Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 September 1898 — Page 7

Mm. Dr. Talmac* S»n Erolotioa Is Atheistic and Absurd. 1— ■ BcUfs Hat* a Cnui4«r Aa» •entry Tk»» tk* BewiU, Ike ManUrnlcec •( God’i WM«a B*la* Oat Kalkr«atA»*L Dr. Talmage in his recent discourse advocates a Christian evolution in contradiction to an infidel evolution, and •declares that the only radically improving force in the world is Christianity. Text, Romans L. 22,23: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things.** This is a full-length portrait of an •evolutionist who substitutes the bea* till origin for the Divine origin. I showed you last week that evolution was contradicted by the Bible, by selance, by observation and by common oense; that the Bible account of the oreation of man and of brute and of the world and the evolutionist's account collided with each other, as certainly as two express trains going in apposite directions at 40 miles the hour, their locomotives meeting on the asms track. I showed that all the evolution scientistv^rithout any ex--ception, were pHKfiunced Infidels; that evolution was"a heathenism thousands of years old; that such men as and Hugh killer and Faraway and Dawson and Dana had for that •doctrine of evolution unlimited contempt. I showed you that their favorite theory of the “survival of the fittest** was an absurdity and an untruth, and that natural evolution was always downward and never upward, and that there had never been any improvement for man or beast or would be except through the direct or indirect * influence of our glorious Christianity. And in the closing part of that sermon I told you I was not a pessimist, but an optimist, that instead of it being 11 o’clock at night it is 5:30 in the

morning. Now, I go on to tell 700, It Menu to me that evolutionists are trying to Impress the great mauei of the people with the idea that there is an ancestral line leading from the primal germ •on op through the serpent, and on up through the quadruped, and on up through the gorilla to man. They admit there Is a “missing link," as they •call it, but there is not a missing link— 4c is a whole chain gone. Between the physical construction of the highest •animal, and the physical construction of the lowest man, there is a chasm as wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists tell us that somewhere in Central Africa, or in Borneo, there is a creature half way between the brute and the man, and that that creature Is the highest step in the animal ascent aad the lowest step in the human creation. But what are the facts? The -brain of the largest gorilla that was •orr- lound is 30 cubic inches, while the brain of the most ignorant man that was' ever found Is 70. Vast difference between 30 and 70. It needs a bridge of 40 arches to span that gulf. " Besides that, there is a difference between the gorilla ai£d the man—a difference of nerre, a difference of muscle, « difference of bone, a difference of •sinew. The horse is more like man in Intelligence, the bird is more like him 4a musical capacity, the mastiff is more Hke him in affection. That eulogised beast of which we hear so much, represented on the walls of cities thousands of years ago, is just as complete as it is now, showing that there in not been a particle of change. •Besides that, if a pair of apes had a man for descendant, why would not all the apes have the same kind of de•scendants? Can it be that that one favored pair only was favored with human progeny? Besides that, evolution says that one species rises to another species, the old type dies off. Ti.cn how is it that there are whole kingdoms of chimpanzee and gorilla

4BC baboon? The evolutionists have come to* gather and hare tried to explain a bird's wing. Their theory has always been that a faculty of an animal while being developed must always be useful •and always beneficial, but the wing of a bird, in the thousands of years it was being developed, so far from be- , ing any help must have been a hindrance until It could be brought into .practical use away on down the ages. Must there not have been an intelligent will somewhere that formed that wonderful flying instrument, so that a bird 600 times heavier than the air •can mount it and put gravitation under claw and beak? That wonderful mechanical instrument, the wing, with . between 10 and SO different apparati -curiously constructed, does H not imer a divine intelligence? Does It not ply a direct act of some outside being? All the evolutions In the world cannot explain a bird's wing, or an insect's wing. So they are confounded by the ratile of the rattlesnake. Ages before She reptile had any enemies, this warn1 ing weapon was created. Why was it •created? When the reptile, far back in the ages had no enemies, why this warning weapon? There must have been a divine intelligence foreseeing and knowing that in ages to come that reptile would have enemies, and then this warning weapon would be brought into use. You see evolution at every step is a contradiction or a monstrosity. At every stage of animal life as well as at every stage of buman life, there is evidence of direct Action of divine will. Besides that, it is very evident from Another fact that we are an entirely different creation, and that there is ao kinship. The animal In a few hours or months comes to full strength and Ml take cars of itself. The human

