The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-31
ORIGIN OF IANKIND.
DR.. Talmage Pins His Faith to the
Divine Account.
EVOLUTION is lNFlDELlTY.
Attempt to Galyanize an Old Hea-
then Doctrine Into Life. Sci
entific Absurdities to Drive
Out God and the Bible.

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The question of human origin: so
prominent now in scientific and rell-
gious circles. is discussed in character
istic style by DR.. Talmagc in this dis
course. in which he also advocates the
theory that all the worlds progress has
come through Christianity; text, Tim
othy Vi, 20, 20 Timothy, keep that
which is committed to thy trust, avoid
ing oppositions Of science falsely, so
calledn
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 storm wrote
on the rock. The best telescopes and mi
croscopes and electric batteries and
philosophical apparatus belong to Chris
tian universities. Who gave US mag
netic telegraphpy? Professor Morse, a
Christian. Who swung the lightnlngs
under the sea, cabling the continents
together? Cyrus ". Field, the Chris
tian. Who discovered the anaesthetl-
cal properties Of chloroform, doing
more for the relief of human pain than
anv man that ever lived, driving back
nine-tenths Of the horrors of s:rgery?
James y. Simpson Of Edinburgh. as
eminent for piety as for science, on
weekdays in the university lecturlng
on profoundest scientific subjects and
on Sabbaths preaching the gospel Of
Jesus Christ to the masses ct Edin-
burgh. saw the universities Of that
city draped in mourning for his death,
and heard his eulogy pronounced by
the destitute populations Of the Cow
gate. 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 1t 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. I do not argue that this
is a genuine book, l do not say that the
Rible &c worthy Of apy kind Of cred
ence-those are subjects for other Sab
baths-but I want you to understand
that Thomas Paine and Hume and
Voltaire no more thoroughly dlsbe-
Geved the Holy Scriptures than do all
the leading scientists who believe IN
evolution. And when I say scientists
Of course do not mean literary men
or theologians who in essay or IN ser
mon and without giving their life to
scientific investigation look at the sub
ject on this side or that. By scientists
mean those who have speciality IN
that direction and who through zoologl-
cal garden and aquarium and astrono-
mical observatory give their life to the
study Of the physical earth, its plants
and its animals and the regions beyond
so far as optical instruments have ex-
plored them.
I put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Hux-
ley, Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. On the
witness stand, ye men Of science. iv-
ing and dead, answer these questions:
Do you believe the Holy Scriptures?
No. And 50 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 the mira, :
cles Of the Old and New Testaments?
No. And so they say all. Do you be-
lieve that Jesus Christ died to save the
nations? No. And so they say all.
Do you believe in the regeneratlng
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
first sentence ascribes his physical all
ments to fate, and the authorized re.
port Of that address begins the word
fate with big ''F." Professor Heckel,
in the very first page Of his two great
volumes, sneers at the Bible as a SC
called revelation. Tyndall in his ia,
NOUS prayer test, defed the whole OF
Christendom to show that human sup,
plication made any difference in the re-
suit Of things. John Stuart Mil wrote
elaborately against Christianity, and tc
show that his rejection Of 1t was com
plete ordered this epitaph for his tomb
Stone, ''Most Unhappy" Huxley sale
that at the first reading Of Darwin:
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 evolu
ton, without enc exception, the worIc
over, are infdel. l say nothing agalns
infdelity. mind you. only wish t
define the belief and the meaning o
the rejection.
Now, I put opposite to each other, K
show that evolution is inhdellty, th'
Bible account of how the human race
started and the evolutionist account O
how the human race started. Bible
account: "God said let US make mai
in our image. God created man in hi
own image, male and female created h
them" He breathed into him tn
breath Of life, the whole story settin:
forth the idea that it was not perfec
kangaroo or perfect orang outang, bu
perfect man. That is the Bible ac
count. The evolutionist account: Ava,
back in the ages there were four or tiv
primal germs or seminal spores fron
which all the living creatures hay
been evolved. Go away back, and ther
YOU will find vegetable stuff tha