The morning news., 1898-08-22


downward; 1t is never upward
What is remarkable about this thing is,
IL is all the time developing its dishonesty,
In our day 1t is ascriDng this evolution to
Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. It
IS a dishonesty. Evolution was known
and advocated hundreds of years before
these gentlemen began to be evolved. The
Phoenicians thousands of years ago Ge-
clared that the human race wobbled out
OF the mud. DemOcritus who lived 460
years before Christ-remember that
knew this doctrine of evolution when he
said: Everything is composed of atoms,
or Infinitely small clements, each with
definite quality, form. and movement,
whose inevitable union and separation
shape all different things and form, laws
and efforts and dissolve them again for
new combinations The gods themselves
and the human mind originated from such
atoms. There are no casualties. Every
thing is necessary and determined by the
nature of the atoms which have 'ertain
mutual affinties, attractions, and repul-
slons." AnoXimander centuries ago de-
clared that the human race started at the
place where the sea saturated the earth.
Lucretius developed long centures ago, in
his poems the doctrine of evolution.
1t is an old heather corpse set up in
morgue Charles Darwin and Herbert
Spencer have tried to galvanize 1t. They
drag this old putrefactiOn of three thou
sand years around the earth, oOasting
that it Is their originality, and so wonder
full Is the infatuation that at the Delmoni-
co dinner given in honor of Herbert
Spencer, some fifteen years ago, there
We're those who ascrbed to him this great
originality of evolution. There the ban
queters sat around the table in honor Of
Herbert Spencer, chewing beef and tur-
key and roast pig which according TO
their doctrine of evolution made them
tfs,s,e -
their own cousins! Driving a carving-fOrk
into their beloved kindred! Dashing
Worcestershire sauce, bedaubing mustard
over their uncles and aunts. And while
Herbert Spencer read a patronizing lee
ture to Americans the banqueters sat
around the table with their hands up, say
ing: Dear me, it is the voice or a goa
and not of a man
There is only one thing worse than Eng
Iish snobbery, and that Is American snob-
berry. / like democracy and like aristoc-
racy; but there is one kind of ocracy in
this country that eXciteS my contempt,
and that is what Charles Kingsley, after
he had witnessed it himself, called snob-
ocracy. Now l say it is a gigantic dis
honesty when they ascribe this old heath
en- doctrine of evolution to any modern
gentleman!
am not a pessimist but an optimist. 1
do not believe everything is going to de-
on to redemption. But it Will not be
through the infdel doctrine of evolution,
but through our glorious Christianity
which has effected all the good that has
ever been wrought and which Is yet to
reconstruct all the nations.
What Is that in the offing? A ship gone
on the rocks rat Cape Hatteras. The hulk
is breaking up, crew and passengers are
! drowning. The storm is in full blast and
the barometer is still sinking. What does
that ship want? Development. Develop
her broken masts. Develop her broken
! rudder. Develop her drowning crew. De
| velop her freezing passengers. Develop
the whole ship? That is all it wants. De-
| velopment Oh l make a mistake. What
that ship wants is a life-boat from the
| shore Leap into it, you men of the life
! station. Pull away to the wreck. Steady
! there! Bring the women and children
| first to the shore. Now the stout men.
/ Wrap them up in fannels, and between
| their chattering teeth you can pour
restoration.
Well. my friends, our world is on the
/ rocks God launched it well enough, but
through mispilotage and the storms of
| six thousand years it has gone into the
| breakers What does this old ship OF a
world want? Development? There is
enough old evolution in the hulk 10 evolve
! another mast and another rudder and to
! evolve all the passengers and evolve the
! shin out of the breakers. Development?
! All no my friends, what this old ship
| wreck of a world wants Is a lifeboat from
the shore. And it is coming. Cheer, my
lads. cheer. 1t is coming from the shin
ing shore of heaven, taking the crests of
ten waves with one sweep of the shining
paddles Christ is in the lifeboat. Many
/ wounds on hands and feet and side and
brow. showing he has been long engaged
i'm the work of rescue. but yet mighty TO
save-to save one, to save all, to save
! forever. My Lord and my God, get us
into the Iifeboat! Away with your rotten,
/ deceptive infidel and blasphemous evolu-
| t,on and give us the Bible, salvation
! through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Salvation! let the echo fly
The spacious earth around,
| While all the armies of the sky
Consnire to raise the sound.