The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-08-29
ENTIRE CHAIN GONE.
DR.. TALMAaE DlsPRovEs "MisslNa
LINK" THEORY.

At Every Stage Of Human Life There ID
Direct Evidence Of Divine will-Un-
bridgeablo Gulf Between Man and Beast.
Portrait Of an EvolutIonist.
copyright. 1893. by American Press Asso-
ciauon.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-Dr. Talmage In
this discourse advocates Christian evolu-
ton In contradiction to an inf1del evolu.
tion and declares that the only radically
improving force In the world Is Chris
tianity; tcxt, Romans l, 90, 30, "Pro-
Tossing themselves to be wise, they became
fools and changed the glory Of the unoor-
ruptible God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds and four
footed beasts and creeping things"
This Is full length portrait Of an eyo.
lutionist who substitutes the bestial origin
for the divine origin. / showed you last
week that evolution was contradicted 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 tho evolutionist's account
oolltdcd with each other az certainly as
two express trains going In opposite dirso-
tions ct 80 miles the hour, their locomo-
tives meeting on the same track. showed
that all tho evolution scientists, without
any exception, were pronounced inf1dels;
that evolution was q heathenism thousands
OF years old; that such men as Agassiz
and Hugh Miller and Farraday and Daw.
son and Dana had for that doctrine Of evo-
luton unlimited contempt. showed you
that their favorite theory of the Survival
Of the f1ttest" was an absurdity and an
/ hat al,
| always downward and never upward, and
that there had never been any improve
ment 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
was not pessimist but an optimist, that
instead Of 1t being II o'clock at night 1t is
half past 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 tho
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 "miss-
ing link, as they call 1t, but there Is not
missing link-it is whole chain gone.
Between tho physical construction of the
highest animal and the physical construo-
ton OF the lowest man there Is o chasm as
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Eyolutionists
tell us that somewhere In central Africa
or IN Borne6 there 10 q creature half way
between the brute and the man, and that
that creature Is tho highest step in the
animal ascent and the lowest step in tho
human creation. But what arc the faotsp
The brain Of tho largest gorilla that was
ever found is 80 cubic inches, while the
brain Of tho most ignorant man that was
ever found Is 10. Vast difference between
30 and 10. 1t needs bridge of 40 arches
to span that gulf.
Evidence Of Divine Power.
Besides that there Is q difference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana diff
ference of blood globule, difference Of
nerve, difference Of muscle, difference
OF bone, difference Of sinew. The horse
Is more like man In intelligence, the bird
is more like him in musical capacity, the
mast1h Is more like him In affection. That
eulogized beast of which we hear so much,
represented on the walls Of cities thou
sands of years ago, is just as complete as 1t
is now, showing that there has not been a
particle of change. Besides that, If q pair
|
would not all the apes have the same kind
of descendantsp Can it be that that ono
favored pair only was honored with human
progeny Besides that, evolution says
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 baboonp
Tho evolutionists have come together
and have tried to explain q birds wing.
Their theory has always been that faculty
OF an animal while being developed must
always be useful and always beneficial,
but the wing OF bird, In the thousands
or years 1t was being developed so far
from being any help must have been a
hindranco until 1t could DO brought into
practical use away on down in the ages
Must there not have been an intelligent
will somewhere that formed that wonder
Ful flying instrument so that bird 500
times heavier than the air can mount it
and put gravitation under claw and beakp I
That wonderful mechanical instrument, J
,he wing with between 20 and 80 differ t
INT apparati curiously constructed, does it
not imply n divine intelligence Does it I
not imply direct act of some outside be- i
ngp All the evolutionists in the world q
annot explain birds wing or an in c
ect's wing g
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rattle of r
he rattlesnake. Ages before that reptile u
lad any enemies this warning weapon was O.
rcated Why was 1t created? When the p
cptile, far back In the ages, had no en- CT
mics, why this warning weaponp There y
aust have been divine intelligence fore "
eeing and knowing that in ages to come al
hat reptile would have enemies, and then to
ais warning weapon would be brought tn
ito use You see evolution At every step ~
contradiction or monstrosity. At "a
very stage Of animal life as well as at M
very stage of human life there is evidence
direct action Of divine will. br
No Kinshlp Between Man and Beast. tn
Besides that, 1t is very evident from an A. A.
her fact that VIC are an entirely different "!
cation and that there Is no kinship. ~
no animal In few hours or months vi
mes to full strength and can take care -.
itself. Tho human race for tho first w. w,
10, two, three, five, ten years Is in COM w. ",
etc helplessness. The chick just come ~
it of its shell begins to pick up its own ",
cd. The dog, the wolf, tho lion, soon W, wv
IN their own livelihood and act for their w. w.
w defense. Tho human race does not ~
Inc to Development until 20 or 80 years We, vs.
age, and by that time the animals that W. W.
,re born tho same year the man was an an
IN; tho vast majority Of them, have w. w.,
ID Of old age. This shows there is no s.'
nship, there is no similarity. If we had iiei
en- born Of the beast, we would have had ~. ~
. beasts strength at tho start OF 1t th 'e
'uld have had our weakness. Not only w.. o
ferent but opposite. S Enu
Darwin admitted that the doyecot W.
icon has not changed in thousands Of 81,
'rs. 1t Is demonstrated over and over pu ,1
ain that the lizard on the lowest forma. oi ,.
IL of rocks was just as complete as the INV INV
md now. 1t Is shown that the ganoid, Imi
, first fish, was just as complete as the Sow,
rgeon, another name for the Same fish WI
W. Darwins entire system is guess, 40,
l Huxley and John Stuart Mill and n' 'S
ndall and especially Professor Hneckal w.
no to help him In tho guess, and grets hnc
'ut tho brute, and guess about man, and Ar,
'ss about worlds, but as to having one AD,
ID foot of ground to stand on they nov fore
have had 1t and never will have 1t. ] owl,
In opposition to these evolutionist boa,