The morning news., 1898-08-22


you want TO jump overheard. jump and
test for yourselves whether your nand is
really a fsh's Tin, and whether you were
web footed originally, and whether your
lungs are a swim bladder. And as IN
every experiment there must be division
of labor, some who experiment and some
who observe you make the experiment
and 1 viii observe!
There is one tenet of evolution which
it is demanded we adopt, that which
Darwin calls Natural Selection and
that which Wallace calls the Survival of
the Fittest." BY this they mean that 'he
human race and the brute creation are
all the time improving because the weak
die and the strong live. Those VINO 90
not die survive because they are the ilttest
Tney say the breed of sheep ana cattle
and dogs and men is all the ume improV-
ing, naturally improving. NO need OF
God, or any Bibed or any religion, put
just natural progress.
You see the race started with sponta-
neOus geEeratiOn,' - and then II goes riSht
on until Darwin can take US up with his
natural selection" and Wallace with
his survival of the fittest," and so we
90 right on up forever. Beautiful! But
90 the tittest survive? Garfield dead In
SePtember-Gujteau surviving until the
following June Survival of the fittest?'
All! no. The martyrs, religious and po-
Htical, dying for their principles, their
bloody prosecutors living on to old age.
Survival of the fittest?" Five hundred
thousand brave Northern men marching
out 10 meet five hundred thousand brave
Southern men, and die on the battlefield
for a principle. Hundreds Of thousands
of them went down into the grave trench
es. We stayed at home in comfortable
quarters Did they die because they were
not as fit to live as we who survived?
All! no; not the survival of the fittest."
Ellsworth and Nathaniel Lyon falling on
the Northern side Albert Sidney John
ston and Stonewall Jackson falling on the
Southern side. Did they fail because they
were not as fit to live as 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!
Ii is not the Survival of the fittest."
How has it been in the families of the
world? How was it with the child phys
ically the strongest, Intellectually the
brightest in disposition ihe kindest? Did
the child die because it was not as fit to
tive as those of your family that sur
vived? Not "the survival of the fittest."
In all communities some of the noblest,
grandest men dying in youth, or in mid
life, while some of the meanest and most
contemplate live on to old age Not "the
survival of the fttest"
But 20 show you that this doctrine Is
antagonistic to the Bible and to common
sense l have only to prove to you that
there has been no natural progress. Vast
Improvement from another source but,
mind you, no natural progress. Where
is the fine horse in any of our parks
whose picture of eye and name and nos
tril and neck and launches is worthy OF
being compared to Jobs picture of
horse as he, thousands of years ago,
heard il paw and neigh and champ its bit
for the battle? Pigeons of to-day not so
wise az the carrier pigeons of 500 years
ago-pigeons that carried the mails from
army to army and from city 10 city; one
of them flung into the sky at Rome or
Venice, landing without ship or railtrain
in London. Look at the great animals
that walked the earth In olden tmes-an-
imals compared with which in size our
elephant is a cat-monsters of olden times
that swan the deep compared with which
our whale is a minnow. Comics have
learned nothing about climbing and the
hounds nothing about hunting. and the
ostrich nothing about Matching, and the
condor nothing about flying, and the owl
nothing about musical cadence for six
thousand years. Not a particle of pro-
gress
And as to the human race, so far as
mere natural progress Is concerned once
there were men ten feet high; now the
average is about five feet six inches. It
started with men living 200 400 800 900
years, and now thirty years is more than
the average of human life. Mighty pro-
gress we have made, haven't We? l went
into the Cathedral at York, England, and
the best artists In England had just been
painting a window in that Cathedral, and
right beside it was a window painted 400
years ago, and there is not a man on earth
but would say that the modern painting
of the window by the best artists of Eng
land is not worthy of being compared
/ with the painting of 400 years ago right
| beside il. Vast improvements, as l shall
show you in a minute or two, but no nat
| ural evolution.
Look at China, where evolution has had
full swing for thousands of years unin-
! terrupted by anything except here and
| there mission station with this defunct
] book, the Bible, but through the most of
! the realm not interfered with. What has
evolution done for China? Christian civil
/ izatlon goes In and builds railroad
! they tear n up. For one thousand years
/ the Chinese nation, where Ii is not iuVad-
! ed by the Gospel, has not made one five
| hundred millonth part of an inch of ad-
! Vancement. They worship the same gods
of red paint Just as always they drown
! the female children as a nuisance. Just
as always they eat with chop sticks So
| In India, so in Arabia, so in Turkey, so
! everywhere where the gospel has not
made an invasion.
tell YOU. my friends, that natural evolu-
]
ward. Hear Christs account of it. Fif-
teenth Matthew and nineteenth verse:
4 "Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adultries foundations, thefts.
false witness. blasphemes." That Is what
Christ said of evolution. Give natural evo-
/ luton fun swing in our world and it will
evolve into two hemispheres of crime,
! two hemIspheres of penitentiary, two hem
| ispheres of lazaretto, two hemispheres of
brothel New York Tombs, Moyamensing
prison. Philadelphia, Seven Dials, London,
and Cowsate, Edinburgh, only fostering
carbuncles on the face and neck of natural
evolution See what the Bible says about
/ the heart and then what evolution says
about the heart. Evolution says better
: and better and better gets the heart by
/ natural Improvement" The Bible says:
| THE heart is deceitful above all things
and desperately wicked. Who can know
III" When you can evolve fragrance from
| malodor, and can evolve an oratorio from
| a buzz-saw. and can evolve fan pipins
! from basket of decayed crab apples,
! than Nou can bV paturaI evolution from,