The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-09-01


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y. sAs discourse de-
%N elAres that evolu-
~ w. eoo = nok prsgrss-
- sion. but retrosres-
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Text. I Timothy. VI. 20. 20 Timothy.
| keep that which y committed 10 thy
truN. ayo,dipg opposition OF scaence
hlsely. % called" - NJ s 8
Thers = no contest between gsnuins
science ana revelation. The same God
who By the hand Of prophet wrote on
parchment. by the hand Of the storm
wrote o. tte rock. The best telescopes
and microscopes and electric oAtteries
and philosophical apparatus Belong to
Christian universities. Who gave u
magnetic telegraphy? Professor Morse.
a Christian. Who swung the light
nlngs under the sea, cabling the conti-
nents together? Cyrus w. Field, the
Christian. Who discovered the anaes-
thetical properties OF chloroform. doing
more for the relief Of human pain than
any man that ever lived, driving back
nine tenths OF the horrors Of surgery?
James Y. Simpson Of Edinburgh, as
eminent for piety as for science, on
week days in the university lecturing
on profoundest scientific subjects and
on Sabbaths preaching the gospel of
| Jesus Christ to the masses Of Edin-
burgh. I saw the universities OF that
city draped In mourning for his death.
and l heard his eulogy pronounced by
the destitute populations Of the Cow
gate. Science and revelation are the
The whole world will yet acknowledge
the complete harmony, but between
what my text describes as science,
falsely so called. and revelation. there
is an uncompromising war. and one or
the other must go under.
At the present time the air Is filled
with social and platform and pulpit
talk about evolution, and Il 10 high time
that the people WHO have not time to
make investigation for themselves un-
derstand that evolution. In the first
place, 10 UP and down, out and out in
fidelity; in the second place. II Is con
trary to the facts of science. and. in
the third place, that II 10 brutalizing In
Its tendencies. do not argue that this
is a genuine book, do not say that the
Bible is worthy of any kind Of cred
baths-but l want you to understand
that Thomas Paine and Hume and
Voltaire no more thoroughly disbeliev-
ed the Holy Scriptures than do all the
leading scientists who believe in evo-
luton. And when I say scientists OF
course I do not mean literary men OF
|, theologians who, in essay or in sermon
! and without giving their life to scien.
tific Investigation, look at the subject
on this side or that. BY scientists
mean those who have 4 specially ir
that direction and who through zoo.
logical garden and aquarium and as
Economical observatory give their life
to the study of the physical earth, it;
plants and its animals and the regions
beyond so far as optical instruments
have explored them.
/ put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill. Hux.
ley. Tmdall, Darwin, Spencer. On tn,
witness stand, ye men OF science, llv.
ing and dead. answer these questions
Do You believe the Holy Scriptures
No. And 30 they say all. Do you be-
lieve the Bible story of Adam and
Eve In the garden OF Eden? No. And
so they say all. Do you believe tn,
miracles Of the Old and New Testa.
ments? No. And 20 they say all. u,
you believe that Jesus Christ died tc
save the nations? No. And 50 they
say all. Do you believe in the regener.
ating power of the Holy Ghost? No
And so they say all. Do you believe
that human supplication directed heav.
onward ever makes any difference? No
And 50 they say ALL
Herbert Spencer. in the only address
he made in this country. in his very
first sentence ascribes his physical all.
ments TO fate, and the authorized re.
port OF that address begins the WORT
fate with a big "F." Professor Hecke
In the very first page Of his two grea,
volumes, sneers A the Bible - Q -
called revelation TyndaA, in his IA.
nous prayer test. defied the whole o
Christendom 10 show that human sup
plication made any difference IN the re
suit Of things John Stuart Mill wrots
elaborately against Christianity, an.
to show that his rejection OF 1t wa:
most complete, ordered this epGtapi
for his tombstone: Most unhappy.
Huxley said that at the first readln;
OF Darwins book he was convinced o.
the fact that theology had receiveS
ns death blow at the hand OF Mr.. Dar
win. All the leading scientists VIII
believe in evolution. without one ex