Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-02-19

member that he told you that YOU had
n muscle here upon either side OF the
faccl that was now unuacd-A rudi-
inentnry musole and the Inference no
drew was that his ana your ancestors
had nnppora In some ancient period,
and Ia those In the audience that recog-
nlzed their descent from something
with very large cars, he gave forth this
dissertation.
Now ! wish 10 call attention 10 the
mistakes OF ingergoll,
Mistake No. l. He condemns the Bible
because the Bible does not agree with
him. lie says. III God made the Bible
and my brain. why don't they ngreei
Whose fault II ~" Let me say to THIS
Intelligent audience that God " moi
responsible for the existence Of Robert
mgersoll, except AZ lie II the creator
OF our first parents; only mcdlntely.
They who are Responsible Immediately
for his existence are hls father ana MS
mother why his mind does not agree
with the Bullet when he was born into
the world his mind was rs blank
piece Of paper Nothing on H. MS
mind today has been brought to thiA
stage because " circuInHtnntial infiu-
cncts In lltc called the human environ
ment for which God holds no respOnni-
btlItv. hut the responsibility ls upon
those about him. aud his own taste.
Let mo go farther In this connection.
lie said, In speaking about the ere
alton, that he would rather nave al
yanccd In the line Of progress from n
heHdlpSH vertebrate In tho Lnurrntlhn
period, than to have been created per-
feet by the Creator and to have de-
generated 20 his present CONDITION.
Now, Col lnHcrsoll docs not agree win
the Bible He says the bible IL Mt
fault. lie does not agree with paleon-
la.
cuuse he refers TO a hendlcHs vertebrate
that existed In the Lnurontion period.
The LaurCntun period is an nzoic
period. ~" mems without, ana goa
means llfe-n period In which no AMI
mai lie whatever existed, and hc can
not be descended from hendleas YER
tobratc Of the lnurcntlnn period when
no vertebrate ever existed In that
period Now. Ingorsulls mind does not
agree with geology who IL wrong3
Geology or lngerHpll2
Another thlng | have no objection
to the doctrine OF evolution, The
great BchollrH ~ the world are divided
on Il, The celebrated Dolltzsch suys
such thing Is impossible. He says:
"rhnt the rncc4 OF men are not species
Of one genus. hut are varieties of one
Hpculcs. N proved by the agreement OF
the physiological and pathological phe-
nomena In all men. the Hamc hnntoml-
cal structure, the same elementary
powers and trnitH Of mind, the same
limit to the duration Of lifo, liability TO
the same diseases, the snme normal
temperature " the body. and the same
mean frequency Of the pulse, the sumc
duration Of pregnancy. the periodirity
Of thu cnuamcula, the unrestricted fruit
fulncHs If the cohnhltntIun of all racea
with one another Such gnmcncss IN
nowhere found In the animal world
among the species ~ one genus" Found
only In the varieties NJ one species,
But lost you reject ChrIstlnuity ON the
idea mat you belong to tho school "
Darwin and are an eyulutionlHt,
VIII say there Is no contradiction he.
tween the Bible account OF creation
aud the Dnrwinlon theory. This may
st0rtlc you. but It ia q fact The great
est Dnrwiuinu vnhu'ur ul today In the
Rev. John II. Gulick. missionary In
Japan. whuse father was a missionary
In tho Island NJ MndHguHrur; and here
IN what Nature. tho crcat Dnrwlulnn
p'ilpdlrh SAYS of tulich George II