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.SfPFJ PPfJf5?n wp jjjfiyf v , r. r-fm"MTMT ' ' J, The Commoner $tb Confession Darwiii's I have sot forth in former issues what would Beem to be the .natural and logical effect of -the ' Darwin hypothesis on the minds of the young. This view is confirmed by its ACTUAL effect on Darwin himself. In his "Life and Letters" he says: "I am much ongaged, an old man, and out of health, and I cannot spare time to answer your questions fully -nor indeed can they be answered. Science has nothihg'ffr do with Christ; except in so .far as the habit. of scientific "re search makes a man 'C&UTIO.tJS in ADMITTING EVIDENCE. For myself, I do not believe that there ever has been ANY REVELATION. As for a future life, .eVefry man niiist judge for him self between CONFLICTING' VAGUE . PROB ABILITIES " It ivjrtl bo seen that science, ac cording to Darwin,- has nothing to do with Christ, except to discredit revelation which makes Christ's mission known, to men. Darwin himself does not Tbolieve that there has ever been ANY REVELATION, which, of course, ex cludes Christ.';. It will ;bQ "seen; also thUfrhe tia's no definite views on the FUTURE LIFE "every man, he says; must; judge for himself between CONFLICTING VA'GJJE PROBABILITIES."' It is fair to conclude that it was HIS OWN DOCTRINE that-led .him astray, for in the same connection (in ."Life .ago. LetFers") he says that when aboard, the. "Beagle he was called "ORTHOr DOX and was -heartily, laughed at by several, of the officers for quoting" the BIBLE as an UNAN SWERABLE ApTHQRJTY on some point 'of MORALITY." .In thVsame connection he .thus describes his, change and his final attitude.5 "When thus refleqtirig I 'feel compelled to' look for a First Cause, .fraying an, intelligent mind in some degree- analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called- a Theist. This conclusion was strong in my wind, about the time, as far as I can remember, wti&n I wrote the 'Origin of Species;' and ft is $inco that time that it has very gradually, wl.thr v .many fluctuations, BE COME WEAKER. ;.iB.ut. then arises the doubt: CAN the mind of man,, which has, as, I fully be lieve, been DEVELOPED- FROM A MIND AS low as: THAT.EOSSESSED BY THE LOWEST ANIMALS,, be TRUSTED when It draws -such grand conclusions? "I cannot pretendto throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the be ginning of all, things-is INSOLUBLE bytis; and I for one must he content to remain an AGNOS TIC." - - A careful reading of the above discloses the gradual transition, wrought in Darwin himself by the unsupported hypothe'sis which he launched upon the world, or which he endorsed with such earnestness ".and industry as to im press his name" upon it He was regarded as "orthodox." when he was young; he. was even laughed .at for quoting the Bible "as an unan swerable authority on some point of morality." In the beginning, .he regarded himself as a Theist and felt compelled "to look to a First Cause, having an intelligent, mind in some degree analogous to that of man." Thia conclusion he says was strong in his mind when he wiote "The Origin, of, Species," but he observ33 that since that time this conclusion has very gradual ly become weaker, and then he unconsciously brings a telling, indictment against his own hypothesis. He says, .'"CAN THE MIND OF MAN (which, according to his belief has been de veloped from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animals) he trusted in such myster ies?" He first links man with the animals, and then, because of this" supposed connection, esti mates man's mjnd by brute standards. Who will say, after reading these words, that it is imma terial what man thinks about his origin? Who will deny that the acceptance of thp Darwinian hypothesis sfits out the higher reasonings and the larger conceptions o.f.nian? On the very brink qf- the grave, after ho had extracted from his hypothesis all the good that there was in it -and all the benefit that it could confer, he is helplessly in the dark, and "cannot Protend to throw the least light on such abstruse Problems," Whon he believed in. God, in the Bble, in Christ and in a future life there were ac mysteries that disturbed him, bjut a GUESS jvith nothingn the universe to support it swept njm away .from his moorings and left him in his id age in -the,, midst of mysteries "that he ;uugUt irisoluble. He must content himself WIth Agpqsticism Hwt pan Darwinism ever jo 'to compensate any one,' for the destruction of aith in GotLihIis Word, in His Son, and dt his hope of imih6icality? .r- W -w j BRYAN. The inner side of every cloud is bright and shining, I therefore turn my clouds about And always wear them inside out To show the lining. - ' ' u -.R BiBW? TALKS Mr.tBryan?wi!t!writ"ova weekfc Sunday schddMfe&OnB,; which will be-ihiblfeW on Saturday, fit terntfon n itho following ?papefe: Forf Worlh Star Te)egraW. ,v' $& article on the -. . f ' 1 1 ra Oklahoma City, OklaH6man$i L.exington, Leader, v. ' Muskogee Phoenix, i' Lincoln State Journal: ' "r Cincinnati Times Star.' U Minneapolis Journal. Omaha Daily News. - Roanake Tirnas World. -'" De3 Moines. Register. K Sioux City Journal. Wilmington (N. C.) Dispatch. Abilene Daily Reporter. ' San Francisco Journal. Baltimore; Sun. t .r Cleveland New. , ti" r ljtl 1 ne Newri and Sentinel."- ? 1 i I i i.ji. ':'jO it , r i;- n y f ' ; . 'f. ': Sv""- '' s I 1 . i ti . ti i n t b tr. FcJrt Wayne Detroit News. Chicago' Daily News. PittsburKh Press St, Louhi Globe-Domocratj, jLoieao iiaae. : . ., ; Dayton News, and Springfield News. Chattanooga News. , . , ,.,.,. Winston Salem Twin t City SentineL Colorado .Springs G,azette.' " Fort Smith Southwest American r ixaioign iews ana uoserver. Seattle Times. - , Paris (I1L) Daily Beacon. Youngstown Vindicator. Alrrnn "Rpflnrm Tniirnn.l J Wheeling News and News Castle! (paAjSerald. Lna An eelfift Examiner- - '-V' " "."