Show DR YORKS LECTURE The Eminent Liberal at the Walker Opera House The lecture given by Dr J L York in the Walker opera House last evening drew a large audience The subject of his discourse was Tho two Bibles evolution ev-olution and creation Ho defined evolution evolu-tion to be the unfoldmentof life and that all forms of life are the results of chroni cal action that the theory of development develop-ment explains in a far more satisfactory manner the formation of the objective universe than any other socalled revelation reve-lation to man Dr York believes in tho eternity of matter and force and upon this great fact predicates the growth of worlds and the developemont of all forms of life He also holds that creation in a religious sense is not a fact but that deific power permeating the matter of the universe is an eternal process going on today as in all time past He brought forward many points to show and illustrate illus-trate that creation in a religious sense is impossible and were it true in this sense all forms of life would have been made complete and there would have been no room or need for growth or progressive I life He claims that man in his development develop-ment is not an exception to the general rule but he has been brought forward from the lower order of animal life by development or evolution Tlfe three elements upon which Dr York predicted the growth of worlds and the broad diversity of life are The eternity of matter and soace Continuous mo I tion and Omnipresent force Dr York claims for evolution that it is not a I denial of the existence of a deity hut I only a denial of the crude conception that men have entertained of the deity and I that salvation taker root in the soil and not in the clouds and is predicated upon i the expansion of the human intellect intelec I 1 and obedience to law There is a vein of magnetic humor running through the entire discourse which holds the audience in the closest attention Next Sunday evening his lecture will be on Individuality and what it costs I and A glimpse of the unburied dead |