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years ago. No, he does NOT want any
God around the premises. God did
not make the horse. The horse came
of 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 oro-
hippus, and so away back, all
the living creatures, we trace 1t IN a
line until we get to the moneron, and
no evidence of divine intermeddling
with the creation until you get at the
moneron, and that, Huxley says, is of
SO low form of life that the probable
ity is it just made itself or was the re-
suit of spontaneous generation. What
narrow escape from the necessity
of having God!
AS near as l 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
been changing 1t all through the ages.
/ believe that God made the world az
He wanted to have it, and that the hap
piness of all the species will depend
upon their staying in the species where
they were created.
But, my friends, evolution is not only
infidel and atheistic and absurd; it is
brutalizing in its tendencies. If there
is anything in the world that will make
man bestial in his habits 1t is this
idea that he was descended from the
beast. Why, according to the idea of
these evolutionists, we are only SUI
perior kind of cattle, sort of Alder
ney among other herds. To be sure,
we browse on better pasture, end we
have better stall and better accommo-
dations. but then we are only South
downs among the great focks of
sheep. Born of a beast, to die like
beast; for the evolutionists have no
idea of future world.
They say the mind is only superior
part of the body. They say our
thoughts are only molecular forma-
lions. They say when the body dies
the whole nature dies. The slab OF the
sepulcher is not a milestone on the
journey upward, but wall shutting
us into eternal nothingness. We all
| die alike-the COW, the horse, the
sheep, the man, the reptile.
Annihilation iE the heaven of the
eyolutionist. From such stenchful
and damnable doctrine turn away.
Compare that idea of your origin
an idea filled with the chatter of apes
and the hiss of serpents and the croak
of frogs-to an idea in one or two
stanzas which l quote from an old
book of more than Demosthenic or,
Homeric or Dantesque power: What
is man, that Thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that Thou visitest
him? Thou hast made him little
lower than the angels and hast
crowned him with glory and honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of Thy hand; Thou
hast put all things under his feet, all
sheep and oxen, and the beasts of the
field; the fowl Of the air, and what
soever passeth through the paths of
the seas. o Lord, our Lord, how ex-
cellent is Thy name in all the EARTH"
How do you like that origin? The
lion the monarch of the field, the
eagle the monarch of the air, behe-
moth the monarch of the deep. but
man monarch of all. All! my friends.
l have to say to you that am not so
anxious to know what was my origin
as to know what will be my destiny. l
do not care so much where / came
from as where ! am going to. / am
not so interested in who were my an
cestry 10.000,000 years ago as am to
know where will be 100000 years
from now. / am not so much interest
ed in the preface to my cradle as am
interested in the appendix to my
grave. ] do not care so much about
rrotoplasm as | do about eternasm.
The "was" is overwhelmed with the
ito be-" And here comes in the evolu-
ton believe in; not natural evolu-
ton, but gracious and divine and
heavenly volution-evoution out of
sin into holiness, out of grief into
gladness, out of mortality into immor-
tality, out of earth into Heaven. That
is the evolution believe in.
Evolution from evolvere, unrolling!
Enrolling of attributes, unrolling Of
rewards, unrolling of experience, I'M
rolling Of angelic partnership, I'M
rolling of divine glory. unrolling Of
providential obscurities, unrolling of
doxologies, unrolling of rainbow to
canopy the throne, unrolling Of new
: heaven and new earth in which to
dwell righteousness. Oh, the thought
overwhelms me! have not the phys
ical endurance to consider it.
Monarchs on earth of all lower or
: 6ers of creation, and then lifted to be
hierarchs in Heaven. Masterpiece of
Gods wisdom and goodness, our hui
manity; masterpiece of divine grace,
our enthronement. put one foot on
Darwin's "Origln OF the Species" and
/ put the other foot on Spencer's "Bi-
ology," and then holding in one hand
tie book of Moses see our Genesis,
and holding in the other hand the
book Of Revelation / see our celestial
arrival. For ali wars ! prescribe the
Bethlehem chant of the angels. For
: all sepulchers prescribe the archan-
gels trumpet. For all the earthly
griefs prescribe the hand that wipes