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THE LEDGKK: GAFFNEY. S. C M AI GUSL' 5>5, 1898. r> ORLD'S PROGRESS. DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT IS DUE TO CHRISTIANITY. The Great Divine I)Im iikimh» the Oriciu of Sian — Denoniiees the Kvolutlon Theory aa Dure Infidelity ami Contrary to Scientific Facta. fCopyriKht, 1808, by Amcrkxtn Pn.i« Aseo- ciatlon.J Wasuington, Aug. 21.—The qnos- tiou of human origin, so prominent now in scientific and religions circles, is discussed in characteristic style by Dr. Tulmage in this discourse, in which ho also advocates the theory that all the world’s progress has oome through Christianity; text, I Timothy vi, 20, “O Timothy, keep that which is com mitted to thy trust, avoiding opposi tions of science falsely so called. ” There is no contest between genuine science and revelation. The same Qod who by the hand of prophet wrot^ on parchment by tho hand of the storm wrote on the rock. Tho best telescopes and microscopes and electric batteries ajnd philosophical apparatus belong to Christian universities. Who gave us magnetic telegraphy? Professor Morse, a Christian. Who swung the lightnings under the sea, cabling the continent*; together? Cyrus W. Field, the Chris tian. Who discovered the aua^sthetical 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 eminent for piety as for science; oo weekdays in tho university lecturing on profeund- est scientific subjects and on Sabbaths preaching the gospel of JestM Christ to the masses of Edinburgh. I saw the universities of that city draped in mourning for his death, and I heard bis eulogy pronounced by the destitute pop ulations of the Cowgate. Science ami revelation aro the Iwss aiuf soprano of ♦ho same tune. The whole world will yet acknowledge the complete harmony. Bnt between what my text describes as science falsely so called and revelation there is an uncompromising war and one or the other must go under. At tho 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 themselves understand that evolution in the first place is up and down, out and out in fidelity; in the second place it is con trary to the facts of science, and in tho third place that it is brutalizing in its tendencies. I do not argue that this is a genuine book, I do not say that tho Bible is worthy of any kind of credence — those aro subjects for other Sabbaths —but I want you to understand that Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire do more thoroughly disbelieved the Holy Scriptures than do all the leading scientists who believe In evolution. And when I say scientists of course I do not menu literary men or theologians who in essay or in sermon and without giving their life to scientific investiga tion look at tho subject on this side or that. By scientists I mean those who have a specialty in that direction and who through zoological garden and aquarium and astronomical observatory give their life to tho study of the phys ical earth, its plants and its animals, and the regions beyond, so far as optical instruments have explored fbem. Kvolutlon I* Infidelity. I 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, ye men of science, living and dead, answer these questions: Do you believe tho Holy Scriptures? No. And so they say all. Do you believe the Bible story of Adam and Eve in tho garden of Eden? No. And so they say all. Do you believe tlie miracles of tho Old and New Testaments? No. And so they say all. Do you believe that Jesus Christ died to save tho nations? No. And so they say all Do yon believe in tho regenerating power of the Holy Ghost? Nu And so they say all. Do you believo that human supplication directed heavcnwR r d 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 ail ments to fate, and the authorized re port of that address begins the word fate with a big “ F. ” Professor Heckel, in tho very first pago of his two great volumes, sneers at the Bible as u so called revelation. Tyndall, in his famous prayer test, defied the whole of Chris tendom to show that human .supplica tion made any in the resnk of things. John Stuart Mill wrote elab orately against Christianity, and, to show that his rejection of it was com plete, ordered this epitaph for his tomb stone, “Most Unhappy.” Huxley said that at tho first reading of Darwin’s book be was convinced of tho fact that teleology had received its deathblow at the hand of Mr. Darwin. All the load ing scientists who believe in evolution, without one exception the world over, aro infidel. I say nothing against infi delity, mind you. 1 only wish to define the belief and the moaning of tlie rejec tion Now, I pot opposite to each other, to show that evolution is infidelity, the Bible account of how the human race atarted and the evolutionist account of how the human ruae