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


have God make a man let us have Him
make horse" "Oh. mol" says Hux-
ley, in his great lecture in New York
years ago. No. he does noI want any
God around the premises, God did
not make the horse. The horse came
of the p!iohippus, and the pliohippus
came from the protohippus. and
the protohippus came from the
miohippus, and the miohippus came
from the meshohppus, and the
mesh ohippus came from the oro-
hippus. aud so away back, all
the living creatures, we trace 1t in a
line until we get to the moneron, and
no evidence of divine intermeddling
with the creation until you get at the
moneron, and that, Huxley says, is of
so low a form Of life that the probable
| ity is it Just made itself or was the re-
suit of spontaneous generation. What
narrow escape from the necessity
of having God!
AS near as ! can tell, these evolu-
tionists seem to think that God at the
start had not made up His mind exact
ly what He would make, and having
made up His mind partially He has
been changing it all through the ages.
| | believe that God made the world as
lie wanted to have it, and that the hap
piness OF all the species will depend
upon their staying in the species where
they were created,
But, my friends, evolution Is not only
| fdel and atheistic and absurd; it 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 SUI
perior kind of cattle, a sort of Alder
ney among other herds. TO be sure,
we browse on better pasture, and we
| have better stall and better accommo-
dations, but then we are only South
downs among the great t1ocks of
sheep. Born of a beast, TO die like
beast; for the evolutionists have no
! idea OF future world.
They say the mind is only superior
part of the body. They say our
thoughts are only molecular forma-
lions. They say when the body dies
the whole nature dies. The slab of the
sepulcher is not u milestone on the
Journey upward but wall shutting
us into eternal nothingness. We all
die alike--the COW, the horse, the
sheep, the man, the reptile"
Annihlation is the heaven OF the
evolutionist. From such II stenchful
and damnable doctrine turn away.
Compare that idea Of your origin
an idea filled with the chatter of apes
and the hiss of scrpents and the croak
of frogs-to an idea in one or two
stunzus which quote from an old
book of more than Demosthenic or
lIomeric or Dantesque 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 honor.
Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of Thy hand; Thou
hast put all things under his feet, all
sheep and oxen, and the beasts of the
field; the fowl Of the air, and what
soever passcth u 'ough the paths of
the seas. o Lord. our Lord, how eN-
cellcnt is Thy name in al' the earth. >"
How do you like that origin? The
lion the monarch of the field, the
eagle the monarch of the air, bche-
moth 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
Ms to know what will be my destiny.
do not care so much where | came
from MS where | ann going to. | am
not so interested ~ who were my an
crStry l0,OoO,0O0 years ago as | am to
know where | will he l0OO0O0O years
from now: am not so much interest
ed in the preface TO my cradle as am
interested in the appendix to my
grave, do not care so much about
rrotoplasm MS | do about eternasm.
The "waS" is overwhelmed with the
ito be-" And here comes IN the eyolu-
tom believe in; not natural evolu-
| ton, but gracious and divine and
| heaveulN eNotulion-evol out of
sin into holiness, out of grief into
| GladnesS, out OF mortality into immor-
| tality, out of earth into Heaven. That
IS the evolution believe in.
Evolution from evolNerc, mrolliug!
| nroling of attributes, unrolliug of
rewards, unrolling OF experience, I'M
| rolling of angelic cumpanionship, un-
| oling of divine glory, unrolling of
providehtial obscurities, uuroliiug of
doxologies, uurolling of rainbow TO
canopy the throne, unrolliug of new
| heaven and II new earth in which to
dwell righteousness, Oh, the thought
oyerwhelms met | have not the phys
| teal endurance to consider it,
Monarchs on earth of MI lower or
Gers of creation. and then lifted to be
| hierarchs in Heaven. Masterpiece OF
Gods wisdom and goodness, our hui
manity; masterpiece of divine grace,
| our enthronement, ! put one foot on
Darwin's Origin OF the Species, and
| put the other foot on Speueer's Ri