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fathers of our birds liad four legs, a long tail, 

 and jaws with teeth. After a time feathers grew 

 on their bodies, and their front legs became 

 changed for flying. These were strange-looking 

 creatures. There are none of them living like 

 them now." Such are the monstrous fictions now 

 taught to little children as scientific truth. 



While I was aware that we have teach- 

 ers, and I am afraid preachers, who are giv- 

 ing such talk as the above, I confess that T 

 was not aware that any such thing had 

 gotten into the text-books of our schools — 

 especially schools for the little ones. May 

 God forbid; and I hope that this book, by 

 calling attention to the matter, may be the 

 means of having that "Home Geography" 

 banished at once from the schools of our 

 land. In his mention of the different books 

 that have been written during the last fifty 

 years in regard to evolution, I had to smile 

 when I read the title of one of the books re- 

 ferred to in the following quotation: 



Dr. E. Dennert's book, "At the Death-bed of 

 Darwinism,^' gives the' testimonies of leading sci- 

 entists, showing that the title given to his book is 

 fully justified. 



I am well aware that Christian people are 

 taking sides now on this matter of evolution 

 as they have never done before; and I am 

 afraid that there are quite a number of 

 professing Christians, and perhaps some 

 ministers of the gospel, who have gotten it 

 into their heads that evolution conflicts 

 with the Bible; but I think our ablest and 

 most devoted followers of the Lord Jesus 

 Christ decide there is no conflict worth 

 wasting time on. Let us hold fast to the 

 thought made so plain in the book, that 

 evolution under the direction and manage- 

 ment of humanity (the humanity created in 

 God's own imaf/e) is a wonderful success, 

 but that without this same God-given, hu- 

 man hand to direct, there is no progress 

 nor advancement of any kind, out of the 

 darkness of savagery and cannibalism into 

 the glorious light of the present age, and 

 especially of the glimpse that those who 

 are living near to God and under the di- 

 rection of his only Son, the Lord Jesus 

 Christ, may have of what is coming in the 

 future, and perhaps the very near future. 

 While discussing this matter I remember a 

 fragment of one of Watts' hymns: 



Is this vile world a friend to grace 

 To lead me on to God ? 



Now permit me to paraphrase it just a 

 little: 



Is Darwin's Evolution a friend to grace 

 To lead me on to God? 



A Professor in Overalls. 

 I have several times mentioned the fact 

 that I feel greatly indebted to the many 

 kind friends so ready and willing to lend a 

 helping hand during this busy life of mine; 

 and perhaps I had better mention again 

 that, in order to have my undertakings 

 come out successfully, I have found it ab- 

 solutely necessary to be on hand to keep 

 watch, and sometimes turn in and help 



these mechanics or men of science who are 

 trying to work out my ideas. I have already 

 mentioned at different times during the past 

 three or four years my good friend, L. C. 

 Kaiser, who has charge of the Bradentown 

 electric lighting plant. Well, after our 

 windmills were installed I discovered that 

 my electric radiator gave out very much 

 more heat in the garage near the windmill 

 than it would in the house, say 150 feet 

 away. When I appealed to friend Kaiser he 

 explained that the copper wire from the 

 windmill to the house was too small for a 

 32-volt current — that a heavier wire would 

 have to be put in; and he volunteered to 

 put in a heavier wire for me. Now, I had 

 alreadj'' been told that the insurance com- 

 panies insist on professional wiring before 



they will in- 

 sure proper- 

 ty; and as I 

 followed 

 friend Kaiser 

 in his work 

 I said to him 

 something as 

 follows: 



"My good 

 friend, are 

 you sure the 

 way you are 

 doing this is 

 in accordance 

 with the in- 

 sp e c t r ' s 

 rules ? ' ' 



"No, I am 

 not quite 

 sure, but I 

 think it will 

 answer." 



"By the 

 way, did you 

 ever wire up 

 a house be- 

 fore"? 



"No, I nev- 

 er did; but I 

 guess this will pass muster." - 



I dropped the subject, but still felt a little 

 uneasy about it as I followed along with 

 him. After a little spell he said, with one 

 of his comic smiles: 



' ' Why, Mr. Eoot, maybe you will feel a 

 little easier if I explain to you that / hap- 

 pen to be the electric inspector for Manatee 

 County. ' ' 



A College Professor in Overalls. 

 When I found out that I needed another 

 windmill to run my automobile, light the 

 house, heat the radiator, etc., the question 

 was, "Who will put up the tower and in- 

 stall the machinery?" To my great sur- 

 prise. Prof. C. D. Clipfell of Wyndmere, 

 N. I)., superintendent of the Wyndmere 

 Electric Windmill Co., said he would come 

 down and put up my tower and install the 

 machinery free of charge if I would pay 

 his traveling expenses to Bradentown. As 



My long-time friend and expert 



helper, especially in electricity, 



Mr. L. C. Kaiser. 



