The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-09-09


that the ganoid, the first fish, was just
as complete as the sturgeon, another
name for the same fish now. Darwin's
entire system was guess, and Huxley,
and John Stuart Mill, and Tyndall, and
especially Prof. Haeckel, come to help
him in the guess, and guess about the
brute, and guess about man, and guess
abut worlds, but as TO having one solid
foot of ground 10 stand on they never
had it and they never will have it. l put
in opposition to these evolutionist the
cries 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
hops in the frying pan, or the crow
that swoops on the field carcass, or
the swine that waiIows in the mire.
The evolutionists tell us that the
apes were originally fond of climbing
the trees, but after awhile they lost
their prehenstile power, and therefore
could not climb with any ia AGILITY, and
hence they surrendered monkeydom
and set up in business as men. Fail
ures as apes, successes as men. Ac-
cording to the evolutionists a man is a
bankrupt monkey.
l tell you plainly that if your father
was a muskrat and your mother an
oPPosum, and your great-aunt
kangaroo, and the toads and the snap
ping turtles were your illustrious
predecessors, my father was God. /
know it. l feel il. 1t thrills through
me with an emphasis and an ecstasy
which all your arguments drawn from
anthropology and biology and zoology
and neurology end paleontology and
ell the other ologies can never shake.
Evolution is one great mystery. 1t
matches out so mysteries and the so
hatch out 1909, and the 1000 hatch
cut 100000. Why, my brother, not
admit the one great mystery of God
and have that settle all the other mys-
teries? 1 can more easily appreciate
the fact that Coo by one stroke of His
omnipotence could make man than l
could realize how out of 100000 of
ages He could have evolved one, put
ting on little here and little there.
1t would have been just as great
miracle for God to have turned an
Orang-outang into a man as to make
n man out and out-the one job just as
big as the other.
1t seems to me that we had better
let God have little place in our world
somewhere. 1t seems 10 me if we can
not 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 interfer-
ing with the evLlutlonists. NO." says
Darwin, and so for years he is trying
to raise fan-tailed pigeons and to
turn these fan-tailed pigeons into some
other kind of pigeon. or to have them
turn into something that is not a
igeon-turninC them into quail, or
barnyard fowl Dr brown thresher. But
pigeon it is. And others have tried
with the OK and the dog and the horse,
but they stayed in their species. If
they attempt to cross over it is by
brid, and hybrid is always sterile and
goes into extinction. There has been
only one successful attempt to pass
over from the speechless 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-eared evolutionist.
But" says some one, "if we cannot
have God make man let us have Him
make n horse" "Oh, mol" says Hulk
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
miohippus, and the miohippus came
from the meshohippus, and the
meshohippus came from the oro-
hippus, 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 at the
mOnerOn, and that, Huxley says, is of
so low a form of life that the probable
ity is it just made itself or was the re-
suit of spontaneous generation. What
a narrow escape from the necessity
of having a Godi
AS near as l can tell, these evolu-
tionists seem to think that God at the
start had not made up His mind exact
Iy what He would make, and having
made up His mind partially He has
been changing it all through the ages.
l believe that God made the world as
He wanted to have it, and that the Zap
piness of all the species will depend
upon their staying in the species where
they were created.
Once upon a time there was in a nat
ural amphitheater of the forest
of animals, and a gorilla
from western Africa came in with his
club and pounded "Order!" Then he
sat down in a chair and twirled forest
root. The delegation of birds came
in and took their position in the gall
leries of the hills and the treetops.
And a delegation of reptiles came in,
and they took their position in the
pit of the valley. And the tiers of
rocks were occupied by the delegation
animals, and there was
u great aquarium and a canal leading
into it through which came the mon
sters of the deep to join the great con-
Vention.
And on one table of rock there were
four or five primal germs under glass
case, and in cup on another table of
lcck there was a quantity of pro-
toplasm. Then this gorilla of the Afri-
can forest with his club pounded
again: Order! ORDER" and then he
cried out: "Oh, you great throng of
beasts and birds and reptiles and in
sects, 1 have called you together to
propose that we move up into the hu-
man race. Too long already have we
been Hunted and Gagged and harnessed;
we shall stand it no longer" AT that
speech the whole convention broke out