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/ATT ' ~Af A ILT TZ”TXT Tk DR. TALMAGE PINS HIS FAITH TO THE DIVINE ACCOUNT. - ---. Evolution la InfldoMty —Attempt to Gnl vnnlae Ml Old Besthen Doctrine Into Ufa—SeientMe Absurdities to Drive On* Ood and the Bible. ICopyright, 1898, P ” SS A "°‘ WASHIMOTOX, Aug. Si. —The question of human origin, so prominent nowin tiflo and religious circle*. is discussed in characteristic style by Dr. discourse, in which he also advocates the theory that aU the world’s progress has Jornfthrough Christianity; text, I Thn othv vl 20, “O Timothy, keep that Which is committed to thy trust, avoiding oppo sitions of science falsely, so called!” There is no contest between genuine soienoe and revelation. The same God who by the hand of prophet wrote on parchment, by the hand of the storm wrote on the rook. The best telescopes and mi croscopes and electric batteries and philo sophical apparatus belong to Christian universities. Who gave us magnetic teleg raphy? Professor Morse, a Christian. Who swung the lightnings under the sea, cabling the continents together? Cyrus W. Field, the Christian. Who discovered the apsßsthetical 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 emi nent for piety as for science, on weekdays in the university lecturing on profottndest scientific subjects and on Sabbaths preach ing the gospel of Jesus Christ to the masses, of Edinburgh. I saw the universities of that city draped in mourning for hjs death, and I heard his eulogy pronounced by the destitute populations of the Cowgate. Sci ence and revelation are the bass and so prano of the same tune. The whole world will yet acknowledge the complete har mony, but between what my text describes as science, falsely so called,-And revelation there is an uncompromising war, and one er the other 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 inves tigation for themselves understand that evolution, in the first place, is up and down, out and out infidelity; in the sec ond place, it is contrary to the facts of sci ence and, in the third place, that it is brutalizing in its tendencies. Ido 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 1 want you to understand that Thomas Paine and Hume and Vol taire no more thoroughly disbelieved tho Holy Scriptures than do all the leading scilfctlste who believe in evolution. And when I say scientists of course I 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 scien tists I mean those who have a specialty in that direction and who through zoological garden and aquarium and astronomical observatory give their life to the study of the physical earth, its plants and its ani mals and the regions beyond so far as op tical Instruments have explored them. I put upon the witness stand living and dead the leading evolutionists—Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Mill, Huxley, Tyn dall, Darwin, Spencer. On the witness stand, ye men of science, living and dead, answer these questions: Do you believe the Holy Scriptures? 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 Testa ments? No. And so they say all. Do you believe 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 supplication directed heavenward ever makes any dif ference? No. And so they say all. Herbert Spencer, in the only address he made in this country, in his very first sen - tence ascribes his physical ailments to fate, and the authorized report of that address begins the word fate with a big“F.” Pro fessor Heckel,, in the very first page of his two great volumes, sneers at the Bible as a so called revelation. Tyndall In his fa mous prayer test, defied the whole of Chris tendom to show that human supplication made any difference in the result of things. John Stuart Mill wrote elaborately against Christianity, and to show that his rejec tion of it was complete ordered this epi taph for his tombstone, “Most Unhappy.” Huxley said that at the first reading of Darwin’s book he was convinced of the fact that teleology had received its death blow at the hand of Mr. Darwin. All the leading scientists who believe in evolu tion, without one exception the world over, are infidel. I say nothing against infidelity, mind you. I only wish to de fine the belief and the meaning of the re jection. Evolution IS Infidelity. Now, I put opposite to each other, to show that evolution is infidelity, the Bible account of how tho human race started and the evolutionist account of how the human race started. Bible account: “God said let us make man in our image. God created man in his own image, male and female created ho them.” He breathed into him the breath of life, the whole story setting forth the idea that it was not a perfect kangaroo or a perfect orang ou tang, but a perfect man. That is the Bible The evolutionist account: Away back in the ages there were four or five primal germs or seminal spores from which all the living creatures have been evolved. Go away back, and there you . will find a vegetable stuff that might be called a mushroom. This mushroom by innate force develops a tadpole, the tad pole by innate force develops a polllwog, the polllwog develops a fish, the fish by natural force develops into a reptile, the reptile develops into a quadruped, the quadruped develops into a baboon, the ba boon develops into a man. Darwin says that the human hand is only a fish’s fin developed. He says that the human lungs are only a swim bladder, showing that we once floated or were am phibious. He says the human ear could once have been moved by force of will just to a horse lifts its ear at a frightful object. 