started. Bible ac count: "God said let os make man in our image. God created man iu his own image; male and female entiled be 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 orutfig cubing, but a perfect man. That la the Bible account The evolutionist account: l A way back iu the ages there won* four Jur five primal germs or seminal sporea (from which all the living creatures have been evolved. Go away back, and there yon will find a vegetable stuff that might be called a mushroom. This mushroom by innate force develops a tadpole, the tartfcrde by innate force do- ; velops r. polliwog, tkc polliwog develops a fish, the fish by natuinl force develops into a reptile, the repfMe develops into a quadruped, the quadruped develops into a baboon, tho baboon develops into a man. SoIentirtH Don’t Know. Darwin says that ihe human hand is only a fish’s fin developed. He says that tho human lungs are only a f vim blad der showing that we once floated or were amphibious. He says the human | ear could once have been moved by force w will just as a horse lifts its ear at a frightful object Ho says tho human race were originally webfootod. From primal germ to tadpole, from tadpole to fiich, from fish to reptile^ from reptile to wolf, from wolf to chimpanzee and from chimpanzee to man. Now, if any body says that the Biblo account of the starting of the human race and the ovo hitionist account of tho starting of the human race are the same accounts he makes an appalling miertpresentation. Prefer, if you will, Darwin’s‘‘Origin of the Species" to the book of Genesis, but know you are an infidel. As for my self, as Herbert Spencer was not present at tho creation and tho Lord Almighty was present, I prefer to take tho divine acoouut as to what really occurred on that occasion. To show that this evolu tion is only an attempt to eject God and to postpone him and to put him clear out of reach, I ask a question or riva The baboon made the man, and the wolf made the baboon, and the reptile made tho quadruped, and the fish made the reptile, and the tadpole made the fish, and the primal germ made tlie 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 dim* answer is that mode by Herbert Sjieocer in which be says it was made by the great, "unknow able mystery. ” But here comes Huxley with a cup of protoplasm to explain the thing. This protoplasm, he says, is primal life giving qcality with which the race away bock hi the ages was started. With bin protoplasm he pro poses to explain everything. Dear Mr. Huxley, who made the protoplasm? To show you that ©volution is infidel I place the Bible account of how the brute creation was started opposite to tha ovolutioni»«*s account of the way the brute creation was started. Bible account: You know the Bible telle how tha( the birds were made at one time, and the cattfe nttde at another time, and the fish made at another time, and that each brought forth after ite kind. Evolutionist’s aaocunt—From four or five primal germs or seminal spores all the living creatures evolved. Hundreds of thousands of species of insects, of reptiles, of beasts, of fish, from four germs—a statement flatly contradicting not only the Bible, but tho very A B C of acicuoe. A species never develops into anything but its own species. In all the ages ami iu all tho world there has never been an exception to it. Tho shark never comas of a whale, nor the pigeon of a vofys*; ivor the butterfly of a wasp. Species never cross over. If there be an attempt at it, it is hybrid, and the hybrid w always sterile and has no descendants. How Woal'is Are Ma-ie. These men of sdehee tell us that 100,000 species camo from four, when the law all sktidugh the universe is that, starting iu one species it keeps on iu that species, and there would be only four now* if Umsm had been four at starting. If I should say to you that tho world is fiat, and Unit a circle and a squaw are the assaio, raid that twice 2 make 15, I would come just as near the truth as y#uw ttieee evolutionists toll you that 100,000 species came from four. Evolution would have been left out of question, with its theory flatly contradicting all observation and all science, had not its authors and their disciples been so set ou ejecting God from the universe and destroying the Biblo that they will go to any length though it lead Ilian kilo idiotic absurd ity. You som \vkM Ihe Bible touches iu regard to it I have shown you also what evolution teaches iu regard to it. Agassiz says that he found iu a roof of Florida the remains of insects 50,000 years old—not 3,000, but 80,000 years old—and tbot they were just like the insects now. There has been no change. All the facta of unu Juilogy and zoology and ichthyology and oonchology, but an echo of Generis first and twenty- first, "Every winged fowl after his kind. ” Every creature after its kind. When ootnuKOi .