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The Atlanta Georgian.
vol. l xo. 57.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 30. 1906.
JOHN WESLEY, FOUNDER OF METHODIST CHURCH, ■
HELD THEORY OF EVOLUTION LONG BEFORE DARWIN
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He Wrote a Book on the Subject Thirty- ®
Four Years Before Darwin Was Born, $
and Eighty-Four Years Before the
“Origin of Species” Was Written.
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J OHN WESLEY wrote a book In
two Volumea am the orixln of spe
cie* thirty-four years before Dar
win waa born, ami eighty-four years
before Darwin publlsheil his celebrated
work on the "Origin of Species." The
work written' by the founder of Meth
odism Is entitled “Wesley’s Phllnsn
Phy,” and was written In 1776, and pub
lished In this country by Mason "
Bungs, of New York, la Hit.
The publication Is In two volumes,
Darwin’s book Is called “The Origin
of Species,” but It Is not on that sub
ject at all, but on the modification of
species. Wesley’s book Is not called
“The Origin of
on that subject.
rhe Origin of Species,” but Is really
Darwin’s book begins
with species already started, arid stu-
grvTng lu the origin of
diously avoids
them.
.On the title page of “Wesley’s Phi
losophy” are the following words:
’’A survey of the wisdom of God In
creation, or a compendium of natural
philosophy, containing an abridgment
of that beautiful work, ’The Contem
plation of Nature,’ by Mr. Bonnet, of
Geneva; also, an extract from Mr. Deu-
ton’s ‘Inquiry Into the Origin of the
Discoveries Attributed to the An
cients.’ ”
The preface Is dated 1775. Wesley
says In the preface:
“I have long desired to see such a
compendium of natural philosophy as
was not too diffuse, not expressed In
many words, but comprised In so mod-
. erate a compass as not to require any
large expense of time or money, not
maimed or Imperfect, but containing
the heads (after all our discoveries)
of whatever Is known with any de
gree of certainty either with regard to
the earth or the heavens; but I can not
find such a treatise as this In any mod
em any more than ancient language.
And I am certain there Is none such In
the English tongue.”
"I am thoroughly sensible,” he con
tinue* In the preface, "there are many
who have far more ability, as well as
leisure, for such a work than me; but
ns none of them undertake It, I have
myself made some little attempt In
the ensuing volumes.”
The abridgment of the work of Mr.
Bonnet Is In the second volume, ns
also Is tho extract from Mr. Deuton’s
book, but the whole work receives Mr.
Wesley’s approval and Indorsement,
and Is put Into hls.nwn language. It
may be taken a* embodying the opin
ions John Wesley had thirty-four years
before Darwin was bom, of the origin.
1st* have been straightened In an at
tempt to Institute a positive criterion
for the' line of demarkatlon between
animal and vegetable beings, and
equally so for that between vegetables
and fossils. There Is such an obvious
r datlon In the scale of beings, that
appears Impossible to ascertain
where one species ends and the other
begins.” Again, on the same page, the
missing link between the plant and th*
animal fs given In the following: “But
there are instances wherein nature ap-
table functions In the same beings, and
the polypus may be considered as the
Intermediate link between the two
kingdoms.”
On page’242, volume 2, Wesley says:
When we consider In a general view
the composition of men and quadru-
method and order of nature. This book
contains the whole development theor
In a form far more In accordance wit
Speers." Wesley represents species as
originating In the only place'hey can
originate. In the eternal mind of the
Creator. Species, types, patterns. Ideas
mean about the same thing, and while
these may be modified by environ
ment, natural selection, etc., they can
not, originate In nor can they hr
changed by natural selection or envl
ronment. Mr. Darwin and his son,
Francis, both confess (pp. 264, 255,
Life and Letters of Darwin). "We can
not prove that a single species has
changed.” Agassis asked Mr. Darwin
one troublesome question: “If spe
cie* do not exist, how can they vary?"
This was the very question that Mr.
Darwin failed to answer. All of u* can
ate., vary species, but what the wort
wants to know Is, How species cam* to
be? Where did all th* types, patterns,
species and Ideas In accordance with
..-hirh ihtni'u vmw mm* from? This
which things grow come from? This
question Is answered by John Wesley.
He considers at length plants, insects,
reptiles, fishes, birds, beasts and man.
He treats also of minerals, metals and
fossils, of stars, and the machinery of
the heaven*.
