Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-22

Where is the fine horse in any of our
parks whose picture of eye and name
and nostril and neck and launches is
worthy of being compared to Jobs pic
ture of a horse as he, thousands of
years ago, heard it paw and neigh and
champ it's bit for the battle? Pigeons of
today not SO wise as the carrier pigeons
OF 800 years ago-pigeons that carried
the mails from army to army and from
city to city, one Of them flung into the
sky at Rome or Venice landing without
ship OF rail train in London. Look at
the great animals that walketh the earth
in olden times-animals compared with
which in size our elephant is a cat;
monsters of olden times that swan the
deep, compared with which our whale
is a minnow. Comics have learned moth
ing about climbing and the hounds
nothing about hunting and the ostrich
nothing about Matching and the condor
nothing about flying and the owl moth
ing about musical cadences for 5000
years. Not particle of progress.
And, as to the human race, so far as
mere natural progress is concerned, once
there were men 10 feet high; now the
average is about feet 6 inches. 1t
started with men living 900, 400, $780,
900 years, and now 80 years is more
than the average of human life. Mighty
progress we have made, haven't we? I
went into the cathedral at York, Eng
land, and the best artists in England
had just been painting a window in that
cathedral, and right beside it was
window painted 400 years ago, and
there is not a man on earth but would
say that the modern painting of the
window by the best artists Of England
is not worthy of being compared with
the painting Of 400 years ago right be-
side it. Vast improvement as L shall
show you in a minute or two, but no
natural evolution.
Trend of Evolution.
Look at China, where evolution has
had full swing for thousands of years
uninterrupted by anything except here
and there mission station with this
defunct book, the Bible, but through
the most of the realm not interfered
with. What has evolution done for
China? Christian civilization goes in
and builds a railroad; they tear it up.
For 1000 years the Chinese nation,
where it is not invaded by the gospel,
has not made One-five-h hundred millionth
part of an inch of advancement They
worship the same gods of red paint.
Just as always, they drown the female
children as nuisance. Just as always.
they eat with chopsticks. So in India,
SO in Arabia, so in Turkey, so every
where where the gospel has not made
an invasion.
l tell you, my friends, that natural
evolution is not upward but it is always
downward. Hear Christ's account of it.
Fifteenth Matthew and nineteenth
verse, "Out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts murders, adulteries, fornica-
tions, thefts, false witness, blasphe-
miles, That is what Christ said of evo-
luton. Give natural evolution full
swing in our world and it will evolve
into two hemispheres of crime, two
hemispheres Of penitentiary, two hem
ispheres of lazaretto, two hemispheres
of brothel. New York Tombs, Moya-
mensing prison, Philadelphia, Seven
Dials, London and COwgate, Edinburgh,
only fostering carbUncles on the face
and neck CT natural evolution. See
what the Bible says about the heart
and then what evolution says about the
heart Evolution says "better and bet
ter and better gets the heart by natural
Improvement. The Bible says: "The
heart is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked. Who can know it?''
When you can evolve fragrance from
malodor, and can evolve an oratorio
from buzzsaw, and can evolve fall
pippins from a basket Of decayed crab
apples, then you can by natural evolu-
ton from the human heart develop
goodness. All, my friends, natural eve
luton is always downward; it is never
upward.
Galvanized Corpse.
What is remarkable about this thing
is it is all the time deVelOninp its dis