The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-08-26

called" DIR. Talmage, among other
things, said:
There is no contest between genu
inc 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 univer-
stiles. Who gave us magnetic teleg-
raphy? Prof. Morse, a Christian.
Who swung the lightnings under the
sea, cabling the continents together
Cyrus w. Field, the Christian. Who
discovered the anaesthetical proper
ties 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
week days in the university lecturing
on profoundest scientific subjects, and
on Sabbaths preaching the gospel of
Jesus Christ to the masses of Edin-
bnrgh.
At the present time the air is filed
with social and platform and pulpit
talk about evolution, and il 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-anddow out-and-
ont infidelity; in the second place IL is
contrary TO the facts of science, and
In the third place, that IL is brutaliz-
ing 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 more thoroughly
-disbelieved the Holy Scriptures than
do all the leading scientists who be-
lieve in evolution. And when / say
scientists, of course, do not mean
literary men or theologians who in
essay or in sermon, and without Civ
ing their life TO scientific investiga.
lions. look at the subject on this side
or that BY scientists / mean those
who have a specially in that direction
md who, through geological garden
and aquarium and astronomical observ-
atory, give their life TO the study of the
physical tn, its plants and its ami
enals and the regions beyond so far as
optical instruments have explored
them.
put upon the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionists-
Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Hux-
ley, Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. On
the witness stand, We men of science,
living and dead. answer these ques-
tions: Do you believe the Holy Scrip
lures? No. And so they say all. Do
you believe 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 Tes-
tamentP No. And so they say all.
DO you believe that Jesus Christ died
60 save the nations? No. And so
they say all. DO you believe in the
regenerating power of the Holy Ghost?
No. And SO they say all. DO you be-
lieve that human supplication directed
heavenward ever makes any differ
ence? No. And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer, in the only adj
dress he made in this country, in his
very first sentence ascribes his physi-
cal ailments TO fate. and the author
lied report of that address begins the
word fate with big "F." Prof.
rHeekel, in the very first page of his
two great volumes, sneers at the BIZ
BILE as a so-called revelation. Tyndall.
ia his famous prayer test, defed the
whole of Christendom TO show that
human supplication made any differ
ence' in the result of things. John
Stuart Mill wrote deliberately against
Christianity. and 70 show that his re.
lection of IL was complete. ordered
this epitaph for his tom stone: Most
unhappy" Huxley 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. Darwin All the leading
scientists who believe in evolution,
without one exception the world over,
nre intdel l say nothing against in.
fidelity. mind you. l only wish &C
define the belief and meaning of the
rejection.
Now, put opposite each other, tC
show that evolution is inddelity, 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 mar
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 il was not perfect
.kangoraa, or perfect ourang outnng
but perfect man. That is the Bible
account The evolutionist account
Away back in the ages there were fou
OF five primal germs, of seminal spore
from which all the living creatures
have been evolved. Go away back, anC
there you viii find vegetable stuff
that might be called a mushroom. Thi
mushroom by innate force develops |
tadpols, the tadpole by innate forc'
develops pollywog, the polywog de