The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-09-10

come to development until 20 or 81
years of age, and by that time the
animals that were born the same year
the man was born-the vast majority
OF them have died of old age. This
shows there is no kinship, there Is nc
similarity. IL we had been born OF
the beast we would have had the
beasts strength at the start, or II
would have been our weakness. No
only different, but opposite.
Darwin admitted that the dovecote
pigeon had not changed in thousa nds
of years. II is demonstrated over and
over again that the lizard on the low
est formation OF rocks was just as com
plete as the lizard now. 1t Is shown
that the ganoid. The first fish. was just
as complete as the sturgeon, asotheI
name for the same fish now. Darwin's
entire system was guess, and Huxley,
and John Stuart Mill, and Tyndall, and
especially Prof. haeckel, come to help
him in the guess. and guess about the
brute, and guess about man, and guess
nbut worlds. but as TO having one solid
| foot OF ground % stand on they never
had ii and they never will have II. Iput
in opposition to these evolutionist the
cries the inward consciousness that we
have no consanguinity with the dog
that fawns Mt our feet, or the spider
| that crawls on the wall, or the fish that
Hops in the frying pan, or the crow
that swoops on the field carcass. or
the swine that wa'!ows in the mire.
Everybody sees the outrage il would
be to put aside the Bible record that
| Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat
jacob, and Jacob begat Judah, for the
record that the microscopic animal
Guile begat the tadpole, and the tadpole
begat the polliwog and the polliwog
begat the serpent, and the serpent be-
gat the quadruped, and the qundruped
bcgat the babeon, and the baboon be-
gat the man.
The evolutionists tell us that the
apes were originally fond of climbing
the trees, but after awhile they lost
their prehenstile power. and therefore
could not climb with any facility, and
hence they surrendered monkcydom
and set up in business as men. Fail
ures as apes, successes as men. Ac-
cording to the cvolutionists man is n
bankrupt monkey.
pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental
faculty and spiritual experience does
not realize that he is higher in origin
and has had grandcr ancestry than
the beasts which perish. However de-
Graded men and women may be, and
though they may have foundered on
the rocks of crime and sin, and though
we shudder as we pass them, never
theless there is something within us
that tells us they belong to the same
great brotherhood and sistcrhood of
cur race, and our sympathies are
aroused in regard to them. But gaZ-
ing upon the swiftest gazelle. or upon
the tropical bird of most famboyant
wing, or upon the curve of the grandest
courser's neck, we feel there is no con-
sangnnity. 1t is not that we are
stronger than they, for the lion with
one stroke of his paw could put us into
! the dust. 1t is not that we have bet
| ter eyesight, for the eagle can dcscry
mole mile away. 1t is not that we
are feeter of foot, for roebuck in n
fash is out Of sight. just seeming to
touch the earth as he goes. Many of
| the animal creation surpass us in
| fleetness of foot and in keenness Of
| rostril and in strength of limb, but
notwithstanding all that, there is
something within us that tells us we
arc of celestial pedigree. Not of the
mollusk, not of the rizipod, not of the
| primal germ, but of the living and
omnipotent God. Lineage of the
skies. Genealogy of heaven.
l tell you plainly that if your father
was muskrat and your mother an
opposum, and your great-aunt a
kangaroo, and the toads and the snap
ping turtles were your ilustrious
predecessors. my father was God.
know it. / feel it. 1t thrills through
me with an emphasis and an ecstasy
which all your arguments drawn from
anthropology and biology and zoology
and neurology and paleontology and
ell the other ologies can never shake.
Evolution is one great mystery 1t
matches out SO mysteries and the so
Hatch out 1000, and the 1000 hatch
cut 100000. Why, my brother, not
admit the one great mystery of God
and have that settle all the other mys-
teries? l can more easily appreciate
the fact that Goa by one stroke of His
omnipotence could make man than |
could realize how out Of 100000 of
ages He could have evolved one, put
ting ON little here and little there.
1t would have been just as great n
miracle for God to have turned an
orang-outang into man as to make
a man out and out-the one job just as
big as the other.
1t seems to me that we had better
let God have little place in our world
somewhere. Itseems to me II we can
not have Him make all creatures we
had better have Him make two or
three. There ought to be some place
where He could stay without interior
ing with the evClutlopists. No." says
Darwin. and so for years he is trying
TO raise fan-tailed pigeons and TO
turn these fan-;ailed pigeons intosome
other kind OF pigeon, or to have them
turn into something that is not a