The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-07-30

winds blowing the pollen from tree to-
tree in order that they may be fer
tilted? Is the cosmos of the social
world any more incredible than the
cosmos of nature?
The Creation of Life.
"Oh, but" some one says, you mis-
understand NE. l do not believe this
| world came into existence in day
| or in year or in millennium. 1t
| has taken centuries upon centuries and
millennums upon millenniums to pro
duce the form of life which we have.
| Just the same as the pigeon fancier
| 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 60 !,:;'. :. 10 earlier
| primitive forms And thus, Nc go back
century upon century and i..iilennium
upon millennium until at last we find
| life in it's crudest forms. Furthermore.
/ believe that conditions create the life
rather thar life the conditions. For
| instance, as the earth continues to
cool off that 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 a
| thousand years old. SO you see, like
Herbert Spencer, I am an evolutionist
and not a deist l 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
must also have a Creator who has
made the natural laws by which these
various forms of life have been pro-
I 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-
ceivc how its dome was to be erected
Believe in your evolutionists 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. us 1t more unphilosophical
to believe in a personal God omnipo-
tent" wrote Benjam Disraeli ethan
in natural forces unconscious and IL
resistible?" Is it unphilosophical t.
combine power with intelligence:
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 q
monad of pure intelligence. What may
be the center of space l leave to the
. Imagination of the author of Faust
but monad of pure intelligence
that more philosophical than the trutl
. that God made man in his own i'm
age? Where did the great cosmos
come from. anyway. unless there was
master mind producing all these har
monies of natures laws?
A Mighty Army.
Whef I look upon the world 1t ap
pears to me like a mighty army upon
the march. Where are you going. sol
diers?' cry They shake their heads
They do not know. They answer. 1.-The
general knows; we do not" Then as
follow those men find they have grea'
! commissary trains near by filled will
food Then l find the surgeons there
and the scouts there, and the nipple
ments Of war there Then l find nj
= this vast host wheeling and marching
and hating and fighting and retreat
ing because they are under the com
mand of one mind. Thus with natures
E laws. l find the grass growing. thu
] flin falling, life reproducing life.
e find all these forces not in conflict. bu
: In harmony. Who created these forces
. Who rules them today? Call it mo
9 mad If you please. l call that individual
4 power God You cannot if YOU would
! unless you eschew your common sense
Q deny being deist. Will you plead to
b day for the Baal of atheism?
D 'Well, answers another man, Il an
not an atheist. am delst, but to be
lieye in an everything Providence doe
: not necessarily mean that one believe
!, In a personal God who cares for us.
believe in God, but also believe tina
] am mortal and when l die that Il
!, the end of me. Why should God carr
!, for me any more than should care 70
!. little ant in the country road or for
il mosquito that alights upon my cheek
3 Why should l be conceited enough t
, think that God would let me live for
!. ever and ever? l am no more impor
!. tant in Gods sight that fy's life i
d important in my sight" You say yo'
!, are deist and yet do not believe il
o the Immortality of the soul. Then, m,
. brother, as an intelligent being. hov
can you account for the purpose of tn
. creation at I'LL: If God is wise bein
\ and an intelligent being, he certainl
: created this world for something. Now
!. for what did he create the world?
d Everything Has Purpose.
Everything has to be done with rs
i ttonal purpose or else the creation
not rational. Surprising you are