The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-22

OF u60, IrOIn IOur Borlub- btdSolnous hoo-
~ oontradictIng not only the Bible, but
the very A B O Of science. A species nev-
er develops into anything but its own spe-
cies. In all tho ages and In all tho world
there has mover been an exception to 1t.
The shark never comes of a whale, nor the
pigeon of vulture, nor the butterfly of o
wasp. Species never cross over. If there
be an attempt at it, 1t Is hybrid, and the
hybrid is always sterile and has no do
scendants.
These men of science tell us that 100, ono
species came from four when the law all
through the universe 10 that, starting In
one species, 1t keeps on in that species,
and there would be only four now II there
had been four at starting II l should say
to you that the world Is fiat, and that q
circle and square are the same, and that
twice two mako 10, would como just %
near the truth as when these evolutionists
tell you that 100000 species came from
four. Evolution would have been left out
of question with It's theory fatty confirm
dieting all observation and all science had
not its authors and their disciples been so
set on ejeCting God from the universe and
destroying the Bible that they will 60 to
any length, though 1t lead them into
idiotic absurdity. You sec what the Bible
teaches In regard to It, have shown you
also what evolution teaches In regard to 1t.
Agassiz says that no found In reef of
Florida the remains Of insects 90, 900 years
old-not 5000 but 80, 900 years old-and
that they were Just like the insects now.
There has been no change. All the facts Of
ornithology and zoology and ichthyology
and oonohology but an echo Of Genesis
first and twenty first, EVERY winged fowl
after bis kind" Every creature after Its
kind. When common observation and SCI
ence corroborats the Bible, will not stuI-
tify myself by suyzenderins TO the elabor-
ated guesses Of evolutionists.
To show that evolution is infidel place
also the Bible account of bow worlds were
made opposite the evolutionist's account
Of how worlds were made. Bible account:
God made two greet lights-ths one to
rule tho day, the other to rule the night;
no made the stars also. Evolutionist 90
count: Away back In the ages there was
fire mist or star dust, and this fro mist
COOLED of into granite, and then this gran
lite by earthquake and by storm and by
light was shaped into mountains and VAL
legs and seas, and SO what was originally
fro mist became what we call the earth.
Tho First Cause.
Who made tho fire mist2 Who set the
fire mist to worldmakingP Who cooled of
the fire mist into granitep You havo
pushed God some 90, 900, 900 or 70, 0O0, 900
miles from tho earth, but he IL too near
yet for the health Of evolution. For
great while the evolutionists boosted that
they had found tho very stuff out Of which
this world and oil 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
wero manufactured, and there was no God
anywhere around the factory. But In an
unluoky hour for infldel evolutionists the
spectroscopes Of Fraunhofef and KirchOh
were invented, by which they saw into
that nshula and found 1t was not a simple
gas, but was compound, and hence had
to be supplied from some other source, and
that implied God, and away went tbeiy
theory, shattered into everlasting demoli.
ton.
So these infldel evolutlonists go wander.
ing mp and down guessing through the
universe. Anything to push away back
Jehovah from his empire and make the
ono book which Is bis great communism
ton to the soul Of the human race appear
obsolete and delusive. But am glad 70
know that while some of these scientists
have gone into evolution there are many
that do not believe 1t, among them tho
man who by most Is considered the great
est scientist We over had this side Of the
water-Agassiz, q name that makes every
intelligent man the earth over uncover.
Agassiz says: 1.-THE manner in which
the evolution theory in zoology Is treated
would lead those who are not special zoolo-
gists to suppose that observations have
been mado by which 1t can be inferred
that there Is in nature such thing as
change among organized beings actually
taking place. There Is no such thing on
record. 1t is shifting the ground of OBJ
servation from one field OF observation to
another to make this statement, and when
the assertions 60 SO far as to exclude from
the domain Of science those who will not
DO dragged into this mire Of mere assertion
then it is time to protest."
With equal vohemenOe against the doc
trine OF evolution Hugh Miller, Farraday,
Brewster, Dana, Dawson and hundreds Of
scientists In this country and other coun-
tries have made protest. know that tho
few men who have adopted the theory
make more noise than the thousands who
have rejected 1t. The Bothnia Of the
Cunard line took 500 passengers safely
from New York to Liverpool. Not ono Of
the 500 made any excitement. But after
l,I hnay do ont ,norpine,
we found on deck q mans hat and coat
and vest and boots, implying that some
one had jumped overheard Forthwith
we all began to talk about that ono man.
There was more talk about that one man
overheard than all the 500 passengers that
rode on in safety. why did he jump
overboardp" II wondey when he jumped
oye.board?" II wonder II when he jumped
overheard no would liked to have jumped
back again3" II wonder If a fab caught
him or whether no went clear down 10 the
bottom of the scar" And for three or four
days afterward we talked about that poor
man.
Here Is the glorious and magnificent
theory that God by his omnipotent power
made man and by his omnirotent power
made the brute creation and by his ON
nipotent power made all worlds, end 900
scientists have taken passage on board
that magnificent theory, but 10 or Is have
jumped overheard. They mako more talk
than all the 500 that did not jump. am
politely asked to jump with them. Thank
you, gentlemen, am very much obliged
to you'll think shall stick to tho old
Cunarder. If you want to jump over
board, jump and test for yourselves wheth-
or your hand was really fish's fin and
whether you were webfootod originally
and whether your lungs are swim blad-
der, and, as in every experiment there
must DO q division OF labor, some who ex-
pertinent and some who observe, you make
tho experiment, and will observed
There Is one tenet of evolution which ii
Ia demanded We hlopt-tbat which Darwin
calls natural selection" and that which
Wallace calls tho survival of the Gttest."
BY this they mean that the human race
and the brute creation are all tho time i'm
proving because the weak die and tho
strong live. Those who do not die survive
because they are the flttest They say tho
breed of sheep and cattle and dogs and
men is all the time improving, naturally
improving. No need Of God or any Bible
or any religion, but just natural progress.