The Detroit times., 1916-09-20

If YOU believe "a monkey SAT- on
! cocoanut tree ana "shiod cocoanuts
AZ his nelghbor. ali right bUt don
connect me with yoar old pr'hen.
. sile theory OF evolution or W. VIII
lock horns.
Suppose / would walk down and
hold up a watch and say What rs
| that
That As watch
Il say. 'pid YOU make az
"'No
Can YOU make a watch,
mo.
"'Do you believe it Was made
Yes"
ND you see II mAi5
NO
Upon what do you base the 'er.
tainty that II VAS made
You say, I see the case and the
handspring and the Jewels and the
stem.
II say. You are In error that
watch Was not made, bot away back
yonder. Ia endless ages. innumerauia
atoms were dancing IN chaos ana
( by and through some uneNpiaina..t
\ manner and method they danced
into shape. until by a 'tortli'ous
4 concurrence they shaped themselves
into what we nov call watch.
IF I would walk onto a Detroit
T platform or behind a pulpit liz a
swell stone church and make Is
break like that they would call me-
a philosopher. would call a man
10 a.. "a
''fool-osopher" ] don't believe that
the world was made by any fortui-
[ tous concurrence OF atoms
penounees Evolution
There was time when / hsliey-
/ ed in evolution. because I thought g.
was an evidence Of superior inteui
gence.
Il discarded that long ago BE-
cause the fact mas never been prov.
ed. and defy you 20 show me-
where a lower form has ever been
| developed into a higher form.
There has been and L. the deve!-
opment OF the species Sure We
have developed the hog, but 1t is
still a hog
Burbank developed the potato
but he hasn't developed IL into a
plum.
You can dEvFf0p- ttAA1- sTrr-----vS7 7-t-
you can't change one species into
another.
"A friend OF mine ore time took
me out 20 his hog lot and showed
me a male hog that be paid s. 500
for. I could tie gold bells in his
ears. tie pink ribbons around his old
fat sides. put a gold collar about his
neck. feed him on the choicest
greens Of the vegetable garden, and
call him sweet names. but I looked
az him and he squealed for slop just
like pig that was worth Only thir
~ cents.
Il can 90 into the jungles OF Afri-
CA and catch 2 monkey or chin
panzee, and can teach him 20 eat
soup with a spoon and drink coffee
| out OF cup fAnd that's more than
some OF you folks know And
can teach him 10 eat with his fork
and make his bed. bur he's the same
old monk
"Over in Egypt. in the museum
they have species OF flowers that
have been embalmed for 1900 wear.
and the same species grows todaN
along the banks OF the Nile. and IT,
has not added or lost a leaf nor a
petal
They have animals in that mu-
scum that have been embalmed FOR
1000 years, and the same species is
found in Egypt today and Il hash z
changed one iota.
Il don't believe the miserable old
theory Of evolution. I am just as
God made me and was not made
by any 'fortuitous concurrence OF
atoms
Il don't believe in that. and /
don't believe. either. that nv great
great grandfather was monkey
Why, that's nonsence. Away with
g. DO you want 20 believe that
you came from a monkey? All right
] don't
Friends would say What a Won
derful philosopher I wouldn't "a
say You're an old foolosopher
Some BODY says Oh. Mr. SUNDAY.
I I believe IN the Old Testament bat
nOf IN the New
Another says. 7 believe the New
. Testament but nct The Old
THE New Testament is not "a nev
, revelation of Cod II Us simply ft.
fulflment OF the promises H- made
in the Old Testament That's al
Il is and YET Jesus Christ is thi
centre. the circumference and ths
nucleus of the Old and $ew
Some body says 4 d0n'f bel.
the story Of Jonah and the whale
Why not?
They say. why 81 is a phrs'ea
impossihility for 4 whale TO swaIio7
man
IA thar so' Well you don't kroa
anything about g.
Whale Swallows Sailor. re Says
y hold in my hand clipping
from the Literary Digest OF April .
1896 which says that vessel wac
cruising OF the coast OF Joppa. IN
the Mediterranean Sea and the sail
ors were happening whale ~hef
they were thrown into the sea and
I all but two were saved
Shortly attcrNard q boat pir kec
Up one ef those Two men but ttf
other one could not oe found N
name was james parE.ey Tne mon
sier whale. after it had ceased NOV
ing and Was dead. was hoi-ted Ir
alongside The ship and ths process
OF cutting up Is body began
IT took one dsy and one nIstf
20 DO it and when a. lasf tines
reached its stomach and O. w. 1rrn
ed. what Was heir surprise fr