I shall take extracts fron) different
parts of the work without reference to
order, as my object Is to show that
the whole evolution or development
theory was In th* mind of Wesley long
before Darwin was born.
On page 117 he says: "There Is a
near analogy between animals- and
plants.” In a note on page 251 of
volume 2, .In the part which Is an
abridgment of the work of Mr. Bon
net, of Geneva, It Is said: Natural-
here Is with respect to all of them
the same foundation of structure, dif
ferently modlded In different species.
In order to be convinced of this, we
need only cast our eyes on those anat
omical plates. In which are.represented
the skeletons of divers animals that
have been dissected. From man. the
ape and horse, to the squirrel, weasel
and mouse, we shall see, throughout,
the same design, the same arrange
ment, the same essential relations, ex
cept In a few particulars.”
On page 152, volume 2, he says;
‘There are no sudden changes In na
ture; all Is gradual and elegantly va
ried. There Is no being which has not,
either above or beneath it, some that
resemble It In certain characters and
differ from It In others. • • • The
polypus links the vegetable to the ani
mal; the flying squirrel unites the bird
to the quadruped; the ape bears af
finity to the quadruped and the man."
Again, on page 224, volume 2: "All
Is metamorphosis in the physical
world. Forma are continually chang
ing. The quantity ’of matter alone
’ Invariable. The same substanro
see successively Into three king
doms. The same composition becomes
by turns a mineral, nmnt, Insert, rep.
tile, fish, bird, quadruped, man."
On page 240, volume 2: "When the
evolution begins In an organised whole,
Its form differs so prodigiously from
that which it will afterwards assume,
that we should be apt to mistake It
were It not to accompany It In all Its
progress.”
Again on page 245, volume 2: "Evo
lution Is not uniform In all parts of
the germ; they grow unequally, and
this Inequlalty of growth may Influ
ence the effects of contact, pressure,
adhesion, etc.”
On page 265, volume 2: ‘The same
general design comprises all parts of
the terrestrial creation. A globule of
light, a molecule of earth, a grain of
salt, a particle of moldiness, a poly-
=By REV. J. W. LEE, D. IV
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THE EVOLUTIONARY
This picture gives us the whole
divine 'process In creation In the
form of a tree. It correctly rep
resents John Wesley's Ideas, as
well as those of all evolutionists
of the present time. Those who
speak of man -coming from mon
keys or from any lower species
of life, do not understand what
evolution means. Any one, by
carefully considering this tree,
will see that nothing but plants
ever come from plants. Only trll-
obltes come from trllobltes; only
horses come from horses; only
monkeys come from monkeys. The
monkey limb remains a monks;
a man, are only different strokes of this
design.”
On page 261, volume 2: "What a
multitude of physiological truths that
were unknown to us In the vegetable
to us? How do these truths ap
pear as paradoxes, and yet how evi
dently are they demonstrated? Who
can doubt that there exists an animal,
a very animal, since It Is extremely
voracious, whose young grows like
branches and which, being cut to prices
and actually minced, regenerates anew
In all Its parts, and even In the small
est fragments, that may be grafted by
approximation or Inoculation, turned
approx!
Inside outward like a glove, afterwards
cut, turned back and cut again, with
out ceasing to live, grow, devour and
multiply?” He continues and gives
fie a lesson In humility, warning us
not to Imagine we know everything.
“It was not a lit season, therefore, to
make general rules, to arrange nature,
establish distributions, form systemat-
id to raise an edifice,
leal orders, am
which future ages, better Instructed,
will even dread to project. We have
scarce any knowledge of the animal
when we would undertake to deflne It.
Because our knowledge Is at present In
some measure Improved, shall we pre
sume to think we thoroughly know It?
How many animals are there that are
even more strange than polypuses,
and that would confound all our rea
soning could-we discover them? It
monkey limb remains a monkey
limb throughout all generations.
