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•attorney at Law*
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E. G SIMMONS,
•attorney at Law*
AMERICUS GA.,
Office in Hawkins’ building, south side of
Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort*
Simmons. JanStf
J. A. ANBLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
Clothing Stoke, Americub, Ga.
After a brief respite I return again to the
practice of law. As in the past it will be
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
tion and remittances promptly made. The
Equity practice, and cases involvingtitlesof
land and real estate are my favorites. Will
practice in the Courts of South west Georgia,
the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
CARD.
I offer my professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found it difficult
to withdraw entirely. Office next door to
Dr. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square
janl7tf K. C. BLACK, M. D.
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Price 25 cents per box. Jan2wly
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Treatssuccessfully all diseasesof the Den
tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved
method, and Inserts artificial teeth on the
best material known to the profession.
OFFICE over Davenport and Son’s
Drug Store. marllt
M. H. O’DANIEL. M. D
Americus, Ga.
Office and Residence, No. 21 Barlow
House.
All calls promptly attended, day or night.
Calls left at Eldridge’s Drug Store.
feb7-3m
Dr. J* F. Stapleton
Offers his professional services to the people
of Americus and surrounding eouu try. He
wOl practice medtclne, surgery, obstetrics,
and all other matters pertaining to his pro
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dH qka gash for 150 acres five
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HARDY Ss TOMMEY,
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limy aii Sal? Stills!
Besides Horses, we have the WEBSTER
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For lsyspepsia,
iMlsiiyiMJlcA Coßt A vo,lol,B
Headache,
Chronic Diar
g rhoea. Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Ferer and
VUdfliwTi Disease*
causod by De
rangement of Liver, Dowels and Kidneys.
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels
Snerally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
e head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complain*
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled;
feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits arc low and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would he bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
of the above symptoms at tend the disease, but cases
have occurred when but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
It should be used by all persons, old and
young, whenever any of the above
symptoms appear.
Persons Traveling or Living in Un
healthy Localities, by taking a dose occasion
ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid
all Malaria, Bilious attacks, Dizziness, Nau
sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It
will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in
toxicating beverage.
It You have eaten anything hard of
digestion, or feel bezyy after meals, or sleep
less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved.
Time and Doctors* Dills will be saved
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and docs not interfere with business or
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IT TS PURELY VEGETABLE,
And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or
Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects.
A Governor** Testimony.
Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my
family for some time, and 1 am satisfied it is a
valuable addition to the medical science.
J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga.,
says: Have derived some benefit from tl;e use of
Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a
further trial.
“The only Thing that never fails to
Relieve.’*—l have used many remedies for Dys
pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never
nave found anything to benefit me to the extent
Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min
nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for
such a medicine, and would advise all who are sim
ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only
thing that never fails to relieve.
P. M. Jannuy, Minneapolis, Minn.
T* W. Mason says: From actual ex
perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in
my practice I have been and am satisfied to use
and prescribe it as a purgative medicine.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1883.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGK
[The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
containing 26 Sermons is issued every
three months. Price 30 cents, |1 per an
num] .
EVOLUTION ANTI-BIBLE, AN
TI-SCIENCE, ANTI-COM
MON SENSE.
“Oh, Timothy, keep that which is com
mitted to thy trust, avoiding the opposi
tions of science falsely so called.”—l. Tim
othy, vi. 20.
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of a prophet wrote on
parchment, by the hand of the storm
wrote on tho rock. The best telescopes
and microscopes and electric batteries
and philosophical apparatus belong to
Christian universities. Who gave us
magnetic telegraphy? Professor Morse,
a Christian. Who swung the light
nings under the sea, cabling the conti
nents together? Cyrus W. field, the
Christian. Who discovered the an
ce#thetical properties of chloroform, do
ing more for the reliel of human pain
than any man that ever lived, driving
back nine-tenths of the horrors of sur
gery? James Y. Simpson, of Edin
burg, as eminent for piety as for science,
on week days in the university lectu
ring on profoundest scientific subjects,
ami on Sabbaths preaching the gospel
of Jesus Christ to the masses of Edin
burg. 1 saw the universities of that
city draped in mourning for his death,
and i heard his eulogy pronounced by
the destitute populations of the Cow
gate. Science and revelation are the
bas3 and the soprano of the same tune.
