The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-20
rALMAGE,s SERMON.
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weak die and the strong live. Those
are the fittest survive. SO the breed OF
sheep and cattle and horses and men i'm.
prove. No need of any religion, but just
natural progress. You see that gives
God still further recess from the world
By spontaneous generation the race was
| started, and now by DarWtn'S natural
selection and Wallace's survival of the
| fittest we are to go right on forever In
the ascent. But do the fittest survive
/ Garfield died in September, Guiteau
living till the following Junel Was
| that the survival Of the fttest? The
glorious martyrs perished and their
bloody executiOners lived. Survival of
the httest, supposed In our civil war
0OO,OOO Northern men and 100000 South
ern men marched out from their homes
to die on the battlefield for principle.
Hundreds of thousands of them fell. We
stayed at home in comfortable quarters
Will we dare to say that they who sacri-
/ Heed all perished because they were not
/ as worthy to live as we who survived
No, no! 1t was not the survival of the
| httest. Did Ellsworth and Nathaniel
Lyon fall on the Northern side, and Al
/ bert Sidney johnson and StOnewall
Jackson fall on the other side because
they were not so fit to live as the sol
diers who returned home in safetyP No;
palsied be the tongue that dares say It'll
What has been the history of many of
your famIlies2 Was 1t not in many
cases the healthiest physically and the
brightest intellectually that was taken
by deathp In many cases of your OBJ
serVatiOn it has been the death Of the
fittest. In all communities it is often
the case that many of the grandest and
the most useful and the most sublime
natures are taken, while many of the
meanest, and the lowest, and the vilest
continue to show that the Bible Is right,
and that evolution is wrong in theory.
| tell you that there has been no natu-
raj progress. Where Is the horse driven
through any Of our parks worthy to have
the picture of his neck and eye and nos
tril and launches put beside the war
horse that Job heard neighing and
champing the bit for the battleF The
pigeons are not as wise as five hundred
years ago when they were carriers and
took the mails as swiftly as our modern
express rail train. Besides the great
beasts that walked the earth in Olden
time the modern elephant is a cat, and
beside the great sea monsters that swan
the deep whale is a minnOW. The CO.
MES have not learned any thing about
climbing, nor the hounds any thing
about hunting, nor the ostrich any thing
about Matching, nor the condor any thing
about musical cadences for 5000 years.
As to our race, we begin with men ten
feet high, and now the average is five
feet three. The ancients lived 300, 400,
600 years, and the average now of life
is less than 30. While we are far ahead
of the ancients in some things, in others
there has been retrOgressiOn instead of
advancement. In York Cathedral win
dow repairs have been effected within a
naHmT k.Wnk kn Iv,kT
the windows in that Cathedral are far
inferior to those made there three or
four hundred years ago. Natural devel-
Opment of reptile, quadruped and bird
and man, nOthingl Vast improvements,
but through quite different source, as
l shall show you In two or three min
utes. Let us see what evolution has
done for China. There it has had un-
limited swing for thousands of years,
and only here and there interfered with
in missionary stations by that defunct
book called the Scriptures. What ad-
Vancement? Not the five hundredth part
of an inch. From our Christian ciVili-
zatiOn some men went in and built a
few miles of railroad track, but 1t was
torn up by natives and abandoned. They
worship the same wooden gods of red
paints and the same anne ancestral tab
let's, and in the same way drown female
children as nuisance, and eat with the
same chOpsticks, SO in India, except
where Christianity has invaded 1t, no
advancement. SO in Arabia, so in Tur-
key, so in the case of the majority of the
worlds inhabitants-thes same ignorant
besOtted, cruel, shameless humanity.
The natural evolution of the human race
is downward.
TO show that evolution is anti Bible,
hear Christ's account of natural eVOlu-
tiOn, Matt. 1919: "0ut of the heart eVOl-
Veth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fOrnication, thefts; blasphemies." Give
natural evolution full swing and it
would evolve two hemispheres Of SOdO-
mic morals, two hemispheres of crime,
two hemispheres of brOthel. Sing Sing
and New York TOmbs, London and Cow
gate, are only vast carbuncleS on the
face and back of natural evolution. Just
opposite are the statements of Scripture
and evolution. The one says better and
better gets the world by its own natural
Improvement. The Bible says the heart
Is deceitful above all things, and des-
perately wicked. When you can evolve
fragrance out of malOdOr, and an OratO-
rio out Of saw-sharpening, then you can
from the human heart develop goodness.
Before you choose evolution to the BIZ
bic, want you to understand that eVO-
luton Is most dishonest and deceptive.
It's first step is Misrepresentation
when it claims evolution as an origin
ality with Darwin and Spencer. Long
centuries before either of these gentle
men were evolved, the Phoenicians ar
gued that the human race wObbled out
of the mud. DemOcritus, who lived 46O
years before Christ, wrote these words:
Everything is composed of atoms OF in
finitely small elements, each with def
mite quality, form and movement, whose
inevitable union and separation shape
all different things and form laws and
effects and dissolve them again for new
combinations. The gods themselves and
the human mind originated from such
atoms" Anaximander declared that the
human race came from where the sea
saturated the earth. Lucretius assum-
ed the same idea in his poems. Evolu-
ttOn Is an old dead heathen corpse that,
set up in the morgue, Spencer and Dar-
win are trying to galvanize. These eV-
OlutiOnists are dragging this old putre-
faction Of 1900 years old around the
earth, Dragging that they are the auth
Ors of it, when the idea was centuries
old before Herbert Spencer found it. A
dinner is given at DelmOnicO's last No
vember in honor of the great discoVerer
of evolution. And the guests sat around