Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-29

man race does not come to development
until 20 or 80 years of age, and by that
time the animals that were born the
same year the man was born-the vast
majority of them-have died of old age
This shows there is no kinship, there is
no similarity If we had been born of
the beast, vac would have had the
beasts strength at the start, or it would
have had our weakness. Not only diff
ferent, but opposite.
Darwin admitted that the dovecot
pigeon has not changed in thousands Of
years It is demonstrated over and over
again that the lizard on the lowest for
nation of rocks was just as complete as
the lizard now. 1t is shown that the
ganoid, the first fish, was just as COM
plete as the sturgeon, another name for
the same fish now. Darwin entire sys-
tenn is a guess, and Huxley and John
Stuart Mill and Iyndall and especial
ly Pm lessor HRckel come to help him.
in the guess, and guess about the brute,
and guess about man, and guess about
worlds: but, as to having one solid foot of
ground to stand on, they never have had
it and never will have it. I put in opposi
ton to these evolutionist theories the
inward consciousness that we have no
consanguinity with the dog that fawns
at our feet, or the spider that erawls on
the wall, or the fish that fops in the
frying pan, or the crow that swoops on
the field carcass, or the swine that wal
lows in the mire. Everybody sees the
outrage it would be to put aside the
Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac,
and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat
IL, IL Al,
scopic animalcule begat the tadpole, and
the tadpole begat the polliwog, and the
polliwog begat the serpent and the ser
pent begat the quadruped, and the quad
ruped begat the baboon, and the bah
Don begat man.
The evolutionists tell us that the
apes were originally fond of climbing
the trees, but after awhile they lost
their prehensile power, and therefore
could not climb with any facility. and
hence they surrendered monkeydom and
set up in business as men. Failures as
apes, successes as men. According to
the evolutionists, a man is ban krupt
monkey
Divine Origin.
| pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental fac
uIty 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 foundered on the rocks
of crime and sin, and though we shud-
der as we pass them, nevertheless there
is something within US that tells us
they belong to the same great brother
hood and sisterhOod of our race, and
our sympathies are aroused in regard to-
them. But, gazing upon the swiftest
gazelIe, or upon the tropical bird of
most famboyant wing, or upon the
curve Of grandest cOurser's neck, we feel
there is no consanguinity. 1t is not that
we are stronger than they, for the lion
with one stroke ofhiS paw could put
us into the dust. 1t is not that we have
better eyesight, for the eagle can descry
a mole mile away. It is not that we
are f1eeter Of foot, for. roebuck in a
flash is cut of sight, just seeming to
touch the earth as he goes. Many of
the animal creation surprising US in
f1eetness Of foot and in keenness of nos
tril and in strength of limb but not
withstanding all that there is some
thing within us that tells us we are of
celestial pedigree. Not of the mollusk,
not of the rizipod, not Of the primal
germ, but Of the living and omnipotent
God. Lineage of the skies Genealogy
of heaven.
I tell you plainly that if your father
was muskrat, and your mother an
opossum, and your great-aunt a kanga-
roo, and the toads and the swapping
turtles were your illustrious predeces-
sors, my father was God. I know it. I
feel it. 1t thrills through me with an
emphasis and an ecstasy which all your
arguments drawn from anthropology
and biology and zoology and neurology
and paleontology and all the other
ologies can never shake.
Evolution is one great mystery. 1t
patches out so mysteries, and the so
hatch out 1000, and the 1000 hatch
out 1000, 900. Why, my brother, not
admit the one great mystery of God and
have that settle all the other mysteries?
| can more easily appreciate the fact
that God by one stroke of his omnip-
otence could make man than [ could
realize how out of 5000, 600 ages he
could have evolved one, putting on a
little here and 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 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
evoIutionists "No,'' saws Darwin, and |