The topmost branch of the tree
represents man. He comes last,
ns Genesis and all evolutionists
teach, because God saw the ne
cessity of preparing a world for .
him. ond all things necessary tor:
his well-being, before He created
him. Man could not have lived If-
simply created, and. left hanging
In the air, without any world be
low him, or any heavens above
him. But while mnn was the last
to appear on the top of God's
creative tree, he was the first In
the mind of God, who created all
things. The direction of the whole
divine movement was toward man,
God's child, from the beginning. As
a self-conscious, self-determlnlng,
self-active spirit, he came straight
from the mind and heart of the
Almighty. The process has been
called evolution, not because one
species comes from another, but
because one divine Idea succeeds
nnother In getting itself uttered
by the eternal mind. God aaw
proper to make the atoms and
S lants and lower animals before
le made man. That Is what Moses
said, and that la what Wesley said,
and that Is what the latest science
declares. The esentlal thing about
evolution Is that Ood created all
things from within, rather than
from without. Men make plow-
stocks from the outside of the
makes all that He has mads from
the Inside of the elements of them.
As transcendent, God Is other and
distinct from all things, as Imms-
neflt He Is the underlying thought
or Logos of all things. .As trans
cendent, according to Christian
theology. Ood I* Father; a* Im-
menent Ood Is Bon, as power dy
namic and active, proceeding from
the Father and the Son. and co
operating with them In creation,
“Wesley’s Philosophy” is Sub-Titled
“A Survey of the Wisdom of God,
or a Compendium of Natural
Philosophy, Abridged From Bonnet.”
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tlson. the distinguished rector of Lin
coln College, not to know anything
scarcely of Wesley or his work, when
Weslev had been a fallow of hla own
college. This was brought out one day
when Hugh Price Hughes expressed
his surprise to Mr. Pattlson that even
his college hail no adequate memorial
of the most distinguished fellow that
ever adorned Its common room. "What
other fellow of Lincoln,” added Mr.
Hughes, "or Indeed of any Oxford col-
lege, had twenty millions of avowed
disciples In all parts of tho world with
in less thou a century after his death?”
"Twenty millions!” exclaimed Mr. Pat-
tlaon, with a start, "twenty millions!
You mean twenty thousand?" Mr.
Hughes hud te repeat It three times
over to him twin* he could persuade
him that he meant It. ”1 had not the
faintest conception.” said the Illus
trious rector of Lincoln,- "that there
were so many Methodists.” ,
Yet th* figures given by Mr. llhghrs
to the Rev. Mark Pattlson are Incor
rect. There are of all. branches of
Methodism a constituency of 50,000,000.
Journeying never less than 4.600
miles In any year, and always un>tl Ids
70IH year on horseback, before turn
pike or macadamised roads were
known, we would suppose that JVeeley
. ... .
gave himself u|> to horseback riding.
the fifty years of his ministry he
traveled thus 260,000 miles. He
preached 40,000 sermons In the flfty
years of his apostolate—an average of
over two each day—we wonder how
upvininiB wiiii uwil f*i viaaviuu.
God Is spirit. As Father, Son and
Holy Spirit, we have the living
God transcending creation, Imma
nent In creation and working out
the divine program In creation.
If we thing of God as ons who
transcends ths universe only, we
have the Inscrutable absolute of
Herbert Spencer. If we think of
God as Immanent only, we Iden
tify Him with all thing* and ob
literate moral distinctions, aa did
Bplnosa. Tho Trinity worked out
by the Christian fathers le not
simply the only Chrlsllen view of
God, but the only rational view of
Him.
would be neceesary on that occasion to
Invent a new language In order to de
scribe our observations. Polypuses are
placed on the frontiers of another uni
verse that will some time or other have
Its Columbuses and Vsspucluaes. Shall
we Imagine that we have penetrated
into the Interior parts of the continent
because we have taken a slight vlsw of
some coasts at a distance? We will
form to ourselves more exalted Ideas
of nature; we will flrmly persuade our
selves that what we have discovered
of her Is but the smallest part of what
she contains. Having been heretofore
for the time to come, but will contlnu*
our observations; we will amass fresh
truths, connect them If we are able and
be In expectation of every discovery,
determined from a study of his work*
John Wesley was the most Influ
ential man of th* eighteenth century.
He had In his veins th* best blood In
England. On both sides he "belonged
to an unbroken ancefttral succession of
English gentlemen.” He was a fellow
Sna Greek lecturer In Lincoln College
when he was 22 years of age. Zeal
and enthusiasm in behalf of men led
him Into disregard of ecclesiastical
rules. He was unsophisticated and
simple and human enough to think
that men were so valuable as to be
worthy of saving at th* cost of prece
dent. This was too much for the
clergy of the time. They closed upon
him the door ot every church In Eng
land. Nothing was left him but the
the known cannot be a model for the
unknown, and that models have been
varied ad Infinitum.” This gives us an
all discoveries of truth In the universe.