(ft*w»ation aad science corroborate the Bible, I will uot stulti fy myself by surrendering to the elab orated guesses of evolutionists. To show that evolution is infidel I place also the Bible account of how worlds were made opposite the evolu tionist’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 tho stars also. Evolutionist account: Away back iu tbo ages, there was a fire mist or star dust, and this fir© mist cooled off into granite, and then this granite by earthquake and by storm and by light was shaped into mountains and valleys and seas, and so what was originally tiro mist became what wo call the earth. Who made the fire mist? Whose! the fire mist to vtirkl fkiag? Who tooled off the fire mist Into granite? You have pushed God soma 00, $00,000 or TO, 000, • 000 miles from the earth, but he is too near yet for tlie hsalth of evolution. For a great while the evolutionists boasted that the}* had found the very stuff out of which thin world and all worlds were made. They lifted the tele- scope and they sow it, the very material out of which worlds made themselves. Nebula of simple gua. They laughed in triumph because Ifoey had found the factory where the worlds were manu factured, and there was no God auy- where around the fitetory! But in an | unlucky hour for infidel evolutionists tho sptctroscopos of Fraunhofer and Kirchoff were invented, by which they saw into that nebula and found it war- not a simple gas, bnt 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 demolition. IuG<l«l GnvhHirs. So these infidel evolutionists go wan dering up and down guessing through the universe. Anything to push away back Jehovah from his empire and make tho one book which is his great com munication to tho soul of the human race appear obsolete and delusive, but 1 am glad to know that, while some of these scientists have gone into evolu tion, there are many that do not believe it, among them the man who by most is considered the greatest scientist wo 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 treat ed would lead those who are not special zoologists to suppose that observations have been made by which it can be in ferred that there is in nature such a thing as change among organised beings actually taking place. There is no such thing ou record. It is shifting tho ground of observation 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 vebomenoe against the doctrine of evolution Hugh Miller, Farraday, Brewster, Dana, Dawson and hundreds of scientists in this country and other countries 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 Ounahl lino 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 bat and coat and vest and boots, implying that some one had jumped overboard. Forthwith we all brgan to talk about that one man. There was more talk about that one man over board than all the 500 passengers that rode on in safety. "Why did ho jmnp overboard?” ‘‘I wonder when be jumped overboard?" "I 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 tho sea?” And for three or four days afterward we talked about that poor man. A Glorlou* Theory. Here is tho glorious and magnifioent theory that God by his omnipotent pow er made man, and by bis omnipotent power made the brute creation, and by his omnipotent power made all worlds, and 500 scientists h»ve taken passage on board that magnificent theory, but 10 or 15 have jumped overboard. They make more talk thou all tho 500 that did uot jump. I am politely asked to jump with them. Thank yon, gentle men, I am very much obliged to you. 1 think I shall stick 6u trie old Cuuarder. If you want to jump overboard, jump and test for yourselves whether your hand was really a fish’s fin, and wheth er you were webfooted originally, and whether your lungs aro a swim blad der. And as in every experiment there must be a division of labor, some who exjieriment and some who observe, you make the experiment and I will observe. There is one tenet of evolution which it is demanded wo adopt, that which Darwin calls "natural selection," and that which Walluoe called the‘‘survival of the fittest" By this they menu that the human race and tho Irute creation aro all tho time improving because tho weak die and the strong live. Those who do not die survive bccauso they are the fittest. They say the breed of sheep and cattle and dogs and men is all tho time improving, naturally improving No need of God or any Bible or any re ligion, but just natural progress. You see the race started with “spon taneous generation,” and then it goes right on until Darwin can take us up with his "natural selection,” and Wal lace with his "survival of tho fittest,” and so we go right ou up forever. Beautiful 1 But do tho fittest survive? Garfield dead in