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a spiritual body are supernatural
doctrines; Evolution denies them.

2. Evolution is opposed by the fact
of degeneration. Plants and brutes
improved by man the free agent, al
ways degenerate when left to the
blind forces of nature.
8. There are no instances of the
Evolution of one genus into another
today nor in the past since man has
been writing history. The Evolution
ist is under obligation to show either
that natural forces will transmute
one genus into a higher genus or
that this transmutation has actually
occurred in specific cases. He has
done neither.
4. Other branches of knowledge
besides Theology, as PSyology, Ethics
and Logic, are opposed to Evolution.
No hypothesis in philosop;:y is true
if any branch of knowledge shows
it to be impossible.
5. 1t is a hypothesis in philosophy
that in its $500 years or more of
existence has never reached the dig
nifty of a theory. The Br:ehmine
of India, the oldest branch of our
it for Thales the Greek, six centuries
before Christ, the Greeks, the most
intellectual race of the world, taught
it, for Thales the Greek six centuries
before Christ taught that all things
were evolved from water, Anaximenes
frcm air, Hervelitius from fire. The
Latin poet, Lucretius taught the
method of Evolution-the fortuitous
concourse of atoms. Lamarck the
great Frenchman made advances in
the doctrine, but it was reserved for
Chas. Darwin. Darwin in 1859 and
1871 so to present the doctrine, after
patient investigation, as to make it
popular, and while Darwinism has
been exploded a large proportion of
scientific teachers still hold to Evo-
luton.
6. A tree is known by its fruit.
Derwin in early life had decided
talent for music and poetry, end was
somewhat religious. Devotion to Ev-
olution resulted in an atrophy of his
powers so that he losv the power to
enjoy music and SHAKESPEARE, the
worlds greatest poet, and to kaow God
whom to know is life eternal. Rev.
C. H. Toy, professor in Louisville
Baptist Seminary fifty years ago
was probably the best teacher of He
brew in the South at that day. Evo-
luton in Bible history led him SO far
astray that one of his pupils, Pro-
fessor Lyon of Harvard University,
said: 81 followed Toy until he went
over the precipice, end when l saw
his bleeding, mangled body l SHE'D
back" 1t is hard to determine to-
day whether the congregational Evo-
lutionist, Rev. Lyon Abbott, is
Theist or Pantheist. That splendid
Presbyterian scolar, Rev. Marcus
Dods the Evolutionist, is said in his
old age to have lost all enjoyment
in prayer, though he kept up tie hab-
it. Under modern teaching suicides
became so common at the University
of Pennsylvania among the students,
we are told, that the faculty in alarm
passing by the learned teachers OF
Evolution, sent for the ex-base ball
player, Billy Sunday, who hates Evo-
luton, to tell the students that life
is worth living if lived according to
Bible teaching.
The result of Evolution, if allowed
its logical effect is Atheism (Agnos-
ticism or Pantheism) or it is Deism,
which to conceal the fact that Deisra
is infdelity is improperly called The
ism.
There is a community of life,it is
said, between the apple, the pear and
the quine, the cotton and the okra,
the dog, the wolf and the fox, which
point to a common ancestry. The
question of a common ancestry in
these cases is entirely a matter OF
science, but this is not Evolution as
q Philosophical question. A true
statement Of what Evolution is and
the results Of it is timely today, b.
cause in so many Of our colleges and
high schools it is taught as truth
Of science. Involved in it is the ques-
ton, Is the Bible the Word of God,
is the Bible only the greatest book
of the world-a statement that all