Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1886 — Evolution and Revelation. [ARTICLE]

Evolution and Revelation.

Neither evolution nor revelation explains the universe, but evolution explains revelation. Theology does not explain revelation. Theology confuses revelation. Evolution follows reason. Theology baffles, evades, if it does not defv, reason. Theology makes creation a fatal mistake, Christ an imperfect reparation. And in saying this let me not be thought so foolish as to being a railing accusation agaihst theology, that noblest of sciences, one of the strongest powers of the world, whose savants have been mighty men of valor, whose gravest mistakes have been from too : close pursuit of the reason’s rigid command.: —Gail Hamilton.

It is not surprising that deaths have been caused among linemen of electric light companies, through inadvertently grasping the wires in a way to pass the, full strength of the current through the arms And chest; but it does surprise ns to read of two instances in which this sort of .mishap resulted only in scorching the fingers and burning off the thumb—the current in these cases being immensely powerful, that is, sufficient to run fifty arc-lamps of two thousand candle power each. Dr. Foote’s Health Monthly. One word: one step may make or mar one’s whole future. Dr. Jones^Red Clover Tonic is the proper move when you have dyspepsia, bad breath, piles, pimples, agile, maiana. low spirits, headache, or any stomach or liver troubles. SO cent*. ■ ? Because the baby is a little Teller, it’s no sigh he is a Chinaman. —Palmer Journal Leading physicians testify to tlm value of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, as a specific sos colds. —* V’" lx takes a good many atrikes to make a baseball match so rff well