The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-08-26
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
WHERE WE CAME FROM" SUM-
DAYS SUBJECT
Text, 1. Timothy 6:.O: 20 Timothy.
Keep That Which Is Committed to
Thy Trust, Avoiding Oppositions of
Science Falsely So Called"

mere Is no contest between Beuuih0
science and revelation. The same God
who by the hand of the 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? Profess
sor Morse, a Christian. Who swung
the lightnings under the sea, cabling
the continents together? Cyrus w.
Field, the Christian. Who discovered
the anesthetical properties of chloro-
form, doing more for the RELIEF OF nu-
man pain than any man that ever
lived, driving back nine-tenths OF the
horrors of surgery? James Y. Simp-
son, of Edinburgh, as eminent Tor
piety as for science; on week days In
the university lecturing on profound
est scientific subjects, and on Sabbaths
preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ
to the masses of Edinburgh. / saw the
universities of that city draped in
mourning for his death, and l heard
his eulogy pronounced by the destitute
populations of the Cowgate. Science
and revelation are the bass and So
prano Of the same tune. The whole
world will yet acknowledge the COM
plete harmony. But between what my
text describes as science falsely So
called, and revelation, there is an un-
compromising war, and one or the 9TH
er must go 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 them
selves understand that evolution in the
first place, is up and down, out-and-out
infidelity; in the second place it is
contrary to the facts of science, and in
the thirl place, that 1t is brutalizing
in its tendencies. do not argue that
this is a genuine book, I do not say
that the Bible is worthy of any kind Of
credence-those are subjects for other
Sabbaths-but want you to under
stand that Thomas Paine and Hume
AMI Voltaire no more thoroughly dis
believed the Holy Scriptures than do
all the leading scientists who believe
in evolution. And when 1 say scien-
lists, Of course, do not mean literary
men or theologians who in essay or in
sermon, and without giving their life
to scientific investigation look at the
subject on this side or that. BY sci
entists mean those who have a spe-
cialty in that direction and who
through geological garden and aqua
rum and astronomical observatory,
give their life to the study of the ply
steal earth its plants and its animals,
and the regions beyond so far as op-
tical instruments have explored them.
l 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, liv-
ing and dead answer these questions:
Do you believe the Holy Scriptures?
No. And so they say all. Do you be-
lieve the Bible story of Adam and Eve
in the Garden of Eden? No. And so
they say all. Do you believe the mir
acles of the Old and New Testament?
No. And so they say all. Do you be-
lieve that Jesus Christ died to 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 believe that
human duplication directed heaven
ward ever makes any difference? No.
And so they say all.
Herbert Spencer, in the only address
he made in this country, in his very
first sentence ascribes his physical all
ments to fate, and the authorized re-
port of that address begins the word
fate with big "F." Professor Heckel,
in the very first page of his two great
volumes sneers at the Bible as So
called revelation. Tyndall in his IA
nous prayer test, defied the whole of
Christendom to show that human sup
plication made any difference in the
result of things. John Stuart Mill
wrote deliberately against Christianity,
and to show that his rejection of 1t was
complete, ordered this epitaph for his
tombstone: Most unhappy" Huxley
said that at the first reading of OAR
wins 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 are infidel. say nothing
against infidelity, mind you. 1 only
wish to define the belief and the mean
ing of the rejection.
Agassiz says: "The manner in which
the evolution theory in zoology is
treated would lead those who are not
special biologists to suppose that OBJ
servations have been made by which
1t can be inferred that there is in ma
ture such thing as change among or
ganized beings actually taking place.
There is no such thing on record. 1t
is shifting the ground of observation
from one field of observation to an
other to make this statement, and
when the assertions go so far as to
exclude from the domain of science
those who will not be dragged into this