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and tho qundruped begat the baboon, and
the baboon bcgat man.
Tho ovolutionsts tell us that the apes
were originally fond Of climbing the trees,
but after awhile they lost their prehensilo
power and therefore could not climb with
any facility, and hence they surrendered
monkcydom and set up in business as
men. Failures as apes, successes as men.
According to the evolutionists, y man is
bankrupt monkey.
God the Father.
pity the person who in every nerve
and muscle and bono and mental faculty
and spiritual experience does not realize
that he is higher in origin and has had u
grander ancestry than tho beasts which
perish. However degraded men and wom-
on may be, and though they may havo
foundered on tho rocks of crime and sin,
and though we shudder as we pass them,
nevertheless there Is something within us
that tolls us they belong to the same great
brotherhood and sisterhood of our race,
and our sympathies are aroused i'll regard
to them. But gazing upon the swiftest
gozellc or upon tho tropical bird of most
flamboyant wing, or upon the curve of
grandest courscr's neck, we feel there Is
no consai1uinity. 1t Is not that we arc
stronger than they, for the lion with ono
stroke of his paw could put us into the
dust. 1t is not that we have better eye
sight, for the eagle can dcscry Il mole n
milo away, 1t is not that we arc fleetcr of
foot, for roebuch In flash is out OF
sight, just seeming to touch the earth as
he goes Many Of tho animal creation sur
passing us i'm fectncss of foot and in Keen
ness of nostril and in strength of limb,
but notwithstanding all that there is some
thing within us that tells us we Hrc OF CO.
| lestial pedigree. Not of the mollusk, not
of the rizipod, not of the primal germ, but
of the living and onnipotent God. Lin
cage of the skies Genealogy of heaven.
l tell you plainly that, " your father
was muskrat and your mother an opos
sum and your great.nunt kangaroo and
the toads and tho swapping turtles wero
| your illustrious predecessors, my father
was God. know it, feel it, 1t thrills
| through me with an emphasis and an
ecstasy which all your arguments drawn
from anthropology and biology and zoolo
Ry and neurology and palcontology and all
the other ologies can mover shake.
Evolution Is ono great mystery. 1t
matches out 80 mysteries, and the 30 hatch
out 900, and the 1000 hatch out 1,000,-
900. Why, my brother, not admit tho one
great mystery Of God and have that settle
all tho other mysterics9 I can more easily
appreciate the fact that God, by ono stroke
| Of his omnipotonce, could make man than
! could realize how out of 5000, O00 ages
he could have evolved one, putting on n
little here and little there. 1t would
have been just rs great n miracle for God
to have turned an orang outang into n
man rs to make q man out and out, the
ono job just as big as tho other.
Give God Place.
1t seems to me we had better let God
have a little place in our world somewhere.
1t seems to me If we cannot have him
make all creatures VIC had better have him
make two or three. There ought to be
some place where no could stay without
interfering with the evolutionists. "No,"
says Darwin, and so for years he Is trying
to raise fantailed pigeons and to turn
these fantail pigeons into some other kind
of pigeons or to have them 90 into some.
thing that Is not pigeon-turning them
into quail or barnyard fowl or brown
thrasher But pigeon 1t is And others
have tried with the OK and the dog and
the horse, but they staid in their species.
If thoy attempt to cross over 1t is n.y.
brd, and hybrid is always sterile and
l
one successful attempt to pass over from
spccchless 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 cared eyolu
ZIONIST
But says some one, "If we cannot have
God make man, let us have him make q
horse" "Oh, moi" says Huxley in his
great lectures in New York years ago. No,
he does not want any God around the
promises. God did not make tho horse,
The horse came Of the pliohippus and the
pliohippus came from the protohippus, and
the protohippus camo from the miohippus
and the miohippus came from the mosho
hippus, and tho mcshohippus came from
the orohippus, and so away back, all the
living creatures, we trace 1t in line unit
we get to the moneron, and no evidence
of divine 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 itsel
or was the result of spontaneous genera
ton. What narrow escape from the ne
cessity Of having Godl
As near as can toll these evolutionist:
seem to think that God at the start hat
not made up his mind as to exactly What
he would make, and having made up hi.
mind partially he has been changing 1t al
through the ages. believe that God made
the world as he wanted to have it, ant
that the happiness Of all tho species vii
depend upon their staying in the species
where they were created.
Parliament Of Beasts.
Once upon time there was in u natura
hmphitheater Of tho forest convention o
animals, and a gorilla from western Africi
came in with his club and pounded "Or
dorr' Then he sat down in n chair o
twisted forest root. The delegation o
birds came in and took their position il
,. the galleries of the hills and tho tree tops
!, And delegation of reptiles came in, ant
they took their position in the pit of thu
valley. And the tiers of rocks were occu
pied by the delegation of intermediate ami
mails, and there was great aquarium, ant
! a canal leading into it, through whicl
came the monsters of the deep to join tn,
! great convention. And on one table O
, rock there We're four or five primal germ
under "a glass case, and in cup on anoth
er table of rock there was quantity o
/, protoplasm. Then this gorilla Of tho Afri
| can forest with his club pounded again
"Ordor, order!' and then he cried out
r "Oh, you great thronR OF beasts and bird
t and reptiles and insects, have called yol
5 together to propose that we move up int
/ tho human race and be beasts no longer
5 Too long already have we been hunted an,
Q Gagged and hnrnessed. We shall stand
, no longer"