The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-09-03
ENTIRE CHAIN GONE,
DR.. TALMAGE DlSoROVES "MlSSING
LINK" THEORY.
At Every Stage of Human Life There Il
Direct Evidence of Divine Within
bridseabie Gulf Between Man .n<; Feast.
Portrait of an Eyulutionist
copyright, 1898, by American Press Asao
citation

ciation.I
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-Dr. Talmage in
this discourse advocates Christian cyolu-
ton in contradiction to an inlldcl cvolu
ton and declares that the only radically
Improving force in the world is Chris
tianity; text, Romans i, %, IS, "Plo-
Tossing themselves to be wise, they became
fools and changed Tie glory Of the unccg-
ruptiblo God into an image made like To
corruptible man, and to birds ana four
footed beasts and creeping things
This is full length portrait of an oyo.
lutionist who substitutes the bestial origin
for the divine origin. | showed you last
week that evolution was contradicted hv
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 eyOlutiOniSts account
Collided with each other as certainly as
two express trains going in opposite direc-
tions at 80 miles the hour, their locOmO-
tives meeting on the same track. l showed
that all the evolution scientists without
any exception, were pronounced iHlidels;
that evolution was heathenism thousands
of years old; that such men Us Agassiz
and Hugh Miller and Ferraday and Daw
son and Dana had for that doctrine Of cvo
luton unlimited contempt. showed you
that their favorlte theory Of the "Surylyal
of the flttest" was an absurdity and an
untruth, and that natural evolution WNS
always downward and never upward, and
that there had never been any improve
ment 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 tod you |
was not a pessimist, but an optimist, that
instead of 1t being II o'clock at night 1t is
half past in the morning.
Now, go on to tell you, Ii seems TO me
that evolutionists are trying to impress
the great masses of the people with the
idea that there is an ancestral line lead.
Ing from the primal germ on up through
the serpent and on up through the quad
ruped and on up through the gorilla
to man. They admit that there is Il miss.
ing link" as they call it, but there is not
missing link-it is whole chain gone
Between the physical construction OF the
highest animal and the physical construo-
tion of the lowest man there is q chasm Gs
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists
tell us that somewhere In central Africa
or in Borneo there Is creature half way
between tho brute and the man, and that
that creature is the highest step in the
animal ascent and the lowest step in the
human creation. But what are the facts?
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 20. Vast difference between
80 and 10. 1t needs bridge of 40 arches
to span that gulf
Evidence of Divine Power.
Besides that there is a difference be
tween the gorilla and the mana diff
ference of blood globule, a difference OF
nerve, difference of muscle, a difference
of bone, Il 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 thou
sands OF years ago, is just as complete as 10
is now, showing that there has not been a
particle 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 honorcd with human
progenyf Besides that, evolution says
that as one species rises to another species
the old typo dies off. Then how is it that
there are whole kingdoms of chimpanzee
and gorilla and baboon?
The evolutionists have come together
and have tried to explain birds wing.
Their theory has always been that Il faculty
of an animal while being developed must
always be useful and always beneficial,
but the wing of bird, in the thousands
Df ya,rc II xrac boin.r 1nvplOuCl so far