Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-09-07
SERMONS OF THE DAY,
subject: -Wnere we came From"-rn.
Uncom promising War Between Scienc,
Falsely so-Called and Revelation-Evo
luton ia Infidel and Heathen.

r FaIsely so-Caued and dReyelatiOn-Evs
luton is Infidel and Heathen.
TEXT: 80 Timothy, keep that which
, committed to thy trust, avoiding opposi
tions OF science falsely so-called."-
Timothy vi, 20.
: There Is no contest between genuin
science and revelation. The same God VIII
by the hand OF the prophet wrote on parch
ment, by the hand Of the storm wrote o.
the rock. The best telescopes and micro
scopes and electric batteries and philoso
phical apparatus belong to Christian uni
versities. Who gave US magnetic tcle
graphy? Professor Morse, a Christian
Who swung the lightninSs under tho sea
cabling the continents together? Cyru
". Field the Christian. Who discovere,
the anesthetical properties OF choroform
doing more for the relief of human pail
than any man that ever lived, driving bacl
ntne-tenths Of the horrors of surgery
James Y. Simpson, OF Edinburgh. as emf
nent for piety as for SCIENCE on week day!
In the university lecturing on profoundes
scientific subjects, and on Sabbaths preach
ing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the masses
OF Edinburgh. 1 saw the universities o.
that city draped in mourning for his death
ana heard his euiogy pronounced by ,h'
destitute populations of the Cowgate
Science and revelation are the bass ant
soprano OF the same tune. The Who'll.
| world will yet acknowledge the complet.
harmony. But between whatlmy text de-
scrtbes as science falsely So called, and reve
| lation, there Is an uncompromising war
and one or the other must 60 under.
At the present time the air is filled with
social and platform and pulpit talk about
| evolution, and 1t Is high time that the peo,
pie who have not time to make investiga
| tions for themselves understand that eyo
luton in the first place, is up and down
.out-and-out infldclity; in the second place
1t Is contrary to the facts of science, anc
in the third place, that 1t is brutaizing IL
its tendencies. 1 do not argue that this |.
a genuine book, do not say that the Bibl.
is worthy of any kind of credence-thoss
are subjects for other Sabbaths-but want
| you to understand that Thomas Paine ant
Hume and Voltaire no more thoroughly
| dfsbelieved the Holy Scriptures than do al
| the leading scientists who believe in evo.
luton.
Iput upon the witness stand, living and
dead, the Loading evolutionists-Ernsi
Haeckel, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, ,Tyndall
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 Dc
| you believe the Bible story of Adam an6
they say all. Do you 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 supplication directed heaven.
ward ever makes any difference? No.
| And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer, In the only address he
made in this country, In his very 1rst SEN
tence ascribes his physical ailments to fate
begins the word fate with big "F" Pro-
fessor Haeckel, In the. very first page of his
| two great volumes sneers at the Bible as G
so-called revelation. Tyndall In his famous:
prayer test, de1ed the whole of Christen.
dom to show that human supplicatior
made any difference In the result OF taings.
John Stuart Mill wrote elaborately against
Christianity, and to show that his rejection
| OF 1t was complete, ordered this epitaph for
his tombstone: Most unhappy" Huxley
| said that at the first reading of Darwin's
| book he was convinced of the fact that
Theology had received its death blow at
| the hand of Mr.. Darwin. All the leading
| scientists who believe In evolution, without
one exception the world over, are inldels
say nothing against infidelitv, mind you
l only wish to define the belief and the
meaning of the rejection.
Now, put opposite to each other, tc
show that evolution is infidelity, the Bible
account of how the human race started
Bible account: "G ID said let 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 perfect kangaroo, OF
perfect ourang outang, but a perfect
man. That Is the Bible account The
evoluttonist account Away back in the
ages there were four or five primal germs,
or seminal spores from which all the living
creatures have been evolved. Go away
back, and there you will find a vegetable
stun that might be called a mushroom.
This mushroom by innate force develops a
tadpole, the tadpole by inrate force
develops polywos, the polywog delevops
fish, the fish by natural force develops
into reptile, the reptile develops into q
quadruped, the quadruped develops into
baboon. the baboon develops into a man.
Darwin says that the human hand is only
flsh's fin developed. He says that the
human lungs are only swim bladder
showing that we once floated or were
amphibious. He says that the human ear
could once have been moved by force of
will just as horse lifts its ear at fright
full object. He says the human race were
originally web-footrd. From primal germ
to tadpole, from tadpole to fish, from fish
to reptile, from reptile to wolf, from wolf
man. Now, If anybody says that the Bible
account of the starting Of the human race
and the evolutionist account Of the starting
Of the human race are the same accounts,
he makes an appalling misrepresenta-
ton.
Prefer, If you will, Darwin's "Origfn of
the Species'' to the Book of Genesis, but .
know you are an infdel. As for myself, as
Herbert Spencer was not present at the
creation and the Lord Almighty was pres
ent prefer to take the Divine account rs
to what really occurred on that occasion
To show that this evolution Is only an
attempt to eject God and to postpone Him,
and to put Him clear out of reach, I ask a
question or two. The baboon made the
man and the wolf made the baboon, and
the reptile made the quadruped, and the
fish made the reptile, and the tadpole
the tadpole. Who made the primal germi
Most of the evolutionists say: 1--WE don't
know" Others say 1t made itself. Others
say it was spontaneous generation. There
Is not one of them who will fairly and
openly and frankly and emphatically say,
God made IT,
The nearest to a direct answer Is that
made by Herbert Spencer in which he says
it was made by the great "unknowable
mystery" But here comes Huxley with
cup Of protoplasm to explain the thing
This protoplasm, he says, Is primal life.
back in the ages was started. With hfs
he proposes to explain every
thing. Dear Mr.. Huxley. who made the
protoplasm2
10 snow you that evolut1On Is 1nndel,
place the Bible account of how the brute
creation was started opposite to the evolu-
tionist's account, of the way the brute Gre
alton was started. Bible account: You
know the Bible tells US how that the birds
were made Mt one time and the cattle made |
st another time, and the fish made at an i
other time, and that each brought forth |
after its kind. Evolutionist's account: |
From four or five primal germs or seminal |
spores all the living creatures evolved. |
Hundreds of thousands of species of in
sects, of reptiles, of beasts, of fish, from
four germs-a statement flatly contradict
ing not only the Bible, but the very A b c
Of science. A species never develops into
anything but its own species. In all ages
ana In all the world there mas never beer
an exception to it. The shark never come
out of a whale, nor the pigeon of a vulture
nor the butterfly OF wasp. Species never
cross over. If there be an attempt at 1t, Il |
Is hybrid, and the hybrid Is always sterile,
and has no descendants.
These men of science tell us that 3. hum |