Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-01

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hNh that Hops in the frying pan or the
crow that Nwoons on tn. iicl carcass.
ar the swine that wallow~ in the mir.
Every hody sees the outrage il would
rc To put aside tn, Bible record that
Abraham bcCat l~Nac, amt Isaac bcrat
Jacob, and Jacob hcgat judah. for TIA
record tina. the micru~copic animal
Guile brgat the IA ipolr. and the tad
pole hcgat til" n.lywo". and the pol
lywoT hcgat the >rrurnt. and the ser
pcnt herat tine quairupcd. aud the
Iuadruprd brgat the baunun, and the
rabnon bc"ar man.
The cvolutioni>t> TIL Us that the
apes We're originally fond Of ciirrbi
the trees, but after awhile they lost
their prrhcnSilc power, ana therefore
could not climb with any facility. AMI
hence they surrendered moukrvdum
and set up in business a. men. Fail
urcs a> apes >uccr>>cS Il, men. Ac-
cording To the cv"lutioni,tN a man is Il
bankrupt monkey.
pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental fac
uity and spiritual cXpyrIcncc does not
realize that he i higher in origin and
has had a grandrr ancestry than the
beasts which perish. However de-
graded men and women may hc. and
though they may have foundcrcd on
the rocks of crime and sin, and though
we shuddcr as we pass them, never
lhclcsS there il some thing within Us
that tells Us they belong tn the same
great brotherhood and sistcrhood of
our race. and our sympatlies are
aroused in regard to them. But gaz-
ing upon the Swiftest gazelle, or upon
the tropical bird of most fam
boyant wing, or upon the curve
of grandcst courser's neck. we feel
there is no consauguiuity. 1t
i not that we are stronger than they.
for the lion with one stroke of his paw
could nut Us into the dust 1t is not
that we have better eyesight, for tine
eagle can deScry mole mile away.
IL is not that we are fccter of foot. for
a oebucll in flash is out of sight.
just seeming to touch the earth as he
goes. Many of the animal creation
surpass us in flcctness of foot and in
kcenncSs of nostril and in strength OF
limb, but Notwithstanding all that.
there is something within us that tells
us we are of celestial pedigree Not of
the mollusk, not of the rizipod, not of
the primal germ, but of the living and
omnipo,cnt God. Lineage of the skies.
Gcncalogy OF Heaven.
| tell You plainly that if your father
was a muskrat and your mother an
opossum. and Your great aunt kan.
CARGO, and the toadS and the swapping
turtles were Your iilustriouS predeccs-
sors, my father was God. | know it.
feel it. /; thrills through me with
an emphasis and an ecstacy which all
your arguments drawn from anthro-
pology and biology and zoology and
neurology and palcontology and all the
other olo@ieS can never shake.
Evolution is one great mystery. Ii
matches out 30 mysteries ami the 20
hatch out 1000. and the 1000 hatch out
1000, 600 Why, my brother, not admit
the one great mystery of Col and have
that settle all the other mysteries?
can more easily appreciate the fact
that God 10y one stroke OF his omnipo-
tcnce could make man than | could re-
alize how out of 1000, 900 of ages he
could have evolved one, putting on 4
little here and little there. 1t would
have been just as great n miracle for
God to have turned an ourang-outang
into 4 man as to have made n man out
and out-the one job just As big as the
other.
1t seems to me we had better let God
have little place in our world some
where. 1t seems to me If we can moi
have him make all creatures we had
better have him make two or three.
There ought to he some place where
he could stay without interfering with
the evolutionistS. No" says Darwin
and so for years he is trying TO raise
fan-tailed pigeons ami to turn these
fan-tailed pigeons into some Other
kind of pigeon, or to have then
,e,e-'nto mething that is not a pigeon
turning them into n quail, or barn
yard fowl or brownthrcsher. But
pigeon it is. And others have tried
| with the OK and the dog and the horse,
but they stayed in their species. II
they attempt to cross over it is a ny
brid, and n hybrid is always sterile
and goes into extinction. There ha'
been only one successful attempt tC
pass over from speechless animal &c
the articulation of man, and that was
| the attempt which Balaam witnessed
| in the beast that he rode; but an an
| gel of the Lord, with drawn sword,
soon stopped that long-eared evolu
ZIONIST
But, says some one, ''if we can not
| have God make a man let us have Hin
make a horse. "'Oh, nor says Huxley
| in his great lectures in New York year.
ago. No, he does not want any Co
around the premises. God did moi
make the horse The horse came o.
| the pliohippus, and the plIohippus
came from the protohippus, and the
| protohippus came from the miohippus
and the miohippus came from the
meshohippus. and the meshohippus
came from the orohippus and so away
| back, all the living creatures, we trace
| il in line until we get tn the moneron,
and no evidence of the divine informed
| ding with the creation until you get t.
| the mOnerOn, ana tndt, IluNttN say ;. IL
| of so low n form of life that the prob
ability is it just made itself or was the
result of spontaneous generation
| What a narrow escape from the neces
sity of having God!
As near as | can tell. these evolu
! tionists seem to think that God at the
/ start had not made up His mind exact
| ly what He would make, and having
made up His mind partially He has
4 been changing it all through the ages.
/ | believe that God made the world rs
! He wanted To hav. it, and that the
| ha -piness of all the species will de-
D nj upon their staying in the species
where they were created.
Once upon "A time there was in nat
ural amphitheatcr of the forest a con
vention of animals, and a gorilla from
western Africa came in with his club
and pounded Order" Then he sal
down in a chair of twirled forest root
| The delegation of birds came in anC
took their position in the galleries OF
the hilltors and the treetops. And ;
delegation of reptiles came in, anC
they took their position in the pit o.
the valley. And the tiers of rock: