The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-29
UBIICAN WILMINGTON, 1898:

eattI6, Q sort Of Aiderney among othel
horde. TO DO sure, W. browse on bette,
pasture, and ne have better stall and bet
ter accommodations, but then We are only
Southdowns among the great f1ocks Of
sheep. Born of beast, to die like q beast,
for the svolutionists have no idea Of fu.
ture world They soy the mind is only a
superior part Of the body They say our
thoughts are only molecular formation.
They say when the body dies tho whole
nature dies. The slab Of the sepulcher Is
not milestone on the journey upward,
but wall shutting us into eternal moth
ingness. We oil die aliks-the COW, the
horse, the sheep, the man, the reptile. An
utilization is the heaven Of tho evolutionist.
From such stenchful and damnable doc
trine turn away. Compare that idea of
ter Of apes and the hiss of serpents and the
croak Of frogs-to an idea In one or two
staDzas which quote from an old book Of
more than Demosthenic or Homeric or
Dantesque power: What Is man that
chou art mindful Of himP And the son of
man, that thou visitest himp Thou hast
made him little lower than the angels
and hast crowned him with glory and hon
or Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works Of thy hand Thou hast
put all things under his feet. All sheep
and oxen-yea, and the beasts Of the field,
the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea,
and whatsoever passeth through the paths
OF the seas. o Lord, our Lord, how ex.
cellent is thy name In all the earth"
A Great Unrolling.
How do you like that origipS The lion
the monarch Of the field, the eagle the
monarch Of tho air, behemoth the monarch
OF the deep, but man monarch Of ALL All,
my friends have to say to you that am
not SO anxious to know what was my
origin as to know what will be my destiny.
do not care so much where came from
as where l am going to. I am not 80 In. |
terested In who was my ancestry O,00O,- F.!
600 years ago as I am to know where |
will be IL, 900, 900 years from now. I am
not SO much Interested in the preface to |
my cradle as am interested In the ap.
pendix to my grave. I do not care 60 |
much about protoplasm as I do about
eternasm. The twas" is overwhelmed
with the ITO be-" And here comes in the
evolution believe in-not natural evolu-
ton, but gracious and divine and heavenly
evolution-evolution out of sin into holi.
ness, out of grief into gladness, out Of
mortality into Immortality, out of earth
into heaven. That is the evolution be.
lieve in.
Evolution from evolyere, unrollinRl
Unrolling of attributes, unrolling of re-
wards, unrolling Of experience, unrolling
Of angelic companionship, unrolling Of d.
vine glory, unrolling of providential OBJ
unrolling Of doxologies, unroll-
Ing of rainbow to canopy the throne, un-
rolling Of new heaven and a new earth
In which to dwell righteousness. Oh, the
thought overwhelms mel ! have not the
physical endurance to consider 1t.
Monarchs on earth of all lower orders of
,reation and then lifted to be hierarchs in
heaven. Masterpiece Of Gods wisdom
md goodness, our humanity; masterpiece
II divine grace, our enthronement. put
me foot on Darwins "Origin of the Spe-
'ies,'' and put the other foot on Spen-
'er's Biology" and then, holding in one
land the book of Moses, see our Genesis,
md, holding in the other hand the book
revelation, see our celestial arrival.
FOR all wars I prescribe the Bethlehem
liant of the angels, for all sepulchers
rescribe the archangel's trumpet, for all
he earthly griefs l prescribe the hand
hat wipes away all tears from all eyes.
'ot an evolution from beast to man, but
n evolution from contestant to conqueror,
nd from the struggle with wild beasts in
he arena Of tho amphitheater to soft,
Ugh, blissful seat in the Kings galleries.