New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-25
created He him male and female created He them

Grated He him male and female created He them"
Tie sermon was Substantially as follows:
1t may ny many thought that for discussion Of the
relations OF theology and science weekday would be
much more appropriate time than the Sabbath aud the
theater much better place than the pulpit. But the
answer TO this found IN tho nature and structure OF the
nst chapter OF Genesis In that chapter God has given
sublime panoramic view OF the creation. We are car
ried back by il to the ne when, before the world was
matter called into existence by the mandate OF the
Almighty. In the moving panorama OF inspiration
We see the soar system in blaze Con
saSE a anSR The earth hf the % ray O Sa
beamed upon the waters the first blade OF gr2ss that
pictured TO US by inspiration Why has Coz made ms
reysation Does not Jehovah appear ia the flames OF
creation truly be will CA the throne OF Judgment
Does not the 1rst ehaperof Genesis IN the light OF modern
nsnTaton az tbe Rblc9 RepIy fo tbs asseson as YOU
choose yOu must admit that the mode OF nans creation
Is disclosed the text Chasise Moses you chose but
leave me unsettled AS 10 whether the cause OF Christi
nnity Is advanced by such sermons this have Ony
Of Scripture should not be As Wen wet upon as another
since hey all are given for doctrine Tor reptoo ana
listened last week to a course of lectures by Prof
Huxley the subject OF development, OF which wish
particularly to speak. | would consider first, Prof
Huxleys treatment of revealed religion and second ms
conduct scientific man. Would then condcun his
definition OF Testimony which accepts the word OF man.
hut which excludes the word Of Cod accepting truth
tue testimony of human being and refusing to receive
the word OF HIM who has created him. MI Huxley
calls the theory which he opposes the MitoIlc
theory, while it Is really the record OF Moses,
lie declares that he Is not called upon 10 oeclde
the truth meaning OF the words of Noses but those OF
Milton he can oppose because there Is no uncertainty as
what Milton really meant. Now the truth L. that the
words OF Moses are clear and plain so that the simplest
may understand while the poem OF Milton spite OF It's
subimity aud poetic grandeur, is often ambiguous,
obscure, and ndigestible. claim, then that this posi-
ton o. Huxley Is prepoSterous ana that ne Is IN fty
this point Is utterly untenable But pass from Huxley
the theologian TO Huxley the scientist The thrd lecture
nc devoted TO the special demonstration OF Ms Iay9ue
theory Of evolution It all came 70 this he reviewed the
history ol the orse as revealed ID tne rooEs anu i
what am willing 70 admit that ~ one liDe lohg aso
the feet Of the common horse contained each I'VE
toes and that his teeth were comparatively imperfect
That these facts do prove variations within the ilts
and confines OF species willing TO admit bat 1t does
not demonstrate The multiplication OF species assert
that the horse when he possessed FIVE toes and Imperfect
teeth was much a horse as he IL to-day.
The theory Of developer Mt Is rejected by the abest
gchoars on purely sciettne grounds as decidedly as D
Christians Cuyier, Agassiz, Lyell, Sedgwck Guyot,
Dgua and Dawson are an arral ca AGAINST DdrT hI
theory First let history speak In the most ancient
not the. slightest Indications OF any species existing IN
different form from the present. All new species die ont
quickly. 40 hybdds propagate. The lines that
separate species IRON one another were drawn ~
God Almighty aud they cannot be Oblterated.
Again, the mode In which instinct Is transmitted from
cue generation W another cannot DC fecOhcd WIN Iho
theory Of development Take, for example the honey
bee, which builds ls my cen VITO beauty ana 10 the
be true ts instinct must be transmitted 70 the off
spring Of the insects who perform tins marvellous WORK
hnd they must also Improve tneE powers ia tne tr.ns-
mission This "a not the case The queen and the Grones
workers childless Instinct, then cannot be ex-
planned by this theory.
To tpslk now Ui the structure OF TIC human bO1y.
According to HuNleys theory the humIn frame should
he the perfect in every respect Of all animals This
g. the fact Many OF the lower animals can run with
greater speed stronger 10 defend themselves and
arc much more agile than man. Is al ANIMAL man Is the
inferior Of many Druies Prof Huxley totally dsregards
the relations Of mind and natter Man docs possess
reasoning power which the brute does not and the neg
Iecg Of this fact il the great defect OF DarHinm Exam
Inc the oldest existing remains OF man that are
found and be Is STILL though savage, reasoning crea-
ture. Ihe transitional type has never been found be
tween man and brute Even among the skeletons OF
ancient mon found IN caves, which claimed by
scientists have lived so long the only indications
that they were even sayages is seen In the nt impe
meuts buried with them, bat there ia nothing to show
that they reasoning creatures Even then they
were men, Observe the abIuptHoss With which certain
species appear In geological history. In the siufan
ace there are no hshes traces OF them.
In the Dcyunau age hich follows ind them ia great
abundance. Whence DID they comet Huxley's answer
to this h. that the geological records necessarily I'M
perfect and the transitional steps between the former
eNstouces and the present lost That 10 lac accepts
theory and hopes That proof may be found 30 sustain It,
The Baconiun philosophy says: First facts, tECn hy-
pOtheses" But Huxley reNcrses the order, ana would
take first hypotheo' and seek afierward for the facts
I'm conci,Un et say The Judgment the counterpart
t0 the era OF the creation Tho spirit that never came
from the must az last ny and give an accOUnt OF
iLsell 10 Him b. whom IL was created.