Daily Republican., 1885-10-19
Talmage On MONKEYS,

lectured In the Academy OF Music, N.
T., last week, on the Absurdities of
Evolution. The parquet and balcony
were filled with a most enthusiastic
audience, and the lecturers ideas, brist-
ling with inimitable humor and telling
argument, were vigorously applAuded.
DR.. Talmage said:
There Is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who, by the hand Of prophet, wrote on
parchment, by the hand OF the storm
wrote on the rocks. Who gave US
telegraphy Professor Morse,
a christian. Who swung the lightning
under the sea, cabling the continents
together? Cyrus w. Field, the chris
tain. Science and revelation are the
bass and soprano Of the same tune. The
whole world will yet acknowledge the
harmony. Between falsely
sO-called science and revelation there is
war. and one or the otter must 20
under. The air is filled with social,
platform and pulpit talk about Evolu.
zion. and the people should understand
that Evolution Is infidelity, that 1t Ia
10 the facts of science and
that 1t Is brutalizing in it's tenden.
cios.
will put upon the witness stand
living and dead, the leading evolution,
ats. Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill
Huxley, Tyndal, Oar win and Spencer,
and ask these questions Do you
believe the Holy Scriptures Do you
believe the Bible story Of Adam and
Eve ? Do you believe the miracles Of
he Old and New Testament ? Do you
believe that Jesus Christ died to save
men DO You believe in tNe regener.
at,ng power Of the Holy G iost e? Do
sou believe that human supplica.
tion directed heaven ward makes any
difference No And 30 they say
all All the leading scientists who
believe in evolution are infidels. The
Bible account OF how the human race
started is "God created man after
his own image" He made q perfect
man, not a perfect kangaroo or a perfect
The evolntionists &C.
count-Away back in this ages there
we're four or Eve primal germs or semi.
Dal spores. from which all livin z
creatures have been evolved. A vege.
table stuff, that might be called mush.
room, by innate force developed a
pollywog, the pollyw developed a
fish. the fish by natural force developed
into reptile, the reptile baboon
and the baboon developed into a
man
THE DIVINE ACCOUNT PREFERABLE.
Now, for my part, as Herbert Spen.
Ger was not present at the creation, and
the Lord Almighty was present, l pre-
fer the divine account. Who made the
primal germ? Evolutionists say 1t
made itself. Who made the protoplasm?
They say 1t was spontaneous genera
ton. A species never develops into any.
thing but its own species. An attem pit at
it results in q by brid, which Is always
sterile. The Bible account Of how
worlds are made-God made the sun,
the moon and stars. Evolutionists' &C
count-away back in the ages there was
u f ne mist of star dust, which cooled
off into granite. and the granite was
shaped into mountain and valley and
earth. Who made the fine mist? Who
cooled 1t off into granite? You have
pushed God some 60, 00O, 900 or 70, 900, 900
miles from the earth, but he is too
near 1t , ct for the health of evolution.
Evolutionists found the factory where
worlds were made when they looked
upon neoulH, aud there was no God
around the factory, they thought. But,
In an unlucky hour, the telescope re-
vealed that the nebulS were a CON-
pound, and that implied a God so away
went their theory, shattered into ever
lasting demolition. Agassiz, Hugh
Miller, Farraday, Brewster, Dana and
Dawson do not believe III evolution.
There 10 one dogma of evolution which
IL Is demanded we adopt. Darwin calls
it natural selection Wallace calls
it the survival of the fittest." But
do the fittest survive? Garfield dead
in September and Guiteau surviving
until the following June. Albert Sidney
Johnston and Stonewall jackson falling
on the Confederate side and Ellsworth
and Nathaniel Lyon falling on the side
of the Union. Did they fall because
they were not as fit TO live rs the sol
diers and generals who came back from
| war In safety.
L can prove that, THOUGH there ha.
has been vast improvement from
another source, there has been no uatura
progress. Where la the horse in oul
parks whose picture il worthy of being
compared to j ob's picture of a horse al
he saw it thousands of years ago? TIL,
human race started with men ten fee
high with men who lived from tw,
hundred TO nine hundred years; now
the average IL five feet six inches IL
| height and the age thirty years. Civ
natural evolution full swing in GU
world and 1t will evolve into two hem
Iispheres of crime, of penitentiary, o
| lazaretto, of beastliness. New Yorl
1'ombs. Moyamensing Prison, Ssvei
Dials of London and Cowgate of Edin
burg are only fostering carbuncles OIL
face and neck of natural evolution. Eve
luton is always down ward. never for
ward. 1t Is all the time developing 1t
dishonesty. Evolutionists talk of til
missing link. Between the physica
contraction of tue 10 west man and tn,
highest animal there is clasm az wild
IS the Atlantic Ocean
WHY ARE APES TODAY?
fla pair of apes had q man for d.
ASCENDANT, why would not all apes hav
the same? Perhaps 1t was a favore
pair. If the old type dies OF as tn
new species rises, how is 1t that baboon
are still to be found? Have some o
them surrendered monkey dom and sc
up business as men? According to tn
evolutiOnists, q man il a bankrup
monkey-failure as a monkey and sue
Gers as q man. When | see on tn
street one of those poor, spoiled-by
foreign-travel creatures, who, by Gu
of shoe and angle of elbow and tbi
scab of one eyegass, shows himself
Ipoor imitation % foreign softhead,
Isay, "That is evolution" backward
from man to ape There is somethin
within us that tells us we are of cele,
Itial pedigree, lineage Of the skie,
Igenealogy Of heaven. 1 tell you plaiI
lily that if your father Was muskra
your mother q postum, your grandeur
la kangaroo, and toads and snappin
Turtles your Predecessors, "my fathe
was Godi" 1t would have been just n