The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29

the leonine Gambetta, and the frogs
croaked their contempt, and the bears
grOwled their contempt, and the panthers
snaried their disgust. and the insects
buzzed and buzzed with excitement, and
though the gorilla of the African forest
with his club pounded, order, order -
there was no order; and there was a
thrusting out OF adderne sting, and a
swinging of elephantine tusk, and a stroke
of beak and a swing of claw until il
seemed as If the convention would be
massacred.
Just at that moment a the door of this
natural amphitheater Of the forest, the
curtain Of the leaves lifted, and the bolts
and bars of the tree branches were showed
back, and there appeared Agassiz, and
Audubon, and Silliman, and Moses. And
Asassiz cried out, ION, you beasts of the
forests, / have studied your ancestral
records and found you always have been
beasts you always will be beasts; be
contented to be beasts" And Audubon
aimed his gun at a bald-headed eagle
which dropped from the gallery, and as it
dropped struck a serpent that was wind
ing around one of the pillars to get up
higher. And Sillman threw rock of
Inc tertiary formation at the mammals,
and Moses Numbered, Every beast after
its kind. every bird after its kind, every
fish after les kind" And 10! the parlia-
ment of Wild beasts was prorogued and
went home to their constituents and
the bat flew out into the night and the
lizard skunk under the rock, and the goril-
la went back to the Jungle and a hungry
wolf passing out ate up the primal germs,
and clumsy buffalo upset the proto-
plasm, and the lion went to his lair, and
the eagle went TO his eyrie, and the whale
went to his palace of crystal and coral
and there was peace-peace in the air
peace in the water, peace in the fields.
Man in his place; the beasts of the earth
in their places.
But, my friends, evolution is not only
intidel and atheistic and absurd; it is bru-
talizing in its tendencies. If there is any
thing In the world that will make a man
bestial in his habits it is the idea that he
was descended from the beast Why, ac-
cordng TO the idea of these evolutionists,
we are only superior kind of cattle. a
sort of Alderney among other herds TO
be sure, we browse on better pasture and
we have better stall and better accommo-
dauons, but then we are only Southdowns
among the great hocks of sheep. Born OF
a beast, TO die like a BEAST for the evolu-
ionsts have no idea Of a future world
They say the mind is only a superior part
of the body They say our thoughts are
only molecular formation. They say when
the body dies the whole nature dies. The
slab of the sepulchre is not a milestone
on the Journey upward, but a wall shut
ting us into eternal nothingness. We all
die alike-the COW, the horse, the sheep
the man, the reptile. Annihilation is the
heaven of the evolutionist From such a
stenchful and damnable doctrine turn
away. Compare that idea of your origin
an idea filled with the chatter of apes
and the hiss of serpents and the croak of
frogs-to an idea in one or two stanzas
which l quote from an old book of more
than Demosthenic, or Homeric or Dan
art mindful of him? and the son of man,
that thou visitest him? Thou hast made
him a 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, yea, and the beasts of the field; the
fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, aud
whatsoever passeth through the paths Of
the seas. Oh. Lord, our God, how excel
lent Is thy name in all the earth"
How do you like that origin? The lion,
the monarch of the field the eagle the
monarch of the air, behemoth the mon
arch of the deep, but man monarch of ALL
Ali my friends, | have to say to you that
l am not so anxious to know what was
my origin as TO know what will be my
destiny. / do not care so much where l
came from as where am going to- / am
not so interested in who was my ancestry
ten million years ago as l am to know
where l will be ten millions years from
now. I am not so much interested in the
preface TO my cradle as l am interested
in the appendix to my grave. 1 do not
care so much about protoplasm as I do
about eternasm. The twas" Is over
whelmed with the Ito be-" And here
comes i'm the evolution I believe in; not
natural evolution, but gracious and divine
and heavenly evoution-evolution out of
c N into hOlinaGS IF grief intn Q-i1d-
ness, out of mortality into immortality.
out of earth into heaven. That is the evo-
luton I believe in.
Evolution from evolvere, unrollng I'm
rolling OF attributes, unrolling of rewards,
unrollng of experience, unrolling of an
gelic companonship, unrolling of divine
glory, unrolling of providenhal obscur-
tiles, unrolling of doxologies, unrolling of
rainbow to canopy the throne unrolling
of a new heaven and new earth in which
to dwell righteousness. Oh, the thought
overwhelms me! 7 have not the physical
endurance to consider it.
Monarchs on earth of all lower orders
of creation, and then lifted to be hierarchs
in heaven. Masterpiece of Gods wisdom
and goodness, our humanity; masterpiece
of divine grace our enforcement. l put
one foot on Darwin's Origin of the
Species" and I put the other foot on
Spencers %Biology," and then holding in
one manu- tile DOOk u MOSES L see our
Genesis, and holding In the other hand
the book Revelation, / see our celestial
arrival. For all wars I prescribe the
Bethlehem chant of the angels. For all
sepulchres I prescribe the archangers
trumpet. For all the earthly griefs l pre-
scribe the hand that wipes away all tears
from all eyes. Not an evolution from
beast to man, but an evolution from con-
testant to couqueror, and from the strug-
gle with wild beasts in the arena of the
to a soft, high, blssful seat
in the Kings galleries.
A GEORGIA KLONDIKE.