The whole world will yet acknowledge
the complete harmony. But believe
what nty text describes as “science
falsely so called” and revelation there •
is an uncompromising war, and one
or the other must go under. At the !
present time the air is filled with so- j
cial and platform and pulpit talk
about evolution, aud it is time that the j
people who have not opportunity to |
make investigation for themselves
understand that evolution, in the first
place, is up-and-down, out-and-out in
fidelity; in the second place, it is con
trary to the facts of science, and in the
third place, it is brutalizing in its. ten
dencies. I do not argue that this Bible
is a genuine book; I do not this morn
ing say that the Bible is worthy of any
kind of credence—those are subjects
for other Sabbaths—but I want yon
to understand that Thomas Paine and
Hume and Voltaire no more thorough
ly disbelieved the Holy Scriptures than
do all the leading scientists who be
lieve in evolution. And when I say
scientists of course I do not mean liter
ary men, or theologians who in essay
or in sermon, and without giving their
life of scientific investigation, look at
the subject on this side or that. By
scientists I mean those who have a so
cially in that direction, and who,
through zoological garden and sarium
and astronomical observatory, give
their life to the study of the physical
earth, its plants and its animals, and
the regions beyond so far as optical in
struments have explored them. I put
upon the witness stand, living and
dead, the leading evolutionists —Erust
Heckel, John Stuard Mill, Haxley,
Tyadall, Darwin, Spencer. On the
witness stand, you men of science,
living and dead, answer these ques
tions: Do you believe the Holy Scrip
tures? No. And so they say all. Do
you believe the Bible story of Adam
and Eve in the Garden of Eden? No.
And so they say all. Do you believe
the miracles of the Old and New Testa
ment? No. And eo they say all. Do
you beiieve in the regenerating power
of the Holy Ghost? No. And so
they say all. Do you believe that hu
man supplication directed heavenward
ever makes any difference? No. And
so they say all. Herbert Spencer, in
the only address he made in this coun
try, in his recent visit, in his very first
sentence, ascribes his physical ailments
to fate, and the antborized report of
that address begins the word fate with
a big F. Prof. Hackel, in the very
first page of his two great volumes,
sneers at the Bible as a so Called reve
lation. Tyndall, in his famous pray
er test, defined the whole of Christen
dom to show that human supplication
made any difference in the result of
t hings. John Stewart Mill wrote elab
orately against Christianity, ami to
show that his rejection of it was com
plete, ordered this epitaph for his
tombstone: “Most unhappy.” Hux
ley said that at tho first reading of
Dorwin’s Imok he was convinced of the
fact that teteology, by which he means
Christianity, had received its death
blow at the hand of Mr. Darwin. All
the leading scientists who believe in
evolution, without one exception the
world over, are infidel. I say nothing
against infidelity, mind you this morn
ing. I only wish to define the belief
and the meanihgof the rejection. Now,
I put opposite to each other, to show
that evolution is infidelity, the Bible
account of how the human race started
and the evolutionist account as to how
the human race started. Bible ac
count: “God said, let us make man in
otrr own image. God created man in
His own image; male and female crea
ted He them.” He breathed into him
the breath of life, the whole story set
ting forth the idea that it was not a
perfect kangaroo, or a perfect orang
outang, bnt a perfect man. This is
, the Bible account. The evolutionist
j account: Away back in the ages there
were four or five primal germs or sem
, inal spores from which ail the living
crea'ures have beenevolved. Goaway
• back and there you will find a vegeta
ble stuff that might be called a mush
room. This mushroom by innate
force develops a tadpole, the tadpole
by innate force developes a polywog,
the polywog develops a fish, the fish by
natural force develops into a reptile,
the reptile develops into a quadruped,
the quadruped developes into a baboon,
the baboon develops into a man. Dar
win says that the hnman hand is only
' a fish’s fin developed. He says that
;the human lungs are only a swim
bladder, showing that we once floated,
or were amphibious. He says the hu
man ear could once hayc been moved
by force of will, just as a horse lifts its
ear st a frightful object. He says the
human race were originally web-footed.
