Connecticut western news., 1898-09-01
MANS DIVINE ORIGIN.
CHRISTIANITY THE ONLY RADICAL ! IMPROVING FORCE.

TIRE ONLY RADICAL IMPROVING FORCE.
 D-. raimAxs Advocates . Chrissian Evo- ratton Tn Contradiction of an fnfidei Evoausion-Oot of Mortality Into Glo- rsoas Immorealfty.
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 WAsEuNaroN, Aug. sS.-Dr. Tal- mage in this discourse advocates Chris tan evolution in contradiction to an infidel evolution and declares that the only radically improving force in the world is Christianity; texs Romans i. aa. aS, "Professing themselves to be wise. they became fools and changed tho glory of the uncorrupsible God into an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things"
 This is full length portrait of an evoldtionist who substitutes the bestial origin for the divine origin. l showed you last week that evolution was con- tzadicted by the Bible. by science, by observation and by common sense; that the Bible account of the creation of man and of brute and of the world and the eyolutionist's account collided with each other as certainly as two express trains going in opposite directions at 60 miles the hour, their locomotives meeting on the same track. I showed Al Akx~, S4o xx~rfh out any exception, were pronounced in fdels: that evolution was a heathenism thousands of years old; that such men a Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Farra- dAy and Dawson and Dana had for that doctrine of evolution unlimited con- tempt. showed you that their favorite theory of the survival of the Attest" was an absurdity and an untruth. and that natural evolution was always downward and never upward. and that there had never been any improvement for man or beast or world exoept through the direct or indirect influence of our glorious Christianity. And in the closing part of that sermon told you I was not . pessimist but an opn- mist. that instead of it being Il o'clock As night 1t is half past in the morn ing.
 Now. I go on to tell you. it seems to me that evolutionists arc trying to inn prees the great masses of the people with the idea that there is an ancestral line leading from the primal germ on up through the serpent and on up through the quadruped. and on up through the gorilla to man. They ad- init that there is missing link" as they call it. but there Is not Q missing link. It Is . whole chain gone Between the physical construction of the highest animal and the physical construction ot the lowest man there is chasm as wide IS the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists tell us that somewhere in Central Afri- ca or in Borneo there is creature half way between the brute and the man, and thas that creature is the highest sep in the animal ascent and the low est step in the human creation. But what are the factsf The brain of the largest gorilla that was ever found is 30 cubic inches, while the brain of the most ignorant man that was ever found is 70. Vast difference between 30 and 7O It needs a bridge of 40 arches to span that gulf.
 Besides that, there is difference be- tween tho gorilla and the mana diff ference of blood globule. a difference of nerve, a difference of muscle. differ enoe of bone, difference of sinew. The horse is moro like man in intelligence. the bird ia more like him in musical the mastiff is more like him in affection. That eulogized beast of which we hear 90 much, represented on the walls of cities thousands of years ago, is just as complete as it is now. showing that there has not been parti- cle of change Besides that. if pair of apes had | man for descendant why would not all the apes have the same kind of descendants? Can it be that that one favored pair only was honored with human progenys Besides that evolution says that as one species rises to another species the old type dies of. Then how is it that there are whole kingdoms of and gorilla and baboonf
 Iaoonsssseaciss of Evolution f4sr
 The evolutionists have come together and have tried to explain binds wing. Their theory has always been that a faculty of an animal while being devel. oped must always be useful and always beneficial, but the wing of bird, in the thousands of years it was being de- veloped. so far from being any help must have been a hindrance until it could be brought into practical use away on down in the ages. Must there not have been an intelligent will some- where that formed that wonderful fly ing instrument so that bird 500 times heavier than the air can mount it and put gravitation under claw and beak? That wonderful mechanical instrument, tho wing. with between 20 and 80 diff ferent apparati curiously constructed, does it not imply divine intelligenoes Does 1t not imply direct act of some outside being? All the evolutionists in the world cannot explain a birds wing or an insects wing.
 So they arc cpnfounded by the rattle of the rattlesnake. Ages before that reptile had any enemies this warning weapon was created. Why was it creat- ed? When the reptile. far back in the ages. had no enemies why this warn ing weapon? There must have been 8 divine intelligence foreseaing and knowing that in ages to come that rep tile would have enemies, and then this warning weapon would be brought into use. You sec evolution at every step is a contradiction or a monstrosity At every stage of animal life as we'll as at every stage of human life there is evi- dence of direct action of divine will.
 Besides that it is very evident from another fact that we are an entirely different creation and that there is no kinship. The animal in a few hours or months comes to full strength and can take care of itself The human race for
 tue first one, two. three. five. ten years
 is in complete helplessness- The chick just come out of it's shell begins to pick up it's own food The dog. the wolf, the lion, soon earn their own livelihood and act for their own defepsn The hu-