Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-01

curtain of tie leaves lifted, and the bolts
and bars of the tree branches were showed
back, and there appeared Agassiz and
Audubon and Sillman and Moses, and
Agassiz cried out: "Oh you beasts of the
for&ts, have studied your ancestral REQ
ords and found you always have been
beasts, you always will be beasts BE
content to BIO beasts!' And Audubon
aimed his gun at n bnldheaded eagle which
dropped from the gallery and as 1t dropped
struck n serpent that was winding around
one of the pillars TO got up higher, and
Silliman throw rock of the tertiary for
nation at tho mammals, and Moses thun.
dcrod, EVERY beast after it's kind, every
bird after its kind, overy fish after its
kind" And, 10, the parliament Of wild
beasts was proroguod and went home to
their constituents, and tho bat flew out
into the night, and the lizard skunk under
the rock, and the gorilla went back to the
Jungle and a hungry wolf passing out ate
up the primal germs, and "A clumsy buffalo
upset tho protoplasm, and the lion went
to his lair, and tho eagle went to his cyric,
and the whale went to his palace Of crystal
ard coral, and there was pcace-peaco in
the air. peace In tho waters, peace in the
floldsl Man in his place; tho beasts of the
earth in their places.
An Absurd Theory.
H.. ,,,, e,,o,,ds o,.o,,,.;o, is not on,,
,,,naoi n,,5 atL,Js.,o a,,,l ahs,rd II T.
hr,,toii,,r,, In its tordoncics IF tboro &c
.,,t,,i,'t, T., ,,r ,,o,,,1 ,hat ,,.iii ,,,ai,o a
80, 1T, a., IT, hat,t,, :. g. +hn ido,
t,,.t Ln ,,,as aosno,,rnI fro,,, thn Lc,St
WI, aooor,Ii,,,, e., ,i,o i,on % thoso o,.rl,,.
tio,,ists 600 mo or,,. :, .,,,or,or l,ind ~
oa,tio :, Govt ~ AiInrnoy on,o,, ohio
bords NO bo s,,rc 700 hrov,en on hnttc,
,,ast,,r, ,r1 eco hn,o ho,,or etoi, o,J hot
ta, Observation-Disclosures b,,t t,o, ,yo ,rc onIv
+ Snutb,n,.,,s avon, tho arcot nocls nt
sh,a,, a., 20 - hn,,t 60 Sio ii,.o /, hc,et
/ fnr tho ovoirtiorists bavc No idrn ~ n IN.
turo world They saw tho mind is ONLY n
/ superior part of the body. They say our
thoughts arc only molecular formation
/ They say when the body dies the whole
nature dies. The slab of the eepulchcr Is
not milestone on tho journey upward
but u wall shutting us into eternal moth
ingness. We all die aliko-thc COW, the
! horse, the sheep tho man, the reptile. An
/ initiation Is the heaven OF tho cvolutionist
From such stenchful and damnable doc
trine turn away. Compare that idea o
your brigham idea filed with the chat
tcrof apes and the hiss of scrpcnts and The
croak Of fyorS-to an idea in one or two
stanzas which quote from an old book 81
moro than DcmosthCnic or Homeric ol
Dantcsquo power: What Is man thai
thou art mindful of himg And the son o.
man, that thou visitcst himg Thou hast
made him little lower than the anGch
/ and hast crowned him with glory and non
or. Thou madcst him to have dominion
over the works of thy hand. Thou hast
I put all things under his feet. All sheoI
and oxcn--yca, and the beasts of tho field
the fowl of the air, and the fish Of the sea
and whatsoever passcth through tho path!
of tho seas. o Lord, our Lord how ex
cellont is thy naino In all the earth. "
A Great Unro!iing.
How do Won like that orieing Tho liz,
tbo ,,o,orcb ~ tho fcld rho oaslc III,
monorcb of tho air bcboro+b tho ,nor,rc,
of tbe deem Int man monarch If nil All
my frinuds have 70 saw IN Won that nr
not ca onxious In tro,v ,ybat was m,
or,,;r ne to l,,,o,v y,h,t ,viu hc ms, dce,i-,v
10 NOT c,rc en- r,uc,, ,vbore CANE froy,
nc whore T am ,oin, IN lam NOT co In
tercs,cd in who vas INV oncnetrr 10 Ooo
Ooo vonrs ago nc am IN know whera
will h, 10 600 ooo vonr, fror now an
not 60 much interes,etl in fine pros,co +,
nv cradle no 7 am interested in tbc nm
ncndix IN NV grave do not caro- :,
mucb about rroton,asr nc IN ,hou
eternos,n The "wae,, 10 overwbelme,
with the ito be-" And here comes in tn
evolution 7 boljove in-not natural evolu
tjon hut orocious and divine and boavcpl,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ont of sin into boli
ness. out of aricf into aladness. out O
morality intn iu,mor.,litv ont If e,r+l
into bo,von 1'bot is rho evolution 7 bo
uoyc in
Evolution from cvo,verc unro,,ing
ITnrolllny NJ nttributos nnro,ling Of "a
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of nnpelic conponionshiu. unrolling Of di
vine glory, urrolliug of proyidential oh
scurities unrolling of doyologies. uproll
ing Of rainbow TO capopy the throne. nm
rolling Of a now heaven and a now cart
Monarchs Oh earth of all lower orders O
creation and then lifted to be hicrarchs il
heaven. Masterpiece Of Gods wisdom
and goodness, our humanity; masterpiece
of divine grace, our eny.aoncmont. l pu
one foot on Darwin's "Origin of the Spe
cies, and put tho other foot on S'pcn
GERS Biology, and then, holding in on
hand the book of Moses, see our Genesis
and, holding in the other hand tho boo
Revelation, l SEQ our celestial arrival
For all wars l prescribe the Bethlehem
chant of tho angels, for all sepulchers
prescribe the archangel's trumpet, for al
tho earthly griefs l prescribe tho han,
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