Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-01
ABOUT EVOLUTION.
Rev. Dr.. Talmage Takes Issue with
Darwin and Huxley.
Ths Theory of Evolution Opposed to the
Bible and to Real science-The Sur
vival of the Fittest an I'M
substantial Myth.

a VINO oy Tue ndnu OF the prophet WrolS
on parchment, by the hand Of the
storm wrote on the rock. The best
4 telescopes and microscopes aud cleo
trio batteries and philosophical appa-
ratus belong to Christian universities
81 Who gave US magnetic telegraphy?
n Prof. Morse, Christian. Who swung
the Ightnings under the sea, cabling
a the continents together? Cyrus w.
Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the anaesthetical properties of chloro-
81 form. doing more the relief of human
81 pain than any man that ever lived,
"a driving back nine-tenths of the hor
rors of surgery? James y. Simpson,
OF Edinburgh, as eminent for piety as
for science; on week days in the uni
versity lecturing on profoundest scien-
titc subjects, and on Sabbaths preach
I Ing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the
masses of Edinburg. | saw the uni
versities of that city draped in mourn
Ing for his death, and l heard his eu-
logy pronounced by the destitute pop
nlations of the Cowgate. Science and
revelation are the bass and soprano Of
h the same tune The whole world will
yet acknowledge the complete har-
mony. But between what my text
describes as science falsely so-called,
and revelation, there is an uncompro-
missing war, and one or the other must
70 under.
At the present time the air is filled
with social and platform and pulpit
talk about evolution, and it is high
time that the people who have not
time to make investigation for them
selves understand that evolution In the
FIRST place is up and down, out-and-out
tntidelity; in the second place it is con-
trary to the facts of science, and in the
third place, that it is brutalizing in its
tendencies. do not argue that this is
genuine book, do not say that the
Bible is worthy of any kind of credence
those are subjects for other Sabbaths
but | want you to understand that
Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire
no more thoroughly disbelieve the Holy
Scriptures than do all the leading
scientists who believe in evolution.
And when l say scientists, of course l
do not mean literary men or theolo-
gians who in essay or sermon, and with
out giving their life to scientific inves-
legations, look at the subject on this
side or that BY scientists | mean
those who have "A speciality in that di-
rection and who. through geological
garden and aquarium and astronomi-
cal observatory, give their life to the
study of the physical earth, its plants
and its animals, and the regions beyond
so far us optical instruments have ex-
plored them.
put upon the witness stand living
and dead, the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Iierllel. John Stuart Mill, Hulk
ley, Tvndall, Darwin, Spencer. On the
witness stand, We men of science, liv-
ing and dead, answer these questions:
DO you believe the Holy Scriptures?
No. And SO they say all. Do you he
lieve the Bible story of Adam and Eve
in the Garden of L len? No. And SO
they say all. DO you believe the
miracles of the Old and New Testa-
ment? 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 regene-
rating power of the Holy Ghost? No
And so they say all. Do you believe
that human supplication directed
Heavenward ever makes any differ
ence? No. And SO they say all.
Herbert Spencer, in the only address
he made in this country, in his very
first sentence ascribes his physical all
ments to fate, and the authori zed re-
nf b,t allpnSc ha,riru tbS. nnI
fate with big IF" Prof Heckel, in
the very first page of his two great
volumes, sneers at the Bible as So
called revelation. Tyndall in his ia
nous prayer test, defed the whole of
Christendom to show that human sup
plication made any difference in the
result of things. John Stuart Mill
wrote deliberately against Christianity,
and to show that his rejection of it
was complete, ordered this eptaph for
his tombstone: "Most unhappy" Hux-
lev said that at the first reading of
Darwin's book he was convinced of the
fact that theology had received it's
death blow at the hand of Mr.. Oar.
win. All the leading scientists who
belive in evolution. without one excep-
ton the world over. are infdel. | say
nothing against infdelity, mind you.
only wish to define the belief and the
meaning of the rejection.
Now, | put opposite each other, to
show that evolution is infeldity, the
Bible account of how the human race
started and the evolutionist account
of how the human race started. B BILE
account: God 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 a per-
feet kangoraa, or perfect outrang
outang, but perfect man. That is
the Bible account. The evoutionist
account: Away back in the ages there
were four or FIVE primal germs, of
seminal spores from which all the liv-
ing creatures have been evolved. GO
away back, and there you will find a
vegetable stuff that might be called a
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