to pick up its own food. The dog, the wolf, the Hop, soon earn their own livelihood and act for their own defense. The human race does not some to development until 10 or 30 years of age, and by that time the animals that were born the same year the man was bora—the vast majority of them have died of old age. This shows there hi no kinship, there is no similarity. If we had been bora of the beast we would have had the beast's strength at the start, or it would have been our weakness. Not only different, but opposite. Darwin admitted that the dovecote pigeon had not changed in thousands of years. It is demonstrated over and over again that the lisard on the low* est formation of rocks was just as com* plete as the lisard now. It is shown that the ganoid, the first fish, was just as complete as the sturgeon, another name for the same fish now. Darwin's entire system was a guess, and Huxley, and John Stuart Mill, and Tyndall, and especially Prof. Haeckel, come to help him in the guess, and guess about the brute, and guess about man, and guess abut worlds, but as to having one solid foot of ground to stand on they never had it and they never will have it. I put in opposition to these evolutionist the* ories the inward consciousness that we have no consanguinity with the dog that fawns at uur feet, or the aptfier that crawls on the wall, or the fish that flops In the frying pan, or the crow that swoops on the field carcass, or the swine that wallows in the mire. Everybody sees the outrage it would be to put aside the Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah, for the record that the mirroscopio animal* ; cule begat the tadpole, and the tadpole begat the polliwog, and the polliwog begat the serpent, and the cerpent begat the quadruped, and the quadruped begat the baboon, and the baboon begat the man. The evolutionists tell us that the apes were originally fond of climbing the trees, but after awhile they lost their prehenstile power, and therefore could not climb with any facility, and hence they surrendered monkeydom and set up in business as men. Fail*

urea as apes, successes as men. According to the evolutionists a man la a bankrupt monkey. I pity the person ■vrho in every nerve and muscle and bone and mental faculty and spiritual experience does not realise that he is higher in origin and has had a grander ancestry than the beasts which perish. However degraded men and women may be. and though they may have foundered on the rocks of crime and sin, and though we shudder as we pass them, nevertheless there is something within us that tells us they belong to the same great brotherhood and sisterhood of pur race, and our sympathies are aroused in regard to them. But gazing upon the swiftest gazelle, or upon the tropical bird of most flamboyant wing, or upon the curve of the grandest courser’s neck, we feel there is no consanguinity. It is not that we are stronger than they, for the lion with one stroke of his paw could put us into the dust. It is not that we have better eyesight, for the eagle can descry a mole a mile away. It is not that we are fleeter of foot, for a roebuck in a flash is out of sight, just seeming to touch the earth as he goes. Many of the animal creation surpass us in fleetness of foot and in keenness of nostril and in strength of limb, but notwithstanding all that, there is something within us that tells us we sre of celestial pedigree. Not of the mollusk, not of the rizipod, not of the primal germ, but of the living and omnipotent God. Lineage of the skies. Genealogy of heaven. I tell you plainly that if your father was a muskrat and your mother an opposum, and your great-aunt ,a kangaroo, and the toads and the sna|>ping turtles were your illustrious predecessors, my father was God. I know it. I feel it. It thrills through me with an emphasis and an ecstasy which all your arguments drawn from anthropology and biology and zoology and morology end paleontology and all the other ologies can never shake. Evolution is one great mystery. It hatches out 50 mysteries and the SO hatch out 1,000, and the 1,000 hatch out 1,000,000. Why, my brother, net admit the one great mystery of God and have that settle all the other mysteries? I can more easily appreciate the fact that Goo by one stroke of His omnipotence could make man than I could realize how out of 5,000,000 of ages He could have evolved one, putting on a little here and a little there.

