The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-20

i Herbert spencer comes nearest 10 I'll
rect answer when he says it was made
/ by the great unknOWable mystery. HuX
| ley brings pail of prOtOplasm, which Is
the life-giving material out Of which
the race was started. But, MIR. Huxley
| who made the prOtOplasmp
| put in opposition to the evolution
lists account the Bible account how the
animals were made-the birds at one
time, the cattle another time. the fish
another time, by the hand of God, and
that then they brought forth each after
its kind. EvOlutiOnists' theory: Some
of them say that there were four primal
germs and others one germ, but from
this developed all the innumera6le
species of birds and beasts and reptiles
and insects and fish-hundreds of thOus-
ands of different kinds from one or four
primal germs. Thus they not only con-
tradict the Bible, but contradict all the
facts Of all the centuries. Bird or beast
or reptile OF fish, of one species never de-
velOped into any other species. shark
never comes of whale, nor a sheep from
COW, nor pigeon from vulture, nor a
butterfly from wasp. The evOlutiOnists'
statements that all the creatures that
swim in sea or fly in air or walk the earth
come of one or four primal germs would
have been laughed out of the universe
if it were not for the fact, that, in or
der to crush the Bible and drive God out
of the world, infidel scientists and their
disciples are willing to do any thing,
even though 1t take them into ldlotlc
absurdities. On the walls Of cities bu-
ried thousands of years ago there nave
been found representations of horses,
cattle and birds, showing that these crea-
lures of God at that day were as they
are now. The mummies Of crocOdlles,
and dogs and cats eXhumed from the
tOmbs of Egypt are just like what those
creatures are now. Agassis says he
found in the reefs of Florida remains
of insects 10000 years old, precisely like
the insects now. They never developed
into any thing except their own kind.
All the facts and observations of Orni-
thOlOgy, zoology, and ichthyOlOgy and
cOnchOlOgy echOing Genesis l, 2l: Have
winged fowl after its kind" As univer-
sal observation and science cOrrObOrates
the Bible statement in regard to the
animal creation, will not stultify my
self by surrendering to the very elabO-
rate guess of the eVOlutlonlsts.
also put the Bible account of how
the worlds were created in opposition to
the eVOlutiOnists' account. Bible ac-
count: "GOd made two great lights, the
greater light to rule the day and the
lesser light to rule the night. He made
the stars also" EvOlutiOnists' account:
away back in the ages there was fire.
mist or star-dust, and that has cooled off
into granite, and then earthquage and
storm and light sOlidified and shaped
every thing into mountains and valleys
and seas, and that fire-mist became the
EARTH" Who made the hre-mtstP What
set the fire-mist to world d-makingr Who
cooled the fire-mist into gTanite2 You
have pushed God back from the earth
60,OOOOOO or 100000 miles, but He is
too near vet for the health of evolution.
For long while eVOlutiOnistS, and par
ticularly Herbert Spencer, thought that
through the telescope they saw the very
stuff out of which the worlds made
misunderstanding no helping hand
from GOd-the nebul@ of gas, the same
as thai out of which this world and all
worlds were made. They looked at it,
laughed in triumph, and found 1t was
the factory where worlds were made,
and that there was no God anywhere
near the factory. But, alas, in an un-
lucky hour for infidel evolution the spec
trOscOpe of FrauenhOfer and KirchOH
were invented, and they saw that the
nebule, the stuff out Of which they had
said the worlds were made, was not a
simple gas as they thought, but COM
pound, and that it had to be supplied
from some other source, and their the
W
SO they go guessing all over the uni
verse. Any thing to Danish Jehovah
from His empire, and make the one
book of Gods direct communication to
the human race obsolete and derisiOn.
But while q few infidel scientists take
this anti-Bible view of 1t, on our side
are Agassiz, the greatest scientist we
have ever had in this country, who in
the last year of his life uttered his con-
r In tn fOl uiV,rr
words: "The manner in which the eVO-
luton theory of zoology is treated would
lean those who are not especial ZOOlO-
gists 10 suppose that observations have
been made by which it can be inferred
that there Is In nature such a thing as
change among organized beings actual
ly taking place. There is no such thing
on the record. 1t is shifting the ground
from one field of observation to another
to make this statement, and when the as
sertiOns go so far as to exclude from the
domain those who will not be dragged
into the mire of mere assertion, then 1t
is time to protest" Just as vehement
against the humbug of evolution have
been Hugh Miller and Faraday and Dana
and Dawson and Brewster and a vast
multitude of astronomers and scientists
in our learned institutions. But dozen
men in favor of the eVOlutioniSt theory
make more noise Inan a InOuSauQ just as
able men who utterly reject it. The Be-
thunia carried five hundred passengers
in safety from New York to Liverpool,
and not one of them made any excite
ment, but one morning after we had
been four days out the hat and vest and
boots of a passenger were found on deck,
showing that the night before a man
had jumped overheard, and all the rest
of the voyage he was the one subject of
discussion. What made him jump?
When did he Jump Did he go to the
bottom, or did ashark catch himP Well,
here is the theory that God made man
by the direct act of His OmnipOtence,
aud that He made the animal creation
by the same act, and on board that the
Ory five thousand American and Euro
pean scientists have taken passage, and
some night ten men jump overheard into
the sea of infidelity and atheistic think
ing, and the ten men overheard draw
out more discussion than the five thOus-
and that did not jump. l am politely
asked to jump with them. Thank you,
gentlemen, l am very much obliged, but
Il ohalI sfiPk IN tho old CunardaP