The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1898-09-01

Insertion. t8eu tIis time 70 protest
Wlth equal vahemrnee against the
doctrine 9f eTolaaoa Hash Miller tar,
radaF. Brewster Dana Dawson aud
hundreds of scientists 10 this country
and other eeallrlas 1as made protest
know that tde fsw mea who have
aB6gted tbe theory make more noise
than she tha sands sho have rejected
Is The HashnIa, Of tie euuard line
took 500 passengers safely ir3m Sew
York 10 Liverpool N5t one oi tie 99l
made avs excitement Bat after we
had been four days out. one morning
we iauBd on deck q mans hat and coat
aud vest aud boots. implying that some
one had Jumped overheard. Forthwith
We al begau % talk about that n
man. There was more talk about tnht
one mtu overheard than en- the $40
passengers that rode On la safety
why did be jump overheard
wonder when be jumped oycrboardR
II wonder If when he jumped over
board he would liked to have jumped
back AGAIN. Il wonder II a fish
caught him or whether he went clear
down 10 the bottom OF the e And
for three Of Tour days aiterward we
talked about shat poor man
Here IS the glorions and magnificent
theory that God by His omnipotent
power made man, and by His omnipo-
tent power made the brute creation,
and by HIS omuIpotent power made all
worlds. and 500 scientists have taken
passage on board that magnificent
theory, bu. ten or fifteen have jumped
overheard. They make more talk than
ali the 500 that did not jump With
them. Thank you, gentlemen ! am
very much obliged to you. / think /
shall stick TO Uhe old Cunarder. II
you want to imp overheard, jump,
aud test for yourselves whether your
hand was really a 8sh.s TN, and
whether you were web-footed orig
iually, aud whether your lungs are a
swim bladder. Aud as inevery expert
ment there must be a division Of labor,
some who experiment and some who
observe, you make the experiment and
1 will observed
There is one tenet Of evolution
which IL Is demanded we adopt, that
which Darwin calls Natural Selec-
ton and that which Wallace calls the
Survival of the FIttest. BY this
they mean that the human race and
tile brute creation are all the time inn
proving because the weak die and the
strong live, Those who do not die sur
vige because they are the tittest. They
say the breed Of sheep and cattle and
dogs and men is an the time improv-
ing, naturally improving No need Of
God, or any Bible, or any religion, but
Just natural progress.
"You see the race started with
spontaneous generation, and then it
goes right on until Darwin can take
us up with his natural selection, aud
Wallace with his Survival Of the ht-
test and 50 we 20 right on up forever.
Beautiful But do the fttest survive?
Garfield dead in September -Guiteau
surviving until the following June.
'survivalo IL the 6ttest2n Ali no. The
martyrs, religious and political, dying
for their principles, their bloody
prosecutors living on TO old age, Sur,
vigul OF the httest2' Five hundred
thousand brave northern men march
ing out to meet 100000 brave southern
men, aud die on the battlefield for
a principle. Hundreds Of thousands
of them went down into the grave
trenches. We stayed at'hOme IN com
Portable quarters. Did they die be
cause they wers.RAt Is Atta.jysRs W4
survival Of the httest. Ellsworth
and Nathaniel Lyon falling on tht
northern side. Albert Sidney John
son and Stonewall Jackson falling OF
the southern side, Did they fall be
cause they were not as it to live Al
the soldiers and the generals who came
back in safety. No Bitten with thi
frosts of the second death be tn
tongue chat dares utter itl 1t is no
the survival Of the 6ttest.n
Aud as to The humun race, SO far a
mere natural progress is concerned
once there were men ten feet high
now the average is about 1--WE feet 81.
inches, II started with men living goa
400, 500, 900 years, aud now 30 year
Is more than tho average OF human
life, Mighty progress we have made
haven't we2 / went into the cathedra
at York, England, and the best artist
I, In England had just been painting
window in that cathedral, and RICH
beside it was a window painted 40
years ago, and there Is not a man Of
earth but would say that the moderi
painting Of the window by the bes
artists OF England Is not worthy o
being compared with the painting o
400 years ago right beside it. Vas
improvement as / shall show you Ia
minute or two, but no natural eve
lutitu.
Look at China, where evolution ha
had full swing for thousands Of year
uninterrupted by anything except her
and there a mission station with thi
defunct book, the Bible, but throug.
the most Of the realm not interfere
with, What has evolution done 70
ChiIa? Christian civilization goes &
and builds a railroad; they tear il az
For 1000 years The Chinese nation
where it is not invaded by the Gospel
hus not made one five h~undredth mil
lion part Of an inch advancement
They worship the same gods Of re
paint just as always, they drown ca
female children as a nuisance jus
as always they eat With chop stick,
50 in India, so 10 Arabia so ID Turkey
so every where where the Gospel ha
mol made an invasion
tell you, my friends, the natura
4 evolution is not upward but ID IS a.
1 ways downward Hear Christ's a.
count 81 it, Matthew ~, 10; Out {
the heart proceed evil thOughta, mul
% ders, adalteries, f~ornications, theft
false witness, blaspheuies That
Z what Christ said Of evolution Civ
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