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


another seven, another nine. Finally
a fly, If should ask you how many
legs a fly has 4 venture to say there
isn't one person that could tell me. If
you don't know how many legs fly
has, how am supposed to know how
you know anything about his marvel
lousy constructed feet? Every fly has
a thousand hollow hairs opening into
it's tiny feet and every hair contains q
secretion like mucilage, SO that they
can climb wall, or a pane Of glass.
as easily as squirrel can climb a
tree, and they can roost on the ceiling
upside down and never fall off. You
don't know beans about fly, let alone
the bible. If you don't know how many
legs fly has or anything about his
marvellously constructed feet, how am
to suppose you know anything about
his still more marvellously constructed
eye Every fly has 5000 eyes, 1000
distinct and perfectly formed lenses in
each eye, each lens of which is an abb
Dsolute and perfect priem. and don't
you know that photograph has been
taken with the lens Of the eye of fly,
and professor recently saw thru the
lens of the eye of fly church stee-
pie three blocks away.
Then say you don't understand Gods
word. You old, bid lobster, there are
lots of things you don't understand,
don't forget that for a minute. To
prove there is nothing mysterious
about a fly having 5000 eyes. it is
known that d certain beetle has b0,01e
eyes, and the common dragon fly 1--WE
used to call them DEVILS darning nee
dies when was a little boy) has 25,-
08S eyes, and the common silk worm
moth has 1850 eyes, so there is MOTH
ing mysterious about fly having 5000
eyes. There are lots Of things you
don't understand that you believe.
Cannot Explain.
Supposfng could transform this
audience into clinic and had a dead
body on the table for my subject. I
bring on the scapel; I would make an
incision and remove two pinkish
threads and hold them up. They are
just alike in form, shape and color,
and the most powerful magnifying
glass could not distinguish one iota of
difference. One is the nerve of sight
and the other the nerve of hearing.
Can you explain how it is that one
nerve will take up the sounds Of ev-
eryday life and thru your ears and
portray them upon your brain, notes
of harmony and discord, SO that you
can tell whether It is the barking of a
dog, the blowing Of whistle, the cry
of a child? Can you explain how II
is that the other nerve will take up
that which is absolutely imperceptible
to the former nerve, and thru the re-
tina eyes paint on your brain the pic
ture of nature, until you say, How
beautiful is that flower!" "How pic
turesque the hill!" Do you understand
it? No. Do you believe it? You have
TO or acknowledge that you are a fool.
| Yes, there are lots of things you be-
lieve but don't understand. Then don't
go to hell because you haven't sense
enough to understand all there is in
the bible. There are lot of things
you don't understand. You don't need
to delve into religion. then pass God
up because you haven't mind enough to
comprehend. You have to be God
yourself to know as much as God does.
We take most things because they ap-
pear to be. I realize that a creation
speaks of a creator. a design of a de-
signer. hold that that chair tells me
that some mind conceived it and
brought 1t forth. This chair didn't
evolute. Simply because we dress diff
ferently than we did seventy-flve years
ago; simply because we plow with an
oliver pillow instead OF a forked stick.
hold that some mind conceived this
old world and that some mind brought
1t forth, and, hear me, don't believe
that this world came about by chem
ical force or the "fortuitous concur
renee of atoms" That is asinine, idi-
otto nonsense. would never let my
public school teacher cram that down
my children, and when they come
home and say "So-and-so told us,'~I
say, you tell that teacher that she
lies" God made that thing just as it is.
I don't allow them to turn the faith of
my children one iota from the fact
that this old world is just as God AL
mighty made 1t. I hold that a design
tells designer. no more believe that
this world was made by chemical
forces than believe a book on botany.
describing flowers, was made by chem
ical forces.
Lesson Of the Watch.
Surprising would walk down and
hold up a watch and say. what is
that?" THAT is a watch" I say"Did
you make it?" NO" 'tCan you make
a watch?" mo" do you believe It
was made?" ''Yes." t.Did you see it
rade2D "Nyo0. Mry,,o, .,,,,.A -
base the ascertainty that 1t was
made" You say, u see the case and
the handspring and the jewels, and
the STEM" say, "You are in error,
that watch was not made, but away
back yonder, in endless ages, innumer-
able atoms were dancing in chaos, and
by and by, thru some unexplainable
manner and method, they danced into
shape. until by fortuitous concur
renee" they shaped themselves into
what we now call a watch" And IL I
would walk on a Chicago platform or
behind pulpit In q swell brownstone
church and make a break like that,
they would call me q philosopher. /
would call him "foolosopher." do
not believe that the world was made
by any "fortuitous concurrence" Of
atoms. &
There was a time when I believed in
evolution because I thought 1t was an
evidence Of superior Intelligence. dis
carded that long ago because the fact
has never been proven and defy you
to show me where q lower form has
ever been developed into a higher form.
There has been and is the development