The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

than I believe a book % botany. de
scrlb!ng covers. VAS made by chem
teal forces.
III YOU believe a monkey sat on a
cocoanut tree and SHE'D cocoanuts
az his neighbor. al right bat don't
connect ME viii your old. prehen-
sile theory O! evolution or We VIII
lock horns
"Supposs would walk down and
hold Up a watch and say. What Is
that
That Is a watch
Il say. Did YOU make r."
No
"'Can you make watch "
No
DO you believe # vas made
Yes"
hid you see it made
No
Upon what do you base the Ger
tsinty that 10 Vas made"
you say I see the case and the
/ handspring and the jewels and the
stem
I say. You are IN error: THAI
watch Was ncy made but away back
+ yonder In endless ages tnnum~ra ole
atoms were dancing In chaos, and
by and through some uneXplainaoie
manner and method hey danced
into shape. until by A fortuitous
+ concurrence they shaped themselves
into what We now cal. watch
III would walk onto a Detroit
platform or behind a pulpit IN a
swell stone church and make
break Ike that they would call me-
a philosopher would call man
that made a statemen, like that
"toOl-osophcr ! don't believe tha,
the world was made by any tortui.
tous concurrence OF atoms.
peneurees Evolution
There Was time when I heliov-
cd in evolution. because ] thought n
Was an evidence OF superior intelu-
gence.
4 discarded that long ago De.
cause the fact mas never been prov
ed. ard defy you 10 show me
where a lower form has ever been
developed into a higher form
There has been and Is the deyel
opmen, OF the species. Sure. We
have developed the hog. but il is
still a hog
Burbank developed the potato.
bat he hasn't developed II into q
plum.
-Snu can develop the species. bur
ycu can't change one species into
another.
a friend OF mine one time took
ne out 10 his hog lot and showed
me a male hog that he paid $500
for. could tie gold bells in hi,
ears. tie pink ribbons around his old
fat sides. put gold collar about his
neck. feed him on the choicest
greens OF the vegetable garden. and
call him sweet names. bur I looked
al him and he squsaled FOR slop Just
like pig that was worth only thir-
~ cents.
Il can 90 into the 'unyles OF A'ri-
ca and catch monkey or a chin
panEee. and can teach him 10 eat
soup with a spoon and drink coffee
out OF cup (and that's more than
some OF you folks kuow) And 4
can teach him 20 eat with his fork
and make his bed. but he's the same
old monk
over In Egypt. In the museum
they have species OF flowers thar
have been embalmed for 1000 year.
and the same species grows TO-DAY
along the banks Of the Nile, and q;
has not added or lost a leaf nor a
petal
They have animals q that mu.
scum thar have been e-rbainiea for
1000 year,. and he same species "a
found IN Egypt today and Il hasn't
changed one iota
Il don't believe he miserable old
theory OF evolution 7 am Just "a
God made me and was not made
by any fortuitous concurrence %
atoms
Il don't believe IN that. and
don't believe. either that ny great
great grandfather vas MONKEY.
Why, that's nonsence Away with
II, Do you want 70 believe that
you came from monkey All right.
don't
Friends would say What a won,
derful philosopher" wouldn't I'd
say You're an old f9olosopho-
Somebody SAYS on. Mr sunday.
believe in the Old Testament bur-
not In the New
Another says y believe the New
Testament but not the old
The New Testament ia not a rev
revelation OF Cod II e. simply The
fulflment Of the promises he made
IN the Old Testament That's al
+ II IL. and yet Jesus Christ IS The
centre. the circumference and The
nucleus o. the Old and New
Some body says. 7 dom 5elievs
the story If Jonah and the whale
Why not
They say. why 81 'g 2 phrsicaf
impossi5ility Tor a whale 20 swallow
a man
IL that So Well you donr sroa
anything about r.
Whale Swallows Sailor. Ne ssys
u hold in M hand pti-e
from the Literary Digest Of AHr. g.
I 1895 which says thai a y"ssfi vas
( cruising on the coast ~ Jgpfa. 20
+ the Mediterranean Sea and tH- .l..
ors we're happening r. whale V.r-
they were throTr into he sea ard
alb bur tWo We're saved
Shortly afferWsrd q boat rirraa
\ up one - thOae two men. oIf 'Ls
I other one could not BE- found H.
+ name was James Farklsy The mon
sier whale. after if fed % nov.
INK and was dead. Was f.iHrd gF
+ alongside 'he - ? and f-l process
~ cutting 80 ts body brE4u