?: .Missoula Daily Missbulant, 'Waterloo Evening Courier; Greenville Piedmont. '" Dallas Times Herald.. Houston Chronicle. Albany Times Union. Sioux Falls ArgUs Leader. - New Orleans Times Picayune. Tampa Daily Times. M- ' Walla Walla Union. Council Bluffs Nonpareil. ' n Atlantic City Evening Union; i Philadelphia North American. Birmingham News. -' Sherman (Texas) Democrat. ? Memphis Commercial Appeal.- Evansville Courier. -. " New Haven Union. '.'." Indianapolis News. '. . . ';'- .,. Nashville Banner. l ,K" ": ' ' Atlanta Constitution. ' M', , . Macon News. '-'4 ' Charleston News and Courier. ' ' Charlotte Observer. ' . - ; Zanesville Signal. -o Greensboro (N.C.) Daily Newsii Norfolk Virginian Pilot. ? Richmond News Leader. Buffalo Times. r Kansas City (Kan.) Kansan. Washington Herald. Binghamton Morning Sun. The list is given in order that those who de sire to do so can secure the papers containing them. While they will be republished Iti The Commoner, they will necessarily appear too late to use in connection with the lesson. We presume that the reason why none of the Republican leaders have come to the front with an explanation that this is a Democratic panic because a Democrat was president the year be fore it broke is that they have been too busy trying to remember exactly what it was thGy promised the people they would do if elected. One of the dancers whose scant costumes has caused comment eyen in New York declares that ?iiA leas one wears the longer they will live. Our own observation is that the less the wo men wear the faster they live. . Perhaps a better price for corn might be ob tained if some of the manufacturers of corn syrups could be induced to use some of it In their products. . c "i- j . ' X Fame the Result of Service v MR. BRYAN IS KldHT - Wise and interesting comment comes frbnr - William Jennings Bryan, now aweokly contribu tor to.the press. A well-rounded education, .', says Mr. Bryan, requires education of the .body, of the mind, and of the heart. The heart Is '' most Important. We have schools and technical books without number to educate the mind. Wo have physical culture, physicians, and sports to educate the body. But very litylj Is being done by any agency except the church, to which most of us give no heed except an hour or two on Sunday, to educato the heart. This indifference" to goodness is a great mistake. For most of the big problems, which we are tackling as problems of the intellect, are pure problems of the heart of individual honesty, justice, and kindliness. To put it in brief, human life has become too much secularized. We have forgotten that mak ing arlivelihood ought to be a mere means to an end, a mere incident In the greater work of making a life. We make this incidental thing the chief end Itself. One almost begins to believe that it might bo a good idea to give the young a rest from rules of grammar, mathematics, and science, and let their education consist for the next few months of instruction in the Golden Rule. Incidentally, there should bo Golden Rule night schools for grown-ups. This might help us to solve moro than one of the grave problems produced by the rule of gold, Take the problem of business depression, for example. That is bigger than tax laws, tariffs, or any of the other proposed brain-created cure alls. Business depression is a reaction from the period of greed profiteering by nearly all of us, in one form or another. The old Law o Compensation is at work. We are getting paid' lor our sins, It is not an intellectual problem. What Is neded moro than all else is a change "of heart an entirely new attitude of service and co-operation on the- part of. the whole na tion. Think it over! Pittsburgh Press. Those railroad magnates who say. tliey aw sorry the wage dispute with the brotherhoods did -not come to a showdown because they be lieved they would have been able to smash the unions" might take an hour or two off to study conditions on Henry Ford's railroad. There. are no unions on his road, and the president of ,t,ho national switchmen's union said that the reason is that, the men are paid well and treated well . UUU HlOltJ iO U AAV5CU. Wl VlgHUKiUWUUf Mrs. Winifred Black of California has. said . many good things but she has soldom written more wisoly than in the extract to bo found up on another page. Sho puts her philosophy lir a single paragraph: "I have never yet known nayxjno to achiovo fame of any kind who t wont deliberately out to got itr ' The painter paints because litf' raust1 tho writer writes1 either' becaifso ho loves it, or because ho wants to make sotoie money and neither ;has the faintest thought "of 'fnmo' ex cept as a moans to an end," i Fame-is no moro the result of splanning than happiness is the result of seeking. Just as hap piness is God's roward to thoso who put duty above everything elso, so fame Is God's recom pense to thoso who with high purpose risk tHIr all in the determination to serve. Wendoll Philips put the proposition ycry happily, whon he said, "How prudently most men sink into nameless grayos, while now and then a few iorget themselves into Immortality." But the source of the philosophy of both Mrs. ' Black and Wendell Philips lies farther bapk. It was the Saviour who Ja:d the foundaf.o'i upon which this philosophy is built. "Whosoever will save hCs" life shall lose? it: and whosajver' will lose his life for my salco shall find it." Those who think only of themselves cannot have a very clear vision self is such a clouded glass through which to yieV the great things of .life. Those who forget themselves In devotion to things larger than them'selvcs find a Iarge'f lifo than that which they Would surrender. Havo.ip high' purpose; let service bo the passion of Hfl and fame will take care of itself. . W.J.BRYAN. , . a Liberty bonds that were quoted at around 84 and 86 six months ago are now soiling above 92, We will give just one guess as to whose? han.4s these bonds have finally been gathered ' ? Ill n H . Mi :1 W '.A. .fk 1 , i j t-&iifciii U