The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-09-10
DARWIN'S DOCTRINE.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Says Evolution
Is Atheistic and Absurd.
aumnn beings Have n Grander An
eestry Than the Bensts, the Mas
terpiece OF Gods Wisdom lie
Ing Our Enthronement.


declares that the only radically i'm
proving force in the world Is Chris
tianity. Text, Romans l., %, %: PRO
Tossing themselves to be wise, the.
became fools. and changed the glor.
of the uncorruptible God into al
image made like to corruptible man
and to birds and four-footed beast
and creeping things"
This is full-length portrait OF nj
eyolutionist who substitutes the bes
tial origin for the Divine origin.
showed you last week that evolution
was contradicted by the Bible, by sci
ence, by observation and by common
sense; that the Bible account of the
creation of man and of brute and OF
the world and the evolutionists ae-
count collided with each other, as Ger
tainly as two express trains going in
opposite directions at 60 miles the
hour. their locomotives meeting on the
same track. | showed that all the
evolution scientists, without any ex-
ception, were pronounced infidels;
that evolution was heathenism thou
sands of years old; that such men as
Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Fara-
day and Dawson and Dana had for that
doctrine of evolution unlimited con
tempt. l showed you that their fa,
vorite theory of the Survival of the
fittest" was an absurdity and an un'
truth, and that natural evolution was
always downward and never upward
and that there had never been any i'm
provement for man or beast or would
be except through the direct indirect
influence of our glorious Christianity
. And in the closing part Of that ser
mon : told you | was not n pessimist
but an optimist, that instead of it be
ing IL o'clock at night ii is 5:30 in the
morning. ~
Now, | 90 on to tell you. il seems to
me that cvolutionists are trying 10
impress the great masses of the people
with the idea that there is an ances.
trial line leading from the primal germ
on up through the serpent, and on up
through the quadrupcd, and on W
through the gorilla to man. They adj
nit there is n missing link" us they
call II, but there is not missing link
1; is . whole chain gone. Between the
physical construction of the highest
animal, and the physical construction
OF the lowest man, there is n chasm as
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolu-
tionists tell us that somewhere in Cen.
trial Africa, or in Bornco, there is 2
creature half way between the brute
and the man, and that that creature
is the highest step in the animal ascent
aad the lowest stepin the human crea-
ticn. But what are the facts? The
brain Of the largest gorilla that was
'ev found is 30 cubic inches. while the
brain Of the most ignorant man that
was ever found is 20. Vast difference
between 30 and TO- 1t needs bridge
OF 40 arches to span that gulf.
Besides that, there is difference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana diff
ference of nerve, a difference of muscle,
n difference of bone, difference of
sinew. The horse is more like man in
Intelligence, the bird is more like him
in musical capacity, the mastiff is
more ike him in affection. That eulo-
pized beast of which we hear so much,
represented on the walls of cities
thousands of years ago is just MS COM
EIcte as it is now, showing that there
has not been "A particle of change.
BESIDES that. IL pair Of apes had a
man for descendant, why would not all
the apes have the same kind of de-
scendants? Can 1t be that that one
favored pair only was favored with
human progeny? Besides that, evolu.
ton says that one species rises to an
ether species, the old type dies off.
Ten how is il that there are whole
Kingdoms of chimpanzee and gorilla
an. baboon?
The evolutionists have come to-
gether and have tried to explain a
birds wing. Their theory has always
been that a faculty of an animal while
being developed must-always be useful
and always beneficial, but the wing
of bird, in the thousands of years it
was being developed, so far from be-
ing any help must have been him
drance until ii could be brought into
practical use away on down the ages.
Must there not have been an inteli-
gent will somewhere that formed that
wonderful flying instrument, so that
n bird 500 times heavier than the air
can mount it and put gravitation un-
der claw and beak? That wonderful
mechanical instrument, the wing, with
between 20 and 30 different apparati
curiously constructed, does il not i'm
ply divine intelligence? Does ii not
imply n direct act of some outside be-
ing? All the evolutions in the world
cannot explain birds wing, or an
insects wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rat
lie of the rattlesnakc. Ages before
the reptile had any enemies, this warn
ing weapon was created. Why was it
createdp When the reptile, far back
In the ages had no enemies. why this
warning weapon? There must have
been a divine intelligence foreseeing
aud knowing that in ages to come
that reptile would have enemies, and
then this warning weapon would be
brought into use. You sec evolution
mt every step is contradiction or a
monstrosity. At every stage of ami
NAL life as well as at every stage of
human life, there is evidence of direct
.,fton ~ ,lix.ipa x.,ill