The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-08-31

admit the one great mystery of Cod and
have that settle all the other mysteries?
I can more easily appreciate the fact
that God By one stroke Of his omnlp-
otence could make man than could
realize how out Of 5000, 900 ages he
could have evolved one, putting Oh
little here and little there. It would
have been just as great miracle for
God to have turned an orang outang
into man as to make man out and
out-the one job just as big as the
other.
1t seems to me we had better let God
have little place in cur world some
where. It seems to me If we cannot
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 interfering with the
evolutionists. "Nc," says Darwin, and
so for years he istrying to raise fantail-
ed pigeons and to turn these fantall
pigeons into some other kind of pigeon
or to have them go into something that
is not a pigeon,-turning them into
quail or barnyard fowl or brown thrash
er. But pigeon it is, and Others have
tried with the OK and the dog and the
horse, but they staid in their species.
If they attempt to cross over, it is
hybrid, and hybrid is always sterile
and goes into extinction. There has
been only one successful attempt to pass
over from speechless animal to the
articulation of man, and that was the
attempt which Balaam witnessed in the
beast that he rode, but an angel of the
Lord, with drawn sword, soon stopped
that long cared evolutionist.
But says some one, eff we cannot
have God make a man, let US have him
make horse" "Oh, no." says Hux-
ley in his great lectures in New York
years ago. NJ, he does not want any
God around the premises. God did not
make The horse. The horse came of the
pilohippus, and the pilohippus came
from the protohippus and the protohlp-
pus came from the miohippus, al the
miohippus came from the meshohippus,
and the meshohippus came from the
orohippus, and so away back, all the
living creatures, we trace it III line
until we get to the moneron, and no
evidence of divine intermeddling with
the creation until you get to the none
ron, and that, Huxley says, is of so low
form of life that the probability is 1t
just made itself or was the result OF
spontaneous generation. What 4 narrow
escape from the necessity Of having
God.
AS near as 1 can tell, these evolution
lists seem to think that God at tie start
had not made up his mind as to exactly
what he would make, and, having made
up his mind partially, he has been
changing it all through the ages. l be-
lieve that God made the world as lie
wanted to have it, and that the happi-
ness Of all the species will depend upon
their staying in the species where they
were created.
Parliament of Beasts.
Once upon time there was in nat
ural amphitheater of the forest a con-
vention of animals, and gorilla from
western Africa came in with his club
and pounded "Order!" Then be sat
down in chair of twisted forest root.
The delegation Of birds came in and
took their position in the galleries of
the hills and the tree tops. And dele
CATION of reptiles came in, and they
took their position in the pit of the val
lev. And the tiers of rocks were Cccu-
pied by the delegation Of intermediate
animals, and there was great aqrarl.
UNI, and a canal leading into it, through
which came the monsters Of the deep
to Join the great convention. AnG Oh
one table of rock there were four Or five
primal germs under glass case, and Ill
cup on another table of rock there
was quantity of protoplasm. Then
this gorilla of the African forest with
his club pounded again, "Crder, order"
and then he cried out: "Oh, you great
throng of beasts and birds and reptiles
and insects, I have called you together
to propose that we move up into the
human race and be beasts no lons"r.
Too long already have we been hunted
and Gagged and harnessed. We shall
stand it no longer" At that speech the
whole convention broke out into roars
of enthusiasm like as though there
were many menageries being fed by