The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-08
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Dr. Tslaago was introduced BY L Of
Sadlcr. The speaker was received with
hearty applause, and said:
''LudteS and Gtat{em1g-If We leave
to the eyolutionists to tell Us where We
come from and to the reTOlutionists
where we are going. the fact remains
that We are here. Laughter. There l.
10 contest between science and religion.
The best phiios0phic instrument, belong
| to Christian universities. Who gave u
the magnetic telegraph Professor
Morse. Who strung the cable under the
Atlantic Ocean? Cyrus W. Field, the
Christian. But between science, So call
ed, and religion there is an unconpromis
ing war, and one or the other must 20
under. | do not now argue that the Bible
is a genuine book. That is the subject
for a sermon. | am not sermOnlZlng to-
night, but lecturing. | pick no quarrel
with intdels. | put upon the witness
stand the men OF science, the leading
lights Of evolution, living or dead. lyn-
dali in his famous prayer test scorned at
the Bible. Huxley said at the first read
inx of Darwin's book that he believed
Christianity had received It's death blow
by Mr.. Darwin. Against the doctrine of
evolution let Us set the Bible account.
God said, Let US make man in our own
image Darwin says the human hand IS
only a tish's fin. Now, If anybody says
the Bible account Of the Creation and the
doctrine Of the evolutlonists agree, he Is
appallingly mistaken. Ii the doctrine OF
the e~volutionists relating to germs be
co rect, who made the primal germ ?
Agassiz says he found in q root in Florida
insects thirty thousand years Old, and
they were the same as the insects OF to-
day. For d great while the evOlutlonlsts
| boasted that they had found the factory
where mouids were manufactured, and
there was no God around the factory.
But Christian astronomers lifted their
telescopes and spectroscopes and exploded
these ideas. But | am glad that all sclen-
tiiic men are not evolutlOnlstS or lntldels.
God by his omnlpotent power made this
magnificent world. There is one dogma
of evolution which we are told we must
accept. We are told that the breed Of
animals and men Is constantly improving.
We are told the fittest survive. Is 1t true?
Garfield died in June. Guiteau survived
until the following September. Ellsworth
and Lyon fell en- the Northern side, and
Albert Sidney Johnston and Stonewall
Jackson tell on the Southern side, Was
this the survival Of the tiltcst because
others IN the same battles reached their
homes again. There have been vast i'm
provements since the foundation OF the
world, but no natural progress. Five
hundred years ago pigeons carried the
mail from army to army. DO they do
so now? Natural evolution is never up
wards, but downwards. Go to China
and other Eastern countries and you will
see this ~elucidated. Give natural evolu
ton its full swing, and it would produce
two hemlspheres of crime. Evolution
says the heart gets better and better.
The Bible says out Of the heart proceeds
all manner of wickedness. Evolution is
an old heathern corpse set up IN a morgue,
and Spencer and Darwin have tried to
galvanlze it. The brain Of the largest
gorilla that has ever been found Is thirty
inches, while the brain OF the most lgnO-
rant man ever examined is seventy inches.
1t would require a bridge OF forty arches
to span his chasm. According TO evolu-
~ionists, men are bankrupt apes. How
ever degraded man or woman may be,
and however much we may dislike to
speak to them, we must feel that there
is a certain degree of kinship between
US, and it tells US we are OF celestial
pedigree-not of the mollusk, but of the
LivingGod. Itell you that if your father
was 4 muskrat and your mother an opos-
sum-, my father was God. 1t would be
Just as much of a miracle for God to turn
an ourang-outang into a mar as to make
a man out and-out. There has never
been but one attempt to pass from the
speeches. animal to articulation, and
that was by the animal which Balaam
rode, and an angel with a drawn sword
soon stopped that long-eared evolution
list" Dir. Talmage was frequently in
corrupted during the progress of his lee
ture by applause.