The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-08-24
EVOLUTIONISTS.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Designates Them
Out-and-Out Infldels.
Vhe Worlds Best Progress, He Declares
Has Come Through ChristianIty-
Revelation and Evolution Conn
pared-God the First Cause
OF Everything.


by DIR. Talmage in his characteristic
and forcible style. The text is Tim
othy 6: 20: 20 Timothy, keep that
which is committed to thy trust, avoid
ing oppositions of science falsely so
called"
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of prophet wrote on
parchment, by the hand of the storm
wrote on the rock. The best tele-
scopes and microscopes and electric
batteries and philosophical apparatus
belong to Christin universities. Who
gave us magnetic telegraphy? Pro-
fessor Morse, Christian. Who swung
the lightnings under the sea, cabling
the continents together? Cyrus w.
Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the anesthetical properties of chloro-
form, doing more for the relief of hui
man 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 week days in the uni
versity lecturing on profoundest sci
entitic 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 desti-
tute populations of the Cowgate. Sci
ence and revelation are the bass and
soprano 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
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 them
selves understand that evolution in
the first place, is up ana down, out
and-out infidelity; in the second place
it is contrary to the facts of science,
and in the third place, that it is bru-
talizing in it's tendencies. l do not
argue that this is a genuine book,
do not say 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 thorough-
ly disbelieved the Ec!y Scriptures than
do all the leading scientists who be-
lieve in evolution. And when l 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 investigation
look at the subject on this side or that
BY scientists 1 mean those who have
a speciality in that direction, and who
through geological garden and aquar-
ium and astronomical observatory
give their life to the study of the
physical earth, its plants and its ami.
mails, and the regions beyond so far
as optical 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, 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 be-
lieve 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 Testa,
ment? No. And so they say all. Dc
you believe that Jesus Christ died tc
save the nations? No. And so they
say all. Do you believe in the regen.
Grating 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.
Now, put opposite to each other, tc
show that evolution is infidelity, the
Bible account of how the human race
started, and the evolutionist account
of how the human race started. Bible
account: God said let us make mar
in our image. God created man in his
own image; male and female created
he them" He breathed into them the
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. Away back in the ages there
were four or five primal germs, OF
seminal spores from which all the liv
ing creatures have evolved. Go away
back, and there you will find a vege
table stuff that might be called {
mushroom. This mushroom by
innate force develops tad
pole, the tadpole by innate force
develops a polywog, the polywog de
velops fish, the fish by natural force
develops into reptile, the reptile de
velops into quadruped, the quadru
ped develops into baboon, the babooI
develops into a man.
Darwin says that the human hand il
only a tish's lin developed. He say
that the human lungs are only swim
bladder showing that we once floateC
4 or were amphibious. He says the hu
man ear could once have been moved
by force of will just as horse lift
its ear at frightful object. He say
the human race were originally web
footed. From primal germ to tadpol
from tadpole to fish, from fish to rep
tile, from reptile to wolf, from wolf t,
chimpanzee, and from chimpanzee t,
man. Now If anybody says that tn,
Bible account of the starting of tn
human race and the evolutionist ac
nnnnt of the starting of the hnrnn,