Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-07

of them have died of old age. This
shows there is no kinship, there is no
similarity. If we had been born of
the beast we would have had the
beasts strength at the start, or it
would have been our weakness. Not
only different, but opposite.
Darwin admitted that the dovecote
pigeon had not changed in thousands
of years, 1t Is demonstrated over and
over again that the lizard on the low
est formation OF rocks was just as COM
plete rs the lizard now. 1t is shown
that the ganoid the first fish, was just
as complete as the sturgeon, another
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
abut worlds, but as 10 having one solid
foot Of ground 10 stand on they never
had 1t and they never will have 1t. lput
in opposition to these evolutionist the
ories the inward consciousness that we
have no consanguinity with the dog
that fawns at our feet, or the spider
that crawls on the wall, or the fish that
iiops 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 it 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
cule begat the tadpole, and the tadpole
begat the poliwog and the polliwog
hcgat the serpent, and the serpent be-
gat the quadrupcd, and the quadruped
begat the baboon, and the baboon be-
gat the man.
The evolutionsts tell us that the
apes were originally fond of climbing
the trees, but after awhile they lost
their prehenstie power, and therefore
could not climb with any facility, and
hence they surrendered monkeydom
and set up in business as men. Fail
ures as apes, successes as men. Ac'
cording to the evolutionists man is a
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 grander ancestry than
the beasts which perish, However de-
Graded men and women may be, and
though they may have foundered or
the rocks of crime and sin, and though
we shudder as we pass them, never
tLeless there is something within us
that tells us they belong to the same
great brotherhood and sisterhood ot
cur race, and our sympathies are
aroused in regard to them. But gaz
ing upon the swiftest gazelle, or upor
the tropical bird of most ilamboyant
wing, or upon the curve of the grandest
courser's neck, we feel there is no con
sanguinity. 1t is not that we are
stronger than they, for the lion witt
one stroke of his paw could put us into
the dust 1t is not that we have bet
ter eyesight, for the eagle can descry
q mole mile away. 1t is not that w
are flceter Of foot, for roebuck in ;
fash is out of sight, just seeming tt
touch the earth as he goes. Many o
the animal creation surpass MS il
1eetness Of foot and in keenness o
rostril and in strength of limb, bu
Notwithstanding all that, there il
something within us that tells us VT
ere of celestial pedigree. Not of th'
mollusk, not of the rizipod, not of th'
primal germ, but of the living an'
omnipotent God Lineage of th
skies. Genealogy of heaven.
tell you plainly that II your fathe
was muskrat and your mother al
opposum, and your great-nunt
kangaroo, and the toads and the snap
ping turtles were your illustriou
predecessors, my father was God.
know it. | feel it. 1t thrills through
me with an emphasis andEan ecstas.
which all your arguments drawn iron
anthropology and biology and zoolog.
and morology and paleontology ant
ell the other ologies can never shak
Evolution is one great mystery. |
matches out 50 mysteries and the )
hatch out 1909 and the 1000 hate
cut 100000. Why, my brother, no
admit the one great mystery of Go
and have that settle all the other mys
teries? can more easily appreciat
the fact that Goo by one stroke Of Hi
omnipotence could make man than
could realize how out of 100000 o
ages He could have evolved one, put
ting on little here and little there
1t would have been just as great
miracle for God to have turned n
orang-outang into man as to max
man out and out-the one job just a
big as the other.
1t seems to me that we. had bette
let God have little place in our worl
somewhere. It seems to me If we car
rot have Him make all creatures "
had better have Him make two o
three. There ought TO be some plac
where He could stay without interfel
ing with the evGlutlonists. mo" say
Darwin, and SO for years he is tryin
TO raise fan-tailed pigeons and
turn these fan-'ailed pigeons intosom
other kind of pigeon, or to have thel
turn into something that is not
pigeon-turninc them into quail, c
barnyard fowl " brown thresher' Br
pigeon it is And others have trie
with the OK and the dog and the hors
but they stayed in their species.
they attempt to cross over it is ny
brid, and hyb.id is always sterile an
7 goes into extinction. There has bee
only one successful attempt to pa'
over from the speechless animal to tn
articulation of man, and that was II
attempt which Balaam witnessed
; the beast that he rode; but an angel {
! the Lord, with drawn sword. 500
I x.o,pod that lopU-pnrpQ pyOlut iOuls I.