The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-29


to them. But gazing upon the swifte
gaelic, or upon the tropical bird of mo
hamboyant wing, or upon the curve
grandest coursers neck, we feel there
no consanguinity. It Is not that We a
stronger than they for the lion with OF
stroke Of his paw could put US into IL
dust. 1t Is not that we have better ey,
sight, for the eagle can descry mole
mile away. It is not that we are feeter {
foot, for roebuck In fash is out {
sight, just seeming to touch the earth q
he goes. Many of the animal creation sui
passing us In feetness Of foot and In keer
ness Of nostril and In strength Of limt
but notwithstanding all that there Ia some
X thing within us that tells US we are of CO
lestial pedigree. Not Of the mollusk, no
OF the rizipod, not Of the primal germ, blu
Of the living and omnipotent God. Lin
cage of the Skies Genealogy Of heaven.
I tell you plainly that, II your fathe
was muskrat and your mother an opos
sum and your greataunt a kangaroo ant
the toads and the swapping turtles wer,
your illustrlous predecessors, my fathel
was God. know 1t, feel ii. It thrill.
through me with an emphasis and az
ecstasy which all your arguments drawn
from anthropology and biology and zoolo
gy and neurology and paleontology and oil
the other ologies can never shake
Evolution Is one great mystery. II
matches out 80 mysteries, and the so hatch
out 1000, and the 1000 hatch out 1,OOO,.
| 700. Why, my brother, not admit the one
great mystery of God and have that settle
all tho other mysteriesp can more easily
appreciate the fact that God, by one stroke
OF bis omnipotenoe, could make man than
could realize how out of 5000 900 ages
he could have evolved one, putting on q
little here and little there. It would
have been just as great a miracle for God
to have turned an orang outang into
man as to make man out and out, the
one job just as big as the other.
Give God = Place.
1t seems to me we had better let God
have q little place In our world somewhere
1t seems to me II we cannot have him
mako all creatures we had better have him
make two or three. There ought to BIO
some place whore he could stay without
interfering with the evolutionists. mo"
says Darwin, and 30 for years he Is trying
to raise fantailed pigeons and to turn
these fanta!l pigeons into some other kind
OF pigeons or to have them go into some.
thing that Is not a pigeon-tnrning them
into quail or barnyard fowl or brown
thrasher. But pigeon 1t is And others
have tried with the OK and the dog and
the horse, but they staid in their species.
II they attempt to CROSS over, 1t is a nv.
brid, and hybrid is always sterile and
goes into extinction. There has been only
one successful attempt to pass over from
mi 10 it,
man, and that was the attempt which
Balaam witnessed in the beast that he
rode, but an angel Of the Lord with drawn
sword soon stopped that long cared evolu-
ZIONIST.
But says some one, III we cannot have
God make man, let us have him make a
horse. "Oh, nol'' says Huxley In his
great lectures in New York years ago. No,
he does not want any God around tho
premises. God did not make the horse.
Tho horse came Of the pliohippus, and the
pliohippus came from the protohippus, and |
the protohippus came from the miohippus
and the miohippus camo from the mesho- !
hippus and the meshohippus came from
the orohippus, and SO away back, all the
living creatures We trace 1t In limo until
we get to the moneron, and no evidence
of divine intermeddling with the creation
until you get to the moneron, and that,
Huxley says, Is Of SO low form Of life
that the probability is 1t just made itself
or was the result Of spontaneous genera.
tion. What narrow escape from the ne.
cessity of having Godl
AS near as can tell, these evolutionists
seem to think that God at the start had
not made up his mind as to exactly what
he would make, and having made up bis
mind partially he has been changing 1t all
through the ages. believe that God made
the world as he wanted to have 1t, and
that the har- mess of all the species will
depend upon heir staying in the species
where they were created.
Parliament of Beasts.
Once upon time there was in a natural
of the forest convention of
and gorilla from western Africa
caihe in with his club and pounded "Or.
der ~ Then he sat down in O chair of
twigted forest root. The delegation of
birds camo in and took their position in
he galleries of the hills and the tree tops,
AnC delegation Of reptiles came in, and
hey took their position In the pit of the
'alleT. And the tiers Of rocks were ooou-
lied by the delegation of intermediate ami
nails and there was n preat aouar,,p, a,a |
canal ,endina intn ~ thna'lat ,I, Iu
ome tho monsters ~ tho daa, ~ ioi "n ~
roat convention Ana o up ~ W ~, toh, 'ns
ocl. thoro ,ara fn,,, a. A., w n Jno Saoio Va
nder n a,ass oaso ana ~ o a pima. seins
= tahJa Of col than, Wa ..p , vi anos
roton,oe,, Thon III. ,, ""u Iuun".y ~
m fnrost with bic ' o,ps , ,amn y. sne AIT
Or1or ordar,., and 't 49, po ~ a' ssain,
M vo,, .,roat .hnna ' nv ~ oiiou ou.'
nd rcntiles ond ;nsnat, ~ I s anu olrus
,aothar tn ,rn,,osa tLnt n ,., oAnou you
% hm,nom rooa o,a ' he 49, w. .no,e W MVo
~ ionm a,raaS,, har' - ' sa Nv .onHer,
W 'ons "..e.y now w Do0n nuh'ea an"
'ged and harnessed We shall stand 10 =
longer.
At that speech the whole convention
oke out into roars Of enthusiasm like as
ough there wero many merageries being
d by their keepers, and II did seem as II
o whole convention would march right
} and take possession Of the earth and
Q human race, but an old lion arose, his ]
Ano white with many years. and he ut. !
red his voice, and when that old lion Ut !
red his voice all the other beasts Of the !
rest were still, and he said: "Peace, ]
others and sisters Of the forest. think I
, haya bpan v,larol In he z~hau,n for | =