Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-09-22
DIR. TALMAGTS SERMON.
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.


Subject: "Where We Camc From"-The
Uncompromising War Between Science
Falsely so-Called and Revelation-Evo-
luton is Infidel and Heathen.
TEXT: 80 Timothy. keep that which is
committed to thy trnst, avoiding opposi-
tions OF science falsely so-called."-I
Timothy vi, 20.
There ls no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God who
by the hand OF tho prophet wrote on parch-
ment, by the hand of tho storm wrote on
the rock. The best telescopes and micro
scopes and electric batteries and philoso-
phical apparatus belong to Christian uni
versities. Who gave US magnetic tele-
graphy? Professor Morse, Christian.
Who swung the lightnings under the sea,
cabling the continents together? Cyrus
W. Field the Christian. Who discovered
the anesthetical properties of chloroform,
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 emf
nent for piety as for science, Oh week days
in the university lecturing on profoundest
scientific subjects, and on abbaths preach
ing the Gospel Of Jesus Christ to the masses
of Edinburgh. l saw the universities of
that city draped in mourning for his death,
and heard his eulogy pronounced by the
destitute populations 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 whatgmy text, de-
scribes as science falsely SO called, and reve-
lation. there is an incorporating war;
and one or the other must go under.
At the present time the air is filled with
social and platform and pulpit talk about
evolutioy and it is high time that the peo-
pie who have not time to make investiga-
tions for themselves understand that evo-
luton In the first place, is up and down,
out-and-out infldelity; in the second place
in the third place, that 1t is brutalizing in
its tendencies. do not argue that this is
n genuine book, do not say that the Bible
is worthy Of any kind Of credence-those
are subjects for other sabbaths-butI want
you to understand that Thomas Paine and
Hume and Voltaire no more thoroughly
disbelieved the Holy Scriptures than do all
the leading scientists who believe in evo-
luton.
put upon the witness stand, living and
dead, the leading evolutionists-Erns
Haeckel, John Stuart Mill, Huxley ,Tyndall,
We men Of science. living and dead answer
these questions: Do you believe the Holy
Scriptures? No. And SO thoy say all. Do
you believe the Bible story of Adam and
Eve in the Garden OF Eden9 No. And so
they say all. Do you believe in the mira
cles OF the Old and New Testament2 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 In the
regenerating power of the Holy Ghost?
No. And so they say all. Do you believe
that human supplication directed heaven
ward ever makes any difference2 No.
And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer, in the only address he
made IN this country, In his very first SEN
tence ascribes his physical ailments to fate,
nA lInth nd
begins the word fate with big "F." Pro-
fessor Haeckel. In the very first page of his
two great volumes sneers at the Bible as O
so-called revelation. Tyndall in his famous
prayer test, deled the whole Of Christen-
dom to show that human supplication
made any difference In the result OF things.
John Stuart Mill wrote elaborateIy against
Christianity, and to show that his rejection
OF 1t was complete, ordered this epitaph for
his tombstone: Most unhappy" Huxley
said that at the first reading of Darwin's
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 evolution without
one exception tho world over, are infldels
say nothing against infldelity, mind you.
l only wish to define the belief and the
meaning Of the rejection.
Now, put opposite to each other, to
show that evolution Is infldelity, the Bible
account of how the human race started
Bible account: go I'd said, let us make man
in our image. God created man in His
own image; male and female created He
them" He breathed into him the breath
OF life, the whole story setting forth the
idea that it was not perfect kangaroo, or
perfect ourang outang, but u perfect
man. That Is the Bible account. The
evolutiontst account: Away back in the
ages there were four or five primal germs,
or seminal spores from which all the living
creatures have been evolved. Go away
back, and there you will find q vegetable
stuff that might be called a mushroom.
This mushroom by innate force develops
tadpole, the tadpole by innate force
fish, the fish by natural force develops
into reptile. the reptile develops into
quadrupod, the quadrupad develops into
baboon. the baboon develops into man.
Darwin says that the human hand Is only
a fish's fin developed. He says that the
showing that we once foated or we're
Rmphibious. He says that the human ear
could once have been moved by force of
will just as horse lifts it's ear at a fright
ful object. He says the human race were
originally web-footed. From primal germ
to tadpole, from tadpole to fish, from fish |
to reptile, from reptile to wolf, from wolf |
to chimpanzee. and from chimpanzee TO |
man. Now, II anybody says that the Bible |
account Of the starting Of the human race |
and the evolut1On1st account OF the starting |
of the human race are the same accounts.
he makes an appalling misrepresenta-
don.
Prefer, II you will, Darwln's "Origin of |
the Species" to the Book of Genesis. but |
know you are an infdel. As for myself, as |
Herbert Spencer was not present at the |
creation and the Lord Almighty was pres
ent, prefer to take the Divine account as |
to what really occurred on that occasion. |
To show that this evolution is only IN
attempt to eject God and to postpone Him,
and to put Him clear out of reach, ask a |
question or two. The baboon made the |
man and the wolf made the baboon, and |
the reptile made the quadruped, and the |
fish made the reptile, and the tadpole |
made the fish, and the primal germ made |
the tadpole. Who made the primal germ? |
Most CT the evolutionists say: "We don't |
know" Others say it made itself. Others |
say it was spontaneous generation. There |
is not one OF them who will fairly and |
openly and frankly and emphatically say,
"God made It,"
The nearest to direct answer is that |
made by Herbert Spencer in which he says |
1t was made by the great "unknowable |