The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-09-03

o'possum, and your great aunt q kan
CARGO. and the toads and the swapping
turtles were your illustrious predeces-
sors. my father was God. I know it.
! fell it 1t thrills through me with
an emphasis and an ecstacy which all
your argumentsdrawa from anthropol-
ogy and biology and zoology and
neurology and paleontology and all
other ologies can never shake. Evolu-
ton is one great mystery. II matches
out so mysteries and the 50 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 mysteriesS /
can more easily appreciate the fact
that God by one stroke Of His omnipo-
toncs could make man than / could
realize how ont Of 5000, 900 Of ages He
could have evolved one, putting on q
little here and o little there. II would
have been just a great a miracle for
God 70 have turned In orang-outang
into q man as to make the man out and
out-the one job just as big as the
other.
1t seems TO me we had better let
God have a little place in our world
somewhere IL seems 10 me II we can
not 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 interfer-
ing with the evolutionists. NO.
says Darwin, and SO for years he IL
trying TO raise fan-tAiled pigeons and
10 turn these fan-tsll pigeons into
some other kind Of pigeon, or to have
them 20 into something that Is not a
pigeon-turnipg them into quail, or
barnyard fowl, or brown-thresher.
But pigeon IL ia And others have
tried with the OK and the dog and the
horse, hut they stayed in their species.
II they attempt To cross over II Is a
hybrid, and a hybrid is always sterile
and goes into extinction. There has
been only one successful attempt 70
pass over from speeches. animal 10
the articulation of man, and that was
the attempt which BALKAN witnessed
In the beast that he rode. but an angel
Of the Lord, with drawn sword, soon
stopped that long-eared evolutionist
But says some one, If we cannot
have God make q man let US have him
make a horse" '0h, nor says Hux.
ley, in his great lectures 10 New York
years ago. No, he does not want any
God around the premises. God did
not mako the horse. The horse came
OF the pliohippus, and the pliohippus
came from the protohippus, and the
protohippus came from the miohippuA,
and the miohippus came from the mes
hohippus, and the meshohippus came
from the orohippns, and SO away back,
all the living creatures, We trace Il In
. line until we get 70 the moneron,
and NO evidence Of divine informed.
ding with the creation until you get
70 the moneron, and that, Huxley
says. ID Of 50 low q form Of life that
the probability is II Just made itself
or was the result OF spontaneous gen.
Grafton. What a narrow escape from
the necessity Of having a God.
As near as ] can tell, these evolution
ists seem 10 think that God NJ the
start had not made up His mind exact
ly what he would make, and having
made up His mind partially, He has
been changing II all through the aQeA
| believe God made the world as He
wanted TO have it aud that the hap.
piness OF all the species will depend
upon their staying In the species
where they were created.
IL there is anything In the world
that will make a man bestlal In his
habits, II Is the idea that he was de-
scended from the beast Why, accord
ing TO the idea Of these evolutionIsts,
we N only q superior kind Of cattle,
q sort OF Attorney among other herds.
To be sure we browse on better pas
ture, and we have better stall and bet,
ter accommodations, bgt then we arc
only Southdowns, among the great
Gocks OF sheep. Born Of q beast, 70
die like a beast for the evolutionists
have no idla Of . future world. They
say the mind 10 only a superior part Of
the body. They say our thoughts are
only molecular formation. They say
when the body dies, the whole nature
dies The Llab Of tho sepulcher Is not
q milestone on the journey upward,
but q wal shutting US into eternal
~nothingnee. We all die allke-the
COW. the horse, the sheep. the man, the
reptile. Aanihilation Ia the heaven Of