From primal germ to tadpole, from
tadpole to fish, from fish to reptile,
from reptile to wolfe, from woll'e to
chimpanzee, aud irom chimpanzee to
man. Now, if anybody says that the
Bible account of the starting of the hu
man race and the evolutionist account
of the starting of the human race are
the same accounts, he makes an appal
ling misrepresentation. Prefer, if you
will, Darwin’s Origin of the Species to
the Book of Genesis, but know you are
an infidel. As for myself, as Herbert
Spencer was not present at the crea
tion and the Lord Almighty was pres
ent, I prefer to take the Divine account
as to what really occurred on that oc
casion. To show that this evolution
is only an attempt to eject God,
and to postpone Him, and to put Him
clear out of reach, I ask a question or
two. The baboon made the man, and
the woli made the baboon, and the
reptile made the quadruped, and the
fish made the reptile, and the tadpole
made the fish, and the primal germ
made the tadpole. Who made the
primal germ? Most of the evolution
; ists say, “We don’t know.” Others
' say it made itself. Others say it was
i spontaneous generation. There is not
I one ef them who will fairly and openly
aud frankly and emphatically say,
j “God made it.” The nearest to a di
j rect answer is that made by Herbert
Spencer in which he says it was made
by the great unknowable mystery. But
here comes Huxley with a pail pro
toplasm to explain the thing. This
protoplasm, he says, is the primal life-'
giving quality with which the race
away back in the ages was started.
With this protoplasm he proposes to
explain everything. Dear Mr. Hux
ley, who made the protoplasm?
To show you that that evolution is
infidel, I place the Bible account of
how the brute creation was started op
posite to the evolutionist’s account of
the way the brute creation was started.
Bible account: You know the Bible
tells how that the birds were made
at one time, and the cattle made at an
other time, and the fish made at anoth
er time, and that each brought forth
after its kind. Evolutionest’s account:
From four or firm primal germs or
seminal spori* all the living creatures
evolved. Hundreds of thousands of
species of insects, qf reptiles, of beasts,
of fish, from, four germs—a statement
flatly contradicting not only the Bible,
but the very A, B, 0 of science. A
species nover develops into anything
bnt its own species. In all the ages
and in all the world there has never
been an exception to it. The shark
never comes of a whale, nor the pigeon
ef a vulture, nor the butterfly of a wasp.
Species never cross over. If there be an
attempt at it, it is hybrid, and hybrid
is always sterile, and has no descend
ants. These men of science tell us
that a hundred thousand species came
from four, when the law all through
the universe is that, striking at one
species, it keeps on in that species, and
there would be only four now if there
had been lour at starting. If I should
say to you that the world is flat, and
that a circle and a square are the same,
and that twice two make fifteen, I
would come just as near the truth as
when these evolutionists tell yon that
a hundred thousand species came from
fonr. Evolution would have been left
out of the question, with its theory
flatly contradicting all observation and
all science, had it not been for the fact
that they are so ret in ejecting God
from the universe and destroying the
Bible that they will go any length,
though it lead them into idiotic absur
dity. You see what the Bible teaches
in regard to it. I have shown you al
so what evolution teaches in regard to
it. Agassiz says that he found on a
reef in Florida the remains of insects
thirty thousand years old—not three,
but thirty thousand years old—and
that they were jnst like the insects
now. There has been no change. All
the facts of ornithology and zoology
and ichthyology aud conchology but
an echo of Genesis, first and twenty
first: “Every winged fowl after his
kind.” Every creature after its kind.
When common observation and science
corroborate the Bible I will not stulti
fy myself by surrendering to the elab
orate guesses of evolutionists.
To show that evolution is iufidel I
place also the Biljle account of how
worlds were made opposite the evolu
tionist’s account of how worlds were
made. Bible account: God made two
great lights—the one to rule the day,
the other to rule the night; He made
the stars. also. Evolutionist account:
Away back in the ages there was a fire
mißt or star dust, and this fire mist
cooled off into granite, and then this
granite by earthquake and by Btorm
and by light was shaped into moun
tains and valleys and seas, and so what
was originally fire mist becomes what
we call the earth. Who made the fire
mist? Who set the fire mist to world
making? Who cooled oft the fire mist
into granite? You have pushed God
some sixty or seventy million miles
from tho earth, bnt he is too near yet
for the health of evolution. For a great
while the evolutionists boasted that
they had found the very stuff out of
which this world and all worlds were
made. They lifted the telescope and
they saw it, the very material out of
which worlds made themselves. Ne
bula of simple gas. They laughed in
triumph because they had found the
factory where the worlds were manu
factured, and there waß no God any
where around the factory! But in an
unlucky hour for infidel evolutionists
the spectroscopes of Fraunhofer and
Kirchoff were invented, by which they
saw into that nebula and found that it
was not a simple gas, but was a com
pound, and hence had to be supplied
from some other source, and that im
plied a God, and away went their theo
ry, shattered into everlasting demoli
tion. So theso infidel evolutionists go
wandering up and down guessing
through the universe. Anything to
push back the Jehovah from his empire
and make the one book which is His
great communication to the soul of the
human race appear obselete and a de
rision. But lam glad to know that
while some of these scientists have gone
into evolution, there are more that do
not believe it, among them the man
who is generally considered the greatest
scientists we ever had this side the water
—Agassiz. A name that makes every
intelligent man the earth over uncover.
