The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29

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in the frying pan, or the crow that swoops
on the field carcass, or the swine Mat wal
lows in the mire. Everybody Gees the
outrage 1t would be to put aside the Bible
record that Abraham begat Isaac, and
Isaac hegat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah,
for the record that the microscopic ami
malcule begat the tadpole, and the tap
pole begat the polywog, and the polywog
| begat the serpent, and the serpent beGat
the quadruped and the quadruped begat
the balloon, and the baboon begat man.
The eVolutiOnists tell us that the apes
were originally fond of climbing trees,
but after awhile they lost their preheusile
power and therefore could not climb with
any facility, and hence they surrendered
monkeydom and set up in bushes as men.
Failures as apes, successes as men. Ac-
cording 10 the evolutionsts a man is a
bankrupt monkey.
l pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental faculty
and spiritual experience does not realize
that he is higher in origin and has had a
grander ancestry than the beasts which
perish. However degraded men and women
may be, and though they may have found
cred on the rocks Of crime and sin, and
though we shudder as we pass them
nevertheless, there is something within US
that tells US they belong to The same great
brotherhood and sisterhood of our race,
and our sympathies are aroused in regard
to them But gazing upon the swifTest
gazelle, or upon the tropical bird of most
tiamboyant wing, or upon the curve
Of grandest courser's neck, we feel there
is no consauguinIty. 1t is not that we are
stronger than they, for the lion with one
stroke of his paw could put us into the
dust 1t is not that we have better eye
sight, for the eagle can descry mole
mile away. 1t is not that we are fieeter
of foot, for a roebuck in a flash is out of
sight. just seeming to touch the earth as
he goes. Many Of the animal creation
surprising us in feetness of foot and in
keenness of nostril and in strength of
limb; but Notwithstanding all that there
is something within us that tells us we
are of celestial pedigree. Not of the mol
lusk, not of the rizipod, not of the primal
germ, but of the living and omnipoIent
God. Lineage of the skies. Genealogy Of
heaven.
I tell you plainly that If your father was
a muskrat and your mother an oppossum.
and your great aunt a kangaroo, and the
toads and the swapping turtles your
ilustrious predecessors, my father was
God. I know it. 1 feel H. 1t thrills
through me with an emphasis and an
ecstasy which all your arguments drawn
from anthropology and biology and zool-
ogy and neurology and paleontology and all
the other ologies can never shake.
Evolution is one great mystery 1t
matches out fifty mysteries and the fifty
hatch out a thousand and the thousand
hatch out million. why, my brother, not
admit the one great mystery of God and
have that settle all the other mysteries? 1
can more easily appreciate the fact that
God by one stroke of his omnipotence
could make man than l could realize how
out of five million of ages he could have
owe va ana
a little there. 1t would have been Just as
great a miracle for God to have turned an.
orang-outang into a man as to make
man out and out-the one job just as big
as the other.
It seems to me we had better let God
have a little place in our world some
where. 1t seems to me if We cannot have
Him make all creatures we had better
have Him make two or three. There ought
to be some place where He could stay
without interfering with the eVoutionists
NO" says Darwin, and so for years he is
trying to raise fan-tailed pigeons and to
turn these fan-tail pigeons into some other
kind Of pigeon, or to have them go into
something that is not a pigeon-turnlng
them into quail, or barn-yard fowl or
brown thresher, But pigeon it is. And
others have tried with the OK and the
dog and the horse, but they stayed In their
species. If they attempt to cross over it
II Il ny DIlu anu Il DyDflu is always StSfEe
and goes into extinction. There has been
only one successful attempt to pass over
from speechless animal TO the articulation
OF 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-eared evolu-
ZIONIST.
God make a man let us have him make a
horse" "Oh, nor says Huxley, in his great
lectures in New York years ago. No he
does not want any God around the prem
ises. God did not make the horse The
horse came of the pliohippus, and the pill
ohippus came from the protohppus and
the protohippus came from the miohippus
and the miohippus came from the mesho-
hippus. and the meshohippus came from
the orohippus and so away back all the
living creatures we trace it in a line until
we get TO the moneron, and no evidence of
divine intermeddllng with the creation I'M
liz you get to the moneron, and that, Hulk
ley says is of so low a form of life that
the probability is it just made itself or was
the result of spontaneous generation. What
a narrow escape from the necessity of hav-
ing q God.
AS near as 1 can tell, these evoiutionsts
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 his
all through the ages. 1 believe that God
made the world as he wanted to have 1t,
and that the happiness of all the species
WIFI depend upon their staying in the spe-
cies where they were created.
Once upon a time there was in natu-
raj ampitheater of the forest a convention
Of animals, and a gorilla from Western
Africa came in with his club and pounded
"Orderr Then he sat down la a chair of
twisted forest root. The delegation of
birds came in and took their position In
the galleries of the hills and the tree
tops. And a delegation of reptiles came in,
and they took their position In the pit of
the valley. And the tiers of rocks were
occupied by the delegation of intermediate
animals, and there was a great aquarium
and a canal leading into it through which
came The monsters of the deep to join the
great convention. And on one table Of
rock there We're four or five primal, germs
under a glass case, and in a cup on an
other table OF rock there was a quantity