Milford chronicle., 1907-08-02
The Creation of Life.

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or in year or in a millennium. 1
has taken centuries upon centuries anC
millenniums upon millenniums to pro
duce the form of life which we have
Just the same as the pigeon fanciel
can produce hundreds of different
| kinds of pigeons from one pair of wild
! pigeons, so life is continually produc
ing various forms of new life. Now
/ the biologist can trace these forms OF
life to other primitive forms. And
these forms in turn go back to earlier
primitive forms. And thus we go back
century upon century and millennium
upon millennium until at last we find
life in its crudest forms. Furthermore,
believe that conditions create the life
rather than life the conditions. For
instance, as the earth continues to
cool off that cooling process may de-
velop a new form Of man fifteen feet
high, and, like the antediluvians Of
old that new man may live to be a
thousand years old. So you see, like
Herbert Spencer, I am an evolutionist
and not a deist. I believe life always
has existed and always will exist and
God has nothing to do with it."
But do not see how you have an
swered my question. You may push
the beginning of creation back ten
thousand million years, but you must
still have some intelligent Being to
create the first germ from which all
others have been developed, and you
must also have a Creator who has
made the natural laws by which these
various forms of life have been pro-
duced. What difference does it make
whether st. Peters cathedral at Rome
had to have four generations for
building? Some one first had to con-
ceir2 how its dome was to be erected |
Believe in your evolutionist's theory
If you will, but still the fact remains
that the only way to produce this |
world is to have one master mind gov |
erning all. els it more unphilosophical |
to believe in a personal God omnipo- |
tent" wrote Benjamin Disraell, "than
In natural forces unconscious and ir-
Is It unphilosophical to
combine power with intelligenceT
Goethe, Spinozist who did not believe
In Spinoza, said that he could bring his
mind to the conception that in the cen
Ter Of space we might meet with a
nOnad of pure intelligence. What may
be the center of space leave to the
Of the author of Faust"
)ut a monad of pure intelligence-is
hat more philosophical than the truth
hat God made man in his own i'm
lge? Where did the great cosmos
,Ome from, anyway, unless there was
master mind producing all these har-
Monies of natures laws?
A Mighty Army.
When l look upon the world 1t ap-
ears to me like mighty army upon
he march. "Where are you going, sol
iers?" l cry. They shake their heads.
hey do not know. They answer, 1.-The
eneral knows; we do not" Then as l
OllOw those men find they have great ]
trains near by filled with s
pod. Then l find the surgeons there,
nd the scouts there, and the impIe- '
lents of war there. Then I find all
his vast host wheeling and marching 1
nd halting and fighting and retreat t
lg because they are under the COM a
and of one mind Thus with natures y
Lws. l find the grass growing, the \
lin falling, life reproducing life. 1 c
nd all these forces not in conflict, but t
harmony. Who created these forces? o
'ho rules them today? Call it a mo- \
Id If you please. I call that individual n
over God. You cannot if you would, C
Hess you eschew your common sense, y
,ny being a deist. VIII you plead to Il
~ for the Baal of atheism? a
''Well, answers another man, Il am q
It an atheist. I am a deist, but to be- a.
we in an Overrulng Providence does NJ
It necessarily mean that one believes N
a personal God who cares for US. 1
lieve in Cod but 1 also believe that
am mortal and when 1 die that is e,
e end of me. Why should God care W
: me any more than should care for sa
little ant in the country road or for a tn
)squito that alights upon my cheek? pa
by should 1 be conceited enough to is
nix that God would let me live for ioj
er and ever? l am no more impor- tic
1t in Gods sight that a hy's life is "
portant in my sight" You say you an
; a deist and yet do not believe in hi
, Immortality of the soul. Then, my Il
)ther, as an intelligent being, how 70
/ you account for the purpose Of the ca
alton at all? If God is a wise being tn
! an intelligent being, he certainly an
ated this world for something. Now, As
what did he create the world? un
Everything Has a Purpose. /
has to be done with ra. en-
nal purpose or else the creation is WI
rational Supposing you are a err
llthy landowner and some day you 10
ide to build a magnificent mansion Br
'ut a mile from your own palace. we
] begin to erect that palace Of pur- rea
marble and hang its windows with Lor
choicest Of tapestries and cover its eta
rs with the richest Of Damascus tna
- Gil IL IIff