Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1884 — Talmage on Evolution. [ARTICLE]

Talmage on Evolution.

A Very Silly Lie — “The story of English money being sent to America to support free trade is a lie, anc a very stllv lie "-John Bright’s Let t«No Need to Tell That.— Somebody wants to know why S. S. Cox uou’t finish the second volume of “Why We Laugh.” Mr. Cox probably think* any fool ought to know "Why W. Laugh” now.

The many friends of Hon (Jeorge Major are very desirous tha> he may be re elected to the office of birector of the Prison north. He has proven a very capable, honest anu con, scieutioti* official, and his reiciii.on in the office would give very general satisfaction.

Costly Protection.— Senator Ingalls declares that it would he economical for the government to buy the entire crop of Louisiana sugar, and cither give it away or throw it into the Gulf of Mexico, than ;o maintain the present tariff for the Sake of protec i g t. e sugar.

The Indiana Republican State Central Committee, oil Nov. 25th, 1884, isaued an infamous appeal to the sectionuljpassioa and prejudice of the adherents cf that party. It is of the same cloth as Blaiue’s recent Augusta speech. ‘Sectionalism” caused civil war, and these Union-haters will soon discover that the people Jjave haa enough of their strife producing dogma.

The Indianaßepubiican State Cen tral Committee'in the recent manifesto say: “The face of the returns of the elections held in the State and Nation on the 4th inst. do not show Republican victories," We should rattier think not But Mr. Blaine and his admirers tried mighty hard to make “the face of the returns. * * * sh /W Republican Victories,”

Oxford Tribune: We leijrn from the Montioello Herald that brother Me* Ewen, or the Rensselaer Sentinel, Is a candidate for postmaster. Mac is the purest Simon of Jacksonian Democracy ll** has fought long and loyally, often disappointed and hungry* •only to renew the fight with untiring vigor. If merit and service count let anything Mac will get the postoffice. and we trust ho will. We were never so “hungry,” howover. as to forsake principles for place.

Oxford Tribune: But few men have advanced mor- rupidly in the ministry thaD Cider Cissell, He never misses an appointment if t e place can be reached. One time he walked from Reynolds to Monti?eilo in the rain in order to fill his apnointmen» on the next day, Once he was stranded at Remington. No team c< uld be Lad, the roads were too rough, the entire distance toßenssel aer was walked where he arrived in good shep .

Tuesda'y R. B. Snyder, a farmer neur Crawfordsville.gave a democratic dinner, which was partaken of by Vice President Hendricks, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, Lieutenant-Gov-ernor Manson, Secretary of State Myers, besides others of local and national fame. Aftaf dinner toasts and responses were in order, of which Bayles9 W. Harm a was tpaster of ceremonies. In reply to “Thomas A. Hendricks, the patriot, the orator, the statesman, the annotated vice president of the United States,” Governor Hendricks, in alluding to politics, said: There *-dll he great reforms under Cleveland's administration. It may not come next y-ar at the furth* est. In a F pointing officers capable' and honest men are wanted: men who had used thtir offices to defeat h 6 will of the people ought not to be retained, but those who have performed their du’ies honestly ought to remain, and there wilt be plen:yof places for demoe ats.”

flattie, the little daughter of Mrs Azubia Duvall, aged five years and eleven days, died at the residence of her mother i.: this city Wednesday, of btain fever. The funeral took plane from the residence yesterday Only a few weeks ago the family moved out to Kingman from Rensselaer, Indiana. Hattie was an intelligent promising child. Her death is a very trying bereavement to the widowed mother. The sympathy of the community Is extended to her and the other members of tne family in their sorrow.—Kingman (Ka'n,) Courier.

j The New Albany road is one of the few railways that report increased earnings. Five Indianapolis and two Valparaiso papers have turned up their toes since th * eleettion. T. Major Bitters, formerly of the Rensselaer Republican, has bought back his newspaper in Rochester, this State. Some years*ago he sold it for $2,500. He paid for ,t- the other day, $3 500.

