Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-02-09
miscellaneous.
HOW MAN WAS MADE.
Talmage and the Evnlntinnisfu

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The subject of Il recent sermon by the
Rev. L. Dewitt Talmage was "Evolu-
ton, anti Bible, anti-science, anti. com
mon sense His text-was found in |.
Timothy, vi. 20: ooh, Timothy, keep
that which Is committed to thy trust,
avoiding oppositions to science falsely so
called"
There is no contest, Mr.. Talmagc said
between genuine science and revelations.
The same God, who wrote by the hand
Of prophets on parchment, wrote by the
hands of storms on the rocks. The best
telescopes are owned by Christian uni
versities. BY whom was magnetic tele-
graphy discovered =? By Prof. Morse ,au
evangelical Christian. BY whom was
the lighting swung under the sea, coup
ling together the continents? Cyrus w +.
Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the anesthetical qualities of choroform,
more than any other man that ever lived,
giving relief to pain and turning back
nineteenth of the horrors of surgery
james Y. Simson, as eminent for piety
as for science. saw the universities Of
Edinburg draped in mourning at his
death, and heard his eulogy pronounced
by the destitute population of the Cow
gate. Science and revelation are the
bass and soprano of the same tune and
will yet be acknowledged complete har-
mony. But between what my text de-
scribes as science falsely so called and
revelation there is an Incorporating
war and one or the other must 20 under
At the present time the air is filled
with social and platform and pulpit talk
on the subject Of evolution, and it is high
time that the people who have but little
opportunity to investigate for themselves
understand that evolution, or the theory
advocated by Herbert Spencer and Chas.
Darwin is in the first place up and down
out and cut infidelity, and secondly, that
it is contradicted by science and brutal
izing in its effects. do not to-day
argue that the Bible is true or that il Is
in any way to be relied on as trust
worthy book These are subjects for
other Sabbaths; but wish you to I'M
derstand that Thomas Paine and Vol
taire and Hume no more disbelicved the
Bible than did the leading scientists
who promulgate evolution. When |
say scientists | do not mean literary
men who discuss this matter in essay or
sermon, and without time for investiga-
ton look at il from this side or that,
but | mean the men who through lsbora-
tories and aquariums and geological gar
dcns and astronomical observatories give
their life to the study of the physical
earth and its plants and animals, and to
the exploration of regions beyond, so far
as by optical inventions they may be ex-
plored. All these evolutionists, without
one exception, reject the Bible, and
will put them on the witness stand, the
living aud the dead Ernest Haeckel,
John Stuart Mill, Huxley, Tyndall. OAR
win aud Spencer. Ye men of science,
stand there and solemnly answer u few
questions "Do you believe in the Holy
Scriptures p "No." And SO they say
all. "Do you believe in the story Of
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden p
"No." And SO they say all "Do you
believe in the miracles of the Old and
New Testament ?" Ne" And so they
say all. DO you believe that Christ
was the savior Of the world 7" No !"
And so they say all do you believe
in the doctrine of the atonement? 2"
mo" And so they say all. "Do you
believe in the rcgeneratiDg power Of the
Holy Ghost 2" mo" And so they
say all. do you believe that God an
swers prayer?" "No." And so they
say all Ernest Haeckle. on the first
page Of his three great volumes sneers
at the Bible as "so-called" revelation
Tyndall defied all Christendom by his
prayer test to prove that supplication to
God would ever be answered. Stuart
Mill, after deliberately writing against
Christianity, showed that his rejection
of it was complete by ordering for bis
tombstone the inscription, "Most I'M
happy" Huxley says that when he
first read Mr.. Darwin's book what struck
him most forcibly. was the conviction that
theology, by which he means Christian
Theology. as commonly understood, had
received its death-blow at Mr. Darwin
hands.
put in opposition the Bible theory
and the evolutionists' theory of how the
human race started. The Bible account
says: "Let us make man in our image
for our likeness. SO God created mar
10 his own image" He brcatbed int
him the breath Of life. A perfect man
Not n perfect KANGAROO or n perfect chin