The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-29
CHRISTIAN EVOLUTION.
DH. TALMAGE'S CONTRADICTION OF
INFIDEL EVOLUTION.


scheme, Bat a vast Chain Is Lack
ing-At Every stage of Criminal or
Human Life Evidence of II Divine
VIII Is Found.
Washington, Aug. &.-Dr. Talmage in
this discourse advocates Christian evo-
luton in contradiction to an infdel evolu-
ton. and declares that the only radically
improving force in the world is Chris
tianity. Text. Romans /: %, q: Profess
ing themselves 10 be wise, they became
fools. and changed the glory of the uncor-
ruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds and four
footed beasts and creeping things.
This Is a full-length portrait of an evolu-
Zionist who substitutes the bestial origin
for the divine origin. I showed you last
v4ssx that evolution was contradicted by
4n.- Bible, by science, by observation, and
- common sense; that the Bible account
Of the creation of man and of brute and
of the world, and the evolutionists ac-
count colided with each other, as certain
~ as two express trains going in opposite
directions at sixty miles the hour, their
locomotives meeting on the same track.
I showed that all the evolution scientists,
without any exception, were pronounced
infidels; that evolution was a heathenism
thousands of years old; that such men as
Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Farraday
and Dawson and Dana had for that doc
trine of evolution unlimited contempt.
showed you that their favorite theory Of
the Survival of the fittest' was an abb
surdity and an untruth and that natural
evolution was always downward and
never upward, and that there had never
been any improvement for man or beast
or world except through the direct or in
direct influence of our glorious Chris
tianity And in the closing part of that
sermon 1 told you 1 was not a pessimist,
but an optimist, that instead of it being
eleven o'clock at night it is half past
five in the morning.
Now, go on to tell you, 1t seems to me
that evolutionists are trying to impress
the great masses of the people with the
idea that there is an ancestral line lead
ing from the primal germ on up through
the serpent, and on up through the quad
ruped and on up through the gorilla, to
man. They admit that there is a miss
ing link as they call it, but there is not
a missing link-it is a whole chain gone.
Between the physical construction of the
highest animal and the physical construc-
ton of the lowest man. there is a chasm
lists tells us that somewhere In Central
Africa, or in Borneo, there is a creature
halfway between the brute and the man.
and that that creature is the highest step
in the animal ascent and the lowest step
Ga the human crea ton. But what are the
facts? The brain of the largest gorilla
that was ever found is thirty cubic inches,
while the brain of the most ignorant man
that was ever found is seventy. Vast diff
ference between thirty and seventy. 1t
needs bridge of forty arches to span
that gulf.
Besides that, there is a difference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana differ
ence of blood globule, a difference of
nerve, a difference of muscle a difference
OF bone, difference of sinew The horse
Is more like man in intelligence, the bird
is more like him in musical capacitV the
mastiff is more like him i'm affection
That eulogized beast of which we hear so
much, represented on the walls of cities
thousands of years ago. is just as com
plete as 1t is now. showing that there has
not been a particle of change Besides
that, III pair of apes had man for de
scendant, why would not all the apes have
the same kind of descendants? Can ID be
that that one favored pair only was hon
ored with human progeny? Besides that
evolution says that as one species rises
70 another species, the old type dies off
Then how is it that there are whole kind
doms of chmpauzee and gorilla and
baboon?
The evolutionists have come together
and have tried to explain a birds wing
Their theory has always been that a fac
atty of an animal while being developed
must always be useful and always ben,a-
ticlal, but the wing of a bird in the thou
sands of years it was being deveIoped so
far from being any help must have been
hindrance until it could be brought into
practical use away on down in the ages
~ hnr
will somewhere that formed that wonder
1ul hylng instrument, so that bird five
hundred times heavier than the air can
mount it and put gravitaton under claw
and beak? That wonderful mechanical
instruments, the wing with between TWEEN
ty and thirty different apparati curiouslv
constructed, does it not imply a divine in
1ellgence? Does it not imply a diroct
act of some outside being? All the evo-
tuuonists in the world cannot explain a
birds wing, or an Insects wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rattle of
the rattlesnake. Ages before that reptile
had any enemies. this warning weapon
was created. Why was il created? When
the reptile, far back in the ages had no
enemies, why this warning weapon?
There must have been a divine intelli-
gence foreseeing and knowing that in
ages TO come that reptile would have enc
mics, and then this warming weaDon
would be brought into use. You see evo-
sutton at every step is a contradiction or
a monstrosity. At every stage of animal
life as well as at every stage of human
lfe, there is evidence of direct action of
divine win.
Besides that 1t is very evident from an
other fact that we are an entirely different
creation, and that there is no kinship.
The animal in a few hours or months
comes to fun strength and can take care
of Itself. The human race for the first
one two, three, five, ten years is in COM
plete helplessness. The chick Just come
out of its shell begins to pick up its own
food. The dog the wolf the Hon, soon
earn their own livelihood and act for their
own defense. The human race does not
come to development until 20 or 30 years
OF age, and by that time 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 kim
ship. there is no Similarity. IL we haa