New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-01
MIR. BEECHER on EVOLUTIOM
THE RECORD OF TIRE ROCKS AND THE BOOK
SCIENTIFIC RELIGIOUS INFIDELTY.

THE RECORD OF THE ROCKS AND THE BOOK
SCIENTIFIC RELIGIOUS INFfDELTY.
The second of Mr.. Beecher's projected ten
sermons upon Evolution ana Religion was delivered
70 large audience in Plymouth Church yesterday morn
ing Tho sermon was read from manuscript. lie said
In part:
That tho whole world and the ontre universe are the
creation of God Is the testimony OF the Bible with both
Jewish aud Christian But how lie made thom whether 10y
the direct force Of creative will by gradual changes
is Dy no means we'll agreed upon But tho world Is
not chances not creative fertnonta-
ton not q acknowledgment. II Is tho product OF an
intelligent being and Of divine will We have two
records Of creative energy. one shows how man was
unfoded by the inspiration Of Gods nature and there IL
another record revelation OF tho physical giooe oil
Ia divine thought In the unfolding history OF matter
Gods thought IN che evolution OF natural forces
and to other in the evolution OF Mind II IL the Old
Testament and the New in II scientific sonse, and
no one should turn from the literature Of the
rocks written In the hand OF God all theear,h The
Ten Comn andmeuts written on stone. are only para
graph in the book OF Science is the translation
OF Is revelation There IL as much or more lnhdey
in regard 10 the history science has uufoded In regard
10 the Book. Both revelations are OF pou. they His
both De uelligcuty understood, united ana harmon
led The men who decipher Tue hiernglyphcs OF Goa
ought 20 be hOnOrrd and encouraged. but bgoted
thcolCslsts ignorant plcsts ana jealous chufch'h Il
at these adventurous surveyors OF Got's haudiworS
When men pretend To DC IN pred OF Coz win Bfihs hI
shallow rdcue, with veteran tests and unproductlyc
prove that man did not originate with That AMI
NAL. seem likely TO have internal evidence
that such the IAushter. IL f. urged that
science unripe, and will not do To rest uponi that
there will be time TO consider 10 when becomes cct-
tainty Well how 10 with the BoOkl l. ts record any
more stable than the record OF the rocks Theology
seems Ike broom with Infinite spniers II theOl0gians
attempt u pour ridlculo the legitimate doctrines, II
scientific investigation less Trustworthy than reYea-
tion say no ground can he less teDabe.
some call evolution pseudO-scicnce, and laugh to
scOrn idea that man descended or assembled from the
monkey The descent Of man from the anthropud apes
only a hypothesis. not yet proven. see no present
expectation OF H. being proven II stands As hypOt-
esis pressed by multitude Of pro3aOilIuc';
IL throws light upon many problems In history and
life gained In other way Incline not u the belief,
but To- the snppOsiOn that isiu analogy with the rest
OF G0d's work. Az what time and by what methods nc
left behind his fellows aud stood on The spiritual ground
that separates HIM from the brutc- Is unknown. But II
does not the destiny and moral grandeur OF man
to evolution OF the human from the Inferior race
Evolution Is the method creation acceped by the
nine per Of working scientific this theory
ana do doubt It's validity. They divided as 70 us
causes aud results but every decade brings them more
and more 20 belief without 10 all sccnce~wOhld
fall back unrelated atoms. IL IA taught IN all our
schools aud another generation Will regard IL as tue
COpcrnicah theory OF astronomy, or the Newtoniah
theory OF gfavitatiOn. Evolution Is hold by such chris
Cont. Presbyterian cider; McCOsh. Presbyterian
OF the PresbJtc ridns and Scotch Presbyterian
that; Asa Gray. an EpiacOpalian Miyart, Roman
Catholic Wallace. Christian Spirtualist, and by the
Bishop OF London whose BampOn Lectures OF 1854
contain bold and frank statements Of Christian evo-
ten 10 Will obllgc theology 10 be reconstructed, Dut
1t will take away no ground OF true religion.