The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-08-24

to put him clear out of reach, l ask
a question or two. The baboon made
the man, and the wolf made the ba-
boon, and the reptile made the quadru-
ped, and the fish made the reptile, and
the tadpole made the fish, and the
primal germ made the tadpole. Who
made the primal germ? Most of the
evolutionists say: 1--WE don't know"
Others say it made itself. Others say
it was spontaneous generation. There
is not one of them who will fairly and
openly and frankly and emphatically
say: "God made it,"
To show you that evolution is inf
the brute creation was started oppo-
site to the evolutionist's account of the
way the brute creation was started.
Bible account: You know that the
Bible tells how that the birds were
made at one time, and the cattle made
at another time, and the fish made at
another time, and that each brought
forth after its kind. Evolutionist's
account: From four or five primal
germs or seminal spores all the living
creatures evolved. Hundreds of thou
sands of species of insects, or reptiles,
or beasts, of fish, from four germs
statement fatty contradicted not
only in the Bible, but the very A B
c of science. A species never develops
into anything but its own species. In
all the ages and in all the world there
has never been an exception to it. The
shark never comes of whale, nor the
pigeon of the vulture, nor the butter
| fly of a wasp. Species never cross
over. If there be an attempt at it it is
hybrid, and the hybrid is always ster-
lie and has no descendants.
To show that evolution is infdel /
place also the Bible account of how
worlds were made opposite the evolu-
tionist's account of how worlds were
made. Bible account: God made two
great lights--the one to rule the day,
the other to rule the night; he made
the stars also. Evolutionist account:
Away back in the ages there was fire
mist or star dust, and this fire mist
cooled off into granite, and then this
granite by earthquake and by storm
and by light was shaped into
mountains and valleys and seas, and
so what was originally fire mist be-
came what we call the earth.
Who made the first mist? Who set
the fire mist to matchmaking? Who
cooled off the first mist into granite?
Agassiz says: "The manner in which
the evolution theory in zoology is
treated would lead those who are not
special biologists to suppose that OBJ
servations have been made by which
it can be inferred that there is in ma
ture such thing as change among
organized beings actually taking
place. There is no such thing on rec
ord. 1t is shifting the ground of OBJ
servation from one field of obser-
vation to another to make this
statement, and when the assertions
go so far as to exclude from the do
main of science those who will not be
dragged into this mire of mere asser-
tion then it is time to protest"
With equal vehemence against the
doctrine of evolution Hugh Miller,
Farraday, Brewster, Dana, Dawson
and hundreds of scientists in this
country and other countries have
made protest. l know that the few
men who have adopted the theory
make more noise than the thousands
who have rejected it. The Bothnia, OF
the Cunard line, took five hundred
passengers safely from New York to
Liverpool. Not one of the five hun.
dred made any excitement. But after
we had been four days out, one morn.
ing we found on deck mans hat and
coat and vest and boots, implying that
some one had jumped overheard
Forthwith we all began to talk about
that one man. There was more talk
about that one man overheard than all
the five hundred passengers that rode
en- in safety.
Here is the glorious and magnificent
theory that God by his omnipotent
power made man, and by his omnipo
tent power made the brute creation
and by his omnipotent power made all
worlds, and five hundred scientists
have taken passage on board that mag,
nificent theory, but ten or fifteen have
jumped overheard. They make more
talk than all the five hundred that did
not jump. l am politely asked to jump
with them. Thank you, gentleman,
am very much obliged to you. think
I shall stick to the old Cunarder. II
you want to jump overheard, jump
and test for yourselves whether your
hand was really fsh's fin, and
whether you were web-footed origin
ally, and whether your lungs are @
swim bladder. And as in every expert
ment there must be division of labor
some who experiment and some who
observe, you make the experiment and
will observe!
There is one tenet of evolution
which it is demanded we adopt, that
which Darwin calls Natural Selec
tion," and that which Wallace call,
/, the Survival of the Fittest." By this
they mean that the human race ant
, the brute creation are all the time i'm
proving because the weak die and tn,
strong live. Those who do not survive
because they are the fittest. They say
the breed of sheep and cattle and dog,
J and men is all the time improving, ma
J turally improving. No need of God, OF
/ any Bible, or any religion, but JUS
natural progress.
You see the race started with "spon
taneous generation" and then it goel
; right on until Darwin can take us III