110 jay* the human race were originally webfooted. From primal germ to tadpole, from tadpole to fish, from fish to reptile, rom reptile to wolf, from wolf to chim panzee and from chimpanzee to man. ? S a . l ? ybod y “ys that the Bible ao eountof the starting of the human race d^VV^Utlonlßt account of tho Btart- Jj; ° ~u’ u an rnce are the same ac rentaUom aPPamng misropre- P ”j fer ’ if you will, Darwin’s “Origin of tho Species to the book of Genesis, but know you are an Infidel. As for myself, as Herbert Spencer was not present at the creation and the Lord Almighty was pres ent, I prefer to take the divine account as to what really occurred on that occasion. To show that this evolution is only an at tempt to eject God and to postpone him, and to put him clear out of reach I ask a question or two. The baboon made the man, and the wolf made the baboon, and the reptile made the quadruped, and the fish made the reptile, and the tadpole made the fish, and tire primal germ made the tadpole. Who made the primal germ? Most of the evolutionists say, “We don’t know.” Others say it made Itself. Others say it was spontaneous generation. There is not one of them who will fairly and openly and frankly and emphatically say, “God made It." The nearest to a direct answer is that made by Herbert Spencer In which he says it was made by the great “unknowable mystery.” But here comes Huxley with a cup of protoplasm to explain the thing. This protoplasm, he says, is primal life giv ing quality with which the race away back in the ages was started. With his proto plasm he proposes to explain everything. Dear Mr. Huxley, who made the proto plasm? To show you that evolution is infidel I place the Bible account of how the brute creation was started opposite to the evolu tionist’s account of the way the brute creation was started. Bible account: You know the Bible tells how that the birds were made at one time, and the cattle made at another time, and the fish made at another time, and that each brought forth after its kind. Evolution ist’s account: From four or five primal germs or seminal spores all the living creatures evolved. Hundreds of thousands of species of inserts, of reptiles, of beasts, of fish, from four germs—a statement flat ly contradicting not only the Bible, but the very ABO of science. A species nev er develops into anything but Its own Ape ries. In all the ages* and in all tho world there has never boen an exception to it The shark never comes of a whale, norths pigeon of a vulture, nor the butterfly of a wasp. Species never cross over. If there be an attempt at it, it is hybrid, and the hybrid is always sterile and has no de scendants. These men of science tell us that 100,000 species camo from four when the law all through the universe is that, starting in one species, it keeps on in that species, and there would be only four now if there had been four at starting. If I should say to you that the world is flat, and that a circle and a square ate the same, and that twice two make 16, I would pome just as near the truth as when these evolutionists tell you that 100,000 species came from four. Evolution would have been left out of question with its theory flatly contra dicting all observation and all science had not its authors and their disciples been so set on ejecting God from the universe and destroying the Bible that they will go to any length, though It lead them into idiotic absurdity. You see what the Bible teaches in regard to it. I have shown you evolution teaches in regard to it. Agassiz says that he found in a reef of Florida the remains of Insects 80,000 yean old—not 8,000 but 80,000 years old—and that they were just like the insects now. There has been no change. All the facts of ornithology and zoology and ichthyology and conoholpgy but an echo of Genesis first and twenty-first, “Every winged fowl after hi* kind. ” Every creature after its kind. When common observation and sci ence corroborate the Bible, I will not stul tify myaelf by surrendering to the elabor ated guesses of evolutionists. To show that evolution is infidel I place also the Bible account of how worlds were made opposite the evolutionist’s account of how worlds were made. Bible account: God made two great lights—the one to rule the day, the other to rule the night; he made the stars also. Evolutionist ac count: Away back in the ages there was a fire mist or star dust, and this fire mist cooled off into granite, and then this gran ite by earthquake and