The Princeton union., 1898-09-01
TALMAGE'S SERMON,
WHERE WE CANE FROM" SUN
DAYS SUBJECT

Ioxt, I. Timothy 6:2O: 80 Timothy,
Keep That Which Is Committed to
Thy Trust. Avoiding Oppositions OF
Science Falsely SO Called"
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
VINO by the hand Of the prophet wrote
on parchment, by the hand of the
storm wrote on the rock. The best
telescopes and microscopes and electric
batteries and philosophical apparatus
belong to Christian universities. Who
gave us magnetic telegraphy? Profes-
sor Morse, Christian. Who swung
the hghtntngs under the sea, cabling
ene continents together? Cyrus w.
f1eld, the Christian. Who discovered
the anesthetical properties of chloro-
form, doing more for the relief of hu-
man pain than any man that, ever
hved, driving back nine-tenths Of the
horrors of surgery? James Y. .Simp-
son, Of Edinburgh, as eminent, for
plety as for science; on week days in
the university lecturing on profound
est scientific subjects, and on Sabbaths
preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ
to the masses of Edinburgh. I saw the
universities of that city draped in
mourning for his death, and heard
MS eulogy pronounced by the destitute
populations Of the Cowgate. Science
and revelation are the bass and So
prano of the same tune The whole
world will yet acknowledge the COM
plete harmony. But between what my
text describes as science falsely So
called. and revelation, there is an un-
compromising war, and one or the 9TH
er must go 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
nrst place, is up and down, out-and-out
1nfidelity; in the second place it is
contrary to the facts of science, and in
the thi:1 place, that it is brutalizing
in It's tendencies. I do not argue that
this is genuine book, I do not say
that the Bible is worthy of any kind Of
credence-those are subjects for other
Sabbaths-but I want you to under
stand that Thomas Paine and Hume
and Voltaire no more thoroughly dis
believed the Holy Scriptures than do
all the leading scientists who believe
IN evolution. And when I say scien-
lists, OF course, do not mean literary
men or theologians who in essay or in
sermon, and without giving their life
to scientific investigation look at the
subject on this side or that By sci
entists I mean those who have a spe-
clalty in that direction and who
through geological garden and aqua
rum and astronomical observatory,
give their life to the study of the ply
slcal earth its plants and it's animals,
and the regions beyond so far as op-
teal instruments have explored them.
l put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Hux-
ley, Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. On the
witness stand, ye men of science, liv-
ing and dead, answer these questions:
Do you believe the Holy Scriptures?
No. And so they say all. Do you be-
lieve the Bible story of Adam and Eve
in the Garden Of Eden? No. And so
they say all. Do you believe the mir
acles OF the Old and New Testament?
No. And so they say all. Do you be-
lieve 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 difference? 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 authorized re-
port of that address begins the word
fate with big "F." Professor 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 SUD-
4AAS~tAOA uduC duy u1ueI6uCo IN the
result of things. John Stuart Mill
wrote elaborately. against Christianity,
and to show that his rejection of it was
complete, ordered this epitaph for his
tombstone: "Most unhappy" Huxley
said that at the first reading of Dar-
wins 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 the
world over, are inf1del. / say nothing,
against infidelity, mind you. only
wish to define the belief and the mean
Ing Of the rejection. H.
Agassiz says: ''The manner in which
the evolution theory in zoology is
treated would lead those who are not
special biologists ito suppose that OBJ
servations have been made by which
it can be inferred that there is in ma
ture such thing as change among or
ganized beings actually taking place.
There is no such thing on record. It
is shifting the ground of observation
from one field of observation to an
other to make this statement, and