The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-08-27

tiAnc " Wdhe uNtSllEdIlOu lOT luem-
selves understand that evolution in
the FIRST place is up-and-down. out-and.
out inideiity; in the second place it is
contrary to the facts OF science, and
In the third place, that it is brutaliz-
ing in its tendencies. do not argue
that this is a genuine book, | do not
say hat the Bible is worthy of any
kind Of credence-those are subjects
for other Sabbaths-but | want you TO
understand that Thomas Paine and
Hume and Noltsire no more thoroughly
disbelieved the Holy Scriptures than
do all the leading scientists who be.
lieve In evolution. And when | say
scientists Of course, | do not mean
literary men Or theologians who in
essay or In sermon, and without Civ
ing their life 10 scientific inyestiga-
tons look at the subject on this side
or that BY scientists ! mean those
who have a speciality in that direction
and who, through geological garden
and aquarium and astronomical observ-
atory. give their life 10 the study Of the
physical earth, its plants and its ami
mails aud the regions beyond so far rs
optical instruments have explored
them
put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heekel, John Stuart Mill. Hux-
ley, Tyndali, Darwin, Spencer. On
the witness stand, ye men of science.
living and dead, answer these ques-
tons Do you believe the Holy Scrip
tures2 No And 81 they say all. Do
you believe the Bible story Of Adam
and Eve in the garden Of Eden? No
And so they say all DO you believe
the miracles Of the Old and New Tes-
lament! No. And so they say all.
Do you believe that Jesus Christ died
to saw the nations? No. And so
they say all DO you believe in the
regenerating power Of the Holy Ghostp
No And So they say all Do you be-
! lieve that human supplication directed
heavenward ever makes any differ
ence9 No. And % they say all.
Herbert Spencer. in the only ad-
dress he made In this country, in his
very drst sentence asGribes his physi-
cal ailments to fate, and the author
lied report of that address begins the
word fate with = big "F." Prof
Heckel in the very first page of his
two great volumes, sneers at the BIZ
BILE as a sO-called revelation. Tyndall,
in his famous 'prayer test defed the
whole Of C~hristendom TO show that
human supplication made any differ
ence in the result Of things John
Stuart Mill wrote deliberately against
Christianity, and to show that his re-
lection Of it was complete, ordered
this epitsph for his tombstone: Most
unhappy Huxley said that at the
first reading Of Darwin's book he was
convinced Of the fact that Theology
had received its death blow at the
hand Of Mr.. Darwin. All the leading
scientists who believe in evolution,
without one exception the world over,
are infdeL. say nothing against in
fidelity, mind you. ! only wish TO
define the belief and meaning Of the
rejection
Now, ] put opposite each other, TO
show that evolution "a i~nfdelity, the
Bible account Of how the human race
started and the eyolutionist account
Of how the human race started. Bible
account God said, let us make man
in image. God created man in His
own image. male and female created
lie them" lie breathed into him the
breath Of life, the whole story setting
forth the idea hat II was not a perfect
kangorsa, or a perfect onrang ontnng,
but a perfect man. That is the Bible
account The eyOiutionist account;
Away back in the ages there were four
or Eve primal germs, Of seminal spores
from which all the living creatures
have been evolved Go away back, and
there you will find a vegetable stuff
that might be called a mushroom. This
mushroom by innate force develops a
tadpole, the tadpole by innate force
develops a pollywOg, the polywog de-
velops a fish, and the fish by natural
force develops into q reptile, the rep
tile develops into q quadruped, the
quadruped develops into a baboon, tbs
baboon develops into a man.
Darwin says that the human hand IS
only a fsh's I'm developed lie says
that the hHman lungs are only a swim
bladder showing that we once 1oated
or were amphibious. lie says the hui
man ear could once have been moved
by force Of will just as 3 bqrse lifts Us
ear at a frightful object lie says ths
human race were originally web
footed. From primal germ 10 tad
pole, from tadpole to fish, from fish u
reptile, from reptile 10 wolf, from
wolf 70 chimpanzee, and from chin.
panzee 10 man. Now, If anybody says
that the Bible a,count Of the starting
Of the human race aRd the evolution-
ist account OF the starting Of the hu.
man race are the same ace0GBts b.
makes an appalling Misrepresentation
Prefer, II yoE vii, Darwin's Origin
Of the Species" TO the Book Of Genesis
bgt know you are an INTEL. As fol
myself, as Herbert Spencer was no
present at the creation and the Lore
Almighty was pseeent ! prefer 10 taxi
= the divine recount - tq what really
occurred on that occasion. To show
that this evolution is only an atte.9B.
to eject God and TO postpone Him, anC
: 10 put Him clear out Of reach, | ask
question or two The baboon mad
The map and the wolf made th'
ii babo0n. and the reptile made tn
I, quadruped, and the gsb made the REP
tile, and the tadpole made the fish
d and the primal germ mad the tadpale
7 Who made the primal GERM Most o
the evolutionists say: 1--WE don
know" Others say IL made Itself
Others say II was spontaneous genera