by storm and by light was shaped into mountains and val leys and seas, and so what was originally fire mist became what we call the earth. The First Cause. Who made the fire mist? Who set the fire mist to worldmaking? Who cooled off the Are mist into granite? You have pushed God some 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 miles from the earth, but he Is too near yet lor the health of evolution. For a great hile the evolutionists boasted that they had found the very stuff ont of which this world and all worlds wore made. They lifted the telescope and they saw It, the very material out of which worlds made themselves. Nebula of simple gas. They laughed in triumph because they had found the factory where the worlds were manufactured, and there was no God anywhere around the factory. But in an unlucky hour for infidel evolutionists the spectroscopes of Fraunhofer and Klrchoff were invented, by which they saw Into that nebula and found It was not a simple gas, but was a compound, and hence had to be supplied from some other source, and that implied a God, and away went their theory, shattered Into everlasting demoli tion. So these infidel evolutionists go wander ing up and down guessing through the universe. Anything to push away back Jehovah from his empire and make the one book which is his great communica tion to the soul of the human race appear obsolete and delusive. But lam glad to know that while some of these scientists have gone into evolution there are many that do not believe It, among them the man who by most is considered the great est scientist we ever had this side of the water—Agassiz, a. name that‘makes every intelligent man the earth over uncover. Agassiz says: “The manner in which the evolution theory in zoology Is treated would lead those who are not special zoolo gists to suppose that observations have been made by which it can be inferred that there is in nature such a thing ar change among organized being* actually taking place. There is no such thing on record. It 1* shifting the ground of ob servation from one field of observation to another 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 mire of mere assertion then it is time to protest. ” With equal vehemence against the doc trine of evolution Hugh Miller, Farraday, Brewster, Dana, Dawson and hundreds of scientists in this country and other coun tries have made protest. I know that the few men who have adopted the theory make more noise than the thousands who have rejected it. The Bothnia of the Cunard line took 500 passengers safely from New York to Liverpool. Not one of the 500 made any excitement. But after we had been four days out, one morning, we found on deck a man's hat and coat and vest and boots, Implying that some one had jumped overboard. Forthwith we all began to talk about that one man. There was more talk about that one man overboard than all the 500 passengers that rode on in safety. “Why did he jump overboard?" “I wonder when he jumped overboard?’l wonder if when he jumped overboard he would liked to have jumped back again?” “I wonder if a fish caught him or whether he went clear down to the bottom of the sea?” And/or three or four days afterward we talked about that poor man. Here is the glorious and magnificent theory that God by his omnipotent power made man and by his omnipotent power made the brute creation and by hi* om nipotent power made all worlds, and 600 scientists have taken passage on board that magnificent theory, but 10 or It have jumped overboard. They make more talk than all the 500 that did not jump. lam politely asked to jump with them. Thank you, gentlemen, I am very much obliged to yodf I think X shall stick to the old Cunarder. If you want to jump over board, jump and test for yourselves wheth er your hand was really a fish’s fin and whether you were webfooted originally and whether your lungs are a swim Mad der, and, as in every experiment there must be a division of labor, some who oxm periment and some who observe, you make* the experiment, and I will obeervel There is one tenet of evolution which it is demanded we adopt—that which Darwin calls “natural selection” and that which Wallace calls the “survival of the fittest.” By this they mean that the human race and the brute creation are all the time Im proving because the weak die and the strong live. Those who do not die survive because they are the fittest. They say the breed of sheep and oattle and dogs and men is all the time improving, naturally improving. No need of God or any Bible or any religion, but just natural progress. Not the Survival of the Fittest. You see, the race started with “spon taneous generation,” and then it goes right on until Darwin can lake us up with his “natural selection” and Wallaoe with bls “survival of the fittest,” and so we go right on up forever. Beautiful I But do the fittest survive? Garfield dead in Sep tember; Guiteau surviving until the fol lowing June. “Survival of the fittest?” Ah, no! The martyrs, religious and po litical, dying for their principles, their