The morning news., 1898-08-22
WHERE MAN HAD ORIGIN.
OR TALMAGE's THEORY IN CON-
TRADIsTINCTION TO EVOLUTION.


tian'S Relief the Relief of the Bi-
bIe-No Contest Between Genuine
science and Observation-Disclosures
: InfdeI-The Few Who Have
AdoDted the New Theory Make
More Noise Than the Thousands
Who Have Rejected It-A ChRrac-
teristic Argument.
Washington. Aug. H--The question OF
human origin so prominent now i'm scieu-
tilc and religious circles, is discussed IN
Characteristic style by Dr. Talmage in
this discourse, in wAIsh he also advocates
the theory that all the worlds progress
has come through Christianity. Text, /.
Timothy c: %; 20 Timothy. keep that
which is committed to thy trust, avoid
ing opposiuons Of science falsely so call
ed"
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 telescopes and
microscopes and electric batteries and
philosophical apparatus belong to Christ
ain universities Who gave US magnetic
telesraphy? Prof Morse, a Christian.
Who swung the hehminge under the sea,
cabling the continents together? Cyrus
". Field the Christian. Who discovered
the anesthetical properties Of chloroiorm'
Doing more for the relief of human pain
than any man that ever lived, driving
back nine-tenths of the horrors of sur
Il 4 a., Oh
as eminent for piety as for science; on
week days in the university lecturing on
profoundest scientific subjects, and on
sabbaths preaching the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to the masses Of Edinburgh. !
saw the universities of that city draped
IN mourning for his death, and l heard
his eulogy pronounced by the destitute
populations of the Cowgate. Science and
revelation are the bass and soprano of
the same tune The whole world viii
vet acknowledge the complete harmony.
But between what my text describes as
science falsely so-called. and revelation,
there is an uncOmpromising war, ana one
or the other must 90 under.
At the present time the air IS hlled with
social and platform and pulpit talk about
evolution and it is high time that the peo-
ple who have not time 70 make inVeSu-
cation for themselves understand that
evolution in the first place, Is up ana
down, out-and-out infdelityg in the sec
ond place it is contrary to the facts of
science, and in the third place, that ii IS
brutalizing in its tendencies. l do not
argue that this is a genuine book, do
not say that the Bible is worthy of any
kind of credence-those are subjects for
other Saba ths-but | want you 20 under
stand that Thomas Paine and Hume and
Voltaire no more thoroughly disbelieved
the Holy Scriptures than do all the lead
ing scientists who believe in evolution.
And when I 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 l 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 physical earth, its
plants and its animals, and the regions
beyond so far as optical instruments have
explored them.
I put upon the witness stand living and
dead the leading evolutionists-Ernst
Heckel John Stuart MIL Huxley, Tyn-
DALI 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 Testa-
ment2 No And so they say all. Do you
believe that Jesus Christ died 10 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 supplca-
tion directed heavenWard ever makes any
difference. No. And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer in the only address he
mSde IN tris country, i'm his very first SEN
tence ascribes his physical ailments to
fate and the authorized report of that
address begins the word fate with a big
IF" Prof. Heckcl in the very first page
Of his two great volumes sneers at the
Bible as a so-called revelation. Tyndall
In his famous 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 elabo-
rately against Christianity, and to show
that his rejection of il was complete, or
dered this epitaph for his tombstone:
Most unhappy" Huxley said that at
the first reading of Darwin's book he was
convinced of the fact that theology had
received its deah blow at the hand of
Mr.. Darwin All the leading scientists
who believe i'm evolution, without one eX-
ception the world over, are inidel l say
nothing against infdelity, mind you. l
only wish to define the belief and the
meaning of the rejection.
Now, / put opposite to each other. 10
show that evolution is inhdelity. the Bible
account of how the human race started
and the evolution account of how the
human race started: Bible account: "God
said, let us make man in our image. God
created man is 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 Il was
not a perfect kangaroo. or a perfect ou-
rang outang but a perfect man. That Is
the Bible account The eVolutionist ac-
count: Away back in the ages there were
four or five primal germs. or seminal
spores from which all the living creatures
have been evolved. Go away back and
there you will find a vegetable stuff that
might be called a mushroom. This mush-
rom by mate force develops tadpole
the tadpole by innate force develops a
polywog, thelpolywog develops "a fish, the
fish by natural force develops into a rep
tile, the reptile develops into a quadruped
the quadruped develops into a baboon. the