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ENTIRE CHAIN GONE.
DR.. TALMAGE DlSPRovES missing
LlNKn THEORY.

copyright, 1898, by American Press Asso-
a ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2s--Dr. Talmage in
this discourse advocates Christian eyolu-
ton in contradiction to an infidcl evolu
ton and declares that the only radically
improving force in the world is Chris
tianity; text Romans t. 22, 23, PRO
Tossing themselves to be wise, they became
fools and changed the glory of the uncor-
ruptiblc God into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds and four
footed beasts and creeping things"
This is full length portrait of an evo
lutionist who substitutes the bestial origin
for the divine origin. ] showed you last
week that evolution was contrAdicted by
the Bible, by science, by observation and
by common sense; that the Bible account
of the creation of man and Of brute and of
the world, and the ovolutionist's account
collided with each other as certainly as
two express trains going in opposite direo-
tions at GO miles the hour, their locomo-
tives meeting on the same track. l showed
that all the evolution scientists without
any exception, were pronounced infdels;
that evolution was heathenism thousands
of years old; that such men as Agassiz
and Hugh Miller and Farraday and Daw-
son and Dana had for that doctrine of evo-
luton unlimited contempt ] showed you
that their favoritc theory of the survival
of tho fittest" was an absurdity and an
untruth, and that natural evolution was
always downward and never upward, and
that there had never been any improve
ment for man or beast or world except
through the direct or Indirect influence
of our glorious Christianity. And in the
- NlnA I FOL /
was not pessimist, but an optimist, that
instead of it being IL o'clock at night 1t is
half past 3 in the morning.
Now, 90 on to toll you, it seems to mo
that evolutionists are trying to impress
the great masses of the people with tho
idea that there is an ancestral line lead
ing from the primal germ ON up through
the serpent and on up through tho quad
ruped and ON up through the gorilla
to man. They admit that there is a miss
ing link" as they call it, but there Is not
a missing link-it is a whole chain gone.
Between tho physical construction of tho
highest animal and tho physical construc-
ton of the lowest man there is Il chasm AS
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists
tell us that somewhere in central Africa
or in Borneo there Is n creature half way
between the brute and the man, and that
that creature is the highest step in the
animal ascent and the lowest step In tho
human creation But what are the facts2
The brain of the largest gorilla that was
ever found is 80 cubic inches while tho
brain of the most ignorant man that was
ever found is 20. Vast difference between
30 and 20. 1t needs bridge of 40 arches
to span that gulf.
rv,dsrco of n,v,n. pover
beslocs thaO ,here Is uihorohce De
tween the goriiia ana the mana uii ,
ference Oh plood giopuie' oincrehcc vi
nerve dliiorence Oh muscle uincrehce
OF Done, a difference OF slne"' Iho morse
Is more ike man IN lhteiieehco' 'ho piru
is more ike MIN IN musical capacity, .he
mastin Is more Ike nm III aHectioh' ihao
euiogized peast Oh whlch VIC near SO much'
represented on the walls OF clties thou
sands oil years ago, is Just as complete Us IL
is now showing that there mas not peeh
particio OF chanBe' besiues tnat' IL PAIR
Oh apes nau man LOT uescehuahe' why
would not all the apes nave tho same KIND
OF dcscenaantsY can IL DO ,hae tha1 one
favored pair ohiy was hohoreu WIN huihtn
progeny besiues 'ha', ovoiuoioh says
.nao as ono Species riSes W ano,ncr spoVies
enc oiu 'yPo uies Oh men NOW - ~ 'h"'
mere arc "hoio hihsuoins Vi cniinpuii@eo
anu eoriiln ana papool'
my cNoiu',ohia's nave oonio 'oRc.her
anu nav -rlcu W eApi"in uiru wing
mn 'hoory has Always uco,' NAV " i,'o''i'y
u an an wH,io os'iiS uuNeiopou nv,
alWuys 10 usciui anu always uehchoia'
puU oho Wing Vi piru, III .no .lousu'i Jus
Vi years ~ was poih8 uoNc'opcu' ," lar
bindronco rntii a. could I've brorgbt into
practical use away on down in the ages.
Must there not have been an intelligent
will somewhere that formed that wonder
full flying instrument, so that u bird SOC
times heavier than the air can mount II
and put gravitation under claw and bcak!
That wonderful mechanical instrument,
the wing, with between 20 and 30 differ
emit apparati curiously constructed does II
not imply Il divine intelligence Does II
not imply direct act of some outside be
ing? All the evolutionists in the world
cannot explain a birds wing or an in
scots wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rattle Of
the rattlesnake. Ages before that reptile
had any enemies this warning weapon was
created. Why was it created? When the
reptile, far back in the ages, had no en-
emies, why this warning weapon? There
must have been divine intelligence fore
seeing and knowing that in ages to com,
that reptile would have enemies, and ther
this warning weapon would be brought
into use. You see evolution at every stey
is q contradiction or q monstrosity. A
every stage of animal life as well as a
every stage of human life there is evidence