Connecticut western news., 1898-08-25
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oieir down to the UotJom or tho sta: And for three or four days afterward we talked about that poor man.
 A Glorious Theory.
 Here is the glorious and magnificent theory that God by his omnipotent pow CT made man, and by his omnipotent power made the brute creation, and by his omnipotent power made all worlds, and 500 scientists have taken passage on board that magnificent theory, but 10 or 15 have jumped overheard. They make more talk than all the 500 that did not jump. am politely asked to jump with them. Thank you, gentle men, 1 am very much obliged to you. 1 think I shall stick to the old Cunarder. If you want to jump overheard, jump and test for yourselves whether your hand was really fish's fin, and wheth- CT you were webfooted originally, and whether your lungs are swim blad- der. And as in every experiment there must be division of labor, some who experiment and some who observe, you make the experiment and will observe
 There is one tenet of evolution which it is demanded we adopt, that which Darwin calls natural selection" and that which Wallace called the survival of the Attest. By this they mean that the human race and the brute creation are all the time improving because the weak die and the strong live. Those who do not die survive because they are the Attest. They say the breed of sheep and cattle and dogs and men is all the time improving, naturally improving No need of God or any Bible or any re- ligion, but just natural progress.
 You see the race started with "spon- taneous generation, and then it goes right on un>il Darwin can take us up with his "natural selection" and Wal lace with his survival of the fittest,' and so we go right on up forever Beautiful But do the Attest survivel Garfield dead in Standardization surviving until the following June Survival of the fittest?' An, no! The martyrs religious and political, dying for their principles, their bloody perse cutors living on to old age Survival of the fittest?" Five hundred thousand brave northern men marching out to met 500, 900 brave southern men and die on the battlefield for principle. Hundreds of thousands of them went down into the grave trenches. We staid at home in comfortable quarters Did they die because they were not as fit to live as we who survived? An. no. not the survival of the Attest" Ells. worth and Nathaniel Lyon falling on the northern side Albert Sidney John ston and Stonewall Jackson falling on the southern side. Did they fall be- cause they were not as fit to live as the soldiers and the generals who came back in safetyp No. Bitten with the frosts of the second death be the tongue that dares utter it. It is not the "sur- vival of the Attest.
 Fittest Do Not Survive.
 How has it been in the families of the world? How was it with the child physically the strongest, intellectually the brightest, in disposition the kindest? Did that child die because 1t was not as fit to live as those of your family that survived? Not "the survival of the fit test" In all communities some of the noblest, grandest men dying in youth or in midlife, while some of the meanest and most contemptible live on to old age. Not "the survival of the fittest
 But to show you that this doctrine is antagonistic to the Bible and to common sense have only to prove to you that there has been no natural progress Vast improvement from another source, hut, mind you, no natural progress Where is the fine horse in any of our parks whose picture of eye and mane and nostril and neck and launches is worthy of being compared to Jobs pic ture of 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 500 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 or rail train in London. Look at the great animals that walketh the earth in olden times-animals co1hpared with which in size our elephant is cat; monsters of olden times that swan the deep, compared with which our whale is a minnow. Comics have learned noth. ing about climbing and the hounds nothing about hunting and the ostrich nothing about matching and the condor nothing about flying and the owl noth- 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 inches It started with men living 200, 400. 800. 900 years. and now 80 years Is more than the average of human life. Mighty progress we have made, haven't we? l went into the cathedral at York, Eng land, and the best artists in England had just been painting window in that cathedral, and right beside 1t was window painted 400 years ago. and there is not a man on earth but would say that the modern painting of tho window by the best artists of England is not worthy of being compared with the painting of 400 years ago right be- side 1t. Vast improvement, as I 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 railroad; they tear 1t up
 For 1000 years the Chinese nation. where it is not invaded by the gospel, has not made ne-fve-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 chopstioks So in India, % in A ,,n hin n1, i,, nl,,-lrorr uo o..oxr.