His ruilh In God was In no dangar of
being overturned by some discovery
that some one might make In the do-
entire work on natural philosophy la
written In the most simple and unso
phisticated way. It never seemed to
dawn on him that anything In God's
material universe contradicted any
thing In God’s spiritual universe.
■rot ‘ *
He
wrote these books for ths people called
Methodists to read, that they might
understand the method of God In crea
tion, as far aa that method could be
YOUNGEST CANTOR
IS VISITING ATLANTA
VIASTER ISRAEL ROTHSTEIN, BOY
WONDER, TO CHANT IN
SYNAGOGUE.
L, & N, PASSENGERS
SOON TO RUN HERE
Master Israel Rothsteln, a 11-year-
old New York wonder, the youngest
cantor In the world. Is In Atlanta and
will take part In several public ser
vices.
Th* boy will .conduct religious ser
vice* Friday night at 7:60 o’clock In tho
Jewish synagogue In Piedmont avenue
and again Saturday morning at 5
o'clock. He will chant the evening
prayers In the synagogue Sunday at
7:10 o’clock and wrUl also glv* a con
cert afterward*
sweet voice and has
praise. He has been traveling for tho
three and a half year* and ha*
past throe and a nair years *no nas
beta in every section of the United
States. He has been awarded three
gold medals for his superb singing.
Tbomis BsMaston Mars lUy. Radish his
torian. essayist, poet, am! sntfsvts.i, waf
tn-r-llnstely fond of -truly «mnmhleteil
sal.tmsts. He m.e-1 oaly tlio svnly enrt.
miscellaneous ■
The world la full of foolish buche-
It la officially announced that the
Louisville and Nashville road will be
gin Operating regular paisenger trains
over Its Cincinnati-Atlanta line about
the middle of September, the freight
service having become thoroughly es
tabllshciI. In the meantime, the com
peny will employ a large force of men
on the line putting the track In flrst-
clasa condition, and when the first
through trains are put on In Septem
ber they will run over one of the beat
railroads In the country..
The tracks of ths new line are being
ballasted with rock from one end to
the other, and the heavy rails will
afford easy running for what the
Louisville and Nashville will term the
fastest trains In the south. Ample lo
cal trains will be put on. end. In addi
tion, a fast train will make th* run
ouch wax dally.
The city passenger and-freight of
fices on Peachtree street, near the
viaduct, are practically completed, and
a large force, of solicitors In both de
travel from Atlanta and the south
east.
When this line Is completed, and In
ng order, the Lm ’
Nashville will
good tunnln
order, the Louisville and
again give Its attention
to bettering the line from Louisville
to New Orleans, through Nashville,
and the building of another new line
from Scottsvllle to Stanford, Ky.
KAISER AND THE CZAR
TO HOLD CONFERENCE
compassing sky. He lost the ploi
light that cornea through atalned win
dows, the soft music from the solemn
organ and the sentiment Inspired by
the effect of lofty vaultings and ex
quisitely carved column*, but he gained
commerce wirh nature and the secret
of winning men to a better life. Ills
work ‘began to take on something of
th* Immensity of hla new surroundings.
The world became his parish, and ths
human race . wss embraced In th*
radical depart
ure from the prescribed lines ordained
J>y ecclesiastical consensus for th* Ilf*
and work of a clergyman In t|je Church
the unlverelty end cultivated circle* of
Kng)|eh eoclel life. Because ot tide,
the prodigious amount of work per
formed by Weeley between the years
1715 end 1761 was not noticed or con
sidered by the upper and educated
classes of Great Britain. He had ac
complished more perhaps then any
w In the era
men ever did before I
Its same num
ber of years, but It wa* hidden beneath
Indifference and conceit and con-
thinking
th*
tempt of the ruling and
claeses of hi* countrymen.
