Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-08-25
i ORIGIN OF MANKIND.
Or. TALMAGE PINS HIS FAITH TO THE
| DIVINE ACCOUNT.

God aud the Bible.
lCopyrlght, 1898, by American Press Asso-
Ci0tion.l
WASHINGTON, Aug 2l.--Tho question of
human origin, so prominent now in sciCn-
tiilc and religious circles, is discussed in
characteristic style by DIR. Talmagc in this
discourse, in which he also advocates tho
theory that all the worlds progress has
come through Christianity; text, l Tim.
othy VII 90, 80 Timothy, keep that which
is committed to Shy trust, avoiding oppo-
sitions of science falsely, So callcdN'
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. Tho same God
who by tho hand of prophet wrote on
parchment. by the hand Of tho storm wrote
on the rock. The best telescopes and mi
croscopcs and electric batteries and philo-
sophical apparatus belong to Christian
univcrsitie-. Who gave us magnetic tClcg
raphyy Professor Morse, Il Christian.
Who swung the lightnngs under the sea,
cabling the continents togcthcrE Cyrus
W. Field, tho Christian, Who discovered
the anHsthctical properties OF chloroiorm,
doing moro for the relief of human pain
than any man that ever lived, driving
back ninc-tcnths of the horrors of surgcryY
james Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, rs Cni-
ncnt for piUty rs for science, on weekdays
IN the university lecturing ON profoundcst
scientific subjects and on Sabbaths preach
ing the gospel of Jesus Christ to the masses
of Edinburgh. l saw the universities Of
that city drapcd i'm mourning for his death,
and | heard his eulogy pronounced by the
destitute populations of the Cowgatc. Sci
encc and revelation are the bass and So
prano of the same tune. Tho whole world
will yet acknowledge tho complete har-
mony, but between what my text describes
as science, falsely so called, and revelation
there is an uncumpromsng war, and one
or the other must 20 under
At the present time the air sflllcd with
social and platform and pulpit talk about
evolution, and il is high time that the
people who have not time to make invcs-
tigation for themselves understand that
evolution. In the first place, il up aud
down, out and ont inldclity; In the scc-
ond place, it is contrary to the facts of sci
uncc and, in the third place, that it is
brutaliZing in its tendencies l do not
argue that this Is genuine book do not
say that the Bible is worthy of any kind of
crcdcncc--thosc are subjects for other
Sabbaths-but want you to understand
that Thomas Paine and Hume and Vol
taire no moro thoroughly disbclicvcd 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 thculugians who in
essay or in sermon and without giving
their life TO scientific investigation look at
the subject on this side or that. BY scicn-
fists mean those who have IA speciality in
that direction and who through geological
garden and aquarium and astronomical
observatory give their life TO the study of
the physical earth, its plants and its ami
mails and tho regions beyond So far rs OPP
teal instruments have explored th?m.
put upon the witness stand living and
dead the leading NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Heckcl, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, Tyn-
dali, Darwin, Spencer On the witness
stand, We 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 Edenl
No. And so they say all DO you believe
the miracles of the Old and New Tesla
mcnts? No. And so they say all. Do you
believe that Jesus Christ died to save tn,
nations No. And so they say all. d.
you believe in the rcgcnerating power ol
the Holy GhostS No. And so they say all
directed hcavCnward ever makes any diff
fercnce2 No, And So they say all.
Herbert Spencer, i'll the only address he
made in this country, in his very first sen
tCncc ascribeS his physical ailments to fate
and tho authorized report of that nddrcs,
begins the word fate with n big"F Pro
fcssor Heckcl, in the very first page Of hi,
two great volumes, snccrS at the Bible as
so called revelation. Tyndall in his IA
nous PRAYER test, dcflcd the whole of Chris
tendon TO show that human supplicatioT
made any difference in the result of things
John stuart Mill wrote deliberately against
Christianity, and TO show that his rcicc
ton of IL was complete ordered this cpl
taph for his tombstone, Most Unhappy.
Huxley said that at the first reading o
Darwin's book he was convinced of tn,
fact that theology had received its dealt
blow at the hand of Mr., Darwin. All tn,
leading scientists who believe in cvolu
ton, without one exception the worl,
over, arc inildcl. / say nothing agans
inhdclity, mind you. l only wish to de
fine the belief and the meaning of the ~
lection.
Evolution Is Inhdelity.
Now, put opposite 10 each other, {,
show that evolution is infidclity, the Bib
account of how the human race startc,
and tho cyolutionist account of how TN
human race started. Bible account; "Got
said let us make man in our image. Go,
created man in his own image, male an,
female created he them" He breathe,
into him the breath Of life, the whole stor
setting forth the idea that it was not
perfect kangaroo or perfect orang on
tang, but a perfect man. That is the Bib
account. The ovolutionist account: Ava
back in the ages thoro We're four or fly
primal germs or seminal spores iron
which all the living creatures have bccl
evolved. Go away back, and there yo
will find n vegetable stun that might b
called mushroom, This mushroom b.
inmate force develops tadpole, the tad
pole by innate force develops polliwog
the polliwog develops "a fish, the fish b
hatural force develops into n reptile, tn
reptile develops into quadruped tn
quadruped develops into baboon, the ba
boon develops into "a man.
Darwin says that the human hand /
only flsh's fin developed. He says tina
the human lungs are only swim bladder
showing that we once iloatcd or were an
phibious. lie says the human ear coul
once have been moved by force of will in.
rs "a horse lifts its ear at frghtful Object
lie says tho human race were original
webfootcd. From primal germ to tadpoi,
from tadpole to fish, from fish TO reptil,
from reptile TO wolf, from wolf to chin
panzco and from chimpanaee to MAJ
Now,'if anybody says that the Bible n,
count of the starting of the human rae
and the ovOlutionist account of tho star