The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-09-01

q ~ nsansse 60 nsse esafsape,1ee
live On 10 old ase. Nst ''ths survival
Of the fttest"
hut 10 show you tat this doctrine y
sntagonistic 10 the Bible and 20 COM
moa sense. I have only % prove to
you that thsre has been 10 natural pro-
srea. Vas imprcvsmsnt from anoth-
er source. but mind yoa. No natural
progress. Where 10 he fine horss ~
any OF our parks whose picture Of eye
aad name and noseril and neck and
Launches il worthy OF being compared
to Jobs picture Of horse - he thou
sands OF year ago heard It paw and
neigh and champ its bit for the battle?
Pigeons Of to-day not % wise a. the
carrier pigeons Of 500 years ago-pig-
cons that carried the mails from army
to army and from city to city. one Of
them flung into the sky at Rome or
Venice landing without ship or rail
train In London. Look ut the great ami
mails that walked the earth In olden
times-animals compared with which
in size our elephant is . cat-monsters
Of olden times that swan the deep,
compared with which our whale 10 a
! minnow. Comics have learned nothing
about climbing, and the hounds moth
ing about hunting, and the ostrich moth
nothing about flying. and the owl MOTH
ing about musical cadences for six
thousand years. Not q particle OF
progress.
And as to the human race, so far as
mere natural progress IL concerned,
once there were men ten feet high; now
the average is about five feet six inches.
It started with men living 200, 400. 500,
900 wears, and now 30 years is more
| than the average OF human life. Mighty
progress we have made haven't we2
l went into the cathedral at York,
England. and the best artists in Eng
! land had just been painting a window
| in that cathedral, and right beside it
was a window painted four hundred
years ago, and there Is not a man on
earth but would say that the modern
painting OF the window by the best
| artists OF England n not worthy Of be-
ing compared with the painting Of four
hundred years ago right beside 1t.
Vast improvement. as shall show you
\ in minute or two. but no natural ev-
| olutlon.
Look at China, where evolution has
had full swing for thousands OF years
uninterrupted by anything except here
and there a mission station with this
defunct book. the Bible, but through
the most Of the realm not inrerfered
with. What has evolution done Cor
| China? Christian civilization goes In
| and builds a railroad; they tear 1t up.
| For one thousand years the Chinese
nation, where it il not invaded by the
gospel. has not made one five hundred
millionth part Of an inch of advance
ment. They worship the same gods OF
red paint. Just as always they drown
the female children as a nuisance.
! I tell you, my friends, that natural
evolution Is not upward, it Is always
downward. Hear Chrst's account Of
1t. Fifteenth Matthew and nineteenth
verse. "Out Of the heart proceed evil
thoughts. murders. adulteries, fornica-
tions, thefts, false witness, basphe-
mics" That is what Christ said of
evolution. Give nat1ral evolution full
! SNvinu IN, nd ,.,tyl
into two hemispheres OF crime. two
hemispheres of penitentlary, two hem
lspheres of lazaretto, two hemlspheres
Of brothel New York Tombs, Moya-
mensing prison, Philadelphia Seven
Dials, London and Cowgate, Edin-
burgh, only fostering carbuncles on the
| face and neck of natural evolution. See
what the Bible says about the heart
and then what evolution says about
the heart Evolution says. Better and
better and better gets the heart by
natural Improvement" The Bible says
THE heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked. Who can
know it?" When you can evolve fra
GRANGE from malodor. and can evolve
an oratorio from a buzzsaw. and can
evolve fall pippins from a basket o.
decayed crab apples, then you can by
natural evolution from the human
heart develop goodness. An, my friends
natural evolution is always downward
II is never upward.
am not a pessimist, but an optimist
I do not believe everything Is going "a
destruction. I believe everything Is 60
ing on to redemption. But It Will moi
be through the infidel doctrines OF evo.
luton. 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 shiI
gone on the rocks at Cape Hatteras
The hulk is breaking up, crew and pas
sengers are drowning. The storm Is ir
full blast and the barometer is still
sinking. What does that ship want
Development. Develop her broker
masts. Develop her broken rudder
Develop her drowning crew. DeveloI