Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-08-27
WORLDS PROGRESS.
DIR. TALMAGE SAYS 1T is DUE TO
CHRISTIANITY.

CHRISTIANITY.
The Great Divine Discusses tho Origin OF
Man -Denounces the Evolution Theory
as Pure InHdeiity and Contrary to
Scientific Facts.
copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso-
catlon]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The ques-
ton of human origin, so prominentn now
in scientific and religious circles, Is
discussed in characteristic style by DIR.
Talmage in this discourse, in which ne
also advocates the theory that oil the
worlds progress has come through
Christianity; text, Timothy Vi. 20.
80 Timothy, keep that which is COM
mitted to thy trust, avoiding opposi-
lions Of science falsely so called. "
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who by tho 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
tan. Who discovered the an@sthetical
properties Of chloroform, doing more
for the relief of human pain than any
man that ever lived, driving back nine
tenths of the horrors of surgery? James
Y. Simpson Of Edinburgh, as eminent
for piety as for science; on weekdays
in the university lecturing on profound
est 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 | heard his
eulogy pronounced by the destitute pop
ulations Of the Cowgate. Science and
revelation are the bass and soprano OF
the Same tune. The whole world will
yet acknowledge tie complete harmony.
But between what my text describes as
science falsely 20 called aud revelation
there is M uncompromisins war and
ono or the other must 60 under.
at tho present time tho mir is filled
with social and platform and pulpit
talk about evolution and il Is high
timo that the people who have not time
to make investigation for themselves
understand that evolution i'll the first
place is up and down, out and out in
fidelity; in the second place 1t is con-
trary to the facts of science, and i'll the
third place that it is brutalixing in its
tendencies. do not argue that this is
n genuine book, i do not say that the
Bible is worthy Of any kind of credence
those are subjects for other Sabbaths
but want you to understand that
Thomas Paino and Hume and Voltaire
no more thoroughly disbelieved the
Holy Scriptures than do all the leading
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 investiga-
ton look OF the subject on this side or
that. By scientists 1 mean those who
have o speciality in that direction and
who through geological garden and
aquarium and astronomical observatory
give their life to the study Of the phys
ical earth, its plants and its animals.
and the regions beyond, so far as optical
instruments have explored them
Evolution 10 Inhdelity.
1 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, 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 Testaments? No. And SO
they say all. Do you believe that Jesus
Christ died to 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 supplication
directed heavenward ever makes any
difference? No. And SO they say all.
Herbert Spencer, In the only address
he made in this country, in his very
first sentence ascribes his physical all
ments to fate. and the authorized re-
port of that address begins the word
fate with big Of" Professor Heckel,
in the very first page of his two great
volumes, speers ct the Bible as a so called
revelation. Tyndall, in his famous
prayer test, defed the whole of Chris
tendon to show that human supplica-
ton made any difference in the result
of things. John Stuart Mill wrote elab-
orately against Christianity, and, to
show that his rejection of it was COM
plete, ordered this epitaph for his tomb
stone, Most Unhappy. Huxley said
that at the first reading Of Darwin s
book he was convinced of the fact that
theology had received it's deathblow at
the hand of Mr.. Darwin. All the lead.
ing scientists who believe in evolution,
without one exception the world over,
are infdel. say nothing against int-
deity, mind you. only wish to define
the belief and the meaning Of the reJec'
ton.
Now, put opposite to each other, to
show that evolution is inAdelity, the
Bible account of how the human race
started and the evolationist account OF
how the human race started. Bible &C.
count: "God said let us make man in
our image. God created man in his own
image; male and female created ne
Them" He breathed into him the
breath of life, the whole story setting
forth the idea that 1t was not perfect
kangaroo or perfect orang outang,
but perfect man. That is the Bible
account The evolutionist account;
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