Herculaneum wa* burled by the
memorable eruption of Vesuvius In the
yeer A. D. 76. For 1*26 years It re
mained under the surface of the earth
filled up and covered with volcanic
thing but preaching. When we
down hie works and see that
wrote an Knglleh grammar, a Greek
grammar, n lJUIn grammar, a Heb
rew grammar, we are led to con
elude that he must have given
tils life 4n the study of th* structure
of language and the writing of gram
mars! But In addition to all this Wes
ley wrote a Compendium of Logic, he
prepared extracts for use in Kings
wood School and elsewhere from Plta«
drus, Ovid, Virgil, Horace, Juvenal,
Perslus, Martial and ftalluit; he wrote
an English dictionary: commentaries on
the whole of the Old nnd New Testa
ments; n history of England from the
earliest times to the death of Georg*
II; a short history of Roms; a com
pendluin of social philosophy In flvi
volumes; n conels* ecclesiastical tils
lory from Ih* birth of Christ to th#
beginning of Ih* eighteenth century, In
rour volumes: a Christian library In 60
volumes, consisting of extracts from all
th* great theological writers of th*
universal church. He prepared also
many editions of the "Imitation
Christ," end of the principal work* of
ir, Medan
ting, and also sought to lessen dletresa
But with the opening and during
th* progress of-the nineteenth century
the Wesleyan movement took on sucu
proportions that the tremendous -lx
nlflrance of Wesley and hie work coul-l
no longer be kept In a corner. Mw-i'i-
ley went ao fsr as to admlnlrt-r s
withering rebuke to the literary < ti.ir-
latana of England, who proposed to
writ* the history of the elghteen'li
century without taking notice of Meth-
odlsm and prophesied that the breed I
would die out. Mr. Lucky, one of tho I
best of Engtleh historians, put him-- f J
'Although the career of the elder i
the splendid victories by lent)
Pitt and
and sea that were won during
ministry form unquestionably the most
dsxxlln* episode In Ih* reign of Oeiirxn
Runyan, Law, Baxter, Madams Guyon,
Principal Edwards and Rutherford,
raphles, with an edition of s famous
novel of th* time. "Th# History of
Henry, Earl of Moreland." He wrote
a bonk on medicine, entitled "Primi
tive Physic, or an Easy Natural Meth
od of Curing Most Diseases,” He pre
pared numerous collection* of psalm*
and sacred songs, with works on music
and'collecllona of tunes. He published
his own sermons and Journals, and
n aerdi „...
started In. 1775 one of the IIrat mags
nr pob
sine* ever published In Mhgland, and
led to th# discovery of mnssTcs and
palntlngi end statues of rare value,
now In the museum at Naples. Thera
Is no. doubt but men often remain
buried out nl sight for ages. The re
pose of Weeley, wtth hie marvelous
accomplishments, Is not to remain so
long undisturbed as that of th* city of
Herculaneum. Already excavations
are being made, and Wesley la to b*
discovered to the admiring gas* of
th* human race. A hundred and flfty
years of oblivion, however. Is not a
high price to pay for such work as wss
wrought by the heed end heart and
hand of Wesley. And taking the con
ditions of the age Into con
sideration, perhaps the oblivion was
necessary for the accomplishment of
such work. It inay furnish a jheme
he wrote In in sge when
not circulated as they ar* now, he
received for his publications not less
then 1160,000, *11 of which he diet
trlbuted In charity during his lifetime.
It was his desire, he said, to distribute
his money so fast that when he died It
would b« found h* had not left £60
behind him.
Yet, In this enormous amount of lit
erary work, th* energy of John Wes
ley wss not exhausted. He founded
an orphans’ house at Nswrtstls, char'
tty schools ‘
In London and a dispensary
in Bristol. He made espsriments In
electricity, and believed he had found
In It a surprising medicine, and had
an hour appointed every day when
any on# mil"
for tfts speculation of the curious, how
ever, to understand how It were noa-
Pat-
■Ible for a man like th* lat* Mark i
U, S, MAY CAUSE
NEW WAR CLOUD
part mints are being established there.
District Passenger Agent J. O. H
Passenger Agent J. O. Hollen
beck will have on Ms force on* trav
eling passenger agent and three aolle-
Itlnsr passenger agent*.-|n .addition
driest forces, and sill make
ig effort to control th* nortl
By MALCOLM CLARKE.
Special Cable—Copyright.
Berlin, June 60.—I am Informed by
a very high government official that
a meeting between the esar and the
kaiser has been arranged for the very
near future. It Is said that when th*
kaiser returns from his visit to
Trondhjem. after having congratulated
King Haakon, of Norway, he will meet
the Russian Imperial tyacht which the
cur hai even now ready for a cruise.
To Build Churches,
Hperisl to The Georgian.
