Connecticut western news., 1898-08-25
WORLDS PROGRESS.
DIR. TALMAGE SAYS IT IS DUE TO
 CHRISTIANITY.

Scientific Facts.
 | ',pyright 1898. hy American Press Asso-
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 WAguI;GTcN, Aug. 2l.-Tao Gccs- lion of human origin, so prominent now in scientific and religious circles, IS discussed in characteristic style ty Dr Tallnage in this discourse, in which he also advocates the theory that all the worlds progress has cone through ( hristianity; text, l Timothy VI, 20, 70 Timothy, keep that which IS com n itted to thy trust, avoiding opposi' hons of science falsely so called.
 There is no contest between genuine silence and revelation. The same God W ho by the hand of prophet wrote on by the hand of the storm W rote on the rock The best telescopes and microscopes and electric batteries and philosophical apparatus belong to Christian universities. Who gave us magnetic telegraphy? Professor Morse, a Christian Who swung the lightnlngs under the sea, cabling the continents together? Cyrus w. Field, the Chris tian. Who discovered tho annsthetical 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 eminent for piety as for science; on weekdays in the university featuring on profound est scientific subjects and on Sabbaths preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the masses of Edinburgh. l saw the universities of that city draped in mourning for his death, and l heard his eulogy pronounced by the destitute pop ulations 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 what my text describes as science falsely so called and revelation there is an uncompromising 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 evolution, and it is high time that the people who have not time to make investigation for themselves understand that evolution in the first place is up and down, out and out in- fidelity; in the second place it is con- trary to. the facts of science, and in the third place that it is brutalizing in it's tendencies do not argue that this is a genuine book, do not say that the Bible is worthy of any kind of oredenoe those are subjects for other Sabbaths but want you to understand that Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire DO more thoroughly disbelieved the Holy Scriptures than do all the leading scientists who believe in evolution. And when say scientists of course l do not mean literary men or theologians who in essay or in sermon and without giving their life to scientific investiga- tion look at the subject on this side or that By scientists I mean those who have speciality in that direction and who through geological garden and aquarium and astronomical observatory give their life to the study of the phys ical earth, it's plants and its animals, end the regions beyond, so far as optical instruments have explored them.
 Evolution Is Infidelity.
 1 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, 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 Eden? No. And so they say all Do you believe the miracles of the Old and New Testaments? 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 heavenward 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 ail- ments to fate. and the authorized re- port of that address begins the word fate with big "F." Professor Heokel, in the very first page of his two great volumes, sreers at the Bible as so called revelation. Tyndall, in his famous prayer test, defied the whole of Chris tendon to show that human supplica- tion made any difference in the result of things. John Stuart Mill wrote elab- orately against Christianity, and, to show that his rejection of it was com plete. ordered this epitaph for his tomb stone. Most Unhappy" Huxley said that at the first reading of Darwin t book he was convinced of the fact that teleology had received its deathblow at the hand of MT. Darwin. All the lead. ing scientists who believe in evolution, without one exception the world over, are infidel l say nothing against inf delity, mind you. 1 only wish to define the belief and the meaning of the rejec- tion.
 Now, put opposite to each other, to show that evolution is infdelity, the Bible account of how the human race started and the evolutionist account ot how the human race started. Bible ac count: God said let us make man il our image, God created man in his owI image; male and female created he them" He breathed into him tht breath of life, the whole story setting forth the idea that it was not perfect kangaroo or perfect orang outang but perfect man. That is the Bible account. The evolutionist account Away back in the ages there were foul or five primal germs or seminal spores from which all the living creatures have been evolved. Go away back, ant there you will find vegetable stuff that might be called mushroom. Thii mushroom by innate force develops , tadpole the tadpole by innate force de velops polEwog. the polliwog develop fish, the fish by natural force develops into a reptile, the reptile develops int a quadruped, the quadruped develop into baboon, the baboon develops int a man.
 Scientists Don't Know.