Agassiz says:
“The manner in which the evolution
theory in zoology is treated would lead
those who are not special zoologists to
suppose that observations have been
made by which it can be inferred that
there is in nature such a thing as
change among organized beings actual
ly taking place. There is no such
thing ou record. It is shifting the
ground of observation from one field of
observation to another to make this
statement, and when the assertions go
so far as to exclude front the domain of
science those who will not be dragged
into the mire of mere assertion, then it
is time to protest.”
With equal vehemence against this
doctrine orevolution Hugh Miller, Far
aday, Brewster, Dana, Dawson and
hundreds of scientists in this country
and other countries have made protest.
I kitow that the few men who have
adopted the theory make more noise
than the thousands who have rejected
it. The Bothna of the Cunard line
took 500 passengers safely from New
York to Liverpool, Not one of the five
hundred made any excitement. But
after we had been four days out, one
morning we found on deck a man’s hat,
and coat, and vest and boots, implying
that someone had jumped overboard.
Forthwith we all began to talk about
that one man. There was more talk
about that one man overboard than all
the five hundred passengers that rode
on in safety. “Why did he jump over
ed overboard, he would like to have
jumped back again.” “I wonder if a
fish caught him, or whether he went
clear down to the bottom of the sea.”
And for three or four days afterward we
talked about the poor man who jumped
overboard. Here is the glorious and
magnificent throng that God by His
omnipotent power made man, and by
omnipotent power made the brute crea
tion, and by His omnipotent power
made all worlds, and 5,000 scientists
have taken passage on board that mag
nificent theory, but ten or fifteen have
jumped overboard. They make more
talk than all the 5,000 that did not
jump. 1 am politely asked to jump
with them. Thank you, gentlemen, I
am very much obliged to you. I think
I shall stick to the old Cunarder. If
you want to jump overboard, jump, and
test for yourself whether your hand was
really a fish’s fin, and whether you
were web-footed originally, and wheth
er your lungs are a swim-bladder. And
as in every experiment there must be
a division of labor, some who experi
ment and some who observe, you make
the experiment and I will observe!
There ie one tenet of evolution which
it is demanded we adopt—that which
Darwin calls “natural selection” and
that which Wallace calls the “survival
of the fittest.”* By this they mean that
the human race and tho bruto creation
are all the time improving because the
weak die and the strong live. Those
who do not die survive because they
are the fittest. They say the breed of
sheep, and cattle, aud dogs, and men is
all the time improving, naturally im
proving. No need of God or any Bible,
or any religion, bnt just natural pro
gress. You see the race started with
“spontaneous generation,” and then it
goes right on until Darwin can take us
up with his “natural selection,” and
Wallace can take us up with his “sur
vival of the fittest,” aud so we go right
on up forever. Beautiful! Bnt do the
fittest survive? Garfield died in Sep
tember—Guiteau survived until the
following June. “Survival of the
fittest?” Ah! no. The martyrs, re'
ligious and political, dying for their
frinciples their bloody persecutors
iviug on to old age. "Survival of the
fittest?” Five hundred thousand brave
Northern men marching out to meet
five hundred thousand brave Southern
men, and dying on the battlefield for a
principle. Hundreds of thousands of
them went down in the grave trenches.
We stayed at home in comfortable
quarters. Did they die because they
were not as fit to live as we who sur
vived? Ah! no; not the “survival of
the fittest.” Ellsworth and Nathaniel
Lyon falling on the Northern side.
Albert Sydney Johnson and Stonewall
Jackson falling on the Southern side.
Did they fall because they were not as
fit to live as the soldiers and the gen
erals who came back in safety? No.
Bitten wit’ll the frosts of tho second
death be the tongue that dares utter iti
It is not the “survival ot the fittest.”
