Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-08-24

observation from one field OF obsc-va.
ton To another TO make this state.
ment. and when the assertions 90 30
far as TO exclude from the domain of
science those who will not be dragged
into this mire OF mere assertion then il
is time TO protest"
With equal vohemcnce against the
doctrine OF evolution Hugh Miller. Far
raday. brewster. Dana, Dawson and
hundreds of scientists in this country
and other countries have made pro-
test / know that the few men who
have adopted the theory make more
noise than the thousands who have re-
jected n. The Bothnia of the Cunard
line took 500 passengers safely from
New York to Liverpool. Not one
OF the 500 made any excitement.
But after we had been four DAYS
out, one morning we found on deck
mans hat and coat and vest ara
boots, implying that some one H. d
jumped overheard. Forthwith we al
began to- talk about that one NAV.
There was more talk about that one
man overheard than all the 500 paSsen-
gers that rode on in safety. 'Why did
ne jump overboard?' Il wonder when
he jumped overboard?" Il wonder IL
when he jumped overheard nc would
liked TO have iumred back again?" Il
wonder IL fish caught him. or wheth-
or he went clear down TO the bottom
of the sea?" And for three or four
days aftcrward we talked about that
poor man.
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,
aud by his omnipotent power made all
the worlds, and 500 scientists have
taken passage on board that marnifi
cent theory, but 10 or 10 have Jumped
overheard. They make more talk than
all the 500 that did not jump. am
politely asked To jump with them.
Thank you, gentlemen; / am very
much obliged to you. think / shall
stick to the old Cunarder. II You want
70 jump overheard. jump, and test for
yourself whether your hand was really
fish's fin, and whether YOU were web
footed originally. and whether your
lungs are swim bladder And as in
every experiment there must bc a d.
vision of labor, some who experiment
and some who observe, you make the
experiment and will observe!
There is one tenet of evolution which
IL is demanded we adopt, that which
Darwin calls Natural Selection
and that which Wallace calls the Sur
vival of the Fittest" By this they
mean that the human race and the
brute creation are all the time improv-
ing because the weak die and the
strong live. Those who do not die
survive because they are the fittest.
They say the breed of sheep and cat
tie and dogs and men is all the time
improving, naturally improving. No
need of God or any Bible. or any reli-
gion, but natural progress
You see the race started with "spon-
taueous generation" and then il goes
right ON until Darwin can take us up
with his natural selection" and Wall
lace with his survival of the fittest"
and so we so right on up forever.
Beautiful! But do the fttest sur
vive? Garfield dead in Septcmber-
Guiteau survives until the follow
ing June. survival of the fittest?r
All, no! The martyrs religious
and political, dying for their princi-
| pies, their bloody prosecutors living on
To old age. survival of the fittest?r
/ Five hundred thousand brave northern
men marching out to meet 800 900 brave
/ southern men and die on the battle
! field for n principle Hundreds of
thousands of them went down into the
grave trenches. We stayed at home in
comfortable quartcr-. Did they die
because they were not fit to live as we
who survive? An! no; not the "sur-
vival OF the fittest.r Ellsworth and
Nathaniel Lyon falling on the north
ern side. Albert Sidney johnson and
Stonewau Jackson falling on the
southern side. Did they fall because
. they were not as iii TO live as the sol
diers and the generals who came back
IN safety? No. Bitten with the frosts
of the second death be the tongue that
darcs utter it! Ii is not the survival
OF the fittes'"
How has II been in the families OF
the world? How was { with the child
/ physically thr strongest intellectually
the brightest. in disposition the kind
est? Did that child die because ID was
not as tit TO live as those OF your fam
lily that survived? Not 1.-THE survival
OF the httcst" In all communities
some OF the noblest, grandcst men
! dying in youth. or in mid life, while
some OF the meancst and most con-
temptiblc live ON TO old are. Not
''thc survival of the fttcst"