Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-10-15
OUR IGNORANCE OF
GREAT FIRST PRINCIPLES.

Editor Democrat:
In this day and time it is common
for some great, would-be-teachers, to
| come in contact with a subject con-
ceIning which they really know but
little, and in order to keep up appear
ances, they must steal "catch-penny"
stuff, from some other fellow. For in
stance when a small fellow gets into
the pulpit and runs up against some
Scriptural subject about which scien-
lists may have spoken, this small po-
tato' usually makes short work of the
subject, by simply announcing to his
credulous congregation, that it is only
en- infidel trying to tear up the Bible.
Another shoot of of his tongue, with
the assertion, its only Darwin AMI
his followers trying to prove that the
human race sprung from a baboon."
The great and pure Darwin was an
evolutionist, but not more so than
vas the apostle Paul and all other pub
lie ministers, worth listening to in this
day and time. Paul, Darwin and the
old Greek stoics taught that in every
thing there was a struggle for exis-
tcnce, and a dependence of one being,
or thing, upon another and that this
principle runs through all living
things Thou fool, except a grain of
wheat die it shall likewise perish"
The first grain of wheat perishes in
order to bring forth numerous other
grains of wheat, likewise the body
perishes to give place to other bodies,
and neither Paul's figure nor any
other wisdom known to human beings,
undertakes to account for the perish
ed grain of wheat or the persisted body,
except that it mingles with earth and
there stops, so far as our wisdom has
even seen or known.
Not a single principle laid down by
either Paul or Darwin, has ver been
or ever can be shown to be false.
The evolution taught by them, not only
was true, still proves to be true, but
always has been true. 1t is but the
unlearned or the fool who would say
that the unchanging principles which
govern the present, did not govern the
eternal past.
Darwin was too good and too honest
to pretend to say he knew of the origin
of different species of living things
which have existed and ceased to exist
III the various ages of the world. Of
course he has often expressed opinions
and who else worth being called a
human, has not expressed and still
continues to express opinions? He
was an everlasting enemy to all here
sizes, but looked everywhere he could
for the principles of eternal truth,
even in the Bible, which he found did
not pretend to explain the law of cause
and effect. No M more clearly re-
ccgnized the fact that the origin of
everything was in a Supreme which
same was also an ever existing I'M
changing law, the same yesterday, to
Gay andAfOrever. Nothing came by or
was left to chance, the truth of which
is nowhere contradicted, so far as first
principles may be taught in the Bible.
The question is being asked almost
every day now by wen the wisest of
men as to what is the real first cause
Of this great and cruel European war
that is so shocking the entire void
and the answer is, the nations and the
individuals of the nations are strug-
Cling for existence under that first
law of the universe. Little Servia
struggles for existence; poor little
bleeding and torn Belgium struggles
for existence; wicked Austria, the
first cause, must now struggle for an
existence; republican France mist
struggle or be put out of business;
the British Empire on whose domain
the sun never sets, struggles; year old