Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1898-09-02
MANS DIVINE ORIGIN.
CHRISTIANITY THE ONLY RADICAL
IMPROVING FORCE.
Dr. Talmage Advocates Christian Eyo-
luton In Contradiction of an Infidel
EvoIution-o of Mortality Into Clio
rious Immortality.


mage in this discourse advocates a Chris
,ian evolution in contradiction to an
infidel evolution and declares that the
only radically improving force in the
world is Christianity; text, Romans i,
%, 49, Processing themselves to be
wise, they became fools and changed
the glory of the uncorruptible God into
an image made like to oorruptible man
and to birds and four footed beasts and
creeping things"
This is full length portrait Of an
evoiutionist who substitutes the bestial
origin for the divine origin. l showed
you last week that evolution was con-
tradicted by the Bible. by science, by
observation and by common sense; that
the Bible account of the creation Of
man and of brute and of the world and
the eyolutionist's account collided with
each other as certainly as two express
trains going in opposite directions at
90 miles the hour, their locomotives
meeting on the same track. l showed
that all the evolution scientists, with
out any exception, were pronounced in
| fidels; that evolution was a heathenism
/ thousands of years old; that such men
as Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Farra-
day and Dawson and Dana had for that
doctrine Of evolution unlimited con-
tempt. | showed you that their favorite
theory Of the survival Of the fttest"
was an absurdity 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 indirect influence
of our glorious Christianity. And in
the closing part Of that sermon told
you l was not a pessimist, but an opti-
mist, that instead of it being 1 l o'clock
at night it is half past . in the morn.
ing
Now, 90 on to tell you, it seems to
me that evolutionists are trying 10 i'm
press the great masses of the people
with the idea that there is an ancestral
line leading from the primal germ on
up throGgh the serpent and on up
through the quadruped, and on up
through the gorilla to man. They ad'
nit that there is missing link, " as
they call it, but there is not a missing
link. 1t is a 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 Afri-
ca 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 low
est step in the human creation. But
what are the facts: The brain of the
largest gorilla that was ever found Is
30 cubic inches, while the brain Of the
most ignorant man that was ever found
is 20. Vast difference between 30 and
70. 1t needs bridge of 40 arches to
span that gulf.
Besides that, there is difference be-
tween tho gorilla and the mana diff
ference Of blood globule, a difference OF
nerve. a difference of muscle, differ
ence of bone, a difference Of sinew. The
horse is more like man in intelligence
the bird is more like him in musical
capacity, the mastiff is more like him
in affection That eulogized beast Of
which we hear so much, represented on
the walls Of cities thousands Of years
ago, is just as complete as 1t Is now
showing that there has not been parti-
Gle Of change. Besides that, if pair OF
apes had "a man for descendant why
would not all the apes have the same
kind Of descendants? Can il be that that
one favored pair only was honored with
human progeny? Besides that, evolution
saws that as one species rises to another
species the old type dies off. Then how
is it that there are whole Kingdoms OF
chimpanzee and gorilla and baboon?
Inconsistencies of Evolution.
The eyolutionists have come together
and have tried to explain birds wing
Their theory has always been that a
faculty of an animal while being deyel-
oped must always be useful and always
beneficial, but the wing OF a bird, IN
the thousands of years it was being de-
veloped, so far from being any help
must have been a hindrance until 1t
could be brought into practical use
away on down in the ages. Must there
not have been an intelligent will some
where that formed that wonderful fly
ing instrument so that bird 800 tlmea
heavier than the air can mount 1t and
nut gravitatiOn under claw and beak?
That wonderful mechanical instrument,
the wing. with between 20 and 30 diff
ferent apparati curiously constructed,
does it not imply divine intelligence:
Does it not imply direct act OF some
outside being? All the evolutionists III
the world cannot explain bird S wing
or an insects wing.
So they are confounded by the rattle
of the rattlesnake. Ages before that
reptile had any enemies this warning
weapon was created. Why was it Great
edy When the reptile, far back in the
ages had no enemies, why this warn
ing weapon? There must have been a
divine intelligence foreSeeing and
knowing that in ages to come that rep
tile would have enemies and then this
warning weapon would be brought INTO
use. You see evolution at every step is
a contradiction or a monstrosity AT
every stage Of animal life as well as at
every stage Of human life there is eyi'
dence Of direct action Of divine Will.
Besides that it is very evident from
another fact that we are an entirely
different creation and that there is no
kinship The animal in few hours or
months comes to iull strength aud can
take care Of itself The human race for
the first one, two, three, five, ten years
is in complete helplessness The CHICK
lust COME out Of It's shell begins to pick
up its own TODD. The dog, the wolf,
the lion. soon earn their own livelihood
and act for their own defense The hu-