Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-07

ley, in his great lecture in New York
years ago. No, he does not want any
God around the premises. God did
not make the horse. The horse came
of the pliohippus, and the pliohippus
came from the protohippus, and
the protohippus came from the
miohippus, and the miohippus came
from the mcshohippus, and the
meshohippus came from the oro-
hippus, aud so away back, all
the living creatures, we trace it in a
line until we get to the,moneron, and
no evidence of divine intermeddling
with the creation until you get at the
moneron, and that, Huxley says, rs OF
so low form of life that the probabil-
ity is it just made itself or was the re-
suit of spontaneous generation. What
narrow escape from the necessity
of having a God!
AS near as | can tell, these evolu-
tionists seem to think that God at the
start had not made up His mind exact
ly what lie would make, and having
made up His mind partially He has
been changing it all through the ages.
| believe that God made the world as
He wanted to have it, and that the hap
piness of all the species will depend
upon their staying in the species where
they were created.
But, my friends, evolution is not only
infdel and ntheistic and absurd; 1t 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 SUI
perior kind of cattle, sort of Alder
ney among other herds. To be sure,
we browse on better pasture, and we
have better stall and better accommo-
dations, but then we are only South
downs among the great flocks OF
sheep. Born Of beast, TO die like
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 forma-
tions. 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
evolutonist From such n stenchful
and damnable doctrine turn away
Compare that idea Of your origin
an idea filed with the chatter of apes
and the hiss of serpents and the croal
! of frogs-to an idea in one or two
stanzas which quote from an old
book OF more than Demosthenic oil
Homeric or Dantesque power: What
is man, that Thouart mindful OF him
And the son of man, that Thou yisitest
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; Thol
hast put all things under his feet, al
sheep and oxen, and the beasts of th,
field; the fowl Of the air, and what
soever passeth through the paths o
the seas. o Lord, our Lord, how eX
celent is Thy name in all The earth.
How do you like that origin? TIT
lion the monarch of the field, th,
eagle the monarch Of the air, behe
moth the monarch of the deep, bu
man monarch of all. All! my friends
have to say to you that am not 81
anxious to know what was my origiI
MS to know what will be my destiny.
do not care so much where | cam
from as where ! am going to. an
not so interested in who were my an
cestry 10,000,0O0 years ago as am &
know where | will be 10,00O,00O year
from now. am not so much interest
cd in the preface to my cradle as an
interested in the appendix TO m,
grave. ] do not care so much abou
rrotoplasm as | do about eternasm
The twas" is overwhelmed with th
"to be-" And here comes in the evolu
ton | believe in; not natural evolu
ton, but gracious and divine an
heavenly evolution-evolution out q
sin into holiness, out of grief int
gladness, out of mortality into immoi
tality. out of earth into Heaven. Tha
is the evolution / believe in.
Evolution from evolvere, unrolling
Enrolling of attributes, unroling G
rewards, unrolling of experience, vi
rolling of angelic companionship, III
rolling of divine glory, unroIing c
providential obscurities, unrolling c
doxologies. unrolling of rainbow {
canopy the throne, unroling of ne'
heaven and a new earth in which {
dwell righteousness. Oh, the though
overwhelms me! have not the ply
zeal endurance to consider it.
Monarchs on earth of all lower Of
Gers of creation, and then lifted to
: hierarcbs in Heaven. Masterpiece {
Gods wisdom and goodness, our hi
manity; masterpiece of divine grac
our cnthronement. put one foot @
Darwn's Origin OF the Species al
| put the other foot on Spencer's 81
ology," and then holding in one han
tie book of Moses see our Genesi
and holding in the other hand II
book of Revelation | see our celesti
arrival For ali wars prescribe IL
Bethlehem chant of the angels. FL
= all sepulchers / prescribe the archal
S gels trumpet. For ali the earth
! griefs prescribe the hand that wip,
. away all tears from the eyes. Not d
e evolution from beast to man, but a
i evolution from contestant to co
queror. and from the struggle wi
r wild beasts in the arena Of the amph
t theater to soft, high, bissful seat
! the Kings galleries.
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p, The Furs of n Princess.