September—Guitean surviving until the following June. "Survival of the fittest?" Ah, no! Tho martyrs, religious and political, dying for their principles, their bloody perse cutors living ou to old age. "Survival of the fittest?” Five hundred thousand bravo northern men marching out to met 500,000 brave southern men and dio 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, uot the "survival of tho fittest." Ells worth and Nathaniel Lyon falling ou the northern side. Albert Sidney John ston and Stonewall Jackson falling ou tho southern sidu. Did they full be cause they were not as fit to live as tho soldiers and the generals who came back iu safety? Nu Bitten with tho frosts of the second death bo the tongue that dares utter it It is uot the "sur vival of the fittest." FltUrat Do Not Si>ttI»». How has it been in the families of the world? How was it with the child physically the strongest, intellectually the brightest, in disposition the kindest? Did that child die because it was not as fit to live as those at your family that survived? Not "the survival of the fit test" In all communities some of tho noblest, grandest men dying in youth or in midlife, while some of the meanest and most contemptible live ou to old S«e. Not "the survival of the fittest” But to show you that this doctrine is antagonistic to the Bible and to common reuse 1 have only to prove to yon that there has been no natural progress Vast improvement from another scarce. but mind you. no naturil progress. Where is tho line horse iu any at our parks whose picture of eye and iirnno and nostril and neck and haunches is worthy of being compared to Job’s pic ture of a horn* as he, tboucands of years ago, heard it paw and neigh and j champ its bit for tho battle? Pigeons of J today not so wise as the carrier pigeons ( of 500 years ago—pigeons that carried | the mails from army to army and from city to city, one of them flung into the sky at Romo or Venice landing without ship or rail ti-.ru in London. Look at j the great animals that walketh the earth | in oldivn times—animals compared with j which in size our elephant is a cat; monsters of olden times that swam the deep, compared with which our whale is a minnow. Conies have learned noth ing about climbing and the hounds nothing about hunting and the ostrich nothing about hatching and tho condor nothing about flying and tho owl noth ing 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 average is about 5 feet 6 inches. It started with men living 200, 400, 800, 900 years, and now 30 years is more than the average of human life. Mighty progress we have made, haven’t we? I went into the cathedral at York. Eng land, and the best artists iu England had just been painting a window in that cathedral, and right bo.ide it was a window painted 400 years ago, and there is not n man on earth but would say that tho modern painting of tho window’ by the best artists of England is not worthy of being compared with the painting of 400 years ago right be side it. Vast improvement, as I shall show you iu a minute or two, but no natural evolution. Trend of Kvolutlon. Look at China, where evolution has had full swing for thousands of years uninterrupted by anything except here and there a mission station with this defunct book, the Bible, but through tbo most of the realm uot interfered with. What has evolution done for> China? Christian civilization goee in and builds a railroad; they tear it up. For 1,000 years the Chinese nation, where it is not invaded by the gospel, has not made oue-five-hundrcd-milliouth part of an inch of advancement They worship the aotne gods of red paint. Just as always, they drown the female children as a nuisance. Just as always, they eat with chopsticks. So iu India, so iu Arabia, so in Turkey, so every where where the gospel has uot made an invasion. I tell you, my friends, that natural evolution 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, fornica tions thefts, false witness, blasphe mies.’’ That is what Christ said of evo- , lution. Give natural evolution full j swing in our world and it will evolve j into two hemispheres of crime, two i hemispheres of penitentiary, two hem- I ispheres of lazaretto, two hemispheres of brothel. New York Tombs, Moya- ! incusing prison, Philadelphia, Seven Dials, Loudon and Cowgate, Edinburgh, only festering carbuncles ou the face and neck of natural evolution. See what the Bible says about tho lienrt and then what evolution says about the hoart. Evolution says "better and bet ter and better gets the heart by natural improvement.” Tho Bible says: “The hoart is deceitful above all - things and desperately wicked. Who can know it?" When you can evolve fragrance from malodor, and can evolve an oratorio from a bazzsaw, and can evolve fall pippins from a basket of