How has it been in the families of the
world? How was it with the child
physically the strongest, intellectually
the brightest, in disposition the kind
est? Did that child die because it was
not as fit to live as those of your fami
ly that survived? Not “the survival
of the fittest.” In all communities
some of the noblest, grandest men dy
ing in youth or in mid life, while some
of the meanest and most contemptible
live on to old age. Not the “survival
of the fittest.”
But to show you that this doctrine
is antagonistic to the Bible and to com
mon seuse, 1 have only to prove to you
that there has been no natural progress.
Vast improvement from another source,
but, mind you, no natural progress.
Where is the fine horse in any of our
parks whose picture of eye, and mane,
and nostril, and neck, and haunches is
worthy of being compared to Job’s pic
ture of a horse as he thousands of years,
ago heard it paw, and neigh,and champ
its bit for the battle? Pigeons of to
day are not so wise as the carrier pig
eon* of five hundred years ago—pigeons
that carried the mails from army to
aTmy and from city to city; one of them
flying into the sky at Rome or Venice,
landing without ship or railtrain in
London. Look at the great animals
that walked the earth in olden times—
animals compared with which in size
our elephant is a cat—monsters of olden
times that swam the deep, compared
with .which our whale is a m-innow.
Copies have learned nothing about
climbing,and the hounds nothing about
hunting, and the ostrich nothing about
batching, and the condor nothing about
flying, and the owl nothing about musi
cal cadences, ior G,OOO years. Not a
partical of progress. And as to the
human race, so far as mere natural pro
gress is concerned, it started with men
ten feet high; now the average is about
five feet six inches. It started with
men living two hundred, four hundred,
eight hundred, nine hundred years, and
now thirty jears is more than the aver
age of human life. Mighty progress
we have made, haven’t we? I went
into the cathedral at York, England,
and the best artists in England had
just been painting a window in that
cathedral, and right beside it was a
window painted four hundred yeats
ago, and there is not a man on earth
but would say that the modern painting
of the window by the best artists of
England is not worthy of being com
pared with the painting of fonr hun
dred years ago right beside it. Vast
improvements as I shall show you in a
minute or two,but no natural evolution.
Look at China, where evolution has
had full swing for thousands of years
uninterrupted by anything except here
and there a mission station with this
defunct book, the Bible, but though the
most of the realm not interfered with.
What has evolution done for China?
Christian civilization goes in and
builds a railroad; they tear it right up.
For one thousand years the Chinese
nation, where is not invaded by the
Gospel, has not made one five-hun
dredth, thousandth, millionth part of
an inch of advancement. They wor
ship the same gods of red paints, just
as always they drown the female chil
dren as a nuisance, just as always they
eat with chopsticks. So in India and
so in Arabia, so in Turkey, so every
whore where the Gospel has not made
an invasion. I tell you, my friends,
that natural evolution is not upward,
but is always downward. Hear Christ’s
account of it, Matthew xv, 19: “Out of
the heart proceedeth evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, blasphemies.” That is
what Christ said of evolution. Give
evolution, natural evolution, full swing
in onr world, and it will evolve into
two hemispheres of crime, two hemis
pheres of penitentiary, two hemispheres
of lazaretto, two hemispheres of brothel.
New York Tombs, Moyamensing Pris
on, Philadelphia, Shoreditch, London,
and Cowgate, Edinburg, only festering
carbunkles on the face and neck of
natural evolution. See what the Bible
says about the heart and then what
evolution says about the heart. Evo
lution says, “Better and better and bet
ter gets the heart of natural improve
ment.” The Bible says, “The heart
is deceitful above all things and des
perately wicked.” Who can know it?
When you can evolve fragrance from
malodor, and can evolve an oratorio
from a buzz Baw, and can evolve fall
pippins from a basket of decayed crab
apples, then you can by natural evolu
tion from the human heart develop
goodness. Ah! my friends, evolution
is always downward; it ie never up
ward. What is remarkable about
thin thing is, it is all the time develop
ing its dishonesty. In our day it is
ascribiug this evolution to Herbert
Spencer and Charles Darwin. It ie a
dishonesty. Evolution was known
and advocated hundreds of years before
these gentlemen began to be evolved.
