The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-22
ORIGIN OF MANKIND.
OR. TALMAGE PINS HIS FAITH TO TIE
d DIVINE ACCOUNT. ~,

EvoI1tion II InHdelity - Attempt to Gal
vsni.s an Old Heather Doctrine Into
Life--ScisntIflc AbsurditIss to Drive Out
God and the Bible.
copyright. 1898. BY At; American Press Asso-
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2l.--The question of
human origin, SO prominent now in scien-
tifo and religious circles, Is discussed in
characteristic style by Dr. Talmage in this
discourse, in which he also advocates the
theory that all the worlds progress has
come through Christianity; text, Tim.
othy vi, 30, 10 Timothy, keep that which
Is committed to thy trust, avoiding oppo.
sitions of science falsely, so called!'
There Is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. Tho same God
who by the hand Of prophet wrote on
parchment, by the hand Of tho storm wrote
on the rock. Tho best telescopes and mi
croscopes and electric batteries and philo-
sophical apparatus belong to Christian
universities. Who gave us magnetic teleg-
raphy9 Professor Morse, Christian.
Who swung the lightnings under the sea,
cabling the continents togetherp Cyrus
W. Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the anBsthetical properties Of ohlorofofrn,
doing more for the relief Of human pain
than any man that ever lived, driving
back nine tenths Of tho horrors of surgery
James Y. Simpson Of Edinburgh, os emil
nent for piety as for science, on weekdays
In the university leoturing on profoundest
scientific subjects and on Sabbaths preach
A. - ~ Toox.a - - En- I,o m
Of Edinburgh. I saw the universities OF
that city drapcd in mourning for bis death,
and heard his eulogy pronounced by tho
destitute populations Of tho Cowgate. Sci
ence and revelation are the bass and 60
prano Of the same tune. The whole world
will yet acknowledge the complete ha1.
mony, but between what my text describes
as science, falsely 50 called, and revelation
there is an incorporating war, and one
or the other must 90 unddr.
At the present time the air IL Allied with
social and platform and pulpit talk about
evolution, and 1t Is high time that the
people who have not time to make inves-
tiRation for themselves understand that
evolution, in the hrst place, is up and
down, out and out infdelity; IN the 500
ond place. 1t is contrary to tho facts Of sci.
ence and, IN the third place, that 1t is
brutalizing in It's tendencies. I do not
argue that this IL genuine book, do not
say that the Bible ia worthy Of any kind Of
oredence-those are subjects for other
Sabbaths-but want you to understand
that Thomas Paine and Hume and Vol
taire no more thoroughly dishelieved the
Holy Scriptures than do all the leading
scientists who believe in evolution. And
whom say scientists Of course do not
moan literary men or theologians who In
essay or In sermon and without giving
their life 10 scientific investigation look ct
the subject on this side or that. By scien-
lists mean those who have speciality in
that direction and who through geological
garden and aquarium and astronomical
observatory give their life to the study Of
the physical earth, Its plants and Its AMI
mails and the regions beyond so far as op-
tical Instruments have explored them.
Iput upon the witness stand living and
dead the leading evolutionists-
Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, Tyn-
dali, Darwin, Spencer. On the witness
stand, ye men Of science, living and dead,
answer these questions: Do you believe
the Holy Scripturesp No. And 80 they soy
all. Do you believe tho Bible story Of
Adam anu Evo in tho garden Of Eden9
No. And 60 they soy all. Do you believe
the miracles of tho Old and New Testa-
nentsp No. And 80 they say all. Do You
believe that Jesus Christ died to save the
nationsp No. And so they say all Do
you believe in the regenerating power Of
the Holy Ghost2 No. And so they say all.
Do you believe that human duplication
directed heavenward ever makes any diff
ferenCep No. And % they say all
/. Herbert Spencer in the only address no
mado in this country, In his very Arst SEN
tenco ascribes his ply steal ailments to fate,
and tho authorized report Of that address
begins the word fate with big"F. Pro-
fessor Heckel, in the very first page Of his
two great volumes, snaers at the Bible asa
so called revelation. Tyndall In his ia
nous prayer test, defled the whole Of Chris
tendon to chow that human supplication
made any difference In the result Of things
John Stuart Mill wrote deliberately against
Christianity, and to show that his rejeo-
ton Of 1t was complete ordered this cpl
taph for his tombstone, "Most Unhappy"
Huxley said that at tho first reading Of
Darwin's book he was convinced Of tho
fact that theology had received its death
blow at tho hand of Mr.. Darwin. All the
leading scientists who believe in evolu-
ton, without one exception the world
over, are infdel say nothing against
infldelity, mind you. only wish to de-
flno the belief and the meaning of the re-
lection.
Evolution Is Infdelity.
Now, put opposite to each other, to
show that evolution Is infldelity, the Bible
account of how the human raoe started
and the evolutionist account Of how the
human race started. Bible account: "God
said lot us make man In our image. God
created man in his own image, male and
female created he them" He breathed
into him the breath of life, the whole story
setting forth the idea that 1t was not o
perfect kangaroo or o perfect orang ou-
tang, but perfect man. That Is the Biblo
account Tho evolutiopist account: Away
bnck in the ages thoro were four or five
primal germs or seminal spores from,
which oil the living creatures have been
evolved. Go away back, and there you
will find a vegetable stuff that might be
called mushroom. This mushroom by
innate force develops tadpole, the tad
pole by innate force develops polliwog,
the polliwog develops fish, the fish by
Lstural force develops into a reptile, tho
reptile develops into quadruped, the
quadruped develops into baboon, the ba-
boon develops into q man.
Darwin says that the human hand il
only fsh's fin developed. Flo says that
tho human lungs ore only swim bladder,
showing that we once 1oated OF were am
phibious. He says tho human ear could
once have boon moved by force Of will just
"a horse lifts its ear at fr!ghtful object.
He says tho human race wero originally
wobfooted. From primal germ to tadpole,
from tadpole to fish, from fish to reptile,
from reptile to wolf, from wolf to Chin
panzee and from Chimpanzee to man.
Now, If anybody says that the Bible &C.
count Of tho starting Of the human race
and the Cvoluticnist account of the start
ing Of the human race are the same &C.
counts, he makes an appalling misrepre.
sentation.
Prefer, II you will, Darwin's Origin Of
tho Species" to the book of Genesis, but
know YOU ore an inndel. As for myself.
q Herbert Spencer was not present at the
creation and the Lord Almighty was pres.
emit, prefer to take the divine account az
TO what really occurred on that occasion.
H. ALuA 1,,ftN Ia py,1ry - r..