alike, COW and horse
and dog and man and sheep. Annihila-
ton Is the heaven of the eVOlutiOnists.
From such bestial, stenchful, damn
able doctrine l beg you to turn away.
Compared with the eVOlutiOnists' ac-
count IOf mans creation filling your
mind with the chatter Of apes and the
hiss Of serpents and the erOak of frogs,
listen to a stanza or two Of description
in an old book Of more than Homeric or
DemOsthenic or Dantesque power: What
Is man that thou art mindful Of him and
the son of man that thou Visitest him2
Thou hast made him little lower than
the angels, and hast crowned him with
glory and honor, eommandest him to
have dominion over the works of thy
hand. Thou hast put all things under
his feet; and all sheep and oxen, yea, all
the beasts of the fieId, and fowls of
the air, and the fishes Of the sea, and
whatsoever passeth through the paths
Of the sea. o Lord, our Lord, how ex-
eellent ts thy name in all the earth"
What do you think of that Originp The
lion, the monarch Of beasts; the whale,
the monarch of fishes; the eagle, the
monarch Of birds, but man the monarch
of all.
Yet 1t does not 30 much concern me
about my origin as about my destiny.
The question whence came is OF little
Importance, as compared with where /
am going to. Out of which port 1 en-
baTked is not so much Of interest to me
as into what harbOr will sail; not what
was my ancestry ten million years ago,
but what shall be my condition ten mil
lion years from now; not what was the
preface OF my cradle, but what shall be
the appendix to my grave. | am not so
much interested in prOtOplasm as In
eternasm. The was" overwhelmed with
the Ito be-" Ah, here comes an evOlu-
tiOn believe in, not natural evolution,
but gracious and divine and heavenly
evolution, out of sins into holiness, out
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into immortality, out of death into life,
out of earth into heaven. Ladders on
all sides to mount, stairs on all sides to
ascend, wings on all sides to TRANSPORT.
Evolution, yes, l believe in that. Latin,
evolution, from eyOlvere, unrollinR. Un-
rolling Of faculties, unrOlling Of expert
enees, unrOlling of rewards, unrOiling
OF beatitudes, unrOlling of angelic COM
partnerships, uDrOlling Of light, unrOll-
ing Of prOVidential explanation, unrOll-
ing Of dOxOlOgies, unrOlling Of rainbOws
TO canopy the throne, unrOlling of new
heaven and a new earth In which dwell
eth righteousness. The thought is 80
ecstatic that 1 have not physical endur-
ance to bear it longer than a moment.
Born to be mOnarchs of all other earthly
creatures and raised to be heirarchs In
heaven; masterpiece of Gods wisdom
our manhood; masterpiece Of divine
grace our enthrOnement. put one foot
on Darwin's origin of the species and
the other foot on Spencer's biology,
while In one hand 1 hold the Book Of
Noses, which tells us our genesis, and in
the other hand the Book of Revelation,
to show US our terminus. Natural evo-
luton forever downward. gospel evOlu-
tion forever upward. For the cure Of
all wars Iprescribe the Bethlehem eho-
raj of QnOala For tho huroffnp - all