The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-04

creation. In the vegetable world the bi- ologists tell us that all plants are de- veoped from some earlier form of plant, so l believe that man is a development from the lower form of animal life. Now, God has absolutely nothing to do with the creation Law, natural law has de- veoped this world and nothing else. When a baby comes into this world he Is born like a puppy and when man goes cut of it he dies like q dog, and that Is all there IS in human life Do you believe that, my brethren? Is such a theory rational? Is 1t according to common sense?
 Building the Temple.
 Who made these laws of nature? Who constructed them? Supposing you stood upon Mount Moriah in 10l9 B. C. As you stood there you saw the workmen ex- eayatine a foundation, and you saw long line of teams drawing up their huge stones on the one side of the hill, and on the other side of the hill there came up another line of teams drawing beams and rafters and doors Then, sup posing awithout noise of hammer or rasp-
 ing of saw, all these different stones and
 beams and rafters and doors were put i into place would you for one instant be
 foolish enough to suppose that King Solo
 mons temple, it rose higher and higher and higher, did not have one master mlnd planulnB It. Aitd yet WethI to tell you, from a common sense stand noint. that it is far more rational to suppose King Soomon's temple went up hV haphaZard chance, without any de- signing architect, than to suppose this magnificent temple of a world was cre- ated by haphazard chance.
 Or take another Illustration Supposing vou take a carriage and drive through the country and you come to a great wheat region. Then perhaps you find a fine mill built upon river bank near by, and you see the water of that river dam med up SO that 1t cam tumble down up
 a wheel and turn it. Then, watching, you see the wheat taken into that mill and ground into flour and shipped to the great cities, where 1t is baked Into bread. You would not be foolish enough to suppose all that growing of the wheat and that grinding of the wheat and that baking or the wheat were done by chance. Well, then. if you grant a master mind originat- ed and planned the one process. will you not grant that God is somewhere around when you see the grass growing In the valleys for the horses and the cattle, and the nuts falling off the trees for the saurrels, and the seeds dropping to the ground for the chipmunks, and the winds blowing the pollen from tree to tree ih order that they may be fertiliaed? Is the cosmos of the social world any more l incredible than the cosmos of nature?
 The Creation of Life.
 "Oh. but" some one says, you rnis- l understand me. 1 do not believe this world came into existence in day or in a year or in a millennium. It has taken centuries and mllenniums upon millen- nfums to produce the form of life which we have. Just the same as the pigeon fancier can produce hundreds of different I1 iG lxr producing various forms of new life. Now, the biologist can trace these forms of life to other primitive forms. And these forms 1 in turn go back to earlier primitive forms. 1 And thus we go back century upon een- 1 tury and millennium upon millennium i until at last we find life in it's crudest l forms. Furthermore, I believe that con- l ditions create the life rather than life the 1 conditions. For instance, as the earth
 continues to cool off that cooling process l may develop new form of man fifteen l feet high, and, like the antediluvians of i old, that new man may 1.-Two to be thou sand years old. So you sec, like Herbert l Spencer. 1 am all evolutionist and not a
 deist 1 believe life always has existed i and always will eXis. ana God has noth- l ing to do with 1t.
 But I do not see how you have answered
 my question. You may push the begin
 ming of creation back ten thousand mil- lion years, but you must still haNt
 some intelligent being to create the first 1 germ from which all others have been 1 developed and you must also have Gre i ator who has made the natural laws by 1 which these various forms of life have
 been produced. What difference does t make whether St. Peters cathedral at l Rome had to have four generations for | building? Some one first had 10 conceiVe ] how it's dome was to be erected Believe l in your evolutionist's theory If you will l but still the fact remains that the only | way to produce this world Is to nave one l master mind governing all. 'Is it more l unphilosophical to believe in personal l God omnipotent," wrote Benjamin Dis | raell. "than in natural forces uneonsclous 1 and irresstible?" Is it unphilosophical to combine power with intelligenee? Goethe, l a Spinozist who did not believe in Spin
 oza, said that he could bring his mind to l the conception that in the center of space 1 we might meet with manad of pure in- | telligence What may be the center of space l leave to the imagination of the author of Faust" but a monad of pure intelligence-is that more philosophical
 than the truth that God made man in his
 ow nimage? Where did the great cosmos come from. anyway. unless there was master mind producing all these har- menaes If natures laws?
 A Mighty Army.
 When I look upon the world 1t appears to me like mighty army upon the march.