Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-27

--''" ~~SS SAAoASCu AL luOusluuS OF
years. 1t Is demonstrated over and over
again that the lizard on the lowest for
nation OF rocks was just as complete az
the lizard now. 1t is shown that the
ganoid, tie first fish, was Just as com.
plete as the sturgeon, another name for
the same fish now. Darwin entire sys.
tenn is guess, and Huxley and John
Stuart Mill and Tyndall and ESPECIAL.
~ Professor Hackel conc 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
1t and never will have it, 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 crawls 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 1t would be to put aside the
Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac
and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat
Judah, for the record that the micro.
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, man is ban krupt
monkey.
Divine Origin.
pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental fac
ulty and spiritual experience does not
realize that he is higher in origin and
has had 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 sisterLood 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 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 of his paw could put
US into the dust. 1t is not that we have
better eyesight, for the eagle can descry
mole mile away. 1t is not that we
are feeter of foot, for a roebucll in a
flash is out OF sight, just seeming to
touch the earth as he goes Many Of
the animal creation surprising us in
fleetness 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.
1 tell you plainly that if your father
was a mrskrat, and your mother an
opossum, and your great-aunt kanga-
roo, and the toads and the swapping
turtles were your illustrious predeces-
sors, my father was God. know 1t. I
feel 1t. 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
matches 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?
l can more easily appreciate the fact
that God by one stroke OF his omnlp-
offence could make man than l could
realize how out of 5000, 900 ages he
could have evolved one, putting on
little here and little there. 1t would
have been Just as great miracle for
God to have turned an orang outang
into man as to make a man out and
out-the one job just as big as the
other.
1t seems to me we had better let God
have little place in our world some
where. 1t seems to me II we cannon
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
tyolutionists. "No," says Darwin, and
60 for years he is trying to raise fantall-
I'd pigeons and to turn these fantall
pigeons into some other kind of pigeon
mr. To have them 20 into something that
il not a pigeon-turning them into
mail or barnyard fowl or brown thrash
err. But pigeon it u.s. and others have
tried with the OK and the dog and the
horse, but they staid in their species
If they attempt to cross over, 1t IS a
hvbrid and hybrid is always sterile
and goes into extinction. There has
been only one successful attempt to pass
AVER from speechless animal to the
articulation of man, and that was the
ottempt which Balaam witnessed i'll the
beast that he rode, but an angel OF the
Lord. with drawn sword, soon stopped
that long cared evolutionist
But says some one, IF we cannot
have God make a man, let us have him
make horse" "Oh, moi" says Hulk
lev in his great lectures in New York
years ago. No, he does not want any
to his lair, and the eagle went to hl'
eyrie, and the whale went to MS palact