The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-09-02

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REV. TALMAeE. as certainly as two
express trains going in opposite direc-
lions at 20 miles to the hour, their To-
comotives meeting on the same track.
! showed that all the evolution scien-
lists, without any exception, were pro-
nounced infidels; that evolution was a
heathenism thousands of years old;
that such men as Agassiz and Hugh
Miller and Farraday and Dawson and
Dana had for that doctrine of evolu-
ton unlimited contempt. showed
you that their favorite theory of the
survival OF the fittest" was an absurd
ity and an untruth, and that natural
evolution was always downward and
never upward, and that there had
never been any improvement for man
or beast or world except through the
direct or indirect influence of our glo-
rious Christianity. And in the closing
part of that sermon told you l was
not pessimist, but an optimist, that
instead of IL being /! o'clock at night
IL is $50 in the morning.
Now, go on TO tell you, il seems to
me that evolutionists are trying to
impress the great masses of the peo-
pie with the idea that there is an an.
cestral line leading from the primal
germ on UP through the serpent, and
on up through the gorilla, to man.
They admit that there is missing
link" as they call it, out there is not
missing link-it is a whole chain
gone. Between the physical construc-
ton OF the highest animal, and the
physical construction of the lowest
man, there is a chasm as wide as the
Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists tell us
that somewhere in central Africa, or
in Borneo, there Is a creature halfway
between the brute and the man, and
that that creature is the highest step
in the animal ascent and the lowest
step in the human creation. But what
are the facts? The brain of the largest
gorilla that was ever found is 30 cubic
inches, while the brain of the most
ignorant man that was ever found is
20. Vast difference between 80 and 20.
II needs a bridge of 40 arches to span
that gulf.
Besides that, there is a difference
between the gorilla and the mana
difference OF blood globule, differ
ence Of nerve, a difference of bone, a
difference of sinew. The horse is more
like man in intelligence, the bird is
more like him in musical capacity, the
mastif is more like him in affection
That eulogiZed beast of which we hear
so much. represented on the walls of
cities thousands of years ago is Just
as complete as IL is now, showing that
there has not been particle of change
Besides that II a pair of apes had IA
man for descendants, why would not
all the apes have the same kind of de-
scendantsP Can IL be that one favored
pair only was honored with human
progeny? Besides that. evolution saws
that as one species rises to another
species. the old type dies off. Then
how is il that there are whole king
doms Of chimpanzee and gorilla and
baboon?
The evolutionists have come togeth-
er and have tried to explain the birds
wing. Their theory has always been
that faculty of an animal while be-
ing developed must always be useful
and always beneficial, but the wing of
a bird, in the thousands of years it
was being developed, SO far from being
any help must hav seen a hindrance
until it could be brought Ito practical
use away on down in the ages. Must
there not have been an intelligent will
somewhere that formed that wonder
flying instrument, so that a bird 500
times heavier than the air can mou MT
it and put gravitation under claw and
beak9 That wonderful mechanical in
strument, the wing, with between 30
and 80 different apparati curiously
constructed, does not imply a divine
intelligence Does il not imply di-
rect act of some outside being? All
the evolutionists in the world cannot
explain birds wing, OF an insects
wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rattle
of the rattlesnake. Ages before that
reptile had any enemies, this warning
weapon was created. Why was it
created? When the reptile, far back
in the ages had no enemies, why this
warning weaponp There must have
been divine intelligence foreseeing
and knowing that in ages to come that
reptile would have enemies, and then
this warning weapon would be brought
into use. You see evolution at every
step is contradiction or a monstros-
ity. At every stage of animal life as
we'll as at every stage of human life
there is evidence of direct action of
divine will Besides that it is very
evident from another fact that we are
an entirely different creation, and that
there is no kinship. The animal
in few hours or months comes TO