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It InTlgorate. stima- lates, strengthens the whole sjs- tem. This great remedy Is offered to all afSictod women. Why wl any woman suffer another minute with certain relief wkhin reach T Wine of Cardui only costs per bottle at yoor drug store. For adric, i eajes requiring ip-pcial dirrctiont. oddrtit. ffirg tympiomt. t0 "Ladiet Adrifory Lxpartiit nt," Th ChatHinoog 21dici Cto., Cfto- tattoo; a, 7Vf. !Te. 1. W. SMITH. Carnd tn. S.C. vsysr u !! Bled Win sf Cardui s'4cm for filling of the omh aa4 it tUrlf N cured her 3 A WORLD'S; PROGRESS. OR. TALMAGE SAYS IT IS-UE .. CHRISTIAISIITY. TO " t The Great Divine DUentwi the Origin of SIM DenonocM the Evolutioa Theory M Pure Infldelltj. a.nd Contrary to 8c!entlA racU. . i . ICopyrlgbt, 1S3S, by American Press Aaso . 1 elation. WAsncsaTON, Aug. zi. ice qnq lloir of human oricin. so prominent now1"; in scientific and religions circles, is difcusscd in characteristic style by Dr. Talmace in this disconrse, in which he also advocates the theory that all the world'i progress has come 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. " Thero is no contest between genuine science and revelation. The same God who by the hand of 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 cnnstian universities, wno gave ns magnetic telegraphy? Professor AJorse, a Christian. Who swung the lightnings under the sea, cabling the continents together? Cyras W. Field, the Chris tian. Who discovered the aneesthetical properties of chloroform, doing more for the relief of human pain than any rnan that ever lived, driving back nine tenths of the horrors of surgery? James Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, as eminent for piety I as for science; on weekdays in the university lecturing on prof ound eet scientific subjects and on Sabbaths preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to the masses of Edinburgh. I saw the universities of that city .draped in mourning for his death, and I heard his eulogy pronounced hy the destitute pop ulations of the Cowgate. Science and revelation are the bass and soprano of the same' tune. The whole world will yet acknowledge the complete harmony. But 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 the present time the air is filled vrith social and platform and pulpit bulk about evolution, and it is high ti me that the people who have not time to make investigation for themselves nj iderstand that evolution in the first pi; ice is up and down, out and out in fidelity; in the second place it is con -tnuy to the facts of science, and in the thiird place that it is brutalizing in its tendencies. I do not argue that this is a g nuine book, I do not say that the Bibi'e Is worthy of any kind of credence -thoso are subjects for other Sabbaths but I want you to understand that Thomas Paine and Hume and Voltaire no 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 mean 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 havo a specialty in that direction and who through zoological garden and aquarium and astronomical observatory giro their life to the study of the phys ical earth, its plants and its animals, and tho regions beyond, so far as optical instruments havo explored them. ETolutlon Is Infidelity. I put upon the witness stand living and dead the leading evolutionists Ernst Heckel, John Stuart Will, nux ley, Tyndall, 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. jAnd so they say alL Do you believe tho miracles of the Old and New Testaments? 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 difference? No. And so they say all. Herbert Spencer, in the only address he made t in" this country, in his very first scntenco 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 the very first page of his two great volumes, sreers at the Bible as a so called revelation. Tyndall, in his famous prayer test, defied the whole of Chris tendom to show that human supplica tion made any difference in the result 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 he was convinced of tho fact that teleology had received its deathblow at the hand of Mr.-Darwin. All the lead ing scientists who believe in evolution. without one exception the world over, 1 are infidel. I say nothing against infi- jdelity, mind you. I only wish to define I tho belief and the meaning of the rejec tion, j j ' . Now 1 put opposite to each other, to show that evolution is infidelity, the Bible account of how the human race started and the evolutionist account of how the human race started. Bible ac count: "God said let us make man in our image. God created man in his own image ; 1 male and female created he 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 outang, but a perfect man. That is the Bible account ' 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 byj innate force develops a tadpole, the tadpole by innate force de velops a pojliwog, the