Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-08-24
TADPOLE AND P0LLIWOG.
The Question of Human Origin Dis
cussed by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage.
he Pays Respect TO the Dsrwinian Theory
and Funds That There l. No Contest
between Genuine science
and Revelation.


rourse, in whieh he also advocates the
theory that all the worlds progress
has come through Christianity. Text:
4 Timothy vi. 20: 20 Timothy, keep
that which is committed TO thy trust.
avoiding opposition of science falsely
50 called
There 5 no contest between genuine
science ana revelation. The same
bod VINO by the hand of prophet wrote
on parchment by the hand OF the
storm wrote on the rock The best
telescopes and microscopes and clec-
tric batteries aud philosophical appa-
ratus belong - Christian universities.
Who gave Us magnetic telegraphy?
Prof. Morse. a Christian. Who swung
the hghtnings under the sea. cabling
she continents togethcr2 Cyrus w
Field. the Christian Who discov-
cred the anesthetical properties OF
ehloroform, doing more for the relief
Of human pain than any man that
ever lived. driving back nine-tenths
af the horrors of surgery? James Y.
simpson, OF Edinburgh. as eminent
for piety as for science: on week DAYS
IN the university lecturing on pro-
foundest scientific subjects. and on
SabbathS preaching the Gospel of
Jesus Christ TO the masses OF Ediu-
bnrgh. | saw the universities OF that
city draped in mourning for his death.
and heard his eulogy pronounced by the
populations of the Cowgate. Science
and revelation are the bass and soprano
OF the same tune. The whole world
will vet acknowledge the complete
harmony. But between what my text
DESERT es rs science falsely so-call ed and
revelation, there is an uncompromisinr
war, and one or the other must go un-
der.
At the present time the air is filed
with social and platform and pulDit
talk about evolution. and IL is HIGH
lime that the people who have not
time 10 make investigation for them
selves understand that evolution in
the hrst place IS up and down. out and
cut intidelity; in the second place il is
contrary TO the facts of science. and in
the third rlace. that il is brutalizinp
IN its tendencies. do not argue that
this is a genuine book; | do not say
that the III ble 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 disbeleved the HOLY
Scriptures than do all the lead
ing scientists who believe in evo-
lution- And when l say scientists. OF
course, do not mean literary men or
fheologians. who in essay or in SER
mon, and without giving their life to
scientific investiga ton. look at the
subject on this side or that BY scien-
siSis mean those who have n special
~ in that direction and who. through
biological garden and aquarium and
astronomical observatory. give their
life TO the study OF the physical earth
its plants and its animals and the re-
gions beyond SO far as optical instru-
mcnts have explored them
put urOu the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists-
Ernest HeclSle. John Stuart Mil. Hux-
ley. Tyndan, Darwin, Spencer. on
the wltness stand, We men OF science.
hying and dead. answer these ques-
lions: DO you belicvc the HOLY
Scriptures? No. And so they say all
Do YOU believe the Bible story OF
Alan and Eve in the Garden OF Eden?
No. And so they say ALL Do YOU be-
heve in the miracles or the Old and
New Testament? 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 belicv,
~ the re-cneratinr power OF the
Holy Ghost? No. And So they shy all
To YOU believe that human suunlica-
hon directed Heavcnward ever uulscs
any difference? No And SO they say
all
Herbert Spencer. in the only sd res,
be made in This country. in hi, very
6rst sentence ascri bcs his phvs.cai all
rlents 20 fate. and tho author. z.d re-
port ~ that address begins tine word
fate with big r." Prof HeciScl in
tne very FIRST page % nis two great
ro.umcs sneers az the Bible as So.
called revelation. Tyulull in his fam
ous PRAYER test dched the whole of
thristcudom 20 snow that human
suppicaton made any difference
in the result OF thing. John
Sfuart Mill wrote deliberately against
thristiaaitv and TO Show that bis re-.
cction ~ 80 was complete. ordered tni s.
rnita ah for his tomb,toue. "No,t un-
ha. pr HuNIcv said tHat 90 the FIRST
rcaning ~ Dlreiu's tools joe ,ya. cou-
rnc ~ the ia.t thlt tcleolorv had
received IL death blow az the band Of
blr Darwin. Al tire leading scicut-
isfs who believe in evolution. without
one eNc ptiou tine world ov. r. are in-
td-- say nothing against infdcl
liy mind you. / only wish 60 define
the belief and ih meaning OF tine r..
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