Connecticut western news., 1898-09-01

irving nan, or the crow that swoops on the field carcass, or the swine that wal lows in the mire Everybody sees tho outrage it would be to put aside the Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac, nnd Isaac bcgat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah, for the record that tho micro scopic animaloule begat the tadpole, and the tadpole begat the poliwog, and the polliwoS begat the serpent, and the ser pent begat the quadruped, and the quad rutled begat the baboon, and the bab- con 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 tEe evolutionists, man Is ankrupe monkey.
 Divine Origin.
 pity the person who in every nerve md muscle and bone and mental fao- ulty and spiritual experience does not realize that he is higher in origin and has had grande ancestry than the beasts which perish However degraded m,n and women may be, and though they may have foundered on the rocks of crime and sin, and though we shud- der us we pass them, nevertheless there is something within us that tells us they belong to the same great brother h.Cd and sisterhood of our race, and ocr sympathies are aroused in regard to thom. But. gazing upon the swiftest gazelle, or upon the tropical bird of most flcmboyant wing. or upon the curve of grandess courser's neck. we feel there is no consanguinity. It is not that We are stronger than they, for the lion with one stroke of his paw could put us into the dust. It is not that we have better eyesight. for the eagle can descry mole mile away. It is not that we are fleeter of foot, for roebuok in a flash is out of sight. just seeming to touch the earth as he goes. Many of the animal creation surpassing us in ficetness of foot and in keenness of nos iril 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.
 tell you plainly that if your father was a muskrat and your mother an opossum. and your great-aunt kanga- roo, and the toads and the snapping turtles were your illustrious predeoes- sors, my father was God know it feel 1t It thrills through me with an emphasis and an ecstasy which all your arguments drawn from anthropology and biology and zoology and morology and paleontology and all the other ologies can never shake.
 Evolution is one great mystery. It hatches out 90 mysteries, and the 50 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 mysteriesf can more easily appreciate the fact that God by one stroke of his omnip- otence could make man than 1 could realize how out of 5000. 900 ages he could have evolved one. putting on a little hero and little there. It 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.
 It seems to me We had better let God have little place in our world some where It seems to me If we. cannot 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 evolutionists. "No," says Darwin. and so for years he is trying to raise fantail- ed pigeons and to turn these fantail Iigeons into some other kind of pigeon or to have them go into something that is not a pigeon-turning them into quail or barnyard fowl or brown thrash CT. But pigeon it is. and others have tried with the ox and the dog and the horse, but they staid in their species. If they attempt to cross over, 1t is hybrid. and hybrid is always sterile and goes into extinction. There has been only one successful attempt to pass over from speeches. animal to the articulation of man. and that was the attempt which Balaam witnessed in the beast that he rode. but an angel of the Lord, with drawn sword. soon stopped that long cared evolutionist-
 But says some one, "n we cannot have God make man, let us have him make horse" "Oh. nol' says Hnx- ley in his great lectures 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 pilohippus, and the pilohippus came | from the protohippus. and the protohip- pus came from the miohippus, an the miohippus came from the meshohippus, and the meshohippus came from the orohippus. and so away back, all the living creatures, we trace it in line until we get to the moneron, and no evidence of divine intermeddling with the creation until you get to the mone- ron, and that, Huxley says. is of so low form of life that the probability is it just made itself or was the result of spontaneous generation What narrow escape from the necessity of having a God.
 As near as I can tell. these evolution ists seem to think that God at the start had not made up his mind as to exactly what he would make. and. having made up his mind partially. he has been changing 1t all through the ages be- lieve that God made the world as he wanted to have it, and that the happi- ness of all the species will depend upon their staying in the species where they were created.
 Parliament of Beasts.
 Once upon a time there was in a nat ural amphitheater of the forest con- veption of animals, and a gorilla from western Africa came in with his club and pounded "Orderl" Then he sat down in chair of twisted forest root. The delegation of birds came in and took their position in the galleries of &txrh hs Ia n,.l kh-.$ $~-xx~, k<x~x l~G