The herald., 1895-07-20

the whale. the wing of bird. the irony
legs OF reptiles and the arms OF man al
have common origin, and have only pe-
come modified through adaptation. {.
BY the study of fossils the horse 10
traced back to the eohippus. which was
BILE toes, simple teeth and good UNA.
From this the line passes through tne
four-toed orohippus. three-toed mesonip, nn
pus and michippus and thence on
through protohippus and pliohippus. up
to eqnus, our modern horse, WHICH pears
us so proudly along in our race ~ tooay.
planned. We think it no marvel that a
child shows traits of a grandparent' or
even of more remote ancestor.
There is another group. OF facts that
bear very strongly upon this development
theory. If, for any reason, the animal
changes its habits so any organ once use
full becomes useless. then the blood will
cease to. flow to that organ: and it Will be-
come weak and feeble. Nature will take
it more and more away. Thus nature has
snatched from the snake its legs. from
the whale Its teeth, from the bird its tail
ana teeth. There is only one good argu-
ment against evolution. 1t is this. Man
existed on the earth for centuries, and
has never yet seen a higher species
evolved from q lower. In the first place,
the separating line between species is ar
bitrary. II is just as impossible to de-
fine species as it is to tell the exact
moment when boy ceases ceases to be boy
has no real weight to the real naturalist.
Darwin is an evolutionist, and more.
He attempts to explain the method of de-
velopment. First, there is an innate tend
ency in organism to vary. No two chill
drsn are exactly alike. Thus all must
grant the fact of variation. Second, IS
4, To- - ,rx,;x, Of ha
an undeading and pitiless struggle for ex-
istence If any variation fits its possessor
to fight harder it will survive. Through
certain laws of inheritance these surviv-
ors transmit their strong or valuable
points and, in time, individuals arise
that are widely different from the former
from which they developed. Darwin did
not exclude a Creator. He said evolution
must have material to work on-must
have a scheme and laws to work 1t out.
We have already seen that evolution de-
mands belief in God. Theology, or the
doctrine of design, is the cornerstone of
evolution. If evolution were antagonis-
tic to Christianity then on the very prin-
ciple of the survival OF the fittest, we
should expect to see evolution die the
ueath.
Mirart, pronounced Catholic. and a
very able scientist of Eng gland, accepts evo-
luton. Rudolph Schmid. the able theol-
gian of Germany, says that religion and
the Bible will in no wise suffer. but be
stronger. if evolution is proved. Profess
sor LeConte of California shows that the
general acceptance of evolution will
greatly aid Bible interpretation.
Elm the evening Rev. A. q. Hirst, u. D.,
Iectured on the subject, Will the Coming
Educated Woman Marry?
The tabernacle was we'll filled and the
very announcement of the subject awaken.
all n d0en interest among his hearers AS
tho doctor is booked for the sermon Sun
day morning we will only give brief
synopsis of this lecture:
Hitherto woman hassbeen thenunplaced
factor in human history. But a new era
has dawned. A great revolution is under
way. fact that must be appreciated bv
the church and the world. Her individ-
ual womanhood is adjusting itself to her
with womanly dignity, with soul forces
aroused. with mental powers girded she
hastens to the arena to win her victories.