Ths civil war is ended—the union is restored—peace reigns—obedience, and adherence to the and the laws made in pursuance* there oT, exist all over the land—citizens clothed with equal rights inhabit all sections, and yet fin* Indiana Republican, State Central Committee, an** peal to the followers of that party: “To-iday a majority of "the Democrats in the Lower House of Congress a.e men lately in rebellion against the United States.”

If the Democrats alluded to by the Committee were only such Republicans as the Guerilla Mosby, Ch timers of Fort Pillow memory* Longstreer. MahoDe, and others of the sane kid nay, would the Committee refer to them as “men lately in rebellion aguinst the United States. The Democratic members of Conr gress from the Southern States, are better truer citizens than the men who could issue such a document as the lute address to the Republicans of Ind ana.

Abou' 4:3oo’clock Wednesday p. m while the family within were resting in supposed perfect safety, a passer >y discovered the residence of M je pold to be on fire. The family were alarmed and an examination showed that the fire had already go t a good hold on a window casing, burnt through the top of the window and was taking hold of the out f ide of the building. A vigorous use of water soon extinguished the flames but t was a narrow escape. The theory is that the window curtain blew a' gainst the stove—in which was firewas ignited and communicated the fire to the carpet and window casing. Insur;d|in the Hartford. Mr. Babcock, the local agent, promptly adjusted the loss.

Chas. Muchler. charged with steala horse belonging to Greenbury Beyers, two miles north of Fowler, was captured at Wheatfield, last Sunday by J. W. Duvall and deputy sheriff Gant. ‘Wes’ is an acknowledged success as a trapper of horse thieves.

IN. Y Herald, Ncv 25] The weekly conference of Babtist Ministers was well attended yesterday. Dr. Talmage made an address on “Evolution,” dealing with tne ar* guments or Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Huxley and others in a few bold counter arguments. “The score or so of evolutioDints.” said he “make more noise than the 5.000 scientists who believe in a Divine Cieator. As Huxley and Darwin were not present at the creation, and the Almighty was, I prefer taking His accouur of it. They trace man baok throieh the animal kingdom to the primal germ, protoplasm, But who mode t e primal germ’ and the -protoplasm?’ Species have never developed into sDecies, When it has been tried tne hybrids have always been sterile. D irwin tried foryears t.. turn pigeons into barnyard fowls or quail but pigeons they remained, and pigeons they are yet. There is only one record of a successful attempt, and that was made by Balaam, out Go 1 sent an angel and stopped that loug eared evolutionist.

“If a pair of apes had human beings for their decendents why don’t all apes have such progeny? Darwin admits that pigeons are the same now as they were one thousand years ago. It is all guess work with the erotutiouists- They'claim that a->es unable to olimb tree, gave upjjtrying and bpoame men Wheu they were failures as apes they were u success as men. According to the evolutionists. then, man is a bankrupt monkey.” Natural selection and t..e theory of the survival of the fitest, the speaker claimed, were also false doctrines. GirfleM died in September, while Guiteau lived until the follewingJune. Was that the survival of tbe fittest? Evolution was downward, not upward, he said. Give natnral evolution its full swing and there would be two hemispheres or swine. “Nothing makes man so beastly as t e ilea that he is descended from beasts. A man once called on me when I was tot busy to see him. He sent in word he must see me. When I went to him he said he was an evolutionist and an am ihila’lonist and when ho died that would be the end of him. I told him 1 was glad of it. Next lime I heard from him he was in Tombs Prison.

“lam not so anxious,” continued Dr. Talmage> to know my origin aq to know my destiny. Let the evolutionist point to animals for their ancestr>’. I poins to God as mine. I put my feet on Darwin’s and Huxley’s teachings and hold in my hands those of Moses and Revelation, and from the arena of beasts ascend to a kirg’s seat.”