The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-27

this morning continued discussion OF
the evolution theory as compared with
the doctrine Of the Bible. For the open
ing hymn he announced:
The morning lights breaking.
Before the sermon DR.. Talmage read
and expOunded part Of the Book Of Job,
beginning with the passage: "Canst
thou draw out LeViathan with a
hOOkP"--chapter xii.
Subject of the sermon: Evolution and
Infidelity.
Text: Romans 1st chapter, 22d and
23d verses: Processing themselves to
be wise they become fools, and change
the glory of the incOrruptible God into
an image made like to cOrruptible man,
and to birds and to four footed beasts
and cOrruptible things"
Full length portrait Of an evolution
ist who substitutes bestial origin for di-
vine origin. Sons of a gorilla OF sons
of God, is the question Of our time. Last
Sabbath l showed you that evolution
was cOntradicted by the Bible, by
science. by observation, and by common
sense. showed you that the Bible ac-
count Of the starting of man and birds
and all cOllided with evOlutiOnists' ac-
count as positively as two express rail
trains going in opposite directions, thir-
ty miles the hour. their locomotives
meeting on the same track; that all the
leading evolution scientists were pro-
nounced infidels; that the doctrine of
evolution was a heathenism thousands
Of years old; that the ablest modern
scientist calling them by name had for
1t unmitigated contempt; that the sur
ViVal OF the fittest was untrue in in
Vulnerable instances; that natural evO-
luton was always downward and never
upward, and'that there had been no i'm
pr0vement for man or beast or world
except through the direct OF indirect
influence of Christianity. come now
to say that the evOlutiOniGts try to i'm
press the people that the line of ances-
try leads right on up from primal germ
through fish and reptile and quadruped
and gorilla to man. They indeed admit
that there Is a missing link, but it is
not missing link so much as it is a
whole chain. Between the physical con-
structiOn of the highest brute and the
physical construction of the lowest man
there Is chasm wide as the Atlantic
Ocean. Ther tell us that probably in
Central Africa or BOrneO may be found
the creatures halfway between brute
and man, those undiscovered Ourang-
Outangs being the highest step of the
animal ascent and the lowest step of the
human creation. But here are the sim
pie facts that the largest brain of a
gorilla ever found has about thirty
cubic inches aud the lowest human
brain over seventy. You need bridge
Of at least forty arches to span that gulf.
Between the brute of Darwinian and
Spencerian eulOgy and man there is
difference of bone, a difference of
muscle, difference of nerve, a differ
ence of blood -glObule. The one creature
dumb, the other gifted with articula-
ton The horse Is more Ikea man In
intelligence, and the bird more like
him in musical capacity, and the mastiff
more like him in affection. The gorilla
that has gone into such humaniZed ele-
walton is on the walls Of ancient cities
represented the same as IL appears now,
showing that it has never advanced a
particle. Beside that, IL according to
evOlutiOnists the descent of q pair of
Catarhine monkeys was man, why did
not all the monkeys hale the same kind
of descendants, and the woods become
full of themp We're only these two
beasts Of the forest hOnored with human
prOgenyP Common sense would tell
as that all the Catarhine apes would
have the same kind of descendants.
Beside that, evolution tells us that as
the species takes higher form the ori-
ginal dies out. Why then after develop
ing into the human race, did not all the
kingdoms OF Ourang-Outang and chin
DhuZ66 huu
So every theory Of evolution Is a con-
tradictiOn or a mOnstrosity. All the
evOlutiOnists gathered to explain the
wings Of birds and insects. Their theory
is thai all the faculties of animal crea-
tiOn, while being developed, must be
useful. But wings must have been of
no use but rather a hindrance, while for
ages, according to eVOlutiOnists, thew
were being developed. Must there not
hou Inf
planned and constructed the wing Of
the bird, that wonderful mechanical
contrivance by which the bird, FOO hun
dred times heavier than the air, can
mount 1t and put gravitatiOn beneath
claw and beakp Every wing Of bird or
insect Is an eternal cOnfOunding of evo-
luton. Could these twenty or thirty
distinct apparata for flying have made
themselvesP AT the start it implied lin
telligenee and outside Intervention.
Evolution breaks up at another point.
Examine the rattle Of the rattlesnake.
Why was it formed so long before, ac-
eording to what eVOlutiOnists admit, the
reptile had any enemiesp 1t must have
been by an intelligence who knew it
would in after ages have enemies who
would be in need of that warning rattle.
Did that weapon Of warning fashion it.
self, and did the poisonous chemistry Of
the reptiles tooth make itself? There
is evidence of direct. active divine in
telligence at every stage of life. Be-
side that 1t is evident that brute life
and human life have no kinship, In the
fact that animal life is able In few
hours or days Orlmonths to take care of
itself, while the human race starts In a
helplessness which for ten or twelve
years Is complete. The chick has been
only few hours out of its she'll when
1t begins to pick its food. The calf, the
dog the lion, the colt soon become agile
and able to make their own defense.
while the human child at any time In
five years left to itself would perish,
Man only gets his full strength at
twenty one years, while before that
time most Of the animal creation die.
But 1t is evident that the human and
the brute creation have no cOnsanRuin-
ity and are built on entirely different
scale. Had we been derived from the
brutes we would have had their strength
at the start as they would have had
our weakness. Not only unlike, but
Mr.. Darwin admits that the dove. cote