Griffin, Go., June M.—The four-
weeks’ tent meeting at Lakewood
Heights conducted by Rev. J. Q. Watts,
of Griffin, le.. ha* dosed. A Method-
1st- and Baptist church have been or
ganised and steps have been taken to
build bosses of worship for -each or
ganization- Rev. J. Q. Watts will
preach at the tent next Monday night.
which
By Print* Leased Wire.
Berlin, June 10.—Th* United States
will probably be the cause of raising
another war cloud on the' European
horison. American Inaction, It Is be
lieved here, wilt be tha cause of reopen
ing the whole ilnrocren question and
so give the German emperor a sum
clent pretext for again menacing
France.
The convention of Algeclra* was pay.
tlclpated In by the United Slates and
one of Its provisions wu that It should
not become operative unless all the
signatories ratified It. The United
States senate hss not even discussed
the signing of th* Algeclru convention
at this session and hss put off a vote
on the question until December 12
next. •
The convention provided for the ex
change of ratification* by th* powsrs
on December >1. It Is'belleved her*
that th* American senate will not vote
to ratlftr and even If It should, ’ It I*
thought Impossible to ratify In tlmo.
Germany, whose Moroccan pretensions
wars worsted, will. It Is now generally
ths opinion In Berlin, seize this op
portunity for reopening
Morpcran controversy.
th* whole
BEAUTIFUL HOME
DESTROYED BY FIRE
With the escepilon of the old family
silver and Mrs. Hightower’s Jewels, ev-
erythlng In the beautiful old home at
160 DeKalb avenue, owned and oc
cupied by J. B. Hightower, of life hard
ware Arm of Hightower 4k Kirkpatrick.
84 Whitehall street, wee Friday fore
noon almost completely destroyed by
fire. The total loss will probably ag
gregate the sum of 116,060, the house
alone being worth 60,000. This was
well coveted by insurance.
The family Is at a loss to know the
exact cause of the lire, which started
In the roof of the building shortly be
fore II o'clock. The Are alarm was
turned In at 10:64 from the corner of
DeKalb avenue and Hunter street, hut
before the Are apparatus coulr| reach
the scene of the. conflagration the
flames had become unmanageable. Ii
was not until th* entire roof had been
burned and the house completely gut
ted, as well as several of the sides
burned before the flames were extin
guished. The destruction was the
quickest of any Are In Atlanta for soma
time, the age of the building and the
heat of th* last few days probably be
ing the cause.
_JP ght try the virtues of It.
fie' established a lending fund, from
which many men got the money that
enabled them to lay the foundation of
vast commercial enterprise*. He bad
a mom In connection with on* of his
preaching places In London whera
poor women ware Invited to com* and
card gnd spin “* ' “
cotton. He employed
women who were out of work In knlt-
Importancr, to I
which shortly - before had begun In!
England by the preaching of the Wee-'
leys nnd Whitfield.”
M. Edmond Scherer was so Imprest' -
ed with the work of Wesley Hint he
wrote to The Revue De* Deu* Mead I",
of Boris, that Methodism was a n ils
loue movement that had changed the
fora of England, and that ’’England ns
w* know it today Is th* work of M*-th -
odlsm.” A distinguished profs* ■< f
theology In a German university, not|
many years sgo, made th# disci'"'/
end published the same In s pamphlet
to hla countrymen, that “Methodism is
on the point of becoming In orangel-
Icsl Christianity practically, If also
Jesuitism In Catholic Christianity." II
was by no means a Methodist, fur h
regarded this fact s* In many resp'i t
one of the gravest signs of moderi
Christianity.
In hla esteem Ignstlps Layoh
has raptured the Catholic church"
and John Wesley has capture.
the evangelical churches. John Her
ry Newman cam# to the con
elusion that ther* wap no middle " «
"Me. John Wesley also. In
believed there wse no middle ground
and became a Methodist. Wesley mu
afraid of nothing In heaven or In r.irth
hut doing wrong. Th# higher «■ rnI• -
of the present dsy would have hud
no terrors for hm. Th* truth Is. u»
his not* on the first chapter of ft.
Matthew's gospel, he discloses sad a. •
repts ths principle upon which higher
criticism has worked. In this not. h*
asserts that HI. Mark and 81. Luke.
In the genealogical tables which they
publish, "set only as historians ssttlnc
down these genealogies a* they *t ■
In those published end allowed id-.
