Connecticut western news., 1898-09-01

said: "Pcace, mothers and sisters of the forest. l think we have been placed in the spheres for which we were in tended. I think our Creator knew the place that was good for us" He could proceed no further, for the whole con- vention broke out in an uproar like the tion comes up or the American congress the night of adjournment. and the rep tiles missed with indignation at the leonine Gambetta, and the frogs croak ed their contempt and the bears growl- ed their contempt, and the partners snarled their disgust, and the insects buzzed and buzzed with excitement and. though the gorilla of the African forest with his club pounded. "Order. order, " there was no order. and there was a thrusting out of adderine sting. and a swinging of elephantine tusk, and a stroke of beak, and a swing of claw. un- til it seemed as if the convention would be massacred.
 Just at that moment at the door of this natural amphitheater of the forest tho curtain of the leaves lifted. and the bolts and bars of the tree branches were showed back. and there appeared Agas- siz and Audubon and Silliman and Moses And Agassis cried out: "Oh, you beasts of the forests. have studied your ancestral records and found you always have been beasts, you always will be beasts. Be contented to be beasts. And Audubon aimed his gun k.ll l.l xx-hsnh ,xa1 from the gallery and as 1t dropped struck serpent that was winding around one of the pillars to get up higher. And Silliman threw rock of the tertiary formation at the mammals. and Moses thundered, Every beast after its kind, every bird after it's kind, every fish after it's kind" And. To. the parliament of wild beasts was prorogued and went home to their constituents. and the bat flew out into the night, and the lizard skunk under the rock, and the gorilla went back to the jungle. and hungry wolf passing out ate up the primal germs, and a clumsy buffalo up- set the protoplasm, and the lion went to his lair, and the eagle went to his eyrie, and the whale went to his palace of crystal and coral. and there was peaoe-peace in the air, peace in the waters. peace in the fields Man in his place. the beasts of the earth in their placea
 Bput~lising Tendencies.
 But, my friends. evolutionis not only infidel and atheistic and absurd; 1t Is brutalizing in its tendencies. If there Is anything In the world that will make man bestial in his habits. 1t Is the idea that he was descended from the beast. Why. according to the idea of these evolutionists, we are only a su- perior kind of cattle. a sort of Alderney among other herds. To be sure, we browse on better pasture, and we have better stall and better accommodations, but then we are only Southdowns among the great flocks of sheep. Born of 0 beast, to die like beast. for the evolutionistx have no idea of a future world. They say the mind Is only a su- perior part of the body. They say our thoughts are only molecular formation They say when the body dies the whole nature dies The slab of the sepuloher
 is not milestone on the journey up- ward. but wall shutting us into eter- nal nothingness. We all die alike-the COW. the horse. the sheep. the man, the reptile Annihilation Is the heaven Of the evolutionist. From such stenchful and damnable doctrine turn away. Compare that idea of your origin-an idea filled with the chatter of apes and the hiss of serpents and the croak Of frogs-to an idea in one or two stanxas which quote from an old book of more than. Demosthenio or Homeric or Dan- tesque power: What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou visitest him? 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 md 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 excellent is thy name in all the earth.".
 How do you like that origin? The lion the monarch of the field, the eagle the monarch of the air. behemoth the monarch of the deep, but man monarch of all. An. my friends, I have to say to you that am not so anxious to know what was my origin as to know as to know what will be my destiny. I do not care so much where I came from as where l am going to am not so interested in who was my an- cestry o,000. 900 years ago as am to know where will be 10. 900. 900 years from now. I am not 90 much interested in the preface to my cradle as I am interested in the appendix to my grave. do not care 30 much about protoplasm as do about eternasm.> The twas" is overwhelmed with the "to be-" And here comes in the evolu- sion believe in. not natural evolution. but gracious and divine and heavenly evolution-evolntion out of sin into holiness, out of grief into gladness, out off mortality into immortality, out of earth into heaven. That is the evolution believe in.
 Evolution from evoivere, unrollingl Unrolling of attributes, unrolling of re- wards unrolling of experience. nnroll- ing of angelic companionship unrolling of divine glory. unrolling of providen- tial obscurities. unrolling of doxologies, unrolling of rainbow to canopy the throne, unrolling of new heaven and a new earth in which to dwell righteous ness. Oh, the thought overwhelms mel I have not the physical endurance to consider it.
 Monarchs on earth of all lower orders of creation and then lifted to be hierarchs in heaven. Masterpiece of Gods wisdom and goodness our human ity. Masterpiece of divine grace, our enthronement. put one foot on Oar wins "Origin of the Species, and I put the other foot on Spencer's "Biolo- gy." and then holding in one hand the book of Moses see our Genesis, and holding in the other hand the book see our celestial arrival