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ADDHESS PREPARED BY WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN JEST BEFORE HIS DEATH (Continued from Last Week) “Our third indictment against lution is that it diverts attention pressing problems of great tance to trifling speculation. one evolutionist is trying to what happened in the dim past, other is trying to pry open the of the distant future. One grew eloquent over ancient and another predicted that years hence every one will be and toothless. Both those who or to clothe our remote with hair and those who endeavor remove the hair from the heads our remote descendants ignore present with its imperative The science of ‘How to Live’ is most important of all the sciences. is desirable to know the sciences, hut it is necessary to how to live. Christians desire their children shall be taught all sciences, but they do not want to lose sight of the Rock of ■while they study the ago of rocks; neither do they desire them become so absorbed in measuring the distance between the stars that they will forget Him who holds the stars in His Hand, Vision Is Needed ‘‘While not more than two per cent of our population are college grad uates, these, because of enlarged pow ers need a ‘heavenly vision’ even , more than those less learned, both for their own restraint and to assure society that their enlarged powers will be used for the benefit of so¬ ciety and not against the public wel jfere. the spirit¬ Evolution is deadening ual life of a multitude of students. Christians do not desire less educa¬ tion, but they desire that religion shall be entwined with learning so that our boys and girls will return from college with their hearts aflame with love of God and love of fellow men and prepared to lead in the truistic work that the world so sore ly needs. The cry in the business world, in the industrial world, in tho professionnl world, in the political world—even in the religious world— is for consecrated talents—for ability plus a passion for service. Our fourth indictment against the evolutionary hypothesis is that by paralyzing the hope of reform it courages those who labor for the im provement of man’s condition. Every upward-looking man or woman' seeks to lift the level upon which mankind stands, and they trust that they will see beneficient changes during the brief span of their own lives. Evolu tion chills their enthusiasm by sub Stituting aeons for years. It obscures all beginnings in the mists of end less ages. It is represented as a cold and heartless process, beginning with time and ending in eternity, and act ing so slowly that even the rocks cannot preserve a record of the im aginary changes through which it is credited with having carried an orig inal germ of life that appeared some time from somewhere. Its only pro gram for man is scientfic breeding, a system under which a few suppos¬ ed,'would edly superior intellects, self-appoint¬ direct the mating and the movements of the mass of mankind— an impossible system. Evolution, dis puting the miracle, and ignoring the spiritual life, has no place for the regeneration of the individual, 11 recognizes no cry of repentance and scoffs at the doctrine that one can be born. Unrelenting Enemy It is thus the intolerant and un relenting enemy of the only process that can redeem society through the redemption of the individual. An evo lutionist would never write such a atory as The Prodigal Son; it contra diets the whole theory of The two sons inherited from the same parents and through their par ents, from the same ancestors, proxi- GEORGIA-ALABAMA BUSINESS COLLEGE At Macon, Ga„ this institution has been in operation for thirty-five years. It has trained and placed in positions with first class business houses approximately twenty-five thousand boys and girls, men and women. Its students range from IS to 45 years in age. Some are widows with the family burden suddenly fall ing upon them, some are heads of families, who found late in life that the untrained man has unequal chance in the struggle for success, The boys and girls are being prepared before life’s burdens fall upon them. The college has made a national repu- mate and remote. And these were reared at the same fireside ■ were surrounded by the same onment during all the days of youth; and yet they were If Mr. Darrow is correct in ... the applied to Loeb, namely, that ! crime was due either to j or to environment, how will he plain the difference between the brother and the wayward son? evolutionist may understand from servation, if not by experience, though he cannot explain, why one these hoys was guilty of every mortality, squandered the that the father had laboriously ed and brought disgrace upon family name; but his theory does explain why a wicked young man dorwent a change of heart, his sin, and begged for And because the evolutionists understand this fact, one of the important in the human life, he can¬ not understand the infinite love the heavenly Father who stands ready to welcome home any repent a nt sinner, no matter how far he has wandered, how often he has fall en, or how deep he has sunk in sin. Poem Quoted Your honor has quoted from a wonderful poem written by a great Tennessee poet, Walter Malone, I venture to quote another stanza which puts into exquisite language ' the opportunity which merciful new a <; 0 d gives to every one who will turn from sin to righteousness, ‘Though deep in mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say, I can.” No shame-faced outcast ever sank so deep, But he ♦might rise and be again a man.’ ‘There are no lines like these in all that evolutionists have ever written, , Darwin says that science has nothing to do with the Christ who taught the spirit embodied in the words of Wal ^ ter Malone, and yet this spirit is the only hope of human progress. A heart can be changed in the twink 'ling of an eye and a change in the 1Jfe follows a change in the heart. If one heart can he changed, it is possi that many hearts can be changed and if many hearts can be changed , jt is possible that all hearts can be 1 changed—that world can be born in a a da y. it j s this fact that inspires all who labor for man’s betterment. It ; s because Christians believe in indi¬ v idual regeneration and in the regen oration of society through the regene ration of individuals that they pray, ‘Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done j n earth as it is in heaven.’ Evolution makes a mockery of the Lord’s prayer, “'[' 0 interpret the words to mean that the movement desired must come s i 0 wly through unfolding ages—a process with which each generation could have lin!e to do __ is to defe hope, and hope deferred maketh the heart s j c k. Fifth Indictment. Our fifth indictment of the evolu tionary hypothesis is that, if taken J seriously and made the basis of philosophy 0 f life, it would elimiate j ove Bnd carry man hack to a strug- \ j gIo of tooth and c [ aw . The Christians who have allowed themselves to be det . e ; vod into belief that evolution ; s beneficent, or even a rational pro¬ cess, have been associating with those who either do not understand its im plications or dare not avow their knowledge of these implications. Let \ me give you some authority on this sub j ec t. I will begin with Darwin, the j high pr j es t of evolution, to whom all evolutionists bow. 'On pages 149 and 150, in The Descent of Man,” already referred to, he says: “With savages, the weak in body tation through its methods and the success of its graduates. It has often been able to boast that not a gradu ate was without employment. It trains private secretaries, bookkeepers, ste nographers, bank clerks, secretary treasurers, and Linotype and Inter type operators. Its course is nation ally accredited, which means that no thing better can be had in a school of this kind. Three firms this year placed an order for every diploma winner that the business department could graduate. Write for catalog, EUGENE ANDERSON, Pres. 7-30* THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1925. or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civi lized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process- of elimi I nation; we build asylums for the ini becile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor laws ;and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last mo¬ ment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small¬ pox. Thus the weak members of civi¬ lized society propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. Instinct of Sympathy. “The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an in¬ cidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally ac¬ quired as part of the social instincts, hut subsequently rendered, in the manner previously indicated, more tender and more widely diffused. Now could be check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, with¬ out deterioration in the noblest part of our nature . . . We must there fore bear the undoubtedly had effects of the week surviving and propagat ing their kind. "Darwin reveals the barbarous sen¬ timent that runs through evolution and dwarfs the moral nature of those who become obsessed with it. Let us analyze the quotation just given. Darwin speaks with approval of the savage custom of eliminating the weak so that only the strong will survive and complains that ‘we civi¬ lized men do our utmost to check the process of elimination.’ “How inhuman such a doctrine as this! He thinks it injurious to build asylums for the imbecile, the maim¬ ed, and the sick,' or to care for the poor. Even the medical men come in for criticism because they ‘exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last minute.’ And then note his hostility to vaccination because it has ‘preserved thousands who, from a weak constitution, would but for vaccination, have succomhed to small pox.’ All of the sympathetic activities of civilized society are con¬ demned because they enable ‘the wteak members to propagate their kind.’ Then he drags mankind down 1 to the level of the brute and corn pares the freedom given to man un¬ favorably with the restraint that we put on barnyard beasts. Heart Rebelled “The second paragraph of the above quotation shows that his kindly heart rebelled against the cruelty of his own doctrine. He says that we ‘feel impelled to give to the helpless,’ al though he traces it to a sympathy wk ’ ck * ie thinks is developed by eva lution; he even admits that we could not check this s V m P»t h y ‘ even at the of hard reason, without de¬ terioration the noblest part of our nature.’ “We must therefore bear’ what he regards as ‘the undoubtedly bad ef fect of the weak surviving and propa atin « their kind -’ Could “"Y doctrine be more destructive of civilization? And what a commentary on evolu tion .; “He wants us to believe that evo¬ lution develops a human sympathy that finally becomes so tender that it repudiates the law that created it and thus invites a return to a level where the extinguishing of pity and sympathy will permit the brutal in stincts to «£ ai » do their Progressive work - Let no one think that this accept WMGIEYS AFTER M EVERY LA - H* MEAL n> affords iA benefit as well as pleasure. Healthful exercise for the teeth and a spur to digestion. A long lasting refreshment, soothing to nerves and stomach. The Great American Sweetmeat, untouched by hands, full of K tLiUt. — flavor. sVlTrA 171 ‘MMf suin' anee of barbarism as the basic ciple of evolution died with t Within three years a book has peared whose author is even frankly brutal than Darwin. book is entitled ‘The New I of Science,’ and has attracted ! atention. One of our most reputable magazines has recently printed an tide by him defining the religion a scientist. In his preface he knowledges indebtedness to twenty one prominent scientists and educa tors, nearly all of them ‘doctors' and ‘professors.’ One of them ,who has recently been elevated to the head of a great state university, read the manuscript over twice ‘and made many invaluable suggestions.’ The author describes Niezsche, who, ac cording to Mr. Darrow, made a mur derer out of Babe Ixiopold, as ‘the bravest soul since Jesus.’ He admits that Nietzsche was ‘gloriously wrong,’ not certainly, but ‘perhaps,’ in many detals of technical know ledge, but he affirms that Nietzsche was ‘gloriously right in his fearness questioning of the universe and of his own soul.’ Morals of Jungle. a In another place, the author says ‘most of our morals today are jungle products,’ and then he affirms that ‘it would be safer, biologically, if they were more so now.’ After these two samples of his views, you will not besurprised when I read you the following (see page 34): “ ‘Evolution is a bloody business, but civilization tries to make it a pink tea. Barbarism is the only pro cess by which man has ever organi cally progressed, and civilization is the only process by which he has ever organically declined. Civilization is the most dangerous enterprise up on which man ever set out. For when ■ you take man out of the bloody, bru¬ tal, but beneficient, hand of natural selection, you place him at once in the soft, perfumed, daintily gloved, but far more dangerous hand of arti ficial selection. And, unless you call science to your aid and make this ar tificial selection as efficient as the rude methods of nature, you bungle the whole task.’ “ ‘This aspect of evolution may amaze some of the ministers who have not been admitted to the inner circle of the iconoclasts whose theo ries menace all the ideals of civilized society. Do these ministers know that “evolution is a blood business?” Do they know that “barbarism” is the only process by which man has ever organically declined?” Do they know that “the bloody, brutal hand of na tural selection is “beneficient?” What shall we think of the disting¬ uished educators and scientists who read the manuscript before publica¬ tion and did not protest against this pagan doctrine? World-Wide Matter “To show that this is a world-wide matter, I now quote from a book is¬ sued from the press in 1918, seven years ago. The title of the book is “The Science of Power,” and its au¬ Benjamin Kidd, being an Eng¬ lishman, could not have any national prejudice against Darwin. On pages 46 and 47 we find Kidd’s interpreta¬ of evolution: “ ‘Darwin’s presentation of the evo¬ of the world as the product of natural selection is never-ceasing war n product, that is to say, of a ZA 2 For All » The Fami! m s y m “We use Black-Draught {g£ eg in our family of six children and find it a good liver and *3 bowel regulator,” says Mrs. C. E. Nutt, of Mineral » <Bi Springs, Ark. “1 have taken BP (B£ it myself in the last two or H| three years for indigestion. I gg. 2 and would feel stomach, dizzy, have also feel gas ^ ^ * sour m a thickness in my chest. I’d take a good dose of BLACK-DRAUGHT Liver Medicine At when I felt that way, and it H would relieve me, and 1 V would feel better for days. “My husband takes it for Irt 5" biliousness. He says he has 4ft never found its equal. When IP jm he has the tired, heavy feel- 41 ing, night he and takes morning Black-Draught for few a Mm days and he doesn’t com- 4ft plain "1 any more. do BP „ sure recommend mm ” Thedford’s Your liver Black-Draught.” is the largest Nft ^ organ in your body. When W& out of order, it Put causes many ^ 41 ~ complaints. taking your Thed- liver in shape by ford’s Black-Draught. Sold Everywhere EX-111 ^ 1999119999 ^ struggle in which the individual ef ficient in the fight for his own in terests was always the winning type —touched the profoundest depths of the psychology of the west. The idea seemed to present the whole order of progress in the world as the result of a purely mechanical and materialis tic process resting on force. In so doing it was a conception which reached the springs of that heredity j born of the unmeasured ages of con quest out of which the western mird has come. Within half a century the : ‘Origin of Species’ had become the Bible of the doctrine of the omnipo ! tence of force.’ | Kidd goes so far as to charge that ‘Nietzsche’s teaching represented the ' interpretation of the popular Darwin ism delivered with the fury and in , tensity of genius.’ And Nietzsche, be it remembered, denounced Christiani ty as the ‘doctrine of the degenerate,’ and democracy as ‘the refuge of | weaklings.’ “Kidd says that Nietzsche gave Germany the doctrine of Darwin’s ef¬ ficient animal in the voice of his su perman, and that Bernhardi and the military text books in due time gave Germany the doctrine of the super¬ man translated into the national pol icy of the super-state aiming at world power. (Page 67). “And what else hut the spirit of evolution can account for the popular J ity of the selfish doctrine, ‘each one for himself, and the devil take the j hindmost,' that threatens the very ' existence of the doctrine of brother i hood. j Editorial Quoted j “In 1900—twenty-five years ago— J while an International Peace congress was in session in Paris, the following editorial appeared in L'Univers: “ ‘The spirit of peace has fled the earth because evolution has taken possession of it. The plea for peace in past years has been inspired by faith in the divine nature and the di j vine origin of man, men were then looked upon as children of apes, what matters it whether they are siaugh tered or not.’ »• When there is poison in the blood, no one knows on what part of the body it will break out, but we can be sure that it will continue to break out until the blood is purified. One of the leading universities of the south (I love the state too wel! to mention its name) publishes a monthly maga zine entitled ‘Journal of Social _ Forces. , , In „ the January , issue of . this . vear, a contributor , has a lengthy ,, ar- 1 tide , ... Sociology . , and , Ethics, . , . on in the , course of which , he says: i will made take < “No attempt be to | up the matter of the good or evil of i sexual intercourse among humans aside from the matter of conscious procreation, but as an historian, it might be worth while to ask the ex¬ ponents of the impurity complex to explain the fact that without excep¬ tion, the great periods of cultural af florescence have been those charac¬ terized by a large amount of free¬ dom in sex relations, and that those of the greatest cultural degradation and decline have been accompanied a SORE, TIRED FEET i V V Tust put those weary, shoe-crinkled, aching, burning feet into a Tiz bath. 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This needed new capital will be at¬ tracted to the Southern if the profits from its operation are maintained at a level to establish a broad market for securities. I its m ■TsoutyJ? < .il THtT. SOUTHERN R A I LWAY SYSTEM with greater sex repression and puri¬ ty.’ Loathsome Application “No one charges or suspects that all or any large percentage of the advocates of evolution sympathize with this loathsome application of evolution to social life, but it is worth while to inquire why those in charge of „ great institution . . . of . , learning al- , a , low such , filth , to be , poured , out for , the , stirring . . of _ the of its passions students. , ( ‘Just one more quotation: The Southeastern Christian Advocate of // B / “ 4 I AS ¥ i i-t u ■ n ; i? m % '+A ft >G] m R READY ROOFINGS u A Roof for Every Building , Notice the roofs the buildings are usin g "N TOTICE the kind of roofing used on X NJ the buildings going up in your community. You’ll be surprised how many are being covered with Carey Roofing — the important buildings and the inexpensive, temporary buildings * alike. There is a Carey Roofing for every type of building — for your building — and it is most economical as well aa most serviceable There is a reason for the popularity of Carey Roofing. The reason is superiority t — from every viewpoint. FORT VALLEY LUMBER COMPANY Fort Valley Georgia * 9 college men of Great Britain as join ing m an answer to the question,. “Will civilization survive?’ Their re ply is that: “ ‘The greatest danger menacing our civilization is the abuse of the A achievements of science. Mastery over . the forces of nature has endowed the J twentieth century man with a power which he is not fit to exercise. Un¬ less the development of morality catches up with the development of technique, humanity is bound to de¬ stroy itself.’ (Continued on Page Seven)