The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-16
ORIGIN AND DESPERATION.

Theories about the destiny, as well as the origin, of man, are always interest ing, however absurd we may consider them. The extreme evolutionist believes that all human beings, as well as all oth- CT living things. came up from original atoms of matter. Not to put too fine a point on 1t, we were all, from the largest to the greatest, nothing more or less than microbes at the beginning of things. From that small beginning we have worked our selves up, or have been worked up to what some of us consider pretty fair standing among created things. Just hew long we have been on the journey from amoeba to statesman, we are not saying Whether it has been thousands, millions | or billions of years. the evolutionists fail to tell us, because they don't know. Another thing tiwse extreme disciples of evolution fail to tell us Is just at what stage the human soul and human reason got into the combination. None of them will claim, we presume, that the original atom possessed what we designate soul or that 1t possessed the reasoning powers l we now enjoy. In the theory of evolution we came up from the atom through the Insects and the fishes, the birds and the | animals, to our present state Possibly We ence. or we may have been Holsters at a later period. When did the soul cut in | and how? Give it up?
 | But. passing by the question of origin, | because we can't do otherwise, the mat | ter of destination Is almost as perplexing.
 If we leave the Bible teaching entirely out of the question. The heather in all
 where a more pleasant and delightful | place of existence than this earth. The happy hunting ground of the Indian was not bad conception for them, for
 1t meant place where they could pur-
 sue their favorite pastime of hunting
 without hindrance; where game was al- 1 ways plentiful and the seasons forever de-
 lightful. and where there was nothing to
 interfere with the delights of an ideal ex- istence.
 But there is reverend theologian,
 Dean Emeritus of the Missouri Bible College" who has a the ory of his own. Numbers of l people have theories, as to that
 matter. but this pr. Moore has some- ory is that all the planets belong to man,
 and that man will ultimately inhabit all l of them-not at the same time, but by a system of progression. For example, he l considers the earth but one place of mans temporary abode, and that human l beings will be translated to other planets as their spiritual condition and attain
 ments fit them for a higher existence. Whether our earth is the first in the scale,
 or whether we have come up to it from l a lower planet and lower stage of exist
 ence, is not made plain. but he leaves us | to understand that We will go on from one higher planet to another until the | final end of all things, when all the inhab- | itants of all the worlds will form grand union or brotherhood of beings: a sort
 of United States combination on large l scale.
 That is great scheme of MT. Moore's,
 though there are some hitches in it. He 1 fails to tell us how we are to get from | one planet to another, or how we are to
 know when we hit the right one. If We
 should land on one which was not ready | for us, or for which we were not fitted,
 1t might cause some unpleasant complica-
 tions, to say nothing of the difficulty of
 getting started off in the right direction
 again. We presume, however, that his
 scheme provides against getting shunted
 off at the wrong station, or leaves open
 a way for getting a transfer to another l train.
 Leaving out all spiritual considerations
 there are some features of Moore,s plan
 that are not so bad. True, 1t has a tend
 ency to keep humanity on the jump, as
 1t were, but as we are always going to
 a better planet, the moving will not be
 such a great trial, unless we miss con
 nectlon somewhere. This theory is one of
 the many evidences of the speculative
 tendency of the human mind and Mir
 Moores is not worse than many others
 we have read.