The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-08-31

and buEsed with excitement, and
though the gorilla of the African
forest with his club pounded "order
order" there was no order, and there
was thrusting out OF adderlne stluR
and n swinging OF elephantlne ulslS,
and a stroke OF beak and swing OF
claw until it seemed as lt the conven-
ton would be massecred
Just at that momcnt, at the door OF
this natural amphitheater of the
forest, the curtain OF the leaves lifted,
and the bolts and bars OF the tree
branches were showed back, and there
appeared Agassla, and Audubon, and
Silllman. and Moses, And Agassiz
cried ont: "0h, you beasts of the
forests, have studied your ancestral
records and found you always have
been beasts, you always will be beasts,
be contented to be beasts" And Au-
dubon aimed his gun at bald-headed
eagle which dropped from the gallery,
and as it dropped struck serpent
that was winding around one Of the
pillars to get up higher. And Silliman
threw rock of the tertiary formation
at the mammals, and Moses thundered,
Every beast after its kind, every bird
after it's kind, every fish after its
kind" And lo the parliament of wild
beasts was prorogued and went home to
their constituents and the bat flew out
into the night, and the lizard skunk
under the rock, and the gorilla went
back to the jungle, and hungry wolf
passing out ate up the primal germs,
and clumsy buffalo upset the proto-
plasm, and the lion went to his lair,
and the eagle went to his eyrie, and
the whale went to his palace of crys-
tai and coral, and there was peace
peace in the air, peace in the waters,
peace in the fields. Man in his place;
the beasts of the earth in their places.
But, my friends, evolution is not
only infidel and atheistic and absurd;
it is brutalizing in its tendencies. If
there is anything in the world that
will make a man bestial in his habits
it is the idea that he was descended
from the beast. Why, according to
the idea of these evolutionists, we are
only a superior kind of cattle, sort of
Alderney among other herds. To be
sure, we browse on better pasture,
and we have better stall and better
accommodations but then we are only
Southdowns among the great fiocks
of sheep. Born of beast to die like
a beast; for the evolutionists have no
idea of future world. They say the
mind is only superior part of the
body. They say our thoughts are
only molecular formation. They say
when the body dies, the whole nature
dies. The slab of the sepulcher is not
a milestone on the journey upward,
but wall shutting us into eternal
nothingness. We all die alike-the
COW, the horse, the sheep, the man, the
reptile. Annihilation is the heaven of
the evolutionist. From such stencil
full and damnable doctrine turn away.
Compare that idea of your origin-an
idea filled with the chatter of apes
and the hiss of serpents and the croak
of frogs-to an idea in one or two
stanzas which / quote from an old
book Of more than Demonthenic, or
Homeric, or Dantesque power: what
is man, that thou art mindful of him
and the son of man, that thou visitest
him? Thou hast made him little
lower than the angels and hast
crowned him with glory and honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of thy hand; thou hast
put all things under his feet. All
sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts
of the neld, the fowl of the air, and
the fish of the sea, and whatsoever
passeth through the paths of the seas.
o Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy
name in all the earth!"
How do you like that origin? The
lion the monarch of the field, the
eagle the monarch of the air, behe-
moth the monarch of the, deep, but
man monarch of all. All! my friends,
L have to say to you that l dm not so
anxious to know what was my origin
as to know what will be my destiny.
l do not care so much where came
from as where I am going to. 1 am
not so interested in who was my an
cestry ten million years ago as I am
to know where l will be ten million
years from now. 1 am not so much
interested in the preface to my cradle
as | am interested in the appendix to
my grave. | do not care so much
about protoplasm as do about etern-
asm. The ''was" is overwhelmed with
the "to be-" And here comes in the
evolution l believe in; not natural evo-
luton, but gracious and divine and
Heavenly volution-evolution out of
sin into holiness, out of grief into
gladness, out of mortality into immor-
tality, out of earth into Heaven. That
is TIE evolution / believe. in.
Evolution from evolvere, unrolling!
Unrolling of attributes, unrolling of
rewards, unrolling of experience, un-
rolling of angelic companionship, un-
rolling of divine glory, unrolling of
providential obscurlties, unrolling of
CbOxologies, unrolling of rainbow to
canopy the throne, unrolling of a new
Heaven and new earth in which to
dwell in Righteousness. Oh, the
thought overwhelms me! I have not
the physical endurance to consider it.
Monarchs on earth of all lower orders
of creation, and then lifted to
be hierarchs in Heaven. Master
piece of Gods wisdom and good
ness, our humanity; masterpiece
of divine grace. our enthrone-
ment. put one foot on Oar
wins "Origin of the Species" and I
put the other foot on Spencer's "Bi-
ology," and then holding in one hand
the book Of Moses 1 see our Genesis,
and holding in the other hand the
book of Revelation, l see our celestial
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