Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-20
WORLDS PROGRESS.
DR.. TALMAGE SAYS IT IS DUE 70
CHRISTIANITY.

The Great Divine Discusses the Origin of
Man - Denounces the Evolution Theory
as Pure Inadelity and Contrary to
Scientific Facts.
copyright. 1898, by American Press Asso-
cation.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The ques-
ton of human origin, so prominent now
in scientific and religious circles, is
discussed i'll characteristic style by DR..
Talmage in this discourse, in which he
also advocates the theory that all the
worlds progress has come through
Christianity; text, l Timothy vi, 20,
80 Timothy, keep that which is com.
mitted to thy trust, avoiding opposi.
lions of science falsely SO Called
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of prophet wrote on
parchment by the hand of the storm
wrote on the rock. The best telescopes
and microscopes and electric batteries
and philosophical apparatus belong to
Christian universities. Who gave us
magnetic telegraphy? Professor Morse,
Christian. Who swung the lightnings
under the sea, cabling the continents
together? Cyrus W. Field, the Chris.
tian. Who discovered the an@sthetical
properties of chloroform, doing more
for the relief of human pain than any
man that ever lived, driving back nine
tenths of the horrors of surgery? James
Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, as eminent
for piety as for science; on weekdays
in the university lecturing on profound
est scientific subjects and on Sabbaths
preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to
the masses of Edinburgh. l saw the
universities of that city draped in
eulogy pronounced by the destitute pop
ulations of the Cowgate. Science and
revelation are the bass and soprano Of
the same tune. The whole world will
yet acknowledge the complete harmony.
But between what my text describes as
science falsely so called and revelation
there is an uncompromising war and
one or the other must so 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 themselves
understand that evolution in the first
place is up and down, out and out in
fidelity; 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 credence
those are subjects for other Sabbaths
but want you to understand that
Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire
no moro thoroughly disbelieved the
Holy Scriptures than do all the leading
scientists who believe in evolution.
And when l say scientists OF course
do not mean literary men or theologlan'
who in essay or in sermon and without
giving their life to scientific investiga
tion look at the subject on this side OF
that. By scientists l mean those wht
have a speciality in that direction ant
who through geological garden ant
aquarium and astronomical observator!
give their life to the study of the phys
ical earth, its plants and its animals
and the regions beyond, so far as optlca
instruments have explored them.
Evolution Is Infldelity.
nut upon the witness stand llvln'
and dead the leading evolutionlsts-
Ernst Heckel John Stuart Mill, lux
i, lev. Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. On ID
witness stand, ye men OF science llV1n
and dead, answer these questions; y
> YOU believe tho Holy Scriptures: NC
And so they say all. Do you believe IN
, Bible story of Adam and Eve III tn
: garden of Eden? No. And so they sa
i. all. Do you believe the miracles OF IN
Old and New Testaments! NO. ana
they say all. Do you believe that Je .y
n Christ died to save the natiohs' IN.
n And SO they say all. Do you believe
Is the regeneratiug power OF the l1ol
o Ghost? No. And so they say an. -
" Won believe that human suppllcatio
directed heavcnward ever makes an
d;trorencep No. And SO they say all
Is Herbert Spencer, in tho only azores
"a be made in this country, III MS Nei
r. first sentence ascrihcs his physical al
I. ,nents to fate, and the authorized II
nr mort of that address begins the wo'
x "a te with big "F." Professor HecNe
n i, rho very first page Of his two gree
pt volumes, sreers at the Elble az u ~ e''ii'
IN revelation. Tyndall, III nls i",ho
n, WAIVER test, defied the whole OF Chf'
'a tendom to show that human suppi'c
tion made any difference III the resu
tn ~ things John Stuart Mill wrote Ella
n. oratelv against Christianity an"'
e er chow that his rejection of it was col
Sc nlete ordered this epitaph tor ms 'olii
.e, Stone "Most Unhappy. Huziey 81
ID, that at the first reading OF Daf"iA
hool, he was convinced of the TACT III
theology had received Its ae I, lna 1s,
tbe hand of Mr.. Darwin. All the lea
;no scientists who believe IN ovolu'io
without one exception the WORM a. Wv ~,
ore infidel. say nothing aga,ils, az az
del;tv mind you. only wish 10 ueil
tho belief ard tho meaning OF tho ivy
It'll ton. otbor
md Now. put opposite to each o ,l
ing Ao"' ir+;op is intidellty,
" 1 Rible account of how the human II II
les started and tho evolutionist ac n;%1n
!. how the human race started. Dip4o
ao,,,+. "God said let us make man
. our image. God created man a NJ n.a
3, image; male and female :l'.o ort I;m
breath of life, the whole story s s'erf
forth the idea that it was not a pc, per-