It would have been just as great a miracle for Qod to have turned an orang-outang Into a man as to make a man out and out—the one job just as big as the other. It seems to me that we had better let God have a little place in our world somewhere. It seems to me if we cannot have Him make all creatures we had better have Him make two or three. There ought to be some place where He could staj without interfering with the ewlutJonista. “No,” says Darwin, and so for years be is trying to raise fan-tailed pigeons and to turn these fan-railed pigeons into some other kind of pigeon, or to have them turn into something that is not a pigeon—turning them into quail, or barnyard fowl .ir brown thresher. But pigeon it is. And ethers have tried with the ox and the dog and the hone, but they stayed in their species. If they attempt to cross over it is a hybrid, and a hybrid is always sterile and goes into extinction. There has been only one successful atteapt to pass over from the speechless animal to the articulation of man, and that was the attempt whteh Balaam witnessed in the beast that he rodej but an angel of the Lord, with drawn sword, soon stopfMd that long-eared evolutionist. “But,” says some one, “if ws cannot

• horse.” "Oh, no!” says Huxley, in his great lecture in New York years ago. No. he does not want any God around the premise*. God did not make the horse. The horse came of the pliohippus, and the pliohipptM came from the protohippus, and the protohippu* came from tkf miohlppua, and the miohippua cam! from the meshohippus, and the meshehippus came from the ©ro* hippus, and so away back, all the living creatures, we traee it in a line until we get to the moneron, and no evidence of divine intermeddling with the creation until you get at the moneron, and that, Huxley says, is ol so low a form of life that the probability is it Just made itself or was the result of spontaneous generation. What a narrow escape from the necessity of having a God! As near as I can tell, these evolutionists seem to think that God at the start had not made up His mind exactly what He would make, and having made up His mind partially He has been changing it all through the agea I believe that God made the world aa He wanted to have it, and that the happiness of all the species will depend upon their staying in the species where they were created. But, my friends, evolution is not only infidel and atheistic and absurd; it is brutalising in its tendencies. If there is anything in the world that will make a man bestial in his habits it is the idea that he was descended from the beast. Why, according to the idea ol these evolutionists, we are only a superior kind of cattle, a sort of Alderney among other herds. To be sure, we browse on better pasture, and we have better stall and better accommodations, but then we are only South

downs among the great flocks of sheep. Born of a beast, to die like a beast; for the erolutionists hare no idea of a future world. They say the mind is only a superior part of the body. They say our thoughts are only molecular forma* tions. They say when the body dies the whole nature dies. The slab of the sepulcher is not a milestone on the journey upward, but a wall shutting us into eternal nothingness. We all die alike—the cow, the horse, the sheep, the man, the reptile. Annihilation is the heaven of the evolutionist. From such a stenchful and damnable doctrine turn away. Compare that idea of your origin— an idea filled with the chatter of apes and the hiss of serpents and the croak of frogs—to an idea in one or two stanzas which 1 quote from an old book of more than Demosthenic or Homeric or Dantesque power: "What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hand; Thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. 0 Lord, our Lord, how ex--cellent is Thy name in all the earth.” How do you like that origin? The lion the monarch of the field, the eagle the monarch of the air, behemoth the monarch of the deep, but man monarch of all. Ah! my friends, I have to say to you that I am not so anxious to know what was my origin as to know what will be my destiny. I do not care so much where I came from as where 1 am going to. 1 am not so interested in who were my ancestry 10,000,000 years ago as I am to know where I will be 10,000,000 years from now. I am not so much interest* ed in the preface to my cradle as I am interested in the appendix to my grave. I do not care so much about protoplasm as I do about eternasm. The “was” is overwhelmed with the “to be." And here comes in the evolution 1 believe in; not natural evolution, but gracious and divint and heavenly evolution—evolution out of tin into holiness, out of grief into gladness, out of mortality into immortality, out of earth into Heaven. That is the evolution I believe in. Evolution from evolvere, unrolling! Unrolling of attributes, unrolling oi rewards, unrolling of experience, unrolling of angelic companionship, unrolling of divine glory, unrolling of providential obscurities, unrolling of

doxologies, unrolling of rainbow to canopy the throne, unrolling of a new heaven and a new earth in which to dwell righteousness. Oh, thy thought overwhelms mel 1 have not the physical endurance to consider it. Monarchs on earth of all lower orders of creation, and then lifted to b« hierarchs in Heaven. Masterpiece ol God’s wisdopa and goodness, our humanity; masterpiece of divine grace, our enthronement. I put one foot on Darwin’s “Origin of the Species,” and 1 put the other foot on Spencer’s “Baology,” and then holding in one hand the book of Mcses I see our Genesis, and holding in the other hand the book of Bevelation I see our celestial arrival. For aft wars I prescribe the Bethlehem chant of the angels. Fox all sepulchers i prescribe the archangel's trumpet. For all the earthly griefs I prescribe the hand that wipes away all tears from the eyes. Not an evolution from beast to man, but an evolution from contestant to conqueror. and from the struggle with wild leasts in the arena of the amphitheater to a soft, high, blissful seat in the Kang’s galleries._ The Fare of a Prfaeeaa. The princess ef Wales possesses fux of the value of $60,000. An expert furrier pays periodical visits to Marl* borough house to fully overlook the princess’ collection, as a single moth in It might work hundreds of dollar^ worth of damage In a very short time. —Saturday Evening._ It is estimated that since the beginning of the historical era 15,000,000 persons have perished in earthquake^

