St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-09-24
not be dragged into this mire OF mere
assertion, then il In time to protests

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assertion, then it Il time to protest..
With equal vehemence against the
doctrine Of revolution Hugh Miller, Far.
raday, brewster, Dana, Dawson, and
hundreds of scientists in this country
and other countries have made protest.
| / know that tho few men who have
adopted the Theory make more noise
| than the thousands who have rejected
it The Dothnia, of the Cunard line
took 500 passengers safely from New
York to Liverpool. Not one Of the 5ot
made any excitement But after w
had been four days out, one morning
we found on deck . mans hat and coal
and vest and boots, implying that some
one had jumped overheard. Forthwith
we all began to talk about that one
man. There was more talk about that
one man overheard than all the soc
passengers that rode on in safety.
'Whv did he jump overboard?" y
wonder when he jumped overboard?' 2
II wonder If when he jumped over
board he would liked to have jumped
back again?' II wonder If . fish
caught him, or whether he went clear
down to the bottom Of the sea?' And
for three or four days afterward we
talked about that poor man.
Here is the glorious and magnificent
theory that God by His omnipotent
power made man, and by His omnipo-
tent power made the brute creation,
and by HIS omnipotent power made all
worlds, and 500 scientists have taken
passage on board that magnificent
theory. bu. ten or fifteen have jumped
overheard. They make more talk than
all the 500 that did not jump with
them. Thank you, gentlemen. l am
very much obliged to you. think
shall stick to the old Cunarder. II
you want to jump overheard, jump,
and test for yourselves whether your
hand was really q fsh's I'm, and
whether you were web-footed orig
inally. and whether your lungs are =
| swim bladder. And - in every expert
ment there must be q 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 Selec-
tion," and that which Wallace calls the
Survival of the Fittest" BY this
they mean that the human race and
the brute creation are all the time i'm
proving because the weak die and the
strong live. Those who do not die sur
vive because they are the dttest. They
say the breed of sheep and cattle and
dogs and men is all the time improv-
ing. naturally improving. No need Of
God, or any Bible, or any religion. bu
just natural progress
You sec the race started with
spontaneous generation" and then IL
goes right on until Darwin can take
us up with his natural selection. and
Wallace with his survival of the fit
test, !" and 10 we go right on mp forever.
Beautiful But do the fttest survive?
Garfield dead in September-Guiteau
surviving until the following June.
s'Survival of the fittest?" All! NO. The
martyrs. religious and political, dying
for their principles. their bloody
prosecutors living on to old age. ''Sur.
vival Of the 6ttest?" Five hundred
thousand brave northern men march,
ing out to meet 5OQ, brave southern
men, and die on the battleisld for
. principle. Hundreds OF thousands
of them went down into the grave
trenches We stayed at home in COM
Portable quarters Did they die be-
cause they were not rs fit to live - wc
who survived them? All! no; not the
- 4,
and Nathaniel Lyon falling on the
northern side Albert Sidney John
son and Stonewall Jsekson falling on
the southern side. Did they fall be-
cause they were NOT - Ct to live a.
the soldiers and the generals who came
back in safety. No. Bitten with the
frosts of the second death be the
tongue that dares utter it! It il not
the Survival of the fittest."
And rs to the human race. % far ~
mere natural progress is concerned,
once there were men ten feet high;
now the average is about flve feet six
inches. It started with men living 200,
400, 800, 90 years. and now 30 years
is more than the average OF human
life. Mighty progress we have made,
haven't we? l went into the cathedral
1T York. England, and the best artists
in England had just beea painting .
window in that cathedral, and right
beside it was . window painted 400
years ago, and there is not . man on
earth but would say that the modern
painting OF the window by the best
artists OF England il not worthy of
being compared with the painting Of
400 years ago right beside 1t. Vast
Improvement, as shall show you in .
minute or two, but NO natural evo-
lutisn.
Look ut China, where evolution has
had full swing for thousands Of years
uninterrupted by anything except here
and there . mission station with this
defunct book, tho Bible, but through
the most Of the realm not interfered
with. What has evolution done for
ChiLa7 Christian civilization goes in
and builds . railroad; they tear it up.
For 1000 years the Chinese nation,
where it is not invaded by the Gospel.
has not made one 1--WE hundredth mil
lion part OF IN inch advancement.
They worship the same gods OF red
paint just - always. they drown the
female children - . nuisance. just
as always they eat with chop sticks.
So in India, % in Arabia, 20 in Turkey,
% everywhere where the Gospel has
moi made an invasion.
/ tell you, my friends, the natural
evolution il not upward, but it il al.
wsys downward. Hear Christ's &C.
count Of it. Matthew w., 10: ''Out Of
the heart proceed evil thoughts. muir.
ders, adulteries, fornicxtions, thefts,
false witness, blasphemiea" That il
what Christ said Of evolution Give
natural evolution full swing in
our world, and it will evolve
into two hemispheres Of crime.
two hemispheres of penitentiary,
two hemispheres Of lazaretto. two
hemispheres Of brothel. New York
Tombs. Moyamensing prison. Phila-
dclphia; Seven Dials, London, and Cow
gate, EIinburg, only fostering carbun-
cles on the face and neck Of natural
evolution. See what the Bible says
.fout the heart. and then what evolu-