Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-01

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 it's crudest forms. Furthermore,
I believe that conditions create the life
rather thnn life the conditions. Fol
instance, as the earth continues to
cool off TINT cooling process may de-
velop new form of man fifteen feet
high, and. like the antediluvians OF
old that new man may live to be q
thousand years old. SO you see, like
Herbert Spencer, am an evolutionist
and not deist. 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
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 1t make
whether st. Peters cathedral Mt Rome
had to have four generations for
hull fp 1rut hod 70
ceivc 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. as It more unphil osophical
to believe In personal God omnipo-
tent" wrote Benjamin Disraeli than
in natural forces unconscious and ir-
resistible?" Is II unphilosophical to
combine power with intellGcnce {;
Goethe, Spinozlst 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
monad Of pure Intelligence. What may
he the center of spocc leave to the
but monad Of pure intelligence is
that more philosophical than the truth
that God made man in his own i'm
age? Where did the great cosmos
come from, anyway, unless there was
n master mind producing all these har-
monies of natures laws?
A Mighty Army.
When look upon the world It ap-
pears to me like mighty army upon
tho march. Where are you going SOL
diers:" l cry. They shake their heads.
They do not know. They answer. The
general knows; we do not" Then as |
follow those men find they have great
commissary trains near by filed with
food. Then find the surgeons there,
and the scouts there, and the implc-
ments OF war there. Then | find all
this vast host wheeling and marching
ing because they are under the COM
mand of one mind Thus with nature
laws. I find the grass growing, the
tain falling, life reproducing life. |
! find all these forces not in conflict. but
in harmony. Who created these forces
Who rules them today: Call it mo-
mad II you please. | call that individual
power God. You cannot if you would.
unless you eschew your common sense,
deny being deist. Will you plead to
day for the Baal Of atheism?
"Well, answers another man, Il am
not an atheist am deist. but to be
! lieve in an Overruling Providence does
not necessarily mean that one believes
In personal God who cares for us.
believe in God. but | also believe that
l am mortal and when die that is
the end OF me. Why should God care
for me any more than should care for
q little ant in the country road or for a
mosquito that alghts upon my cheek
Why should | be conceited enough to
think that God would let me live for
ever and ever: | am no more impor.
tant in Gods sight that a fy's life is
| important in my sight" You say you
are deist and yet do not believe In
the immortality Of the soul. Then, my
brother, as az intelligent being. how
can you account for the purpose Of the
creation AT all: II God is Il wise being
and an intelll gent being. he certainly
created this world for something. Now
for what did he create the world?
Everything Has a Purpose.
Everything has to be done with ra
tlonal purpose or else the creation Is
not rational. Surprising you are &
wealthy landowner and some day YOU
decide to build a magnificent mansion
about n mile from your own palace
You begin TO erect that palace Of pur
est marble and hang its windows will
the choicest of tapestries and cover 1t!
floors with the richest of Damnscu.
rugs. Then you will fill its halls will
beautiful statuary and cover Its walls
with the most exquisite OF pictures
Then IL next year | should enter thi:
magnificent palace and find 1t unten
anted, save by few cats and dog
and beetles and bugs and flies an(
frogs, should l not reasonably say t
you: What. Did You not build THU
palace for any other purpose than t.
house a few animals and bugs" AnC
you should answer: Eyes. mn q hui
manitarian. | want to let these ami
mails and crawling creatures have jus
ms good house rs live in" Wha
do you suppose would think Of you
| would say you are out of your mind
because you do something with no m