New Britain herald., 1917-10-08
SATAN AUTHOR OF
EVOLUTION THEORY
Pastor Hartman Aims Shafts at
Darwin and Other Theorists

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in which he is attacking evolution as
propounded by so-called scientists,
Rev. N. H. Hartman Of the Peoples
church last night offered five proofs
to convince his audience that the old
fashioned theory regarding the crea-
ton of animal life-that 1t was given
to the world by the Supreme Being
is really the only theory worthy of
consideration by those whose cerebral
organs have sufficiently advanced to
allow them to do their own thinking.
Intermixing ridicule and Jest to bring
home his points, Pastor Hartman
showed that the greatest Of evolution
lists, including Darwin, the premier,
have expressed uncertainty on the
subject and that some of them have
returned to belief in the Bible after
cropping around in the darkness for
facts which they have not yet found.
A digest of Pastor Harriman's re-
marks follows:
my indictment Of evolution has
not been made mild for evolution. 1t
has assailed everything sacred In re-
vealed religion: invaded the church,
the family, and the public school,
'belated' teachers, as Prof. Townsend
themselves and their pupils with this
bugbear. That it is exploded and a
mere 'bugbear' lurking in the shad-
ows to pounce out upon the young
and the unwary, I have promised to
prove. And tonight I begin that
proof, following 1t next Sunday even
ing with further proof; then I shall
speak on The Evolution of Evolution
and give its strange and hurtful his
tory, and show how it was that SO
baseless and baneful system could
have taken such a hold upon the
world of scholarship and would-be
And first, a text from the Old
Book that evolution has so long and
so successfully assailed. Gen. Ill, IL
And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit, after
his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon
the earth: and it was so. And the
earth brought forth grass and herb
yielding seed after his kind, and the
tree yielding fruit, whose seed Is in
itself, after his kind; and God saw
that 1t was good
Here you have the Bible account
of creation, up to and through the
vegetable kingdom. Later in the mar
rative, animals and man appear in
the same way-fresh created from the
hand of God, each complete in itself,
and each equipped to reproduce its
own kind and not some other kind as
the evolution theory teaches. Lam
guage could not be more specific. God
spake, and it was SO; and it was
very good in His sight.
Over against this account of the
Bible, evolution teaches that things
were not created, but just grew, like
Topsy; that from an original mass of
lifeless matter, whose existence they
do not account for. by a power with
in that they do not account for, sud
denly this inert mass began to move
and whirl and evolve, and throw off
worlds. Then upon one of these
worlds, one Of the smallest, our earth,
this unaccountable force suddenly
takes the form that we know as
Iife,' and 10, vegetation begins to be
formed, lower forms at first, then
more complex, until, through count
less centuries, and after the destruc-
ton of millions of intermediate spe-
cies, we find the earth covered with
the species that have survived. Then
animal life appears, evolved from the
V0BSldUle, duu through Quiet weary
aeons the evolution went on there,
till at length man appears, evolved
from ape, through four-footed crea-
lures; they from perhaps thousand
| footed things; they through birds;
| they through fishes; and on back to
| the first life which is nowhere &C.
| counted for. This is the issue. Which
| account is correct?
The Promised Proofs.
IT have promised to prove that
| evolution has no foundation what
| ever in the facts of science. that 1t
| is an exploded theory. Listen to some
| of the proofs, necessarily briefly stat
ed And let it be understood that in
| referring to those who believe still
| in evolution, I impugn no motives I
am not after them at all: my attack
| is against the great enemy of the