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

1t and never will have it. | put in on
position to these evolutionist theories
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 flops in the frying pan, or the
crow that swoops on the field carcass,
or the swine that wallows in the mire.
Everybody sees the outrage it would
be to put aside the Bible record that
Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat
Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah, for the
record hat the microscopic animalculc
begat the tadpole, and the tadpole be-
gat the polywog, and the polywog be-
gat the serpent, and the serpent begat
the quadruped, and the quadruped be-
gat the baboon, and the baboon 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. Fail
ures as apes, success as men. Accord
ing to the evolutionists man Is a
bankrupt monkey.
Evolution is one great mystery. 1t
matches out fifty mysteries and the
fifty hatch out thousand, and the
thousand hatch out million. Why,
my brother, not admit the one great
mystery of God and have that settle
all the other mysteries? l can more
easily appreciate the fact that God by
one stroke of his omnipotence could
make man than 1 could realize how
out of five millions of ages he could
have evolved one, putting on little
here and little there. 1t would have
been just as great miracle for God
to have turned an orang-outang into
man as to make man out and out
the one job just as big as the other.
1t seems to me we had better let
God have little place in our world
somewhere. 1t seems to 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 evolutionists. NO" says
Darwin, and so for years he is trying
to raise fantailed pigeons and to turn
these fan-tail pigeons into some other
kind of pigeon, or to have them go into
something that is not pigeon-turn-
ing them into quail, or barnyard fowl,
or 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 a hybrid, and hybrid
is always sterile and goes into extinc-
ton. There has been only one sue
cessful attempt to pass over from
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 horse" "Oh, mol" SAYS Hux-
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 pliohippus, and the pliohip-
pus came from the protohippus, and
the protohippus came from the mio-
hippushippus, and the miohippus came
from the meshohippus, and the mesho-
hippus 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 di-
vine intermeddling with the creation
until you get to the moneron, and
that, Huxley says, is of so low a form
OF life that the probability is it just
made itself or was the result of spon-
taneous generation. What a narrow
escape from the necessity of having
a God.
AS near as I can tell these evolu-
tionists seem to think that God at the
start had not made up his mind as to
exactly what he would make, and hav-
ing 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.
Once upon time, there was in a
natural amphitheater of the forest a
convention of animals, and a gorilla
from Western Africa came in with his
club and pounded "Order!" Then he
sat down in chair and twisted forest
root. The delegation of birds came in
and took their positions in the CALLER
les of the hills and the tree tops. 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 of in.
termediate animals, and there was a
great aquarium and canal leading
into it through which came the mon
sters of the deep to join the great
convention. And on one table of rock
there were four or five primal germs
under a glass case, and in cup on
another table of rock there was a
quantity of protoplasm. Then this
gorilla of the African forest with his
club pounded again: "order! orderr'
and then he cried out: "0h, you great
throng of beasts and birds and reptiles
and insects, have called you together
to propose that we move up into the
human race and be beasts no longer;
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 into
roars of enthusiasm like as though
there were many menageries being fed
by their keepers, and it did seem as il
the whole convention would march