Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-02-09
DARWINIAN THEORY
PLAUSIBLE

Dry. One could readily be convinced
that their ancestral tree was a cocoa
nut tree all a chatter with Simian
grandfathers and grandmothers.
Their pedigree might run as follows:
The protoplasm begat zoophyte, and
the Zoophyte begat germ, and the
germ begat jelly-cell, and the jelly
cell begat a tadpole, and the tadpole
begat monkey and the monkey begat
q man. But that is not the general
impression Of man. The evolution of
a monkey into a man the world has
never seen, albeit the descent of man
into a monkey can be seen every day
in every quarter of the globe.
GENESIS THEORY PREFERABLE
OF course, if a man wishes to trace
his ancestry to the monkey squirm-
ing on the top of the organ grinders
music box he is welcome to do so, and
no one will try to argue him out of
the notion. But the majority of peo-
pie prefer the sublime genealogy of
Holy Writ. A Patriarch, which was
the son of Abraham, which was the
son of Noah, which was the son of
Adam, which was the son son of God.
"He became living SOUL" Even if
it should be proven that mans body
was once a monkey, and before that
q tadpole, and before that little
wriggle, the average man is some
thing better than that at the pres
ent time; he has grander possibilities
wiser than the serpent, gentler
than the dove, stronger than the lion,
more serviceable than the OK, truer
than the dog, and more aspiring than
the eagle; but whether you recognize
and fill your mission as a living soul
by obedience, and teachableness and
faith. The best man and the worst
man needs Gods help inside of him,
or the devil will get him easily as he
got the first man in the garden of
Eden.
1t is easy enough to believe that
some people were made in the image
of God. Thy are fresh minted coin.
The attrition of the world has not
seemed to effect them They do not
seem to wear away, and lose the
sharp outline, the distinct super
scription.~ You can always read upon
their faces" In God we Trust" And
that, not because they are kept in cab
inets only for inspection. No! They
are kept bright by circulation. What
cheer and hope and release from bond
age they bring to men. They make us
believe in a divine creator in spite of
the counterfeit stuff in circulation.
POOR SPECIMENS, BUT GENUINE
But it is not absolutely necessary
to have a first class appearance to be
genuine coin. Some coins are poor
specimens, but they pass current just
the same. The imgae and superscrip-
ton is almost worn off. The coin is
battered and defaced. 1t has been
maltreated by men, women and child
rem, yet it will buy just as many gro
ceries as piece of money fresh from
the mint. And it is that way with
men. The "man" is within" the
man. Not the color of his skin, but
the color of his heart. Appearances
are deceitful. Pickpockets often look
like clergymen, and Diogenes the
Greek philosopher lived in a tub
There are men who act like the devi
in public and weep like David, the
sinner, in private. And he who saw
the saint in the Magdalen, and the
apostle in the fisherman, and the
world-missionary in the Pharisee, still
sees the image of God where it is un-
distinguishable by the eyes of men
LOVE THE SUPERSCRIPTION
Love is the superscription of the
coin. Only one word, LOVE. Love
in it's two fold-aspect, first, toward
God, second, toward man. All the
law and all the commandments are
summed up in one great word,-
LOVE.