decayed crab apples, then you cun by natural evolu tion from tho human heart develop goodness. Ah, my friends, natural evo lution is always downward; it is never upward. A Galvanized Corpoe. What is remarkable about this thing is it is all the time developing its dis honesty. In our day it is ascribing this evolution to Herbert Spencer and Cbnrlei Darwin. It is a dishonesty. Evolution was known and advocated hundreds of yours before these gentle men begun to bo evolved. Tho Phoeni cians thousands of years ago declared that tho human race wabbled out of tho mud. Democritus, who lived 460 years before Christ—remember that—knew this doctrine of evolution when ho said: "Everything is composed of atoms, or infinitely small elements, each with a definite quality, form and movement, whose inevitable union and separation shape all different things and forms, laws and efforts and dissolve them again for new combinations. The gods themselves and the human mind orig inated from such atoms. There are no casualties. Everything is necessary and determined by the nature of the atoms which have certain mutual affinities, attractions and repulsions." Anoxi- mander centuries ago declared that the human race .started at the 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 Spencer have tried to galvanize it. They drag this old putrefaction of 8,000 years around the earth, boasting that it is their originality, and so won derful is the infatuation that at the Delmonioo dinner given in honor of Herbert Spenoer some 15 years age there were those who ascribed to him this great originality of evolution. There the banqueters sat around the table in honor of Herbert Spencer, chew ing beef and tnrkcy and roast pig, which, according to their doctrine of evolution, made them eating tbeir own relations. Slicing op their own cousins I Driving a carving fork into their beloved kin dred) Dashing Worcestershire nance, bedaubing mustard over their uncles and aunts I And while Herbert Spencer read a patronizing lectnre to Americano the banqueters sat around the table fith their hands np, saying, "Dear mo, it is the voice of a god and not of , a man. ’’ A Clorloufl D<M-tr!r.e. There is only ©no thing worse than English snobbery, and that is Ameri can snobbery. I like democracy and I like aristix racy, but there is one kind of ocracy in this country that exciter my lontempt, and tiiat is what Charles Kingsley, after he had witnessed it himself, cnlled snobocrucy. Now, I say it is a gigantic dishonesty when they ascribe this old heathen doctrine of evolution to any modern gentleman. I am uot a pessimist, but an optimist. I do not believe everything is going to destruction; I believe everything is go ing on to redemption. But it will not bo through the infidel doctrine of evolu tion, but through our glorious Chris tianity which has effected all the good that has ever been wrought and which is yet to reconstruct all the nations. What is that in the offing? A ship gone on the rocks at Cape Hatterus. Tho hulk is breaking up, crew and pas sengers are drowning. The storm is in full blast and tho barometer is still sinking. What does that ship want? Development Develop her broken masts. Develop her broken rudder. De velop her drowning crow. Develop her freezing passengers. Develop the whole ship. That is all it wants. Develop ment. Oh, I make a mistake. What that ship w*anta is a lifeboat from tho shore. Leap into it, you men of the life station 1 Pull away to the wreck! Steady there I Bring the women and children first to the shore I Now the stout men! Wrap them up in flannels, and between their chattering teeth you can pour res toration. Well, my friends, our world is on the rooks. God launched it well enough, but through mispilotage and the storms of 6,000 years it has gone into the breakers. What does this old ship of a world want? Development? There is enough old evolution in the hulk to evolve another mast and another rud der and to evolve all the passengers and evolve trie 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 heaven, taking the crests of ten waves with ooc sweep of the shining paddles. Christ is in the lifeboat Many wounds on hands and feet and side and brow, showing be has been long engaged iu the work of rescue, but yet mighty to save—to save one, to save all, to save forever. My Lord and my God, get us into tho Hfeboat! Away with your rot ten, deceptive, infidel and blasphemous evolution and give ns tho Bible, saliva tion through Jesus Christ our Lord. Salvation 1 Let the echo fly The spaetons earth around, While all the unuiea of tho shy Conspire to raise tho sound. Queen Victoria’s Money. Queen Victoria is tho first sovereign of England who ever had anything to leave, says The Chautauquan. 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