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i again that the lizard on the lowest for.
nation Of rocks was just as complete as
tho lizard now 1t is shown that the
ganoid, the first fish, WAS just rs COM
plete rs the sturgeon, another name for
the same fish now. Darwin 8 entire sys-
TEN is guess, and Huxley and John
Stuart Mill and Tyndall and especial
ly Professor H9ckel come to help him
in the guess and guess about the brute,
and guess about man, and guess about
worlds; but, rs to having ono solid foot OF
ground to stand on, they never have had
it and never will have it, Iput i'll opposi-
ton to these evolutionist theories the
inward consciousness that we have nc
consanguinity with the dog that fawns
at our feet, or tho spider that crawls on
the wall, or tie fish that fops in the
frying pan, or the crow that swoops on
the field carcass, or the swine that wal
lows in the mire Everybody sees the
outrage it would be to put aside the
Bible record that Abraham bcgat Isaac,
and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat
Judah, for the record that the micro
scopic animalcule begat the tadpole, and
the tadpole begat the polliwog, and the
polliwog begat the serpent, and the ser
pent begat the quadrupcd, and the quad,
ruped begat the baboon, md the bab-
DON begat man.
The evolutionists tell us that the
apes were originally fond Of climbing
the trees, but after awhile they lost
their prehensile power, and therefore
could not climb with any facility. and
hence they surrendered monkeydom and
set up In business as men. Failures as
apes, successes as men. According to
the evolutionists man Is bankrupt
monkey.
Divine Origin.
pity the person who in overy nerve
and muscle and bone and mental fac
ulty and spiritual experience does not
realize that he Is higher in origin and
has had grander ancestry than the
beasts which perish. However degraded
mon and women may be, and though
they may have foundered on the rocks
Of crime and sin, and though we shud-
der as we pass them, nevertheless there
is something within US that tells US
they belong to the same great brother
hood and sisterhood of our race, and
our sympathies are aroused in regard to
them. But, gazing upon tho swiftest
gazelle, or upon the tropical bird of
most flamboyant wing, or upon the
curve of grandest courser's neck, we feel
there is no consanguinity. 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
better eyesight, for the eagle can descry
mole a mile away. 1t is not that we
are heeter of foot, for roebuck In a
flash is out of sight, just seeming to
touch the earth as he goes. Many OF
the animal creation surprising us in
fleetness of foot and in keenness of nos
tril and in strength Of limb, but not
withstanding all that there Is some
thing 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 O muskrAt, and your mother an
opossum, and your grea:-aunt kanga-
roo, and the toads and the swapping
turtles were your illustrious predeces-
sors, my father was God. know 1t. ]
feel it. 1t thrills through me with all
emphasis and an ecstasy which all your
arguments drawn from anthropology
and biology and zoology and neurology
and paleontology and all the other
ologies can never shake.
Evolution is one great mystery. 1t
matches out so mysteries, and the SO
hatch out 1000. and the 1000 hatch
out 1,OOO,0 900. Why, my brother, not
admit the one great mystery of God and
have that settle all the other mysteries!
I can more easily appreciate the fact
that God by one stroke OF his omnip-
offence could make man than could
realize how out of 5000, 900 ages be
could have evolved one, putting Oh a
little here and little there. 1t would
have been just as great miracle for
God to have turned an orang outang
into man as to make o man out and
out-the one job just as big as the
other.
1t seems to me we had better let God
have little place in our world some
where. It seems to me if we cannot
have him make all creatures, we had
better have him make two or three.
There ought to be some place where he
could stay without interfering with the
evolutionists. NO." says Darwin, and
SO for years be is trying to raise fantail-
ed pigeons and to turn these fantall
pigeons into some other kind OF pigeon
or to have them go into something that
is not pigeon-turning them into
quail or barnyard fowl or brown thrash.
er. But pigeon it is, and others have
tried with the OK and the dog and the
horse, but they staid in their species.
If they attempt to cross over, 1t is
hybrid, and hybrid Is always sterile
and goes into extinction. There has
been only one successful attempt to pass
over from spoechless animal to the
articulation Of man, and that was the
attempt which Balaam witnessed in the
beast that be rode, but an angel OF the
Lord, with drawn sword, coon stopped
that long cared evolutionist.
But says some one, IF we cannot
have God make man, let US have him
make a horse. (" ooh, no!' says Hulk
ley in his great lectures i'll New York
years ago. No. he does not want any
God around the premises God did NOT
make the horse. The horse came Of the
pilohippus, and the pilohippus came
from the protohippus, and the protohip-
pus came from the miohippus, an the
miohippus came from the meshohippps,
and the meshohippus came from the
orohippue, and SO away back, all the
living creatures, we trace it In line
until We get to the moneron, and no
evidence of divine insermeddliDg with
the creation until you get to the none
ron, and that, Huxley says, is OF SO low
form Of life that the probability is II
just made itself or was the result OF
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