The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-08-31
MANS DIVINE ORIGIN,
CHRISTIANITY THE ONLY RAOlCA.
IMPROVING FORCE.

DIR. Talmage Advocates. q Christian Evo-
luton In Contradiction Of an Ipfidal
Evolution-Out Of Mortality Into GIo-
rious Immortality.
{Copyright, 1898. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.-Dr. Tai
mage in this discourse advocates Chris
tian evolution in contradiction to an
infidel evolution and declares that the
only radically improving force in tho
world is Christianity; text, Romans j,
20. %, "Professing themselves to be
wise, they became fools and changed
the glory of the uncorruptible God into
an image made like to corruptible man
and to birds and four footed beasts ard
creeping things"
This is full length portrait of an
evolutionist who substitutes the bestial
origin for the divine origin. I showed
you last week that evolution was con-
tradicted by the Bible, by science, by
observation and by common sense; that
the Bible account of the creation Ct
man and of brute and of the world and
the evolutionist'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. showed
that all the evolution scientists, with
out any exception, were pronounced In
fidels; that evolution was heathenism
thousands of years old; that such men
as Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Farra-
day and Dawson and Dana had for that
doctrine Of evolution unlimited con-
tempt. I showed you that their favorite
theory of the Survival of the fittest"
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 except
through the direct or indirect influence
of our glorious Christianity. And in
the closing part of that sermon told
you I was not a pessimist, but an optl-
mist, that instead of it being l l o'clock
at night it is half past in the morn
ing.
Now, 60 on to tell you, it seems to
me that evolutionists are trying to I'M
press 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-
NIT that there is missing link" as
they call it, but there is not a missing
link. 1t is whole chain gone. Between
the physical construction Of the highest
animal and the physical construction Of
the lowest man there is chasm as wide
as the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists
tell Us that somewhere in Central Afri-
ca or in Borneo there is a creature half
way between the brute and the man,
and that that creature is the highest
step in the animal ascent and the low
est step in the human creation. But
what are the facts: The brain Of the
largest gorilla that was ever found IS
80 cubic inches, while the brain of the
most ignorant man that was ever found
is 10. Vast difference between 80 and
20. 1t needs a bridge of 40 arches to
span that gulf.
Besides that, there is difference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana diff
ference of blood globule, difference of
nerve, q difference Of muscle, Il differ
ence Of bone, a difference of sinew. The
horse is more like man in intelligence,
the bird is more like him in musical
capacity, the mastiff is more like him
in affection. That eulogized beast of
which we hear so much, represented on
the walls of cities thousands Of years
ago, is just as complete as it is now,
showing that there has not Teen partl.
Gle of change. Besides that, If pair OF
apes had a man for descendant why
would not ali the apes have tie same
kind of descendants? Can it be that that
one favored pair only was honored with
human progeny? Besides that, evolution
says that as one species rises to another
species the old type dies off. Then how
is it that there are whole Kingdoms OF
chimpanzee and gorilla and baboon:
Inconsistencies of Evolution.
The eyolutionists have come together