Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
MYSTERIES OF NATURE SOM
NUT SKEPTICS CA. mot CRACK

Tbsv are at lists. THE fool hath
said IN his h TT, there is no god "
and 1 am no an atnelst' because l
am not a fof
And some people believe that
tboryb there a God who we can
know nothing bout that god, that
Coz never re ais Himself to US.
They swell VI Ind call themselves
agnostics. Th say they don't be
lieve "whaf can't understand. "
Then Won are fool, and if you
onlv believe W 81 you can under
stand. you will 'e dumbfounded to
discover how little you really
know.
Can you exp IN now i Is that
when a horse rs 1000 II g1es 10
hair; when a S ep eats It, il goes
to wool; when b chicken eats it. it
goes to feathers; when a hog eats
it. it will go TO bristles? Can you
explain that,-certainly you can
not!
Can you explain this to me, that
when you plant beans they will
climb the beanpole from right 10
left and when you plant hops they
will climb the pole from left TO
right? Do you know why? No.
Can you tell me why it is that a
black COW can eat green grass and
give white milk that makes yellow
butter?
Mysteries of Nature.
Now, supposing tonight l could
transform this audience into an op-
Grating clinic of a medical insti-
tute. and supposing l come with
my scalpel and trochar and make
my incision and remove two pink
ish threads and hold them up. They
are just alike in form, construc-
tion and size, and the most power
full magnifying glass could not de-
tect enc iota of difference in them.
One is a nerve OF sight and the
other Of hearing. Can you tell me
how one will take up the sounds
of everyday life and through your
ears translate upon your brain
notes of harmony and discord sc
you can tell whether it is a human
voice or the blowing OF a whistle
Can you explain to me how 1t is
that the other nerve will take w
the things that are imperceptiblR &c
the former and through the retina
of your eye paint upon your brair
the panorama OF. nature? Do you
believe it,-you are compelled TO
or admit you are fooli
If evolution is used as a word Il
describe progress. why, l won
quarrel, but when evolution is USED
as a word to describe the develop
ment from one specie into another
good night, you and ! will fuss
right there. l do not believe in
the bastard theory of evolution.
do NOT believe that l came from
the ''fortuitous concurrence Of
atoms" 1 do not believe that my
great, great grandfather was a
monkey with a tail wrapped around
a cocoaDpt tree. II you believe
yonr great great granddaddy was
a monkey then you take your dad
dy and go to hell with him. but
leave me out! came from a diff
ferent bunch altogether, thanh
Cod
Inidels and evolutionists go VI
and down the land. You give evo
luton full swing and you will hav,
two hemispheres Of crime and {
thousand plenipotentiaries and Lag
aretos and brothels.
Evolution says: Better and bet
ter grows the heart by natural i'm,
provement," and the bible SAYS
The heart is deceitful above al
things and desperately wicked"
oh, ybu might as well try and
brew fragrance from malodor oil
produce oratory from a buzz-saW
or a toiA cat on the fence doing his
stunts, IS to think that you can be
saved By any other method or plan
All thesn other plans whereby you
hope to be saved, are as useless as
a hippotket in a nightshirt
Now, II you deny the religion OF
the bibh, the Christian religion
you have got to deny all other re-
ligions on earth, for none OF them
will stand the scientific cxamina-
ton that II viii.
Men of Science Christians.
There are multitudes of the
worlds ablest scientific men who
believe in the bible; where is there
single scientific man who wa.
educated outside OF the bible
Where is there a scientific textbook
today that's admitted and accepted
that was written by the followers
of Mohammed or Confuscius OF
Buddha, or Zoraster where are
they7 What science has the non.
Christian nation to offer to US?
The Hindus say that rain /.
caused by a celestial elephant III
in the sky squirting water through
his trunk, that the earth is circu.
lar, built on seven concentric is.
lands. my friends, Ind that we live
on the middle isle, and we are sur.
rounded by salt water, cane Juice
rum and melted butter. That's the
Hindu science.
In the Greek science they load
the world on the shoulders of a
huge giant called Atlas. All right
but who ever saw old Atlas?
If the bible contained only the
dreams of men, she would have
gone down ages ago. Man after
man has assaulted the bible with
insinuations and arguments and
falsehoods, but the bible stands
buttressed around with broken and
demolished theories of men, like
the night birds in their flights
where they dlshed against the
lighthouses, blinking at the har-
boris entrance.
The conflict OF the ages has
surged around this book. Many