Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-22

out of whale, nor the pigeon Of vulture,
nor the butterfly of wasp. Specief never
cross over. II there be an attempt at 1t, 1t
Is hybrid, and the hybrid Is always sterile,
and has no descendants.
These men of science tell US that hum
dred thousand species came from four,
when the law all through the universe Is
that, starting in one species 1t keeps on In
that species, and there would be-only four
now X there had been four at starting.
Agassiz says he found in reef Of Flor
ida the remains of insects thirty thousand
years old-not three, but thirty thousand
years old-and that they were just like
the insects now. There has been no
change. All the facts of ornithol-
ogy and zoology and ichthyology and
conchology, but an echo OF Genesis first
and twenty-flrst: every winged fowl
after hts kind" Every creature after its
kind. When common observation and sci-
ence consoborate the Bible will not stul-
tify myself by surrendering to the elabor-
ated guesses OF evolutionists.
To show that evolution is infldel place
also the Bible account Of how worlds were
made opposite the evolutionist's account
OF how worlds were made. Bible account:
God made two great lights-the one to
rule the day, the other to rule the night;
He made the stars also. Evolutionist ac-
count: Away back in the ages there was n
fire mist or star dust, and this fire mist
cooled on into granite, and then this gran
lite by earthquake and by storm and by
light was shaped into mountains and val
leys and seas, and so what was originally
fire mist became what we call the earth.
Who made the fire mist? Who set the
fire mist to worldmakingP Who cooled Off
the flre-mist into granite? You have
pushed God some sixty or seventy million
miles from the earth, but He is too near
yet for the health OF evolution. For O
great while the evolutionists boasted that
they had found the very stuff out OF which
this world and all worlds were made. They
lifted the telescope and they saw 1t, the
very material out Of which worlds made
themselves. Nebula OF simple gas. They
laughed in triumph because they had
found the factory where the worlds we're
manufactured, and there was no God any
where around the factory! But in an un-
lucky hour for infldel evolutionists the
spectroscopes Of Fraunhofer and Kirchoff
were invented, by which they saw into
that neubla and found 1t was not simple
gas, but was compound, and hence had
to BIZ supplied from some other source,
and that implied God, and away went
their theory shattered into everlasting
dem olition.
So these tnfldei evolutionlsts 60 wander
ing up and down guessing through the uni
verse. Anything to push away back Jeho-
yah from His empire and make the one
Book which is His great Communication to
tuo SOuL VI luo AuIudu ItCo appear OpSOloIo
and delusfon. But am glad to know that
while some Of these scientists have gone
into evolution, there are many that do not
believe 1t. Among them, the man who by
most Is considered the greatest scientist we
ever had this side OF the water-Agassiz. A
name that makes every intelligent man on
earth over uncover.
Agassix says: 'The manner In which the
evolution theory in zoology is treated would
lead those who are not special biologists to
suppose that observations have been made
by which 1t can be inferred that there Is In
nature such thing as change among Or
ganized beings actually taking place.
There is no such thing on record. 1t is
shifting the ground Of observation from
one field of observation to another to make
this statement, and when the assertions 20
too far as to exclude from theIdomain Of
science those who will not be dragged into
this mire OF mere assertion then It is time
to protest"
With equal vehemence against the doc
trine OF evolution Hugh Miller, Farraday,
Brewster, Dana, Dawson and hundreds Of
scientists In this country and other coun-
.ries have made protest. know that the
lew men who have adopted the theory
make more noise than the thousands who
have rejected it.
There Is one tenet of evolution which It
IS demanded we adopt, that which Darwin
calls Natural Selection" and that which
Wallace calls the Survival of the Fittest."
By this they mean that the human race
and the brute creation are all the time i'm
proving because the weak die and the
strong live. Those who do not die survive
because they are the tlttest. They say the
breed Of sheep and cattle and dogs and
men Is all the time improving naturally i'm
proving. No need of God, or any Bible, or
any religion, but just natural progress.
You see the race started with "spontane-
tton - o,,I kb.., II
until Darwin can take US up with his mat
lral selection" and Wallace with his "sur-
'ival Of the fiftest," and so we go right on
Up forever. Beautiful! But do the flttest
survive? Garfield dead in September
iuiteau surviving until the following June.
Survival Of the flttest2" Ali no. The
heir principles, their bloody prosecutors
living on to old age. Survival Of the fit-
estp" No. Bitten with the frosts OF the
second death be the tongue that dares
litter 1t! 1t is not the Survival Of the 1T
est"
How has it been in the families of the
,ally the strongest, intellectually the
brightest. In disposition the kindest? Did
hat child die because 1t was not as ft to
I've as those of your family that survived2
aot "the survival OF the flttest." In all
communities some OF the noblest, grandest
ucu uyluk III youth, OF IN mlu-uIe, Wntl0
one OF tho meanest and most contemplate
i've on to old age. Not "the survival Of the
lttest."
What is remarkable about this thing is,
Is all the time developing its dishonesty.
n our day 1t is ascriblng this evolution to
Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. 1t
8 dishonesty. Evolution was known and
advocated hundreds OF years before these
,entlemen began to be evolved. The
'h9nicians thousands Of years ago de-
Jared that the human race wobbled out Of
he mud.
1t is an old heather corpse set up in a
norgue. Charles Darwin and Herbert
spencer have tried TO galvanize it. They
lrag this old putrefaction of three thou
and years around the earth, boasting that
Is their originality, and so wonderful is
he infatuation that at the Delmonico din
Ter given in honor of Herbert Spencer,
ONE fifteen years ago, there were those
vho asoribed to him this great originality
4 evolution. There the banqueters sat
round the table in honor OF Herbert Spen-
er. chewing beef and turkey and roast pig
which according to their doctrine OF evolu-
ion made them eating their own relations!
licing up their own cousinsi Driving
arriving fork into their beloved kindredi
)ashing Worcestershire sauce, bedaubing
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