bloody persecutors living on to old age. “Survival of the fittest?” Five hundred thousand brave northern men marching out to meet 600,000 brave southern men and die on the-battlefield for a principle! Hundreds of thousands of them went down into the grave trenches. We staid at home in comfortable quarters. Did they die because they were not as fit to live as we who survived? Ah, no, not the “survival of the fittest!” Ellsworth and Nathaniel Lyon falling on the northern side; Albert Sidney Johnston and Stone wall Jackson falling on the southern side. Did they fall because they were not as fit to live as the soldiers and the generals who came back in safety? No! Bitten with the frosts of the second death be the tongue that dares utter it! It is not the “sur vival of the fittest. ” How has it been in the families of the world? How was it with the child phys ically the strongest, Intellectually the brightest, in disposition the kindest? Did that child die because it was not as fit to live as those of your family that survived? Not “the survival of the fittest” In all communities some of the noblest, grand est men dying in youth or in midlife, while some of the meanest and most con temptible live on to old age. Not “the survival of the fittest.” But to show you that this doctrine is antagonistic to the Bible and to common sense I have only to prove to you that there has been no natural progress. Vast Improvement from another source, but mind you, no natural progress. Where is the fine horse in any of our parks whose picture of eye and mane and nostril and neck and haunches is worthy of being compared to Job’s picture of a horse as he thousands of years ago heard it paw and neigh and champ its bit for the battle? Pigeons of today not so wise as the carrier pigeons of 500 years ago—pigeons that carried the malls from army to army and from city to city, one of them flung into the sky at Borne or Venice landing with out ship or raH train in London. Look at the great animals that walked the earth in olden times—animals compared with which in size our elephant Is a oat—mon sters of olden times that swam the deep, compared with which our whale la a min now. Conies have learned nothing about climbing, and the hounds nothing about hunting, and the ostrich nothing about hatching, and the oondor nothing about flying, and the owl nothing about musical cadences for 6,000 years. Not a particle of progress. And as to the human race, so far as mere natural progress Is concerned, once there were men 10 feet high; now the av erage is about 6 feet 6 inches. It started with men living 200, 400, 800, 900 years, and now 80 years is more than the aver age of human life. Mighty progress we have made, haven’t we? I went into the cathedral at York, England, and the best artists in England had just been painting a window in that cathedral, and right be side it was a window painted 400 yean ago, and there is not a man on earth but would say that the modern painting of the window by the best artiste of England is not worthy of being compared with the painting of 400 years ago right beside it. Vast improvement, as I shall show you In a minute or two, but no natural evolu tion. Look at China, where evolution has had full swing for thousands of yean uninter rupted by anything except hen and there a mission station with this defunct book, the Bible, but through the most of the realm not interfered with. What has evo lution done for China? Christian civiliza tion gees In and builds a railroad; they tear It up. For 1,000 yean the Chinese nation, where it is not Invaded by the gos pel, has not made one-five-hundred-mil lionth part of an inch of advancement. They worship the same gods of nd paint. Just as always they drown the tanale children as a nuisance. Just as always they eat with chopsticks. So in India, so in Arabia, so in Turkey, so everywhere where the gospel has not made an invasion. ■volution Downward. I tell you, my friends, that natural evo lution is not upward, but it is always downward. Hear Christ's account of It. Fifteenth Matthew and nineteenth verse, “Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.” That is what Christ said of evolution. Give natural evolution full swing in our world and it win evolve into two hemispheres of crime; two hemispheres of penitentiary, two hem ispheres of lazaretto, two hemisphere* of * brothel. New York Tombs, Moyvnenalng prison, Philadelphia Sefen DIMI> London and Cowgate, Edinburgh, only, festering carbuncles on the face and neck of-natural evolution. See what the abpnt the heart and then what evolution says about the heart. Evolution sty*, “Better and better and better gets the heart by natural improvement.” The Bible says: “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately tf&ked. Who okn iff” When you can evoiv* fragranoe from Tnaktdnr atwl can flTolva an nrafflirAn from khntmw H U 1 fll a basket of <mb apptattlMi you can by natural evolution from the human rffiVplnn sni_ii*ruM Ah am is dWfeanAm natural evolution ia always downward; it is