The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-08-31

veloped, so far from being any help
must have been a hindrance until it
could be brought into practical use
away on down in the ages. Must there
not have been an intelligent will some
where that formed that wonderful fly
ing instrument so that bird 500 times
heavier than the air can mount it and
put gravitation under claw and beak?
That wonderful mechanical instrument,
the wing, with between 20 and 80 diff
ferent apparati curiously constructed,
does it not imply divine intelligence?
Does it not imply direct act OF some
outside being? All the evolutionists in
the world cannot explain birds wing
or an insects wing.
So they are confounded by the rattle
of the rattlesnake. Ages before that
reptile had any enemies this warning
weapon was created. Why was it Great
ed? When the reptile, far back in the
ages, had no enemies, why this warn
ing weapon? There must have been
divine intelligence foreseeing and
knowing that in ages to come that rep
tile would have enemies, and then this
warning weapon would be brought into
use. You see evolution at every step is
a contradiction or monstrosity. At
every stage of animal life as we'll as at
every stage of human life there is evil
dence of direct action Of divine will.
Besides that it is very evident from
another fact that we are an entirely
different creation and that there is no
kinship. The animal in few hours or
months comes to full strength and can
take care Of itself. The human race for
the first one, two, three, five, ten years
is in complete helplessness. The chick
Just come out Of its shell begins to pick
up its own food. The dog, the wolf,
the lion, soon earn their own livelihood
and act for their own defense. The hu-
man race does not come to development
until 20 or SO years of age, and by that
time the animals that were born the
same year the man was born-the vast
majority of them-have died Of old age.
This shows there is no kinship, there is
no similarity. If we had been born of
the beast, we would have had the
beasts strength at the start, or it would
have had our weakness. Not only diff
ferent, but opposite.
Darwin admitted that the dovecot
pigeon has not changed in thousands Of
years. 1t is demonstrated over and over
again that the lizard on the lowest for.
nation of rocks was just as complete as
the lizard now. 1t is shown that the
ganoid, the first fish, was just as COM
plete as the sturgeon, another name for
the same fish now. Darwin s entire sys>
TEN is guess, and Huxley and John
Stuart Mill and Tyndall and especial
ly Professor Hackel come to help him
in the guess, and guess about the brute,
and guess about man, and guess about
worlds; but as to having one solid foot Of
ground to stand on, they never have had
it and never will have it. Iput in opposi-
ton 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 fops in the
frying pan, CT the crow that swoops on
the field carcass. or the swine that wal
lows 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 that the micro
scopic animalcule begat the tadpole aud
the tadpole begat the polliwog, and the
polliwog begat the serpent, and the SER
pent begat the quadruped, and the quad
ruped begat the babcon, and the bab-
oon 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
the evolutionists, man is ban krupt
monkey.
Divine Origin.
pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental fac
ulty and spiritual experience does not
realize that he is higher in origin and
has had grander ancestry than the
beasts which perish. However degraded
men and women may be, and though
they may have foundered on the rocks
of crime and sin, and though we shud-
der as we pass them, nevertheless there
is something within Us that tells US
they belong to the same great brother
hood aud sisterhcod Of our race, and
, our sympathies are aroused in regard TO
them. But, gazing upon the swiftest
| gazelle, or upon the tropical bird of
most famboyant wing, or upon the
curve of grandest courser's neck, we feel
there is no consanguinity. 1t is not that
we are stronger than they, for the lion
with one stroke of his paw could put
Us into the dust. 1t is not that we have
better eyesight, for the eagle can descry
mole mile away. 1t is not that we
are feeter Of foot, for roebIck IN
flash is out Of sight, just seeming to
touch the earth as he goes. Many of
the animal creation surprising US IN
feetness Of foot and in keenness of nos
| tril 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 tie 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 swapping
turtles were your illustrious predeces-
sors, my father was God. know it. 1
feel it. It.thrius through me with an
emphasis and an ecstasy which all your
arguments drawn from anthropology
and biology and zoology and morology
and paleontology aud all the other
ologies can never shake.