Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-22
DARWIN DoWNED.
No Monkey Business About Tai.
mage's Theology.
spence's Scheme Sized Up-Tyudalrs
Theory Thunderstuck-Huxleys HON.
lily Heshed-HaeckeI Drawn Over
the HatchI.
MAN OF CELESTIAL ORIGIN

MAN OF CELESTIAL ORIGIN
BROOKLYN, JANUARY 2i.-The attendance
| at the Tabernacle to-day was unusually
large. Opening hymn:
"The morning light is breaking,
The darkness dsssppess.r
Before the sermon DR.. Talmags read
and expoEnded part of the Book Of Job,
beginning with the passage: "Canst thou
draw out LeTiathan with q hook (Chap-
ter XLL)
Subject Of the sermon; Z ,.3,..s.-sssz, {.
"EvoIatton and Infidelfsy."
Text, Romans, /: 22-23; protesting
themselves to be wise the become fools and
change the glory of the ipcorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptibie man
and to birds and to four.footed beasts and
coruptible things"
Full length portrait of am evolutionist
who substitutes bestial origin for divine
origin. Sons of q gorilla or sons Of the
God is the question OF our time. Last
Sabbath l showed You that evolution was
by observation and by common sense
] showed you that the Bible account
of the starting Of man and bird and all
worlds eollided with evolutionists' account
as positively as two express rail trains 60
IN opposite directions at thirty miles an
hour and their locomotives meeting ON the
same track; that all the leading evolution
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the doctrine of evolution was heathenism
thousands OF years old; that the sbiest
modern scientists. calling them by name,
had for it unmitigated contempt; that the
survival of the tittest was untrue in in
Vulnerable instances; that natural evolu-
ton was always downward and never up
ward, and that there had been no improve
ment for man or beast or world except
through the direct or indirect
influence OF Christianity.
come now to say that the evolutionists
try 10 impress the people that the line OF
ancestry leads right on up from primal
germ, through fish and reptile and quad
ruped and gorilla TO man. They inecd ad.
nit that there is a missing link, but it is
not missing link so much as it is whole
chain. Between the physical construction
of the highest brute ard the physical con
struction of the lowest man there Is
chasm vide as the Atlantic ocean. They
tell us that probably in Central Africa or
Borneo may be found the creatures half
way between brute ani man, those orang.
outangs being the highest step of animal
ascent and the lowest step Of the human
creation. But here are the simple facts
that the largest brain of gorilla ever found
has about thirty cubic inches and the low.
est human brain over seventy. You need
q bridge of at least forty arches to span
that gulf between the brute Of Darwinism
and Spencerian eulogy and man there is
difference Of bone, o difference OF muscle,
a difference OF nerve, difference OF blood
globuc. The one creature dumb, the
other gifted with articulation. The horse
is more like a mani in intelligence and the
bird more like him in musical capacity
and the mas,iff more like him in affection.
The gorilla that has gone into such human
lied elevation Is on the walls OF ancient
cities represented the same as it appears
now, showing that il has never advanced
particle. Besides that il
According 10 EyOIutiOnists.
the descent OF a pair OF Catarhine monkeys
was man, why did not all the monkeys
have the same kind Of descendants and the
woods become full OF them. Was II only
these two beasts OF the forest honored with
human progress? Common sense would
tell US ;hat all the Catarhine apes would
have the same kind of descendants, be-
sides that evolution tells us that rs the
species takes higher form the original
dies out. Why then, after developing into
the human race did not all the Kingdoms
of Ourang. Outang and Chimpansec and
bsboon expire.
So every theory Of evolution is a contra
diciiOn or a monstrosity. All the evolu.
tionists gathered TO explain the wings OF
birds and insects. Their theory is that all
the faculties of aRimsl creation while be-
ing developed must be useful. But wings
must bave been Of no use but. rather hin
derancr. white for ages according TO evo-
lutionisrs. they were being developed.
Must there not have been an intelligent
being who planned and constructed the
wing of the bird, that wonderful mechan.
iCal ContrivanCe by which the bird 800
times heavier than the air can mount 1t
and pu I gravitatiOn beneath claw and beak
Every wing of bird or insect is an eternal
confounding OF evolution. Gould these
twenty or thirty distinct aparata for Tying
have made themselves? At the start 1t
implied intelligence and outside interyen.
ton. Evolution breaks up at another
point. Examine the rattle of the rattle.
snake. Why was il formed so long, before,
according 10 what evolutionists admit, the
rep,iI- had nnv enemies? 1t must have
been by an intelligence who knew 1t would
in after age have enemies who would be in
need of that
Warninx Rattle.
Did that weapon OF warning fashion itself
and did the poisonous chemistry OF the
reptiles tooth make itself? There is evil
dence of direct active divine Intelligence
at every stage -f lif. Besides that it is
evident that brute life aud human life
have no kinship in the fact that animal
| life is able in few hours or days ormo 1ths
| to take care of itself, while the human
race starts in q beIplessness which, in ten
| or twelve years, is complete. The chick
! has been only few hours out OF the shell
until il begins 10 pick us food. The calf,
| the dog. the lion, the colt soon become
sgile and able 10 make their defence, while
| the human child at any ii me in tiEe years
| left 10 itself would perish. Man only gets
| his full strength at twenty-one years, while
before that time most OF the animal crea'
| ton die But IL is evident that the huns an
| and the brute creation have no consanguin
| ity and are bulk on entirely different scale;
| Had We been derived from the brutss We
| would have had their strength at the start
as they would have had our weakness. Not
| only unlike but opposite.
| Mr.. Darwi admits that the doYe-cote
| pigeon has not changed in thousan Is ol
wears. The lizards ia the lower strata oi
the earth are as perfect as the lizirds nov
The first fish, called the gsnoid, was as CON
plete as the same Fl i.h called the sturseor
now.
is TO guess, and Huxley and Hseckel an'
Spencer and Tyndail come and help htn
guess. guess about man andgI less a5ou. thu
brute, and guess ab0ut the worlds. bat q
to one solid foot Of ground 70 stand on the.
never have had il, and never will have u
! set against all the visionary theories q
these men the selfeonsciousDess that "
are not the blood relations OF the dog thl
favps at our feet, Or the swine that wal
lowed in the mire, or the spider that crawl
| up the wall, or the fish that Hops in th
frying-psn, or the crow that descending o
the field croaks. We know that it woui
be All outrage b put in our Bible beside
the record. Abraham bezat Isaac, an
Iszae begat Jacob, and jacob besat Judas.
the record: Microscopic animalcuie beg
the tadpols. and the tadpoie begat the fist
and the Esh begat the reptile. and the rel
/ tile haOat the nuadruned and the uual