The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-09-03
ABOUT EVOLUTION.
Rev. Dr.. Talmsge Takes Issue with
Darwin and Huxley.
me Thssry % Evolution Opposed to the
bible a.d 20 Rsa1 seience-The Sur
vival OF shs Fittest an I'm
sabssaaesal Myth.

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O Timothy. keep that which Is committed u
thy trust. avoiding oppositions OF science
falsely so callctl--I Timothy, VI 20
There Ia no contest between genuine
sciencc and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of the prophet wrote
on parchment, by the hnnd of the
storm wrote on the rock. The best
telescopes and microscopes and cleo
tric batteries and philosophical appa'
atus belong to Christian universities.
Who gave IN magnetic telegraphyi
Prof. Morse, q Christian. Who swung
the lightnings under the sen, cabling
the continents togetherP Cyrus w.
Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the anaesthetical properties of chloro-
form, doing more the relief OF human
pain than any man that ever lived,
Irving back nine-tenths OF the hor-
rors of surgery? James Y. Simpson,
of Edinburgh, as eminent for piety as
for science; on week days in the uni
yersity lecturing ON profoundest scien-
tific subjects. and on Sabbaths preach
ing the Gospel Of Jesus Christ to the
masses of Edinburg. ! saw the uni
versities of that city draped in mourn
ing for his death, and l heard his Gu
logy pronounced by the destitute pop
ulalions OF the Cowgatc. Science and
revelation are the bass and soprano OF
the same tune. The whole world will
yet acknowledge the complete har-
mony. But between what my text
describes as science falsely so-called,
and revelation, there is an uncompro-
missing war, and one or the other must
60 under.
AT the present time the air is filed
with social md platform and pulpit
talk about evolution, and it is high
time that the people who have not
time to make investigation for them
selves understand that evolution in the
first place Is up and down, out-and-out
infidclity; in the second place it is con-
trary to the facts OF science, and in the
third place, that it is brutalizing in its
tendencies. do not argue that this is
genuine book, l do not say that the
Bible is worthy Of any kind of credcnce
those are subjects for other Sabbaths
but want you TO understand that
Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltairs
no more thoroughly disbelieve the Holy
Scriptures than do all the leading
scientists who believe in evolution
And when say scientists, of course
do not mean literary men or theolo
gians who in essay or Sermon and with
out giving their life to scientific inves
tigations, look mt the subject on thi
side or that. by scientists l meal
those who have u specially in that di
rection and who, through geological
garden and aquarium and astronomi
cal observatory, give their life. to TIL
study of the physical earth, its plant
and it's animals, and the regions beyon'
SO far as optical instruments have eX
plorcd them
put upon the witness stand living
and dead, the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Hux
ley, Tyndall, Oar win, Spencer. On tn,
witness stand, We men of science, liv
ing and dead, answer these questions
Do you believe the Holy Scriptures
No. And so they say all. Do you I've
;ieve the Bible story of Adam and Ev,
In the Garden of Eden? No. And S,
they say all. Do you believe the
miracles OF the Old and New Tesla
ment2 No. And so they say all. Do
you believe that Jesus Christ died K
save the nations? No. And so they
say all. Do you believe in the regcnc
rating power of the Holy Ghost? No
And so they shy all. DO you believ'
that human supplication directed
Heavenward ever makes any differ
ence? No. And SO they say all.
Herbert Spencer, in the only address
ne made in this country, in his yer.
first sentence ascribes his physical all
ments to fate, and the authori zcd re
port of that address begins the wor,
fate with big If" Prof Heckel, il
the very first page of his two grca
volumes, sneers at the Bible as a SC
called revelation Tyndali, In his ia
nous prayer test, defied the whole O
Christendom to show that human sur
plication made any difference in tn
result OF things John Stuart Mi
wrote deliberately against Christianity
and, to show that his rejection of
was complete, ordered this epitaph TO
his tombstone: "Most unhappy" HUI,
ley said that mt the first reading G
Darwin's book he was convinced of tn
fact that theology had received II
death blow at the hand of Mr.. Dal
win. All the leading scientists VIII
belive in evolution. without one exceI
ton the world over, are inldel. / ga
nothing against infdeity, mind yo,
] only wish to define the belief and til
meaning of the rejection.
Now, put opposite each other,
show that evolution is infeldity, til
Bible account of how the human rac
started and the cvolutionist accour
of how the human race started. Bib
account: God said, let US make ma
in our image. God created man In Ii
own image; male and female create
He them He breathed into him IL
breath of life, the whole story settir
forth the idea that It was not a pc
feet kangoras, or q perfect outrar
outang, but q perfect man. That
the Bible account The evolutioui
account: Away back in the ages the
were four or Eve primal germs,
seminal spores from which all the II
ing creatures have been evolved {
away back, and there you will find
vegetable stuff that might be called