never upward. What is remarkable about thia thing is it is aU the time developing ita dlahoneety. In our day it is ascribing thia evolution M Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. II is a dishonesty. Evolution was knows and advocated hundreds of years before these gentlemen began to be evolved. Th* Phoenicians thousand* of years ago do elated that the human race wabbled out ol the mud. Democritus, who lived 466 years before Christ—remember that— knew this doctrine of evolution when ht said: “Everything le composed of atoms, or Infinitely smnll element*, each with a definite quality, form and movemen’, whose inevitable tu lon and separate, J shape all different things and forms, lawt and efforts, and dissolve them again tot new combinations. The gods themselvct and the human mind originated from suck atoms. There are no casualties Every thing is necessary and determined by ths nature of the atoms which have certain mutual affinities, attractions and repul sions. ” Anoxinuwdcr centuries ago de clared that the human ruco started at ths place where the sea saturated the earth. Lucretius developed long centuries ago, in his poems, the doctrine of evolution. It is an old heathen corpse set up in a morgue. Charles Darwin and Herbert Spenoer have tried to galvanise it. They drag this old putrefaction of 8,000 years - around the earth, boasting that it is their originality, and so wonderful is the infat uation that at the Delmonloo dinner given In honor of Herbert Spenoer some 15 years ago there were those who ascribed to him this great originality of evolution. There •he banqueter* sat around the table in honor of Herbert Spencer, chewing beef and turkey and roast pig, which, according to their doctrine of evolution, made them eating their own relations! Slicing up their own cousins! Driving a carving fork into their beloved kindred I - Dashing Worcestershire sauce, bedaubing mustard over their uncles and aunts! And while Herbert Spencer read a patronizing lecture to Americans the banqueters sat around the table with their hands up, saying, “Dew me, it is the voice of a god and not ofa man!" iTOlitlon a Heathen Doctrine. There is only one thing worse than English snobbery, and that is American snobbery. I like democracy and I like aristocracy, but there is one kind of ocracy 1b this country that excites my contempt, and that is what Charles Kings ley, after he had witnessed it himself, call ed snobocracy. Now, I say it is a gigantic dishonesty when they ascribe this old heathen doctrine of Solution to any mod ern gentleman I lam not a pessimist, but an optimist I do not believe everything io going to de struction. X believe everything is going on to redemption. But it will not be through the infidel doctrine of evolution, but through our glorious Christianity which has effected all the good that has ever been wrought and which is yet to re construct all th* D&tloii*. What is that in the offing? A ship gone on the rooks at Cape Hatteras. The hulk is breaking up. crew and nassensers are drowning. The storm is in full blast and the barometer is still sinking. What does that ship want? Development. Develop her broken masts. Develop her broken rudder. Develop her drowning crew. De yelap her freezing passengers. Develop the whole ship. That is all it wants. De velopment. Oh, I make a mistake. What that ship wants is a lifeboat from the shore. Leap into it, you men of the life station! Pull away to the wreck I Steady there! Bring the women and children first to the shore! Now the stout men! Wrap them up in flannels, and between their chattering teeth you can pour restoration. Weil, my friends, our world is on the rocks. God launched it well enough, but through mispllotage and the storms of 6,000 yean it has gone into the breakers. What does this old ship of a world want? Development? There ia enough old evolu tion In the hulk to evolve another mart and another rudder and to evolve all the passenger* and evolve the ship out of the breakers. Development? Ah, no, my friends, what this old shipwreck of a world wants is a lifeboat from the shore. And it is coming. Cheer, my lads, cheer! It is coming from the shining shore of heav en, taking the crest* of/ ten waves with one sweep of the shining paddles. Christ is in the lifeboat. Many wounds on hands and feet and side and brow, showing ho has been long engaged in the work of res cue, but yet mighty to save—to save one, to save all, to save forever. My Lord and my God, get us into the lifeboat. Away with your rotten, deceptive, infidel and blasphemous evolution and give us the Bible, salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord! Salvation! Let the echo fly The specious earth around. While all the armies of the sky Conspire to raise the sound. OAHTOR.XA. Bssrsth. Ths Kind You Have Always Boagtt i Will Be Sold To the highest bidder for cash, before the court house door, September 6th, the hand some twelve room residence, in West Griffin, known a* the J. D. Boyd place. 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