Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-22

Kirchoff were invented, by which they
saw into that nebula and found it was
not simple gas, but was compound,
and hence had to be supplied from some
other source, and that implied God,
and away went their theory shattered
into everlasting demolition.
InfideI Guessers.
So these infdel evolutionists go wan
dering up and down guessing through
the universe. Anything to push away
back Jehovah from his empire and make
the one book which is his great COM
munication to the soul of the human
race appear obsolete and delusive, but [
am glad to know that, while some of
these scientists have gone into evolu-
tion, there are many that do not believe
it, among them the man who by most
is considered the greatest scientist we
ever had this side of the water-Agassiz
"a name that makes every intelligent
man the earth over uncover.
Agassiz says: "The manner in which
the evolution theory in zoology is treat
ed would lead those who are not special
biologists to suppose that observations
have been made by which it can be in
ferred that there is in nature such a
thing as change among organized beings
actually taking place. There is no such
thing on record. Tt is shifting the
ground of observation from one field Of
observation to another to make this
statement, and when the assertions go
so far as to exclude from the domain Of
science those who will not be dragged
into this mire of mere assertion 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.
[ 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
500 passengers safely from New York
to Liverpool. Not one Of the 800 made
any excitement. But after we had been
four days out, one morning, we found
on deck a 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 over
board than all the 500 passengers that
rode on in safety. "Why did he jump
overboard?" st wonder when he jumped
overboard?" ST wonder if when he
Jumped overheard he would liked to
have jumped back again?" 81 wonder if
a fish caught him Or whether he went
clear down to the bottom of the sea?''
And for three or four days afterward
we talked about that poor man.
A Glorious Theory.
Here is the glorious and magnificent
theory that God by his omnipotent pow
er made man, and by his omnipotent
power made the brute creation, and by
his omnipOtent power made all worlds,
and 500 scientists have taken passage
on board that magnificent theory, but
10 Or 5 have jumped overheard. They
make more talk than all the 500 that
did not jump. I am politely asked to
jump with them. Thank you, gentle
men, am very much obliged to you. |
think I shall stick to the old Cunarder.
If you want to jump overheard, jump
and test for yourselves whether your
hand was really a fish's fin, and wheth
er you were webfooted originally, and
whether your lungs are a swim blad-
der. And as in every experiment there
must be division of labor, some who
experiment and some who observe, you
make the experiment and Twill observe.
There is one tenet of evolution which
it is demanded we adopt, that which
Darwin calls natural selection, - and
that which Wallace called the survival,
of the fttest.' By this they mean that
the human race and the brute creation
are all the time improving because the
weak die and the strong live. Those
who do not die survive because they are
the fttest. They say the breed Of sheep
and cattle and dogs and men is all the
time improving, naturally improving.
No need Of God or any Bible or any re-
ligion, but just natural progress.
You see the race started with F'spon-
taneous generation, and then it goes
right on until Darwin can take us up
with his natural selection, and Wal
lace with his "survival of the fttest,"
and SO we go right on up forever.
Beautiful! But do the fttest survive?
Garfield dead in eptember-Guiteau
surviving until the following June.
"Survival of the fittest?" All, no! The
martyrs, religious and political, dying
for their principles their bloody perse-
cutors living on to old age. "Survival
of the fittest?'' Five hundred thousand
brave northern men marching out to
met 500, 900 brave southern men and
die on the battlefield for a principle.
Hundreds of thousands of them went
down into the grave trenches. We
staid at home in comfortable quarters
Did they die because they were not as
fit to live as we who survived? All, no,
not the Survival of the fittest' Ellis
worth and Nathaniel Lyon falling on
the northern side. Albert Sidney John
ston and Stonewall Jackson falling on
the southern side. Did they fall be-