Therefore, they were to take the
I liriPimr, I ■■■/ noir »«» asiwees 1
they found them. ' Nor waa It needful;
that they should Corrsctth* mistakes
If there were any. For Ihest seen
sufficiently answered the end for w id. i
they were recited." Orthodoxy, wlti
Weeley. consisted In a holy, cons.-
crated life, end he took delight In >iu u
Ing a piece of advice which the arch
bishop of Canterbury gave him:
'if you dealr* to be extensively use
rule do not spend your lime an-
disrepute
nature, hut In testifying against o|
notorious vice, and In promoting t
essential holiness.”
Having raid the lift of Ignatius Lsiy-'
Ills, he spoke of him as "one of It <•
greatest men who ever lived.” It if
reported of him that he quoted with*
approve! the word* of en aulh... ah
said: “Whst the heathen call reason.!
Solomon wisdom. St. Paul grace, St. <
John love, St. Luther!faith, Fend'n
virtue, Is ell one end the asm* thing.I
the light of Christ shining In different;
degree* under different dl*n#n**tl<>n- '•.
Darwin's work on evolution does n"tt
begin till things hsv# started,
ley begins with “ I
plntes. species, I
contained In th#
evolves the unlYeree out
through th* power snd wisdom "f Al
mighty Ood. Th* on# gives us ebss-.
the other gives u* a cosmos. The nt»<
reduce* th* universe to terms of mat
ter, the other represents th# unlv-i e
aa th* beautiful language of th* nun !
of God.
s nave eianeti it”-'
h th# types., patients.
Ideas, as they srstot
h* eternal mind, -a I
AUTO PASSENGERS
NARROWLY ESCAPE
furnishing
the Hightower
lected
Among ths most regretted losses wss
Hperisl to The Georgian.
Orsntvllle, Go.. June 20.—A peculiar
accident happened hers Thursday aft
ernoon.
An automobile driven by Chart**
Stewart Colley wss completely burned.
Th* occupants of ths csr, Mrs. Colley
Leigh and two little sons and Mines
Emm Belle and Estelle Zellars, nar
rowly escaped serious Injury, wing
to some defect In Ih* mechanism of ths
machine, the gasoline tank became Ig
nited snd In *n instant the automobile
was a mass of flames. Completely
burning the machine up. The accident
happened shout 6 o’clock on th* out
skirts of the town, and caueed con
siderable excitement.
BIG CROWD ATTENDS
FIDDLER'S MEETING
CLARK HOWELL AND JUDGE RUS
SELL WERE PRESENT
AND SPOKE#
School Bond* Sold.
MpeHnl »•• Tin* llforitao,
Retdvllle, Go.. Juno 10.—Bond* to tho
•mount of 91A000 have boon sold for
the'now school building and work on
It will noon begin.
■n antique piano And several other val
uable musical Instrument*.
At tho tlmo of the fire tho entire
family waa In tho houae.
Mm. Hightower consider* heraelf w*
poclAlly fortunate In. being Able to aave
her Jewel* and the allver, the Inea of
which would have been Irreparable.
MpeHal to The Georgian.
Itolierta. tin.. Jane ».-Tbo flddlera* «*•
vmutloo, which look tbo piarr of the »»nnaJ
all-day nidging riven to <*rnwf<»rd cooaty,
brought to Rotierta 2J0A parauu* from nil
pnrtn of the nurroending reunify. Includfa z
llooaton, I’poon, Taylor. Rlhh. Monroe and
even from rikr nnd Jonen nod Twiggs.
A cordInf Invitation wan extended to nfl *•f
the firm mmlIda ten tor governor to t o
prenent. I»ut only two of thorn reopend*!,'
t.’lnrk llowell and Judge It. B. KuaaolL
Bealden the Candidatnn fof governor, i! ■*
Candida tea for c«>njm***man In the Tit:: 1
dlatrlct and for Judge of the dreait wera
In evidence. Conrreaaiuait R. B. I^wta
and bln opponent* lion. Medley Itughe*. ©C
Twlggn, and Judge William Felton an«l h «
antagonist, lion. II. A. Matthews, of II • *-
toa, wefe here. *
Mo far aa apoech-mfclng waa c? • f.
It waa not n political occaaloa. Many • t-
■ od a deal re to bear nddreaaea by M *.
Howell nn«| Judge Rumell, and a *o»> .ir.
lee awJtrd om them. them to -i t,.
They Anally coaaentrl. but gi.i«b« • ;• f
