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

nounced inhdels; that evolution was q
heathenism thousands OF years old;
that such men as AgAssiz and Hugh
Miller and Farraday and Dawson and
Dana had for that doctrine of evolu-
tioa unlimited contempt / showed
you that their favorite theory OF the
survival Of the fttest" wa an absurd
ity and an untruth, and that natural
evolution was always downward and
never upward, and that there had
never been any improvement for man
or beast or world except through the
direct or indirect influence Of our glo-
rious Christianity. And in the closing
part of that mt | told you / was
not q pessimist but an optimist that
instead Of 1t being Il o'clock a. night
ii Is $50 in the morning.
Now, | 90 on to tell you, 1t seems to
me that evOlutionists are trying 10
impress the great masses of the peo-
pie with the idea that there is an an.
cestral line leading from the primal
germ on up through the serpent and
on up through the gorilla, to man.
They admit that there is a missing
link" as they call it, but there Is not
q missing link-it is a whole chain
gone Between the physical construc.
ton of the highest animal, and tho
physical construction Of the lowest
man, there Is q chasm as wide as the
Atlantic ocean. EvOlutionists tell Us
that somewhere in central Africa. or
in Borneo, there Is acreature half way
between the brute and the man, and
that that creature is the highest step
In the animal ascent and the lowest
step In the human creation. But what
are the faetsS The brain OF the largest
gorilla that was ever found is 80 cubic
inches while the brain OF the most
ignorant man that was ever found Is
70. Vast difference between 30 and 20
II needs a bridge OF 40 arches to span
that gull.
Bssides that there Is 8 difference
between the gorilla and the man-a
difference Of blood globule, a differ
ence of nerve, a difference Of bone, q
difference Of Sinew. The horse Is more
like n man In intelligence, the bird Is
more like him in musical capacity, the
mastih is more like him in affection.
That eulogized beastof which we hear
30 much, represented on the walls of
cities Thousands Of years ago, is Just
a. complete as II is now, showing that
there has notbeen a particle Of changa
Besides that ia pair Of apes had =
man for descendants, why would not
all the apes have the same kind of do
scendantt? Can il be that one favored
| pair only gsS honored with human
progenyf Besides that, evolution says
that as one species rises to another
species. the old type dies of. Then
how u il that there sre whole king
doms Of ~ehimpanEee and gorilla and
baboon?
The evolutionists have come togeth-
er and have tried to explain the birds
wing. Their theory has always been
that q faculty Of an animal while be-
ing developed must always be useful
and always beneficial, but the wing of
a bird, in the thousands Of years il
was being developed, so far from being
any help must have been 3 hindranee
until it could be brought into practical
nse away on down in the AgeA Must
there not have been an intelligent will
somewhere that formed that wonder
aging instrument, so that q bird 500
times heavier than the air can mou mt
1t and put gravitation under claw and
beakS That wonderful. mechanical in
Strument, the wing, with between 20
and 30 different apparati curiously
constructed, does not imply a divine
Intelligence Does 1t not imply a d.
rect act Of some outside being2 All
the evolutionists in the world cannot
explain a birds wing, or an insects
wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rattle
Of the rattlesnake. Ages before that
reptile had any enemies, this warning
weapon was created. Why was Il
createdP When the reptile, far back
in the ages had no enemies why this
warning weapon2 There must have
been q divine intelligence ~foreseeing
and knowing that in sges 10 come that
reptile would have enemies, and then
this warning weapon would be brought
into use. You see evolution at every
step Is q contradiction or 4 monstros.
ity. Al every stage Of animal life as
well as at every stage Of human life
there is evidence Of direct action OF
divine will Besides that II is very
evident from another fact that we are
an entirely different creation, and that
there Is no kinship The animal
In . few hours or months comes u
fulI strength ana an take car,
Of itself. The human race for the frsI
one, two. three, Eve, ten years IL IL
complete happiness. The chick Jus
come out Of lis she'll begins To pick or
It's own food The dog, the wolf, III,
lion, soon earn their W livelihood
and act for their own defense. Tn,
human race does not come 10 develoJ
ment until 20 or 30 years Of age, and
by that time the animals that vert
born the same year the man WIS borr
: the vast majority OF thsm-hsys died
Of old age This shows there IL nc
kinship, there is no similarity. IL w
had been born Of the beast, we would
have had the beasts strength at tn,
start or II would have been our weak.
mass. Not only different but oppo
site.
EvoiuUoniss tell us that the ape,