The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-07
THE CHAIN GONE.
Dr.. Talnage Clearly Disproves the
Missing Link" Theory.
EVOlUTIONlSTS PORTRAYED.
At Every Stage Of Human Life
There Is Direct Evidence OF
Divine Will. Unbridgeable
Gulf Between Man
and Beast.

Gulf Between Man
and Beast.
DR.. Ts!!uage in this dlscour, adv..a'
Christian evolution III contradiction TO ali
iufdel evolution AID declares III Il he culy
radically improving force IN tie woTli Is
christianity; tex. Komaus i, u, %, Pro
Tossing themselves TO be wise. they bee lule
fools aud chaused the glcr OF the nlc +
ruptible into an i:u~ge mate ike to
co,ruptible man, and 10 birds aud four foot
ed beasts and creeping thiAgs
This is a full length lort,a Of au evoiu-
ZIONIST who substitutes the hes,ial oriAiu for
the divine origin. showed you last week
that evolution Vas contra iiclea ny the Bible
by science, by observation slm by Common
sense; that the Bible account Of the creatiop
of msu and OF brute ami OF eworld, and
the evolutioniSt account. co i'1ed with each
other az certainty a. two express traius go
ing in oppo Ute directions y. 90 miles the
hour, Gheir locomotives meeting OF, the same
track. showfd that 81 the evolution sci
entists. without a;,y exception. were pro
nounccd iuf6els: tha: cvolulion WAS 4 hea-
ihen;sm oIsand> oil years old; that srch
men as Agassiz aud Hugh Miller AID Far
raGay aud Dawson aud Dana n. for that
doctrine of evolution unlimited contempt
showed you that their favorite theory OF the
survival Of the ittest" WAS an absurdlty
and an urtruth, and that natural evolution
was always downward and never upward,
and that there had never been any improve
ment for man or beast or world except
-. i ,G., '
our glorious Christianity. And in the clos
ing part of that sermon | told you was not
8 pesssimist, but an optiuist, that instead
of it being II O'Clock at night 1t is half past
in the morning.
Now, go on 10 tell you, it seems to me
that evolutionists are trying to impress the
great masses of the people with the idea
tuat there is an ancestral line leading the
serpent and on up through the quadruped
and on up through the gorilla to man. They
admit that th,re Is q ':missing link as they
call it, but there is not a missing Gnk-it is
8 whole chain gone. Between the physical
construction of the highest animal and the
physical construction of the lowest man
there is chasm as wide as the Atlantic
ocean. Evolutionists tell US that somewhere
in central Africa or in Borneo there is
creature half way between the brute and the
man, and that that creature is the highest
step in the animal ascent and the lowest
step in the human creation. But what are
the facts? The brain of the largest gorilla
that was ever found is 80 cubic inches, while
the brain Of the most ignorant man that was
ever found is 20. Vast difference between
so and 70. It needs q bridge of 40 arches
TO span that gulf.
Besides tina, there is difference between
the gorilla and the nan-a difference of
blood globule, q difference Of nerve, diff
ference Of muscle, difference Of bone,
difference of sinew. The horse is more ike
man IN intelligence, the bird is more like
him in musical capacity, the mastif is more
like him in affection. That eulogized beast
Of which we hear 80 much, represented on
the walls Of cities thousands Of years ago, is
just as complete as it is now, showing that
there has not been 9 particle Of change.
Besides that, if pair of apes had man for
descen dant, why would net all the apes
have the same kind of descendants? Can it
be tha: that one avored pair only was hon
ored with human progeny? Besides that,
evolution says that as one species rises to
another species the old type dies of. Then
how is it that there are whole kingdoms Of
chimpanzee and gorilla and baboon?
The evolutionisfs have come together and
have tried to explain birds wing Their
theory has always been that q faculty Of an
animal while being developed must always
be useful and always beneficial, but the wing
Of a bird, in the thousands Of years it vas
being developed, so far from being any help
must have been hindrance until 1t could
be brought into practical use away on down
in the ages. Must there not have been an
Intelligent will somewhere that formed that
wonderful flying instrument, so that bird
500 times heavier than the air can mount 1t
and put gravitation under claw and beak?
That wonderful mechanical instrument the
wing, with between 90 and 80 different ap-
parati curiously constructed, does it not i'm
ply divine intelligence? Does it not imply
direct act Of some outside being? All the
e7olutionists IN the world cannot explain
birds wing or an insects wing.
So they are confounded by the rattle Of
the ratslesnake Ages before that reptile
had any enemies this warning weapon was
crested. Why was it created? When the
reptile, far back in the ages, had no ene-
mics, why this warning weapon? There
must have been divine intelligence fore
seeing and knowing that in ages to come
that reptile would have enemies, and then
this warning weapon would be brought into
use. You see evolution at every step Is
contradiction or monstrosity. At every
stage of animal life SIS well as at every stage
Of human life there is evidence Of direct &C
ton Of divine will
Besides that, it is very evident from an
other fact that we are an entirely different
creation and that there is no kinship. The
animal in few hours or months ccmos to
full strength and can take care Of itself
The human race for the first one, two, three
FIVE, ten years is in complete helplessness.
The chick just come out Of its shell begins
to pick up its own food. The dog, the wolf,
the lion, soon earn their own livelihood and
act for their own defense. The human race
does not come to development until 20 or 80
years Of age, and by that tine the animals
that were born the same year the man was
born; the vast majority Of them, have died
of old age. This shows there is no kinship,
there is no similarity. If we had been Sorn
of the beast, we would have had the beasts
strength at the start or it would have had
our weakness. Not only different, but op-
posite.
Darwin admitted that the dovecot pigeon
has not changed in thousands OF years. 1t
is demonstrated over and over again that
the lizard on the lowest formation Of rocks
was just as complete as the lizard now 1t is
shown that the ganoid, the first fish, was
just as complete as the sturgeon, another
name for the same FISH now. Darwin's en-
tire system is guess, and Huxley and
John Stuart Mil and Tyndall and especial
" Professor Haeckel come 10 help him IN
the guess, and guess about the brute, and
guess about man, and guess about worlds,
but as to having one solid foot Of ground to
stand on they never have had it and never
will have it. I put IN opposition to these
eyolutionist theories the inward conscious
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