Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-08-22
WORLDS PROGRESS.
DR.. TALMAGE SAYS 1T Is DUE TO
CHRISTIANITY.

Man Deaounces the Evolution Theory
as Pure InfideIity and Contrary to
Scientific Facts.
fCopyright. 1895. by American Press Asso-
ctation.l
WASHINGTON, Aug 21.-The ques-
tion of human origin, SO prominent now
in scientific and religious circles, is
discussed in characteristic style by DR..
Talmage in this discourse, III which he
also advocates the theory that all the
worlds progress has come through
Christianity; text, Timothy vi, 60
SO Timothy, keep that which is COM
mitted to thy trust, avoiding opposi-
tions of science falsely SO called.
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of prophet wrote on
parchment by the hand Of the storm
wrote on the rock. The best telescopes
and microscopes and electric batteries
and philosophical apparatus belong to
Christian universities. Who gave US
magnetic telegraphy? Professor Morse,
a Christian. Who swung the lightnings
under the sea, cabling the continents
together? Cyrus W. Field, the Chris
tan Who discovered the anesthetical
properties of chloroforn, 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 weekdays
IN the university lecturing on profound
est scientific subjects and ON Sabbaths
preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to
the masses of Edinburgh. / saw the
universities of that city draped in
mourning for his death, and L heard his
eulogy pronounced by the destitute pop
ulations of the Cowgate. Science and
revelation are the bass and soprano of
the same tune 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 filed
with social and platform and pulpit
talk about evolution, and it is high
time that the people who have not time
to make investigation for themselves
understand that evolution in the first
place is up and down, out and out in
fidelity; in the second place it is con-
trary to the facts Of science, and in the
third place that it is brutalizing in it's
tendencies. [ do not argue that this is
genuine book, | do not say that the
Bible is worthy of any kind of credence
those are subjects for other Sabbaths
but I want you to understand that
Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire
no more thoroughly disbelieved the
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scientists who believe in evolution.
And when I say scientists of course l
do not mean literary men or theologians
who in essay or in sermon and without
giving their life to scientific investiga-
ton look at the subject On this side or
that. By scientists I mean those who
have o speciality in that direction and
who through geological garden and
aquarium and astronomical observatory
give their life to the study of the phys
ical earth, its plants and its animals,
and the regions beyond, SO far as optical
instruments have explored them.
Evolution Is Infde1ity.
put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Hulk
y
witness stand, We men of science, living
and dead, answer these questions: Do
you believe the Holy Scriptures? No.
And so they say all. Do you believe the
Bible story of Adam and Eve in the
garden Of Eden? No. And so they say
all. Do you believe the miracles Of the
Old and New Testaments? 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 III
the regenerating power of the Holy
Ghost? No. And so they say all. Do
you believe that human supplication
directed heavenward ever makes any
difference? No. And SO 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 word
fate with big CT Professor Heckel,
in the very first page of his two great
volumes, speers at the Bible as a so called
revelation. TyndalI, in his famous
prayer test, defed the whole of Chris
tendcm to show that human supplica-
ton made any difference in the result
of things. John Stuart Mill wrote elab-
orately against Christianity, and, to
show that his rejection of it was COM
plete, ordered this epitaph for his tomb
stone. Most Unhappy" Huxley said
that at the first reading of Darwin's
book he was convinced of the fact that
theology had received its deathblow at
the hand of Mr.. Darwin. All the lead
ing scientists who believe in evolution,
without one exception the world over,
are infidel. I say nothing against inf
deity, mind you. only wish to define
the belief and the meaning of the rejec-
fion.