The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-08-28
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
WHERE WE CAME FROM" SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT
Text, !. Timothy 6:sO: 20 Timothy.
Keep That which Is Committed to
Thy Trust. Avoiding OpPositiOns OF
Science Falsely So Called"

on parchment, Oy the manu- Va
storm wrote on the rock. The pest
| telescopes and microscopes and eiectric
batteries and philosophical apparatus
belong to Christian universities. VINO
gave US magnetic telegraphy! Proles-
sor Morse. a Christian. Who swung
the lightnings under the sea, caollns
the continents together? cyrus W.
Field. the Christian. Who discovered
the anesthetical properties OF cnloro7
form, doing more for the RELIEF OF nu-
man pain than any man tnat ever
lived, driving back nine-tentns OF the
horrors of surgery? James Y. Simp-
son, of Edinburgh, as eminent Ior
piety as for science; on week days IN
the university lecturing on profound
est scientific subjects, and on SaDoatns
preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ
to the masses of Edinburgh. saw the
universities of that city draped IN
mourning for his death, and / heard
his 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
| first place, is up and down, out-and-out
infldelity; in the second place It is
contrary to the facts of science, and in
7the thi-! place, that it is brutalizing
in its tendencies. 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
Sabbaths-but l 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 l say scien-
lists. 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 sci
entists l mean those who have a spe-
cialty in that direction and who
through geological garden and aqua
rum and astronomical observatory
give their life to the study of the ply
sical earth its plants and its animals
and the regions beyond so far as op-
tical instruments have explored them
I 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 sc
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 thu
nations? No. And SO they say all
Do you believe in the regeneratin,
power of the Holy Ghost? No. AnC
SO they say all. Do you believe tha
human supplication directed heaven
{ ward ever makes any difference? No
1 And so they say all.
0 Herbert Spencer, in the only address
he made in this country, in his yer,
first sentence ascribes his physical all
r ments to fate, and the authorized re
9 port Of that address begins the wort
s fate with big "F." Professor Heckel
S in the very first page of his two grea
! Ny0N1VT
called revelation. Tyndall in his ia
2, nous prayer test, defied the whole O
S Christendom to show that human sup
e plication made any difference in tn
e result of things. John Stuart Mi
e wrote elaborately against Christianity
d and to show that his rejection of it wa
e complete, ordered this epitaph for hi
l. tombstone: Most unhappy" Huxle
Y said that at the first reading of Dar
It wins book he was convinced of the fac
d that theology had received its deaf
n blow at the hand of Mr. Darwin. A
= the leading scientists who believe 1
re evolution, without one exception tn
,e world over, are infdel. 1 say nothin
d against infidelity, mind you. 1 onl
y wish to define the belief and the NEAR
J. ing of the rejection.
v. Agassiz says: ''The manner in whic
IF the evolution theory in zoology
ID treated would lead those who are ne
II special biologists to suppose that oil
n servations have been made by whic
- it can be inferred that there is in n;
" ture such thing as change among o.
ID ganized beings actually taking plac
A. There is no such thing on record.
w is shifting the ground of observatio
"a from one field of observation to al
IN other to make this statement, an
when the assertions go SO far as
exclude from the domain of scienC
a those who will not be dragged into tn
n mire of mere assertion then it is tin
: to protest"
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