The Phoenicians thousands of years
ago declared that the hnman race wob
bled ont of themud. Democritus, who
lived 460 years before Christ—re mem-
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her that—knew this doctrine of evolu
tion when be said:
“Everything is composed of atoms,
or infinitely small elements, each with
a definite quality, form and movement,
whose inevitable anion and separation
shape all different things and forms,
laws and effects, and. desolve them
again for new combinations. The gods
themselves and the human mind origi
nated from snch atoms. There are ne
casualties. Everything is necessary
and determined by the nature of the
atoms, which have certain mutual af
finities, attractions and repulsions.”
Anaximander centuries ago declares
that the human race started at the
place where the sea saturated the earth.
Lucretius develops long centuries ago,
in his poems, the doctrine of evolution.
It is an old heathen corpse set up in
a morgue. Charles Darwin and Her
bert Spencer are trying' to galvanize
it. They drag thiß old putrefaction of
three thousand years around the earth,
boasting that it is their originality,
and so wonderful is the infatuation that
at the delmonics dinner given in honor
of Herbert Spencer, a few weeks ago,
there were those who ascribed to him
this great originality of evolution.
There the banqueters sat around the
table in honor of Herbert Spencer,
chewing beef and turkey and roast pig,
which according to their doctrine of ev
slution made them eating their own re
lativesl Slicing up their own cousins!
Driving a carving fork into their be
loved-kindred! Dashing Worcester
shire sauce, bedaubing mustard all over
their loved ones. And while Herbert
Spencer read a patronizing lecture to
Americans, the banqueters sat around
the table with their hands up, saying:
“Dear me! it is the voice of a god and
not of a man.” There is only me thing
worse than English snobbery, aud that
is American snobbery. 1 like dtmoc
racy and I like aristocracy, but there is
one kind of ccracy in this country that
excites my contempt, and that is what
Charles Ivinglesy, after he had witness
ed it himself, calied snobocracy. Now,
I say it is a gigantic dishonesty when
they ascribe this old heathen doctrine of
evolution to any modern gentl man.
When I come to speak of the dishon
esties and deceptions .of evolutions, I
find I shall have to adjourn much of
my subject until next Sabbath m ru
ing, and then go on perhaps on the fol
lowing Sabbath morning, answering
still further this evolution doctrine as it
is advocated, I not ce among others in
an Episcopal church in New York by
an eminent divine who demands the
expurgation of the Bible. We have
evolved into such a condition the old
Bible is not good enough. We have
got to evolve another kind of Scrip
ture. We must discuss, all these
points, but enough for me this morning
to say in closing, l am not a pessimist,
but an optimist. I do not believe every
thing is going to destruction; I believe
everything is going on to redemption.
But it will not be through the infidel
doctrine of evolution, but through our
glorious Christianity, which has effect
ed all the good that has ever been
wrought and which is yet to recon
struct all the nations.
What is that in the offing? A ship
gone on the rocks at Cape Hateras.
Hulk is breaking up, crew and pass
engers are drowning. The storm is in
full blast and the barometer is still
sinking. What does that ship want?
Development. Develop her broken
masts. Develop her broken rudder.
Develop her drowning crew. Devel
op her freezing passengers. Develop
the whole ship. That is all it wants.
O! I make a mistake. What that ship
wants is a lifeboat from the shore.
Leap into it, you men of this life sta
tion. Pull away to the wreck. Steady
there! Bring the women and children
first to the shore. Now the stout men.-
Wrap them up in flannels, kindle
crackling and roaring fire until the fro
zen limbs are thawed ont, and between
their chattering teeth you can pour res
toration. Well, my friends, onr world
in on the rocks. God launched it well
enough, but through mispilotage and
the storms of six thousand years it has
gone into the breakers. What does this
old ship of a world want? Development.
There is enough old evolution in the
hnlk to evolve another mast and an
other rudder, and to evolve all the
passengers and evolve the ship ont of
the breakers. Development. Ah! no,
my friends, what this old shipwreck of
a world wants is a lifeboat from the
shore. And it is coming; cheer, my
lads, cheer. It is coming from the
shining shore of Heaven, taking the
crests of ten waves with one sweep of
the shining paddles. Christ is in the
lifeboat. Many wounds on bands and
feet and side aud brow, showing He
has been long engaged in the work of
rescue, but yet mighty to save—to
Bave one, to save all, to save forever.
My Lord and my God, get us into the,
lifeboat! Away with your rotten, de
ceptive, infidel and blasphemous evolu
tion and give ns the Bible. Salvation
through Jesus Christ onr Lord,
"Salvation! let the echo fly
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Till all the armies ot the sky
Conspire to raise the sound."
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