The Progress., 1898-08-27

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God md tho Bih'r.
[Copyrlght. 1898, by Amartcau Pres, Asso.
ci2tion.l
WAEllN0ToN, Aug. 2l-Tho question Of
human origin, 50 prominent now IN scion
tihc and religious circles, Is discussed in
characteristic style ny DR. Tuimaqo in this
discourse. in which ne also advocates the
theory that all the worlds progress has
come through Christianity; text Tim.
othy vi, co. 30 Timothy, keep that which
Ia committed to thy trust, avoiding oppo-
sitions of science falsely, SO callcdn
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. Tie 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 mi
crosCopcs and electric batteries and philo-
sorhical apparatus belong to Christian
universities, Who gave us magnetic tolog-
raphyP Professor Morse, a Christian
Who swung the lightnings under the sea.
cabling the continents together? Cyrus
W. Field, the Christian, Who discovered
the anmsthetcal properties of chloroform.
doing moro for the relief of human pain
than any man that ever lived, driving
back nine-tentha of tho horrors Of surgOryY
james Y. Simpson of Edinburgh rs omi-
nent for piety ns for science, on weekdays
In tho university lccturiDg Oh profoundest
scientific subjects and on Snbbaths preach
ing the gospel of Jesus Christ TO the masses
of Edinburgh Saw the universities Of
that city drapod in mourning for his death,
and heard his eulogy pronounced Ivy tho
destitute populatiOnso of the C0wGato. Sci.
once and revelation are the bnss and So
prano of the same tune The whole world
will yet acknowledge the complete h0r-
mony, but between what my text describes
as science, falsely So called, and revelation
there is an uncompromising war, and one
or the other must 20 under
At the present time tho afr is flied with
, social aud platform and pulpit talk about
evolution, and Il Is high time that the
people who have not time TO make inycs
tigati0n for themselves understand TINT
evolution in the first place, is up and
down. out and out infidolity; in the sec
Ond place, 1t is contrary to the facts of sci
ence and, in the third place, that it is
brutaizing in its tendencies | do not
argue that this Is agcnuinc book, do not
say that the Bible is worthy Of any kind of
crcdence-thoso are subjects for other
Sabbaths-hut | want you to understand
that Thomas Paine and Hume and Vol
taire no moro thoroughly disbeleyed the
Holy Scriptures than do all the lending
scientists who believe in evolution. And
when | soy scientists of course | do not
mean literary men or theologians who in
essay or In sermon and without giving
their life TO scientific investigation look Mt
the subject on this side or that. BY scion
lists mean those who have u speciality in
that direction and who through geological
garden and aauarium and Astronomical
observatory give their life so the study OF
the physical earth, its plants and It's ani.
mails and the regions beyond SO far rs op.
tical Instruments have explored them.
put upon. the witness stand living and
dead the leading evolutionists-Ernst
Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, Tyn.
dali, Darwin, Spencer. On the witness
stand, yo 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 Edenf
No. And so they say all. Do YOU believe
tho miracles Of the Old and New Testa-
mentsp No. And SO they say oil DO you
believe that Jesus Christ died to save the
nationsP No. And so they say all. Dc
you believe in tho rcgenerating power of
the Holy Ghost2 No, And 50 they say all.
Do you believe that human suppIication
directed heayenward ever makes any diff
ference? No And SO they say all
itcrbcrt Spencer in the only address ht
mndo in this country, in his very first sen
ten ascribcs his physical ailments to fate