The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1898-09-29
ABOUT EVOLUTION.
Rev. Dr.. Talmage Takes Issue with
Darwin and Huxley.
The Theory of Evolution Opposed to u .
Bible and to Real Science-The Sur
vival OF tho Flttest AL I'M
substantial Myth.

suDStantlnl MYTH.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, in the rol
lowing sermon, discusses evolution, as
related to human origin. The text is:
o Timothy, keep that which is committed to
thy trust, avoiding oppostions OF scieuce
falsely so called.-I Timothy, vi. 20.
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of the prophet wrote
on parchment, by the hand of the
storm wrote on the rock. The best
telescopes and microscopes and elec-
trio batteries and philosophical appa-
ratus belong to Christian universities.
Who gave us magnetic telegraphy?
Prof. Morse, Christian. Who swung
the lightnings under the sea, 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 ninc-tenths of the hor-
rors of surgery? James Y. Simpson,
of Edinburgh, as eminent for piety as
for science; on week days in the uni
versity lcctrring on profoundest scien-
tif1c subjects, and on Sabbaths preach
ing the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the
masses of Edinburg. l saw the uni
vcrsities of that city draped in mourn
ing for his death, and l heard his eu-
logy pronounced by the destitute pop
ulations of the Cowgate. Science and
lot;
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 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 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
a genuine book, do not say that the
Bible is worthy of any kind of crcdcnce
those are subjects for other Sabbaths
but l want you to understand that
Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire
no more thoroughly disbelieve the Holy
Scriptures than do all the leading
scientists who believe in evolution.
And when say scientists, of course l
do not mean literary men or theolo-
gians who in essay or sermon, and with
out giving their life to scientific inves-
LEGATIONS, look at the subject on this
side or that. BY scientists l mean
those who have a 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 it's animals, and the regions beyond
so far as optical instruments have ex-
plored them.
put upon the witness stand living
and dead, the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heckcl. 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. And so they say all. DO you re .
lievc 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 Testa-
ment? 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
Heavenward ever makes any differ
ence? 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 "F." Prof. Heckel, in
the very first page of his two great
volumes, sneers at the Bible as a So
called revelation. Tyndall, in his IA
nous prayer test, defied the whole of
Christendom to show that human sup
plication made any difference in the
result of things. 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.
tion the world over. are inHdel say
nothing against intidelity, mind you.
l only wish to define the belief and the
meaning Of the rejection.
Now, put opposite each other, to
show that evolution is infeldity, 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
OWE image: male and female created
He th,:m. lie bs.athed into him the
breath of life the whole story settiu q