Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-08

ten years is in complete heIplessness.
The chick just come out Of the shell
begins to pick up It's own food. The
dog, the wolf, the lion, soon earn their
own livelihood and act for their own
defense. The human race does not
come to development until 20 or 80
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. II we had been born OF
the beast we would have had the
beasts strength at the start, or 1t
would have been our weakness. Not
only different, but opposite.
Darwin admitted that the dovecote
pigeon had not changed in thousands
of years. 1t is demonstrated over and
over again that the lizard on the low
est formation OF rocks was just as COM
plete as the lizard now 1t is shown
/ 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
nbut worlds, but as 10 having one solid
| foot OF ground % stand on they never
had II and they never will have 1t. 1put
| in opposition to these evolutionist the
nria thn Ia rI ~ ~ III Mt xHya
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 wa'!ows In the mire.
Everybody sees the outrage 1t 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 microscopic animal
Guile begnt the tadpole, and the tadpole
begat the pollwog and the polliwog
begat the serpent, and the serpent be-
gat the quadruped, and the quadruped
begat the balloon, and the baboon be-
gat the man.
The evolutonists tell us that the
apes were originally fond of climbing
the trees, but after awhile they lost
their prchcnstile power, and therefore
could not climb with any facility, and
hence they surrendered monkcydom
and set up In business as men. Fail
ures ms apes, successes as men. Ac-
cording to the evoutionists man is
bankrupt monkey.
Ipity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bone and mental
faculty and spiritual experience does
not realize that he Is higher In origin
and has had grQndcr ancestry than
the beasts which perish. However de-
graded men and women may be, and
though they may have foundered on
the rocks of crime and sin, and though
we shuddcr as we pass them, never
thelcss there is something within us
that tells MS they belong to the same
great brotherhood and sisterhood of
cur race, and our sympathies are
aroused in regard to them But gaH.
ing upon the swiftest gazelle, or upon
the tropical bird Of most ilamboynnt
wing, orupon the curve Of the grandcst
Courscr's neck, we feel there is no CON
sang,rinity. II Is not that we are
stronger than they, for the lion with
enc stroke of his paw could put us into
the dust 1t is not that we have bet
ter eycsight, for the eagle can drscry
y mol" n mile away. II is not that we
are tlecter OF foot, for n rorbuck in n
flash is out of sight, just seeming to
touch the earth ms he goes. Many of
the animal creation surpass us in
iIcctnrSs Of foot and in kernnrss of
rostril aud in strength of limb, but
notwithstanding all that, there is
something within MS that tells MS we
IRE Of celestial pedigree. Not of the
mollusk, not of the ri2ipod, not of the
primal germ, but of the living and
omnipotent God, Lineage of the
skies. Gcnrnogy OF a7aNen.
| tell you plainly chat II your father
was muskrat and your mother nm
opposum, and your great'aunt n
kangaroo, aud the toads and the suap-
ping turtles were your illustrious
| l'ItNttNSShlS, NY IH'h'l NhS 'i'l !
know il, feel It, 1t thrills thr, dgh
me with an emphasis aud an ecstasy
which nll your arguments drawn from
anthropology and biology and zoology
and neurology and palcontology and
all the other ologies can never shake.
| Evolution Is ono great mystery. II
matches out 80 mysteries aud the so
hatch out 1901 aud the 1000 hatch
out lOo0,OO0 Why, my brother, not
admit the one great mystery of God
and have that settle all the other mys-
tcrirs? ! can NOR easily appreciate
the fact that Goa by one stroke of His
| omnipotcncr could make man than |
could realize how out of 100000 of
ages He could hav" evolved one, put
| ting on little here and u little there
| 1t would have been just as great n
miracle for God to have turned an
orang- outang iuto II man as TO make
II man out aud cut the one job just AS
big us the other,
II seems TO ME that we had better
lc4 tnI hnyeu #ttile blnrn IN nur world