The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-09-29
NO. 81.

fire mist or star dust, and this fire
mist cooled off into granite, and then
this granite by earthquake and by
storm and by light was shaped into
mountains and valleys 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 world-making? Who
cooled Off the fire mist into granite?
You have pushed God some 6O,O0O,OOO
or 20, ,O00,00o miles from the earth, but
He is too near yet for the health of the
evolution. For great while the cvo-
lutionists bosted that they had found
the very stuff ont Of which this world
and all the worlds were made. They
lifted the telescope and they saw it, the
very materials out of which the worlds
made themselves. Nebula of simple
gas. They laughed in triumph because
they had found the factory where the
worlds were manufactured, and there
was no God anywhere around the fac
tory! But in an unlucly hour for inf
del evolutionists the spectroscopes of
Fraunhofcr and Kirchoff were invent
ed, by which they saw into that nebula
and found it was not simple gas, but
was compound, and hence had to be
supplied from some other source, and
that implied a God, and away went
their theory shattered into everlasting
demolition.
So these intidel rcvolutlonists go
wandering up and down guessing
hrn rT1, }n
push away back Jehovah from His en-
pire and make the one book which is
His great communication to the soul of
the human race appear obsolete and
delusive. But am glad to know that
while some of these scientists have
gone into evolution, there are many
that do not believe it. Among them,
the man who by most is considered
the greatest scientist we ever had this
side of the water-Agassiz. A name
that makes every inte ligent man the
earth over uncover. "a
Agassiz says: The manner IN whicS
the evolution theory in zoology is
treated lead those who are not spe-
cial biologists to suppose that observa.
tions have been made by which it cam
be inferred that there is in nature such
thing a. change among organized
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 90 SO far as to exclude from
the domain of science those who will
not be dragged into this mire of mere
assertion, then it is time to protest"
With equal vehemence against the
doctrine of evolution Hugh Miller, Far.
raday, Brewster, Dana, Dawson, and
hundreds of scientists in this country
and other countries have made protest.
l know that the few men who have
adopted the Theory make more noise
than the thousands who have rejected
it. The Bothnia, of the Cunard line,
took 500 passengers safely from New
York to Liverpool. Not one of the 500
made any excitement. But after we
had been four days out, one morning
we found on deck mans hat and coat
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 500
passengers that rode on in safety.
Here is the glorious and magnificent
theory that God by His omnipotent
power made man, and by His oInnipo-
tent power made the brute creation,
and by HIS omnlpotent 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 800 that did not jump with
them. Thank you, gentlemen, l am
very much obliged to you. l think |
shall stick to the old Cunarder. IL
you want to jump overheard, jump,
and test for yourselves whether your
hand was really Il fshs fin, and
| whether you were web-footed orig
inally, and whether your lungs are a
| swim bladder. And as in every expert
ment there must be division of labor,
some who experiment and some who
| observe, you make the experiment and
will observe!
tell you, my friends, the natural
evolution is not upward, but it is al
ways downward. Hear Christ's ac-
count of it. Matthew XIV, 10: ''Out Of
the heart proceed evil thoughts, mur-
ders, adulteries, fornications, thcfts,
false witness, blasphemies." That is
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-
delphia; Seven Dials, London, and Cow
gate, Elnburg, only fostering carbun-
cles on the face and neck of natural
evolution. See what the Bible says
about the heart, and then what evolu-
tion says about the heart. Evolution
says better and better and better
gets the heart by natural i'm
provement." The Bible says: "The
heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked. Who