SENSIBLE PERCHES When Once Tried Huglig Roost* Will Take Ike Place of (keOM Klad Everywhere. It is a continual source of surprise that the poultry fraternity so slowly adopts the method of hanging perches, shown in accompanying drawing. The old style of fastening-perches to wall, floor or dropping platform is a standing invitation to red mites, which usually occupy the perches entirely too much, at best. Perches, walls, platform, floor, all are accessible to lice when perches are directly attached or supported bn trestles or timbers of any kind. Basing my assertion on actual experience, X assert that it requires several times as much ef

IMPROVED PERCHES. fort and labor to keep poultry house* clean and free from lice by the old method as by the new one here described. It is possible that in extreme ca«es the lice may travel up and down the wires, but I do not know thatit has been done. To prevent such contingency, place a touch of tar on each wire, or occasionally rub same with oil or grease. A, A, perches; B, B, perch supports; C, C. C, C, notches in B, B, to hold perches. D. D, D, D, wire hung from ceiling or side walls. Make perch poles shorter than the building is wide, and hang the supports so that neither perches nor cross pieces touch the building at any point. Use as many pole3 as desired. Make the supports of one by four-inch stuff, and long enough to accommodate your required number of poles. Cut notches in the supports one inch deep for the poles to rest in. Fasten a wire to each end of support and attach by staples to ceiling or side walls in such manner that the wires may be unhooked and removed for cleaning. Hang the perches level. Occasionally rub them with kerosene oil and there will be few lice.—Homer W. Jackson, in Agricultural Epitomist.

REMOVING HONEY. Recent Invention Hu Made the Once Dreaded Operation Comparatively Pleasant. Among the recent inventions in be* Keeping there is nothing of more importance than the little bee escape. It is a very simple arrangement, easily operated and does not cost much. It overcomes to a great extent the laborious work of brushing bees front sections or frames in removing either comb or extracted honey from the hive. The escape consists of a small tin box with two small springs which nearly come together at the point, Y-shape. The bees pass out between the springs at the point and cannot get back. To operate the escape, get a half-inch board the size of the top of the hive; cut a mortise in the center a little longer than the escape and place the escape in the mortise. The board should have a small strip about one-fourth of an inch thick nailed around both aides to form a bee space between the surplus case and also the brood chamber. In using the escape I always lift the surplus case and put an empty case in its place, then put the escape board between the two cases, putting the case of honey and bees on top of the empty case, and also the escape board. If the escape is put on the hive in the etening the bees will be nearly all down in the empty case by morning. I propose to put the escape on in the evening, so the bees will be ready to go to work in the morning. If honey is coming in in sufficient quantities the empty case should be filled with sections, so that the bees will lose no time; remove the case of honey in the morning, or as soon as the bees are nearly all out. If the season is over and the bees are not very active they will be slower in going out of the case. I like to get the honey off as soon as possible, so there will be no danger of robbing should there happen to be any way for bees to get in. It is a great satisfaction to be able to remove sections from the case without being bothered with a great lot of bees to brush off.—£. S. Mead, in Ohio Farmer.

FACTS FOR FARMERS. Use plenty of lime about the stable. Nobody ever saw a successful farmer who had inferior stock. Try to hire brains when you hire a farmhand. Brains pay everywhere. Use Light tools in working on the farm and always have them in good order. v Blue grass has strong roots, and hence will stand a good deal of dry weather. Cut the burdock off just below the crown and it will be the last of the bardock. Parsnips are a good vegetable, although some people do not seem to realise its. Cows axe apt to shrink their milk for a time when changed from one food to another, although the latter food may be the best. Why, are do not know.—ties tern Plowman.

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