The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-09-09

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for the whole convention broke out in
an uproar like the house of commons
when the Irish question comes up, or
the American congress the night of ad-
journment, and the reptiles Kissed
with indignation at the leonine Gam
BETA, and the frogs croaked their
contempt, and the bears growled their
contempt, and the panthers snarled
their disgust, and the insects buzzed
and buzzed with excitement. and
though the gorilla of the African for
est with his club pounded: Order, or
der" there was no order; and there
was a thrusting out of adderine sting,
and a swinging of elephantine tusk,
and stroke of beak and a swing of
claw until it seemed as if the conven-
ton would be massacred.
just at that moment, at the door of
this natural amphitheater of the for
est, the curtain of the leaves lifted
and the bolts and bars of the tree
branches were showed back, and there
appeared Agassiz, and Audubon, and
Silliman, and Moses. And Agassiz
cried out: "Oh, you beasts of the for
ests, / have studied your ancestral rec
ords and found you always have been
beasts, you always will be beasts; be
contented to be beasts" And Audu
bon aimed his gun at bald-headed
eagle which dropped from the gal
lery, and as it dropped it struck SER
pent that was winding around one OF
the pillars to get up higher. And Sill
liman threw a rock of the tertiary
formation at the mammals, and Moses
thundered: Every beast after its
kind, every bird after its kind, every
fish after it's kind" And 10! the par
Lament of wild beasts was prorogued
and went home to their constituents,
and the bat flew out into the night,
and the lizard skunk under the rock,
and the gorilla went back to the jun
gle, and a hungry wolf passing out
ate up the primal germs, and clumsy
buffalo upset the protoplasm, and the
lion went to his lair, and the eagle
went to his eyrie, and the whalew went
to his palace of crystal and coral, and
there was peace-peace in the air,
peace in the waters, peace in the fields.
Man in his place; the beasts of the
earth in their places.
But, my friends, evolution is not only
infidel and atheistic and absurd; it is
brutalizing in its tendencies. If there
is anything in the world that will make
a man bestial in his habits it is the
idea that he was descended from the
beast. Why, according to the idea of
these evolutionists, we are only a SUI
perior kind of cattle, a sort of Alder
ney among other herds. To be sure,
we browse on better pasture, and we
have better stall and better accommo-
dations, but then we are only South
downs among the great focks of
sheep. Born of beast, to die like
a beast; for the evolutionists have no
idea of future world.
They say the mind is only supe rior
part of the body. They say our
thoughts are only molecular forma-
tions. They say when the body dies
the whole nature dies. The slab of the
sepulcher is not a milestone on the
journey upward, but a wall shutting
us into eternal nothingness. We all
die alike-the COW, the horse, the
sheep. the man, the reptile.
Annihilation is the heaven of the
evolutionist. From such a stenchful
and damnable doctrine turn away.
Compare that idea of your origin
an idea filled with the chatter of apes
and the hiss of serpents and the croak
of frogs-to an idea in one or two
stanzas which l quote from an old
book of more than Demosthenic or
Homeric or Dantesque power: What
is man, that Thou art mindful of him?
And the son of man, that Thou visitest
him? Thou hast made him a little
lower than the angels and hast
crowned him with glory and honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of Thy hand; Thou
hast put all things under his feet, all
sheep and oxen, and the beasts of the
field; the fowl of the air, and what
soever passeth through the paths Of
the seas. o Lord, our Lord, how eX-
cellent 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, behe-
moth the monarch of the deep, but
man monarch of all. All! my friends,
L i
anxious to know what was my origin
as to know what will be my destiny.
do not care so much where | came
from as where | am going to. / am
not so interested in who were my an
cestry 100000 years ago as l am to
know where / will be 10000,0 900 years
from now. l am not SO much interest
ed in the preface to my cradle as | am
interested in the appendix to my
grave. j do not care so much about
rrotoplasm as l do about eternasm.
The "was" is overwhelmed with the
ito be-" And here comes in the evolu-
ton | believe in; not natural evolu-
ton, but gracious and divine and
heavenly evolution-evolution out of
sin into holiness, out of grief into
gladness, out of mortality into immor-
tality, out of earth into Heaven. That
is the evolution believe in.
Evolution from evolvere, unrollingl
Enrolling of attributes, unrolling of
rewards, unrolling of experience, I'M
rolling of angelic companionship, I'M
rolling of divine glory, unrolling of
providential obscurities, unrolling of
doxologies, unrolling of rainbow to
canopy the throne, unrolling of new
heaven and a new earth in which to
dwell righteousness. Oh, the thought
overwhelms me! have not the phys
icaI endurance to consider it.
Monarchs on earth of all lower or
6ers of creation, and then lifted to be
hierarchs in Heaven. Masterpiece of
Gods wisdom and goodness, our hu-
manity; masterpiece of divine grace,
our enforcement. 1 put one foot on
Darwin's Origin OF the Species and
1 put the other foot on Spencer's Obi
ology," and then holding in one hand
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