Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-09-02
"PROGRESS" Is EVIL,
TALMAcs OEEoUNcEs THOSE WHO
SCO-r T "~i Y WRIT
Subject; "where Ne Came Trom"-The
Incorporating War Between Science
FALSELY So-Called and Revslation-EVo-
tuition l. Infidel aud Heather.

tuition T. Inddel aud Heather.
Trxr. 20 Timothy. keep that which is
committed 90 thy trust. avoiding opposi-
tions OF science falsely so-ealled."-I
Timothy Vi, 20.
There l. no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God who
by the hand Of the prophet wrote on parch.
ment by the hand ~ the storm wrote on
the rock. The best telescopes and micro
scopes and electric batteries and philosO.
phiral apparatus belong TO Christian uni.
versities. Who gave US magnetic tele.
graphys Professor Morse, a Christian
Who syuus. the lichtnings under the sea
cabling L." continents togetherY Cyrus
W Field the Christian. Who discovered
the anestErticHl properties Of chlOrofOrm
doing more for the relief of human pain
than any man that ever lived, driving back
nine-ter this of the horrors of surgery
James y. Simpson. OF Edinburgh. as emf
nent for piety as for science on week days
In the university lecturinC on prnfoundest
scientific subjects, and on Sahbaths preach.
ing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the mas-es
Of Edinburgh. | saw the universities Of
that city Grapcd In mourning for his death
and | heard his eulogy pronounced hy iut
destitute populations Of the Cowgate.
Science aud revelation are the bass and
soprano of the same tune. The whole
NbFll viii y Ct NthlpNlthEf tue COM Iil'lV
harmony. But between whattmy text de-
scribes as science falsely so-called. and reve.
lation, there is an uncOmpromisug war.
AMI one or the other must 20 under.
At the present time the air is filed with
social and platform and puipit talk about
evolution, and it is high time that the peo-
pie who have not time to make nvestiga-
lions for themselves understand that evo-
luton in the first place. Is up and down.
nj nd ipfi1alitV. In the snpNnI nj "a n
it is contrary to the facts Of science. and
IN the third Ilacp, that it is hrutallng In
its tendencies | do not argue that this is
n genuine book, | do not say that the Bible
is worthy Of any kind of rredenre--those
are subjects for ether Sahbaths-hut | want
YOU to understand that Thomas Paine and
Hume AMI No'taire no more thoroughly
dishelirycd the Holy Scriptures than do all
the leading SCIENTISTS who believe in evn-
luton.
put upon the witness stand, living and
dead, the lealnc evolutonists-Er
Hanckcl, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, TyndalI,
Darwin, Spencer. On the witness stand,
ye men of science, living and dead answer
these questions Do you believe the Holy
Scriptures! No. And so they say all. Do
you belize the Bible story OF Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Eden? No. And 50
they say all. DO Won believe in the mira
cles of the Old and New Testament? No.
And so they say all. Do You believe that
Jesus Christ died to save the nations? No
And so they say all. Do you believe in the
regeneratinG power Of the Holy Ghost?
No. And so they say all Do you believe
that human suppicaton directed heaven.
ward ever makes any difference? No.
And so they shy all.
Hrrbert spencer, in the only address lie
made in this country, in his very first sch
! tence ascrbes his physical ailments to fate,
| and the authorized report of that address
! begins the word fate with big "F,' Pro-
! fessOr liaeckel. in the very first page Of his
! two great volumes snecrs at the Bible aS Il
| so-called revelation. Tyndall in his famous
prayer test. deled the whole of Christ"n-
! dom to show that human suppicaton
| made any difference in the result Of things.
! John Stuart Mill wrote deliberately against
| Christianity, and TO show that his rejection
| OF it was compete. ordered this epitaph for
his tombstone: Most unhappy Huxley
said that ut the first reading of Darwin 5
| book he was convinced of the fact that
! theology had received its death blow mt
! the hand of Mr. Darwin. All the lending
scientists who believe in evolution, without
one exception the world over, are inlideis.
say nothing against infdelity, mind YOU.
| only wish to define the belief and the
meaning of the rejection.
Now | put opposite to each other, to
! show that evolution is intidelty, the Bible
| account of how the human race started
Bible account: sc ID said, let us make man
in our image God created man in His
own image; male and female created He
| them II breathed into him the breath
of life, the whole story setting forth the
| idea that it was not perfect kangaroo, or
n perfect ourang Outang, but perfect
man That is the Bible account. The
| evoutiOnist account: Away back in the
sl,g,.. anil
| or seminal spores from which all the living
creatures have been evolved. Go away
back, and there you will find a vegetable
stuff that might be called a mushroom.
This mushroom by innnte force develops a
talpole. the tadpole by innate force
develops n polywog. the polywog deIevops
fish, the fish by natural force develops
into a reptile, the reptile develops into Il
| uuadruped, the Ouadruppd develops into &
baboon the babOon develops into man.
Darwin SAYS that the human hand is only
n llsh's fin Developed He says that the
human lungs are only II swim bladder
showing that we once foated or were
amphibions He SAYS that the human EN-
could once have been moved by force o.
will Just as n horse lifts its ear at a fright
tut object. lie says the human race wert
originally wcb-footed From primal germ
to tadpole, from tadpole to fish, from fist
| " lcIlllts II pHl ltINll' W hbll, ilolil WV
to chimpanzee. and from chimpanGee It
man. Now, if anybody says that the Bible
account OF the starting of the human race
and the cvOlutonist account of the starting
of the human race are the same accounts
he makes an appalling misrepreSenta
ton.
Prefer, If you will, Darwin's "OriGin o
the Species" to the Book OF Genesis, bu
know you are an infidei. As for myself Il
| Hprhprt NOT nrpSpnt Mt TN
creation and the Lord Almighty was pres
| emit | prefer to take the Divine account Il
to what really occurred on that occasion
To show that this evolution il only a
attempt to eject God and to postpone Him
and to put Him clear out Of reach, ask
question or two. The babOOn made tn
man and the wolf made tho baboon, an
the reptile made the Iuadruped, and til
fish made the reptile, and the tadpol
made the fish, and the primal germ mad
the talpole. Who made the primal germ
Most of the evolutionist5 say: eve don
know" Others say it made itself Other
say it was spontaneous generation. Iher
is not one of them who will fairly an
openly and frankly and emphatically say
"GOd made 1t"
The nearest to direct answer is tina
made by Herbert Spencer in which he say
it was made by the great 'unknOwabl
= mystery" But here comes Huxley with
cup Of protoplasm to explain the thing
This protopGam, he says, is primal life
giving quality with which the race ava
back in the ages was started. With hi
protoplAsm hr proposes to explain every
thing. Dear MIR. Huxley, who made tn
protOplasm?
n To show you that evolution is inndeI.
n place the Bible account of how the brut
" creation was started opposite to the eyoIC
+ tiOnist's account, of the way the brute or,
y alton was started Bible account: Yo
know the Bible tells us how that the birC
were made at one time and the cattle mad
at another time, and the fish made at al
other time and that each brought fort