Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-29
eptile. Annihi1ation is the heaven of

reptile. Annihilation is the heaven of
the evolutionist. From such stenchful
and damnable doctrine turn away
Compare that idea OF your brigham
idea filed with the chatter of apes and
the hiss of serpents and the croak of
frogs-to an idea in one or two stanzas
which I quote from an OLD book of more
than Demosthenic or Homeric or Dan
tesque 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 hon
OR. Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of thy hand; thou hast
put all things under his feet, all sheep
and oxen--yea, and the beasts of the
field, the fowl of the air and the fish of
the sea and whatsoever passeth through
the paths of the seas. o Lord, our
Lord, how excellent 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, behemoth the
monarch Of the deep, but man monarch
of all. All, my friends, I have to say
to you that I am not so anxious to know
what was my origin as to know as to
know what will be my destiny. I do
not care so much where I came from
as where I am going to. I am not
so interested in who was my an
cestry 10000, 900 years ago as I am
to know where I will be 10, 200, 900
years from now. I am not so much
interested in the preface to my cradle
as [ am interested in the appendix
to my grave. I do not care so much
about protoplasm as do about eternasm.
The twas" is overwhelmed with the
"to be. - And here comes in the evolu
ton l believe in, not natural evolution,
but gracious and divine and heavenly
evolution-evolution out of sin into
holiness, out of grief into gladness, out
of mortality into Immortality, out of
earth into heaven. That is the evolution
believe in.
Evolution from evolvere, unrolling!
Unrolling of attributes, unrolling of re-
wards, unrolling of experience, unroll-
ing of angelic ompanionship, unrolling
of divine glory, unroIling of providen-
tial obscurities, unrolling of doxologies,
unrolling of rainbow to canopy the
throne, unrolling of a new heaven and
a new earth in which to dwell righteous
ness. Oh the thought overwhelms me
I have not the physical endurance to
consider it.
Monarchs on earth of all lower orders
of creation and then lifted to be
hierarchs in heaven. Masterpiece of
Gods wisdom and goodness, our human
ity. Masterpiece Of divine grace, our
enthronement. I put one foot ON Oar
wins Origin of the Species, and
put the other foot on Spencer's "Biolo-
gy," and then holding in one hand the
book of Moses 1 see our Genesis, and
holding in the other hand the book
Revelation I see our celestial arrival.
For all wars prescribe the Bethlehem
chant of the angels, for all sepulchers I
prescribe the archangel's trumpet, for
all the earthly griefs I prescribe the
hand that wipes away all tears from ali
eyes-not an evolution from beast to
man, but an evolution from contestant
to conqueror, and from the struggle
with wild beasts in the arena of the
amphitheater to soft, high, blissful
seat in the Kings galleries