The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-09-02

of itself. The human race for the first
one, two, three, five, ten years is in
complete happiness. The chick just
come out of its shell begins to pick up
its own food. The dog, the wolf, the
lion, soon earn their own livelihood
and act for their own defense. The
human race does not come to develop
ment until 20 or 80 years of age, and
by that time the animals that were
born the same year the man was born
the vast majority of them-have died
of old age. This shows there is no
kinship, there is no similarity. II we
had been born of the beast, we would
have had the beasts strength at the
start, or it would have been our weak
ness. Not only different, but oppo-
site.
Evolutionists tell us that the apes
were originally fond of climbing the
trees, but after awhile they lost their
prehensile power, and therefore could
not climb with any facility, and hence
they surrendered monkeydom and set
up in business as men. Failures as
apes, successes as men. According to
the evolutionists man is a bankrupt
monkey. ] pity the person who in
every nerve and muscle and bone and
mental faculty and spiritual expert
ence does not realize that he is higher
in origin and has had a grander auces-
try than the beasts which perish.
However degraded men and women
may be, and though they may have
foundered on the rocks Of crime and
sin. and though we shudder as we pass
them, nevertheless. there is something
within that tells us they belong TO the
same great brotherhood and sister
hood of our race. and our sympathies
are aroused in regard 70 them.
| tell you plainly that II your father
was musl<rat and your mother an
o'possum, and your great aunt "a kan
CARGO, and the toads and the swapping
turtles were your illustrious predeces-
sors, my father was God. know il.
fell it. 1t thrills through me with
an emphasis and an ecstacy which all
your arguments drawn from anthropol-
ogy and biology and zoology and
neurology and paleontology and all
other ologies can never shake. Evolu-
ton is one great mystery. II matches
out 80 mysteries and the 80 hatch out
! 1000, and the /, 200 hatch out T. 600, 600.
Why, my brother, not admit the one
great mystery Of God and have that
settle all the other mysteries !
can more easily appreciate the fact
that God by one stroke of His omnipo-
tence could make man than | could
realize how out of j, 900, 600 Of ages He
could have evolved one, putting on a
little here and a little there. II would
have been just Us great a miracle for
God to have turned an Orang-uutang
into a man as to make the man ont and
out-the one job just as Oig as the
other
1t seems to me we had better let
God have a little place in our world
somewhere. 1t seems TO me if we can
not have Him make all creatures we
had better have Him make two or
three. There ought to be some place
where He could stay without interior
ing with the evolutionists. NO"
says Darwin, and so for years he is
trying to raise fan-tailed pigeons and
to turn these fan-tail pigeons into
some other kind of pigeon, or 10 have
them go into something that is not a
pigeon-turning them into quail. or
barnyard fowl, or brown-thresher
But pigeon it is And others have
tried with the OK and the dog and the
horse, but they stayed in their species.
If they attempt to cross over IL is Il
hybrid, and hybrid is always sterile
and goes into extinction. There has
been only one successful attempt 10
pass over from speechless animal TO
the articulation of man, and that was
the attempt which BALKAN witnessed
in the beast that he rode; but an angel
of the Lord, with drawn sword, soon
stopped that long-eared evolutionisu
But says some one, "if we cannot
have God make man let us have him
make a horse" "Oh, mo- says lux
years ago. No, he does not want any
God around the premises GOD did
not make the horse. The horse came
of the pliohippus, and the plioAippus
came from the prOtOhippus. and the
protohippus came from the miohippus.
and the miohippus came from the mes.
hohippus, and the meshohippus came
from the orohippus. and so away back.
all the living creatures, we trace il IN
a line until we get 20 the moneron.
and no evidence OF divine informed
ding with the creation until You get
to the moueron. and that. nuNley
says, is of so low form of life that
the probability is il just made itself
or was the result Of spontaneous gen.
Grafton. What narrow escape from
the necessity Of having God.
AS near as can tell, these evolution
lists 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, lie has
been changing il al. through the ages.
| believe q cd made the world as He
wanted to have it, and that the hap.
piness of all the species viii depend
upon their staying in the species
where they were created.
If there is anything in the world
that will make man bestial in his
habits, il is the idea that he was de