The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-08
MARRIAGES. DEFIANCE.
With One Foot on Darwin and the
Other on Huxley he Proclaims
His Theory on the ORR
gin Of Man.

| gin Of Man.
| The announcement that Mr.. Tai
mage had declared war against Oar
win, Huxley and Herbert Spencer,
and that he would efectually con-
vince whoever might hear him that
mans ancestors did not sit on trees
and throw cocoanuts at one another,
caused large congregation to as
semble at the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
81 will take for my text" said the
preacher, "Romans l., %, %: Pro
Tossing themselves to be wise they
became fools, and changed the glory
of the incorruptible God into an i'm
age made like to corruptible man,
and to birds, and four-footed beasts,
and creeping things There is a
full-sized portrait of the evolutionist
who substitutes the bestiaI for the
godlike. Are we sons of God or of
a gorilla?'' said MFR. Talmage i'm
periously, as he Strengthened him
self up to convince his hearers that
there was no bend in his backbone.
ssLast Sunday / told you that evo-
luton was q heathenism thousands
and thousands of years old; that
the path of evolution has been a
downward one. Men we're once
nine feet tall and lived 900 years.
Now they are scarcely six feet in
height and live but seventy years.
I told you that we were progressing;
that / was an optimist, not a pessi-
mist. This morning I will lecture
on evolution and as if impressed
with the greatness of his subject,
Mr.. Talmage took step towards
the aorganist and raised his right
arm in the air for second. Every
eye was on him as he repeated "evo
|lution,n and the ri 5htq arm came
down with thud on his own breast.
sThe evolutionist would try to imc
press upon the masses that their
ancestral line runs back through
the gorilla and monkey. But they
admit missing link link, yes,
it is whole chain that is missing.
The brain of the most intelligent
gorilla is 80 cubic inches and that
of the most ignorant of man 70
cubic inches. 1t would take a
bridge with forty arches to span
that chasm. If q catarrhine ape
had men for offsprings, why do not
all apes2 If species die, how do
chimpanzees still Liver Evolution
is monstrosity and a contradic-
ton. There is no similarity be-
tween q man and beast. Darwin's
system is guess, Huxley and Tyn-
dali help him to guess. Our inner
consciousness tells US that there is
and must be a God. Evolutionists
say when the tails of apes ceased to
be prehensile," and Mr.. Talmage
closed his fingers to illustrate the
way the apes used to catch on to
limbs of trees, "they did not climb
trees. No, no, they did not, mon
keydom was gone, SO the apes set
up in business as men, and conse
quently men are bankrupt monkeys.
Something tells us that we are of
celestial birth. My father is God,S'
and from his elevated position Mr..
Talmage smiled with an air of su
periority upon his audience
"Neither anthropology, morphology,
zoology nor any other ology can
change my belief in that. Why, the
way the evolutionists speak one
would think God had no plan in
the creation, that he cut his work
as short as possible. think it
would be as big a job for God to
turn fantail pigeon into a barn
yard thrush, but pigeon it will re-
main. When species are crossed a
hybrid is the result. Once a con
vention of animals was held in the
African forests, at which, gorilla
with, club presided. Birds and
reptiles were present. A primal
germ was under glass along with
some protopIasm. The gorilla
moved that the animals should make
a step forward and become men,
which the assembly loudly approved.
But an old lion stood up and said
Peace, brothers and sisters. Our
Creator knew what he was doing
when he made us what we are
Let US not try to change But the
other animals Kissed and howled.
A fight eHsued A hungry wolf eat
the primal germ and a bear spoiled
the protoplasm. A curtain behind
the wood lifted and ,Agassiz and
Moses appeared i have studied
you,' said Agassiz. you. will be as
you are Every beast and bird
and fish after its kind, said Moses,
whereupon there was, peace in the
forest. / am not SO anxious" con
tinued Mr.. Talmage, "to learn where
1 came from as where i am going.
1 care more for eternasm than fol-
protoplasm. Annihilation is the
heaven of evolution. Fly that damn
able doctrine. 1 read to you from
book older than Homer or Dante
Thou hast made him little lower
than an angel Such is man. j
put one foot on Darwin's volume
on Species the other on Spencer
Biology and holding Moses in my
hand will look towards Cod 7t
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