The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-09-02
WORLDS PROGRESS,
DR. TALMAGE SAYS 1T Is Due TO
CHRISTIANITY. st1~-
The Great Divine Discusses the Origin
OF man-Denounces IN Evolution
Theory as Pure Infdelity me Com
trary to Scientific Facts.

traTy 10 SthEntint
copyright, 1898, by American Press
Hi l'C Association-) -:
The question of human origin, SO
prominent now in scientific and reli-
gious circles, is discussed in character
fstic style by DR.. Talmage in this dis
course, in which he also advocates the
theory that all the worlds progress has
come through Christianity; text, l
Timothy vi, 20, 20 Timothy, keep that
which is committed to thy trust, avoid
ing oppositions Of science falsely so
called. a. .. rH ed, .r.
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
Christian universities. Who gave us
magnetic telegraphy? Professor Morse,
a Christian. Who swung the lightnings
under the sea, cabling the continents
together? Cyrus'W. Field, the Chris
tian. Who discovered the anaesthetical
properties of chlofoforTn, doing more
for the relief Of human pain than any
man that ever lived, driving C.
nine-tenths Of the horroWs of surgery?
James Y. Simpson, Of Edinburgh, as
eminent for piety as for science; on
week days in the university 1ecturing
on profoundest scientific subjects and
on Sabbaths preaching the gospel Of
Jesus Christ to the masses of Edin-
'burgh. / saw the universities of that
city draped in mourning for his death,
and I heard his eulogy pronounced by
the destitute populations of the Cow
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bass and soprano Of the same tune.
The whole world will yet acknowledge
the complete harmony. But between
what nay text describes as science
falsely SO CALLED and revelation there
is an uncOmpromising al and one or
the other 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 infidelity; in the second place it
is contrary to the facts of %Science, and
in the third place hat it is ,brutaliZ-
ing in it's tendencies. ] do not argue
that this is a genuine book, / do not
a that the Bible is worthy of any
kind Of c~redence-thOse are subjects
1O1 LII MI L I'LL va ~
understand that Thomas ain and
Hume and Voltaire no more thoroughly
~disobeyed the Holy Scriptures than do
all the leading scientists who believe
in evolution. And when | say scien-
lists Of course I 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 scien-
lists / mean those who have a specify
in that direction and who through
geological garden and aquarium and
astronomical observatory give their
life to the study of the physical earth,
it's plants and it's animals, n the re-
gions beyond, so far as optical instru-
ments have explored them.
EVOLUTION IS INFIDELITY.
l put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evOlutionists-
Ernest HeckeI, John Stuart Mill, Hulk
ley, Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. On the
witness stand, we 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-
Iieve the Bible story of Adam and Eve
in the garden of Eden? No. And so
they say all. Do you believe the mir
acles of the Old and New Testaments?
No. And so they say all. Do you be-
Iieve that Jesus Christ died to saw
the n~ations?. Nc. And so they say all.
DC you believe in the regenerating
power of the Holy Ghost? No. And SO
they say all. Do you believe that hui
man supplication directed ~heavenward
ever make any difference. No. And
so they say all. ..-, .-r ,a-..-
Herbert Spencer, in the only address
he made in this country, in his very
first sentence ascribes his physical all
- r @-l tl~ o,tI -. NO
port of that address begins the word
fate with a big IF" Professor Heckel,
in the very first pagetof his two great
volumes, sneers at the Bible as a So
3. called revelation. Tyndall, in his IA
NOUS prayer test. defied the whole of
ChristendOm to ShoWft that human sup
plication made any difference in the
result of things. John Stuart Mill wrote
deliberately against Christianity, and,
f. to show that his rejection of ftrwas
" complete, ordered this epitaph for his
tombstone, Most Unhappy" Huxley
e. said that at the&first reading OF Oar
wins book he was convinced OF the
fact that teleOgoly had received its
deathblow at the hand of Darwin: All
the leading scientists who believe in
. evolution, without one exception the
= World over, are infdel. I say nothing
- against ~infidelity. mine you. / only
Il wish to defineG the belief and the mean
ing of the: repectionyt - rH ..,.'s.4
Now I put opposite to each other, te
show" that evolution is infidetity, the
bible account Of how the human race
started and the evolutionist account OF
how the human race started Bible &C.
count ."Goe said L" us make M If
our image. God created man in his owl
image; male and female created he
them. He breathed into him Il the
breath Of life" the Whole story SETTING
: forth the idea that it was not a per
feet Kangaroo or a perfect Grams
outahg, but a perfect man, That is the
Bible account. The evolutionist &C.
count: Away back in the ages there
were four or FIVE primal germs or semi.
nal spores from which, all the living
creatures have been evolved. Go away
back, and there you will find a vegeta.
bic stuff that might be called a mush,
room. This mushroom by innate force
develops a tadpole. the tadpole by in.
nate force develops a polliwog, the pol
liwog develops a fish, the fish by nat.
ural force develops into a reptile, tn,
NreDtile develops into a Ouadruped. tn,