Connecticut western news., 1898-08-25
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A Galvanized Corpse.

what IS remarKaDl0 aDOuG tnlS bnlnH is it is all the time developing its dis honesty. In our day it is ascribing this evolution to Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. It is dishonesty Evolution was known and advocated hundreds of years before these gentle men began to be evolved The PhGni- clans thousands of years ago declared that the human race wabbled out of the mud. Democritus, who lived 460 years before Christ-remember that-knew this doctrine of evolution when he said: Everything is composed of atoms, or infinitely small elements, each with definite quality, form and movement, whose inevitable union and separation shape all different things and forms laws and efforts and dissolve them again for new combinations The gods themselves and the human mind orig mated from such atoms There are no casualties Everything is necessary and determined by the nature of the atoms which have certain mutual affinities, attractions and repulsions. Anoxi- mander centuries ago declared that the human race started at the place where the sea saturated the earth. Lucretius developed long centuries ago in his poems the doctrine of evolution.
 It is an old heathen corpse set up in a morgue. Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have tried to galvanize it. They drag this old putrefaction of 1000 years around the earth, boasting that 1t is their originality, and so won- derful is the infatuation that at the Delmonico dinner given in honor of Herbert Spencer some l5 years ago there were those who ascribed to him this great originality of evolution There the hanqueters sat around the table in honor of Herbert Spencer, chew ing beef ana turkey and roast pig, which, according to their doctrine of evolution. made them eating their own relations Slicing up their own oousinsl Driving 8 carving fork into their beloved kin dred! Dashing Worcestershire sauce, bedaubing mustard over their uncles and auntsi And while Herbert Spencer read patronizing lecture to Americans the banqueters sat around the table with their hands up. saying. Dear me, it is the voice of a god and not of . man"
 A Glorious Doctrine.
 There Is only one thing worse than English mobbery, and that is Ameri- can snobbery. like democracy and l like aristooracy, but there is one kind of ocracy in this country that excites my contempt. and that is what Charles Kingsley, after he had witnessed 1t himself, called snobocracy. Now, say 1t Is gigantic dishonesty when they ascribe this old heathen doctrine of evolution to any modern gentleman.
 lam not pessimist, but an optimist. do not believe everything Is going to destruction; l believe everything is go- ing on to redemption But it will not be through the infidel doctrine of evolu- tion, but through our glorious Chris tianity which has effected all the good that has ever been wrought and which is yet to reconstruct all the nations
 What is that in the offing? A ship gone on the rocks at Cape Hatteras. The hulk is breaking up, crew and pas sengers are drowning. The storm Is in full blast and the barometer is still sinking What does that ship want? Development. Develop her broken masts. Develop her broken rudder. De velop her drowning crew. Develop her freezing passengers Develop the whole ship That Is all it wants Develop ment. Oh, make a mistake. What that ship wants is a hfeboat from the shore. Leap into it. you men of the life stationi Pull away to the wreckl Steady therei Bring the women and children first to the shorel Now the stout men Wrap them up in f1annels. and between their chattering teeth you can pour res. toration.
 Well, my friends, our world is on the rocks. God launched 1t we'll enough, but through mispilotage and the storms of 5000 years it has gone into the breakers What does this old ship of a world want? Development There k enough old evolution in the hulk to evolve another mast and another rud. der and to evolve all the passengers and Development An, no. my friends, what this old shipwreck of world wants is lifeboat from the shore. And 1t is coming. Cheer, my lads, cheer. It Is coming from the shining shore of heaven, taking the crests of ten waves with one sweep of the shining paddles. Christ Is in the lifeboat. Many wounds on hands and feet and side and brow showing he has been long engaged In the work of rescue, but yet mighty to save-to save one, to save all, to save forever. My Lord and my God. get us into the lifeboati Away with your rot ten, deceptive. infidel and blasphemous evolution and give us the Bible, saliva tion through Jesus Christ our Lord. Salvation Let the echo fly
 The spacious earth around,
 While all the armies of the sky
 Conspire to raise the sound