Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-03-04
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| TALK ABOUT EVOLUTION.

Woodrow men were so anxious to keep the
anti Woodrow men in order, when really
the Woodrow men were the men who were
out of order and have been for the last
eighteen months, owing to the fact that
they have been defending doctrine which
does not and cannot exist, either in the anil
NAL or vegetable kingdom, so far as the cre-
attire act is concerned. The etymology of
the word evolution shows that it means
only the development Of the substance al
ter it is created. For instance the oak is
grown from the acorn, owing to the fact,
the nature or germ of the oak is in the acorn.
So in regard to all seed and grain in the
vegetable kingdom. An acorn never has
and never can produce an apple tree, nor
can an apple seed bring forth an oak tree.
Sometimes we find an apparent cross; but
in all such cases, it works on the descend
ing scale.
The same law holds true in the animal
kingdom. Every animal, bird, fish, &C.,
takes after its kind, and they never in
crease without sexual intercourse. Cross
ing in this instance would be the destruc-
tiOn of the species, for it would be contrary
to nature, because directly opposed to the
eternal purpose of God.
AS we run back in thought, we come to
period when nothing existed. but Infinite
space, and the infinite God. Now worlds
and creatures almost. innumerable exist in
this space. In the BEGINNING of time, (now
the bible account of creation) God threw
into this space, the heaven and the earth.
How sublime the thought, and how becom-
ing the Almighty God, to behold Him hurl-
ING into existence this mighty frame work
of nature by the word of His power, in
miraculous manner, and in as little time,
as has since been required to call the dead
to life.
Really, the pigment of evolution could as
we'll be applied to the resurrection of the
dead, as to the creation of man at first, or
any of the lower animals. BY an act of his
almighty power God made man of dust
Gnorganic dust out of the ground; to which
dust, Adam has long since returned. So
that, that dust is to-day as it was before it
was formed human body, and made in
Gods image, and with its mother dust it
will mingle, until the judgment day, when
God will again call it forth gloritied, i'm
mortal body. Omnipotence alone is ade-
quate to produce life. Spontaneous genera
ton, like perpetual motion, is thing un-
known. The scientists search for the one
is as vain as the philosophers labor for the
other. five credit the Bible, in connection
with the book of nature, we must admit
that every existing living organism has
come from parent, and every original pa
rent came forth at Gods command, as he
said, "Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping
thing, and beast of the earth after his kind,
and it was So"
By the words, "after his kind" !" we are to
understand not only that the different spe..
cies of animals were given distinct and
separate existence, but also that that eXis-
tence was to be perpetrated throughout all
time. In virtue of this fact the hypothesis
of the transmutation of species is untenable,
for not single instance of such transmuta-
ton has ever been verified.
AS Professor Lionel S. Beale we'll remarks,
Notwithstanding all that has been asserted
to the contrary, not one vital action has as
yet been accounted for by physics and chem
istry. The assertion that life is correlated
force, rests upon assertion alone, and we are
Just as far from an explanation of vital phe-
nomena by the force hypothesis as we were
before the discovery of the doctrine of the
correlation of forces" Man is directly
from God, who is the source fall good; and
from the fact that he was made in the like
ness Of God, he must have been created i'm
mediately in miraculous manner; and
am persuaded that between Darwin, HuX-
ley, Spencer, or woodrow, on an impartial,
or prayerful consideration Of the subject,
would be compelled to feel that they are
maintaining a most improbable conclusion,
for it is not in accordance with natural anal
ogy that anything should rise above its own
level. No motive-poWerc rcan put forth more
or other than the energy that is in it. Thus
man, who was made but little. lower than
the angels of heaven, could not flow upward
from lower sources, but must have relation
to some higher creative being. (Yet "the
scientific genesis would make him little
higher than the apes; the Bible Genesis
little lower than the angels.O Sustaining
this relation to God, the only creative be-
ing, mans body will be raised an immor-
tai body, and inaslnuch as God is Infinitely
holy, the redeemed will forever he putting
on more and more of Gods likeness, which
thing they could not do, if evolution applied
to man as the creative power. Nature never
contradicts revelation, for God is the au-
thor of BOTH If they were contradictory,
it would be making God contradict Him.
self. God is unchangeable he is the same
to-day that he was before and at the crea-
ton of the world. Hispurpose was the same
then as it is now. He ever has had in view
his own glory and his peoples good; hence
he has always favored right, and opposed
wrong. BY means of the law and the gos-
pei Gods attributes and purposes have been
made known to man, who is the agent to
carry forward his work and as such is re-
quired to obey both law and gospel.
AS already stated, every living organism
has come from parent, and since the crea-
tion of the first pair of the different kinds
of animal species, all increase in the ami
NAL kingdom has been caused through sex.
ual intercourse. This is Gods method of
multiplying on the earth, and as He does
multiply, He requires that "everything
shall axe after its kind"
Now, kind reader, look for moment
at the impious theory of evolution and sec
what a gldring sin has crept into the church,
which sin, some in the church have the
hardihood to defend.
This evolution theory carries you back
through unknown ages, and at some period
in the infinite past began its work of pop
ulating the world, which work, it is claim
ed has been completed by the gradual de-
velopment of the animal species, along
down the line of ages, until finally the
ape (or monkey developed into the man.
This theory is evidently opposed to the
standards of the Presbyterian church, to
the word and purpose Of God, and vlrtu-
ally makes him guilty Of the sin of Sod
omy; for this development could only be
brought about by carnal intercourse be-
tween the different species OF animals.
This intercourse is sinful; it is forbidden
by God, and called down his judgment
on those committing it, and will ever eX-
pose all those who cOuntenance 1T to the
wrath and curse of the Almighty. Well
NAV our soul stand aghast when we see
members of Chrst's kingdom advocating
the doctrine that this was Gods method
of creation at first, when if it had been his
plan then, it would be yet, tor God Is un-
changeable dnd cannot sin.
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