INFIDELITY AND EVOLUTION
INFIDELITY AND EVOLUTION
Of course you have heard of the death of Professor Tyndall. He was connected with Darwin and the evolution school. It is amazing to me the way man, professedly Christian, is being corrupted with infidelity; the specious way by which the delusion is effected. It is a standing miracle the way the Latin kingdom (I mean the old Roman territory commencing with Constantine) accepted the Bible as the standard for good government and good conduct. All the countries agreed in this. At this point, the huge system in these countries, called the Church, has been necessary to the State. Hence we have had church and State. Of late years the Bible is not the standard. There have been many innovations even in my time not sanctioned by the Bible.
The theory of evolution has helped on and prepared men’s minds for infidelity. Evolution is the attempt to trace the development of man from a mollusc upward. It is to begin at the lowest in order to construct or reach up to the highest. The principle itself is unsound. I am amazed that men of great minds can be caught by it. Everything great descends. Every good and perfect gift cometh down. Devolution is the true principle. The least [p. 19] is derived from the greatest. You must find out the greatest first before you can obtain any adequate idea of the least. The sun rules the day, and philosophers will tell you that all the light in coal, in wood, &c., came originally from the sun and was deposited in the coal and in other things. Man is the highest creature. No other creature is in any way his equal, though in every lower creature you may discover a trait of man. The Satanic object in evolution is that there can be development. Man is trying to throw off Christianity. No system of ethics among the Greeks elevated man as the Bible has done. The evolutionists are like the wren that ascended under the eagle’s wing and then attempted to fly higher by its own power. But the evolutionists will, I see, produce men of mentality and scientific taste, but without any of the morality which, naturally speaking, elevates a man.