St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-09-24
ABOUT EVOLUTION.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Takes Issue with
Darwin q I'd Huxley.

The Theory Of Evolution Opposed to the
Bible aad t. Real Sclence-Ths Ssr-
vivai OF the Fittest an Un-
substantial Myth.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmsge, in the fol-
lowing sermon, discusses evolution, rs
related to human origin. The text is:
Timothy. keep that which is committed 70
thy trust. avoid NJ oppositions OF science
falsely SO cllled-: Timothy. VI. %
There Is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of tie prophet wrote
ON parchment, by the band OF the
storm wrote on the rock. The best
telescopes and microscopes and elec-
trio batteries and philosophical appa-
rstus belong to Christian universities
Who gave us magnetic telegraphy?
Prof. Morse, q Christian. Who swung
the lightnings under the se,, cabling
the continents together? Cyrus w.
Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the anaesthetical properties Of chloro-
form. doing more the relief OF human
pain than any man that ever lived,
driving back nine-tenths OF the hor-
rors of surgery? James Y. Simpson,
Of Edinburgh, as eminent for piety as
Tor science; on week days in the uni
vcrsity lecturing on profoundest scien :
tific subjects, and ON Sabbaths preach
| ing the Gospel of Jesus Christ 10 the
masses of Edinburg. / saw the uni
vcrsities of that city draped in mourn
| ing for his death, and heard his eu-
logy pronounced by the destitute pop
ulntions of the Cowgate. Scieace and
revelation are the bass and soprano OF
| the same tune. The whole world will
yet acknowledge the complete har-
mony But between what my text
describes as science falsely so-called,
and revelation, there is an uncompro-
| missing war, and one or the other must
go under.
At the present time the mir 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
infidclity; in the second place it is con-
trary to the facts of science, and in the
third place, that it is brutalizing in its
tendencies. do not argue that this is
genuine book, do not say that the
Bible is worthy of any kind of crcdcnce
those are subjects for other Sabbaths
but want you to understand that
Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltairc
no more thoroughly disbelieve the Holy
Scriptures than do all the leading
scientists who believe in evolution.
And when say scientists, OF course
do not mean literary men or theolo-
gians who in essay or sermon, and with
out giving their life t. scientific inves-
legations, look at the subject on this
side or that. by. scientists / mean
those who have q speciality in that di-
rection and who. through geological
garden and aquarium and astronomi-
cal observatory, give their life to the
study OF the physical earth, its plants
and its animals, and the regions beyond
SO far as optical instruments have ex-
plored them.
i put upon the witness stand living
und dead, the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Hux-
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. Aud so they say nil. Do you he
lieve the Bible story Of Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Ellen? No. And SO
they say all. Do you believe the
miracles of the Old and New Testa-
mcnt? 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 regene-
rating power of the Holy Ghost? No.
And so they say all. Do you believe
that human supplication directed
IIcavenward ever makes any differ
ence? No. And 30 they say oil. :
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 q big IF" Prof Heckel, in
the very first page Of his two great
volumes, sneers at the Bible as so
called revelation. Tyndall, in his "a
nous prayer test, defed the whole of
Christendom to show that human sup
plication made any difference in :he
result of thingA John Stuart Mill
wrote elaborately against Christianity,
and, to show that his rejection of it
was complete. ordered this epitaph for
his tombstone: 'Most unhappy" Hux-
ley said that at the first reading of
Darwin's book he was convinced of the
fact that theology had received its
death blow at the hand OF Mr.. OAR
win. All the leading scientists who
belive in evolution. without one excep-
ton the world over. are infidel. 1 say
nothing against intidelity, mind you.
only wish to define the belief and the
meaning OF the rejection.
Now, / put opposite each other, 70
show that evolution is infcldity, the
Bible account of how the human race,
started and the evolutionist account
of how the human race started. Bible
account: God said, let us make man
in our image. God created man in His
own image; male and female created
He them. He breathed into him the
breath Of life, the whole story setting
forth the idea that it was not q per.
feet kangoras, or . perfect outrang
outaDg, but perfect man. That 10
the Bible account. The evolutiouist
account: Away back in the ages there
were four or I've primal germs, of
seminal spores from which all the livs
| ing creatures have been evolved. Go
away back, and there You will fnd .
vegetable stuff that might be called .
mushroom. This mushroom by innate
force develops . tadpole. the tadpole
by innate force developes . pollywog,
the po!lywog develops = fish, the fish
by natural force develops into . rep
tile, the reptile develops into . quad
rupcd. the quadruped develops into .
baboon, the baboon develops into .
man.
Darwin says that the human hand 10
only . iish's fin developed. He says
that the human lungs are only . swim
hladder ShowinU that VIE on~a 0o.tad