Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-09-07
NO. 80.

years old-not three. but thirty thousand
years old-ani that they were just like
the insects now. There has been nc
change. Ali the facts of ornithol-
ogy and zoology and ichthyology and
conchology, but an echo of Genesis first
and twenty-Arst: Every winged fowl
after his kind" Every creature after its
| kind. When common observation and sci.
ence corroborate the Bible l will not stul
tify myself by surrendering to the elabor-
ated guesses of evoutionists.
To show that evolution Is infldel place
also the Bible account of how worlds were
made opposite the evolutionist's account
| OF how worlds were made. Bible account
! God made two great lights-the one tc
rule the day, the other to rule the night
He made the stars also. Evolutionist ac-
count: Away back inthe ages there was
fire mist or star dust, and this fire mist
cooled of into granite, and then this gran.
ite by earthquake and by storm and by
light was shaped into mountains and val.
leys and seas, and so what was originally
fire mist became what we call the earth.
Who made the fire mist? Who set the
fire mist to matchmaking? Who cooled of
the fire-mist into granite? You have
pushed God some sixty or seventy million
miles from the earth, but He is too neal
yet for the health of evolution. For &
great while the evolutionists boosted that
they had found the very stuff out of which
lifted the telescope and they saw 1t, the
very material out OF which worlds made
themselves. Nebula of simple gas. They
laughed in triumph because they hao
found the factory where the worlds were
manufactured, and there was no God any
where around the factory! But in an un'
lucky hour for infldel evolutionists the
spectroscopes of Fraunhofer and Kirchon
were invented, by which they saw into
that neubla and found 1t was not simple
gas, but was compound, and hence had
to be supplied from some other source
and that implied God, and away went
their theory shattered into everlasting
demolition.
So these infldel evolutionists 20 wander
ing up and down guessing through the uni
verse. Anything to push away back Jeho
yah from His empire and make the one
Book which is His great communication tc
the soul of the human race appear obsolete
and delusion. But | am glad to know thai
while some of these scientists have gon'
into evolution, there are many that do nOi
believe it. Among them, the man who b,
most Is considered the greatest scientist We
ever had this side of the water-Agassiz. A
name that makes every Intelligent man or
earth over uncover.
Agassz says: ''The manner in which the
evolution theory in zoology is treated woulC
lead those who are not special biologists t.
suppose that observations have been mad,
by which 1t can be inferred that there is in
nature such a thing as change among or.
ganized beings actually taking place.
There is no such thing on record. 1t is
shifting the ground of observation from
one field of observation to another to make
this statement, and when the assertions &c
too far as to exclude from the'domain o,
science those who will not be dragged into
this miro OF mere assertion then it Is time
to protest"
With equal vehemence against the doc.
Of .1oy
Brewster, Dana, Dawson and hundreds OF
scientists in this country and other coun.
tries have made protest. l know that the
few men who have adopted the theory
make moro noise than the thousands who
have rejected 1t.
There is one tenet of evolution which 1t
Is demanded we adopt, that which Darwin
calls "Nataral Selection" 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 survive
because they are the fittest. They say the
breed OF sheep and cattle and dogs and
men Is all the time improving naturally i'm
proving. No need of God orany Bible or
any religion, but just natural progress.
You see the race started with "spOntane-
ous generation" and then it goes right on
until Darwin can take US up with his nat
ural selection" and Wallace with his sur
vival of the iittest," and so we go right on
up forever. Beautiful But do the flttest
Garfield dead in September
Guiteau surviving until the following June.
Survival of the fttest?" Ali no. The
martyrs, religious and political, dying for
their principles, their bloody prosecutors
living on to old age. Survival OF the fit.
.est?' No. Bitten with the frosts of the
second death be the tongue that dares
utter It'll 1t Is not the Survival of the fit,
test"
How has 1t been in the families of the
world? How was it with the child physi.
'ally the strongest, intellectually the
brightest in disposition the kindest? DID
hat child die because it was not rs fit to
i've rs those of your family that survivedi
Not "the survival of the httest." In al
communities some of the noblest, graudest
men dying in youth, or in mid-life, while
'ome of the meanest and most contemplate
I've on to old age. Not ''the survival of the
lttest.''
What is remarkable about this thing is
I is all the time developing its dishonesty
n our day it Is ascribing this evolution to
Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. II
5 dishonesty. Evolution was known and
advocated hundreds OF years before these
gentlemen began to be evolved. The
'hnnicians thousands of years ago de-
Jared that the human race wobbed out OF
he mud.
1t is an old heathen corpse set up in
spencer have tried to galvanize 1t. They
lrag this old putrefaction of three thou.
and years around the earth, boasting that
I Is their originality, and so wonderful is
he infatuation that at tho DelmOnico din
Ter given in honor OF Herbert Spencer,
ONE fifteen years ago, there were those
Vho ascribed to him this great originality
II evolution. There the banqueters sat
round the table in honor of Herbert Spen-
er, chewing beef and turkey and rOast pig
which according to their doctrine of evOlu-
ion made them eating their own relations!
licing up their own cOusinsl Driving a
arriving fork into their beloved Kindred
)ashing Worcestershire sauce bcdaubing
mustard over their uncles and annts. And
While Herbert Spencer rend u patronizing
ecture to Americans, the banqueters sat
round the table with their hands up, say
ne: Dear me, it is the voice of god and
ot of n man.
l am not n pessimist but an optimist. ]
10 not believe everything Is going to de-
truction; l believe everything is going on
o redemption. But 1t will not be through
he infdel doctrine of evolution, but
through our glorious Christianity which
as effected all the good that has ever been
-rought and which is yet to reconstruct al
he nations.
Away with your rotten deceptive, iniidel
nd bIasphemous evolution and give Us
he Bible, salvation through Jesus Christ
ur Lord.
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