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begins to pick up its own food. The
dog. the wolf, the lion, soon earn their
own livelihood and acs fer their own
defense. The human rat7kdoes not
come to developmS Nn or 80
years of age, and bSShae' time the
animals that were born the same year
| the man was born--the vast majority
Of them have died of old age. This
shows there is no kinship, there is no
similarity. If we had been born of
| the beast we would have had the
beasts strength at the start, or it
would have been our weakness. Not
only different, but opposite.
Darwin admitted that the dovecote
pigeon had not changed in thousands
of years. 1t is demonstrated over and
over again that the lizard on the low
est formation of rocks was just as COM
plete as the lizard now. 1t is shown
that the ganoid, the first fish, was just
as complete as the sturgeon, another
name for the same fish now. Darwin's
entire system was guess, and Huxley,
and John Stuart Mill, and Tyndall, and
especially Prof. Haeckel, come to help
him in the guess, and guess about the
brute, and guess about man, and guess
abut worlds, but as to having one solid
foot of ground 10 stand on they never
had it and they never will have it. Tput
in opposition to these evolutionist the
cries the inward consciousness that we
have no consanguinity with the dog
that fawns at our feet, or the spider
that crawls on the wall, or the fish that
fops in the frying pan, or the crow
that swoops on the field carcass, or
the swine that wa,lows in the mire.
Everybody sees the outrage 1t would
be to put aside the Bible record that
Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat
Jacob, and Jacob begat judah, for the
record that the microscopic animal
cule begat the tadpole, and the tadpole
begat the polliwog, and the polliwog
begat the serpent, and the serpent be-
gat the quadruped, and the quadruped
begat the baboon, and the baboon be-
gat the man.
The evolutionists tell us that the
apes were originally fond of climbing
the trees, but after awhile they lost
their prehenstile power, and therefore
could not climb with any fs cility, and
hence they surrendered monkeydom
and set up in business as men. Fail
ures as apes, successes as men. Ac-
cording to the evolutionists u man is a
bankrupt monkey.
j pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental
faculty and spiritual experience does
not realize that he is higher in origin
and has had grander ancestry than
the beasts which perish. However de-
graded men and women may be, and
though they may have foundered on
the rocks of crime and sin, and though
we shudder as we pass them, never
theless there is something within us
that tells us they belong to the same
great brotherhood and sisterhood of
cur race, and our sympathies are
aroused in regard to them. But gaz-
ing upon the swiftest gazelle, or upon
the tropical bird of most fiamboyant
wing, orupon the curve of the grandest
courser's neck, we feel there is no con-
sanguinity 1t is not that we are
stronger than they, for the lion with
, one stroke of his paw could put us into
the dust 1t is not that we have bet
ter eyesight, for the eagle can descry
mole mile away. 1t is not that we
are feeter of foot, for a roebuck in a
fash is out of sight, just seeming to
! touch the earth as he goes, Many OF
, the animal creation surpass us in
, 1eetness of foot and in keenness OF
, nostril and in strength of limb, but
Notwithstanding all that, there is
something within us that tells us we
are of celestial pedigree. Not of the
mollusk, not of the rizipod, not of the
primal germ, but of the living and
omnipotent God. Lineage of the
skies. Genealogy of heaven.
| tell you plainly that if your father
was muskrat and your mother an
e opposum, and your great-aunt a
, kangaroo, and the toads and the snap.
ping turtles were your illustrious
predecessors, my father was God.
know it. feel it. 1t thrills through
g me with an emphasis and an ecstasy
! which all your arguments drawn from
anthropology and biology and zoology
: and neurology and paleontology and
a ell the other ologies can never shake
S Evolution is one great mystery. II
e matches out so mysteries and the 81
/ hatch out 1909, and the 1000 hatcf
? out 100000. Why, my brother, moi
t admit the one great mystery Of Goo
: and have that settle all the other mys
: teries? l can more easily appreciate
0 the fact that Goo by one stroke of Hi
!. omnipotence could make man than
: could realize how out of 100000 o.
t ages He could have evolved one, put
I ting on little here and little there
r 1t would have been just as great I
i miracle for God to have turned al
il orang-outang into man as to MAKE
h a, man out and out-the one job just a
i big as the other.
l. It seems to me that we had better
t let God have little place in our worlt
: somewhere. It seems to me If we can
d not have Him make all creatures W,
n had better have Him make two OF
three. There ought to be some plac'
: where He could stay without interior
e ing with the evClutionists. no." say
l. Darwin, and so for years he is trying
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