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rpHE DESPERATION OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS. , The evolutionists have had one argument after another upon which they have depended to support their cause taken away from them. The argument upon which they originally depended so largely from the chronological order of the fossils in the different strata of rocks, went by the board, for it was found that all the facts discovered pointed to a succession of species, not by almost imperceptible gradations, but by great leaps and bounds, and it was nec essary to give up a theory of evolution by minute variations for a theory of evo lution by great jumps, which, of course, was not evolution at all. Then great dependence was put upon the embryological argument. At first there seemed to be a good deal of force in this, but upon careful investigation this argument fell down completely. The evolutionists have been driven from pillar to post. The straits to which they have been driven are illustrated in Dr. F. Wood Jones’ book, “ Arboreal Man.” At great length he attempts to prove that man got his brains, or his special brain formation, from the fact that his anthropoid ances tors lived in trees. His most conclusive proof of this appears to be that there is a baby only thirty days old who can hang by its hands for a minute at a time, showing conclusively to his mind, that the remote ancestors of this baby must have lived in trees and hung by their hands from trees. It is said that this abil ity of the child will decrease as the child grows older, and that this points to the old time arboreal life of the race, when the infant clung to a mother who had to keep her hands free for tree climbing. To any unwarped mind that will seem like a pretty small premise for a pretty large conclusion, and only a theory that is driven to desperation would make use of such an argument. The writer attempts to show that the evolution of the various higher mental abilities of man can be connected with the arboreal life of our Simian ancestors, and he even attempts to show that we can find in this arboreal life of our alleged ances tors the origin of man’s “higher ideals of conduct.” To a man that is really sane the Bible explanation appears far more rational. A great deal of praise from certain quarters has been bestowed upon the Y. M. C. A. for their broadness of view in permitting Roman Catholics to use their huts for their services. The Roman Catholics, as might be expected by any one who was familiar with their methods in the past, have taken a very unfair advantage of this generosity on the part of the Y. M. C. A., and in “ The Monitor,” a well known Roman Catholic periodical, they say: . “ Ten masses are said every Sunday in the Y. M. C. A. and K. of C. build ings (the Y. M. C. A. permit the use of their building). The buildings are over filled at each mass. The men kneel in the aisle, on the door-steps, and even out side on the ground. Protestants marvel at this. They can’t understand it. A lasting impression is being made on them. One of the chaplains told us of a wealthy man who gave up his business in order to take up the Y. M. C. A. work in the camp. For several Sundays he had watched these great gatherings of Catholics at the masses. One Sunday he came to the priest and said: ‘Father, every Sunday you have thousands at the mass, while we get only a handful at our service. Every Sunday you have the same thing; you never change and the buildings won’t hold the men. We change; we bring in new speakers, men C a t h o l ic cunn ing .
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