Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-06

AhSO SAAO RAulAs 4Ou CdIk ocNClOp lhO
species but you can't change one specie
into another. A friend of mine one time
took me out to his hog-lot and showed
me male hog that he paid $500 for.
could tie gold bells in his ears, tie pink
ribbons around his old fat sides, put
gold collar about his neck, feed him
on the choicest green's Of the vegetable
garden and call him sweet names; but
looked at him and he squealed for Stop
Just like pig that was worth only 90
cents. Same old hog. They just PUT
apother curl in his tail and tackled on
$500, that's all.
! can go into the jungles Of Africa ana
catch a monkey, or chimpanzee, aud
can teach him to eat soup with spoon
and drink coffee out of cup (That's
more than some Of you folks know
And can teach him to eat with his
fork and make his bed, but he is the
same old monk
Same Species Exist.
Over In Egypt, in the museum, they
have species Of flowers that have been
embalmed for 1000 years, and the same
specie grows today along the banks of
the Nile and it has not added or lost
leaf nor q petal. They have animals
there that have been embalmed for 4, 900
years, and the same specie is found in
Egypt today and1it hasn't changed one
iota. I don't believe the miserable old
theory OF evolution. am just as God
made me and was not made by any
"fortuitous concurrence Of atoms"
don't believe in that, and don't believe
either that my great, great great, great
grandad was monkey. Why, that is
nonsense Away with it. DO you want
to believe that you came from
monkey? All right, I don't.
Somebody says, 20, Mr.. Sunday, be-
lieve the old testament but not the
new" Another says, II believe the
new testament but not the old" The
Of God; 1t is simply the fulfillment of
the promises he made in the old tesla
ment. That is all it is, and yet Jesus
Christ is the center, and the circum-
ference and the nucleus Of the old and
the new. Somebody says, II don't be-
lieve the story of Jonah and the whale"
Why not? They say, ''why it is a
physical impossibility for e. whale to
swallow a man." Is that so! Well,
you don't know anything about it.
hold in my hand clipping from the
Literary Digest of April 4, 1896, which
says that a vessel was cruising off the
coast of Joppa, in the Mediterranean
sea and all but two were saved. Short
whale when they were thrown into the
sea and all but two were saved. Shor-
ly afterwards a boat picked up one Of
the men but the fourth could not DO
found. His name was James Barley
The monster whale, after it had ceased
moving and was dead, was hoisted
along the side Of the ship and the pro-
cess of cutting up it's body began. 1t
took one day and one night to do it, and
at last they reached it's stomach, and
when it was opened what was their
surprise to find there the other sailor
There he was, unconscious, but alive
In the whales stomach. For several
days he was delirious and could not
speak in an Ineligible manner and it
was not until three weeks had elapsed
that he recovered his reason so that he
could explain the sensation of being
swallowed by a whale. He said II
remember the moment the whale struck
the boat with its tail and we were
thrown into the sea, and as fell and
s~NHA
the whale and 1 found myself enclosed
forced down by the contraction of the
muscles. This lasted for an instant.
Then found myself in the stomach
and to my horror realized my condi
ton, and with great difficulty got my
breath. 1t seemed to me as If I were
being boiled alive. The horrible
thought that was doomed to death in
the stomach of a whale sent me almost
crazy. At last lost my reason"
James Barley is known to be one Of
the most hardy sailors, and yet his ex-
perience was SO terrible that he was
obliged to undergo treatment in a
hospital in, London. Nevertheless, his
general health was not affected and the
only effect that could be noticed was
that his skin was tanned by the pc
culiar action Of the gastric juices of the
stomach upon it.
So you don't need to go back to the
days of Jonah to find whales that
swallow men. If you would leave that
mans wife alone maybe you would be-
lieve 1t. If you would pay your debts
maybe you would believe it.
Book Stands Above All.
Old Josh Billings said: "Ingratitude,
impudence, ignorance and cowardice
make up. largely, the creed of the inf
del. Did you ever hear of any man re-
nouncing christianity and embracing
tnftdelism on his death bed? If the in
fidel would only comprehend that he
could prove more by his faith than by
his reason probably he would not be so
offensive ITO the people Of the world.
He will come to you. and swell up, and
say, why did thus and so happen?
Why did God destroy the world with a
flood? Prove that he did. The poor
idiot can't prove why one apple is sweet
and another apple is sour. To save his
life he can't prove why a ducks egg is
blue and hens egg white. There are
lot OF things he can't prove and he
comes up to you to have you prove
something about the word of God AMI
around this old book the conflicts of
ages have surged. Many a fellow
thought he was building on the rock
and found he was building on the sand,
and have walked along the shores of
time, and have seen them strewn with
the wrecks Of people who are trying
to Ill the bible full of errors, but the
Oooh VI 0Ou SltluS ABOVE all.
In 1885, old Strauss propounded his
mythical gospel and claimed that Jesus
Christ was not conceived of the Holy
Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary but
the fact has been scientifically proven
until not one Of old Strauss arguments
stand today. Old voltaire advanced
eighty-two scientific principles every
one Of which he said proved the bible
was not the word of God, but the
French institutes have discarded every