polliwog 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 baboon develops into a man. Scientists Don't Know. Darwin says that the human hand is only a fish's fin developed. He says that the human luhgs are only a swim blad der showing I that we once floated or were amphibious. He says the human ear could oncohave been moved by force or will just as a horse lifts its ear at a frightful ftbct. He says the human race were originally we bf 00 ted. " From primal germ, to tadpole, from tadpole to kih, from fij.il to reptile, from reptile to wolf, from wolf to -chimpanzee and from chimpanzee to man. Now, if any body says th.t the Bible account of the 6tarting'of tbte human race and the evo lutionist'cccuut of the starting of the human race are the . same accounts he makes an appalling misrepresentation. -Prefer, if you will, Darwin's "Origin of the Specie" to the book of Genesis, but know yon are ah infidel, .s for my self, as Herbert Spencer was not present to I at the creation and the Lord Almighty was present, I prefer to take the divine account as to what really occurred on that occasion. To show that this evolu tion isonly n attempt to eject God and to postpone him and to put him clear out of reach j 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 the primal germ made the tadpole. Who made the primal germ? Most of the evolutionists say, V We don't know. " Others say it made itself. Others say it was spontaneous generation. There is not one Of jthem 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 "unknow able mysterv." But here comes Huxley with a cup 1 protoplasm to explain the thing. This - protoplasm, he says, is primal life fgiving quality with which the race away .back in the ages was Etarted. Wjth his protoplasm he pro poses to explain everything. Dear Mr. Huxley, who made the protoplasm? To show rou that evolution is infidel I place th el Bible account of how the brute creatijon was started opposite to the evolutionist's account of the way the brute creation was started. Bible account: Ypu know the Bible tells how that the birds were made at one time, and the cattle made at another time, and the fisbj made at another time, and that each brought forth after its kind. Evolutionist's account 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 the very A B O of science. A species never develops into anything but its own species.. In all the ages and . in all the world there has never been an exception to it. , The shark never comes of a whale, nor the 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 descendants. 1. nJw Worlds Are Made. .1 These nien of science . tell us that 100,000 species came from lour, 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 j if there had been four at starting." If I should say to you that the world is fiat, and that a circle and a square are; the same, and that twice 2 make 15, 1 would come 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 contradicting all observation and all science, hd not its authors and their disciples been so set on "ejecting God from the universe and destroying the Bible thatjj they Will go to any length though it ead them into idiotic absurd ity. You 'see what the Bible teaches in regard to lit I have shown you also what evolution teaches in regard to it. Agassizi.says that he found in a reef of Florida! the remains of insects 30,000 years old-not 3,000, but 30,000 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 conchology, but an echo of Genesis first and twenty first, "Every winged fowl after his kind. " Every creature after its kind When common observation and science corroborate the Bible, I will not stulti fy myselfi by surrendering to the elab orated guesses of evolutionists. 1 To show that evolution is infidel 1 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 the stars also. Evolutionist account': Away back in the ages, there was a fire mist , or star dust; and this fire 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 fire mist became what we call the earth. . -- j Who made the. fire mist? Who set the fire mist (o world making? Who coslc off the fire mist into granite? You have pushed God some 60,000,000 or 70,000, 000 miles from the earth, but he is top near yet for the health of evolution. For a great while the evolutionists boasted ithat they had found the very stuff out of which this world and all worlds were made. They lifted the tele scope 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 manu factured, and there was. no God. any- i-: - 1 h. .- tvhere around the factory! But in an onlucky hour for infidel evolutionists the spectroscopes ' of Fraunhofer and Kirchoff were invented, by which they saw into that nebula and found it was pot a simple gas, but was a compound, and hence had to be supplied from some other source, and that implied a God, and awar. went their theory shattered into everlasting demolition. Infidel Gaessers. So these infidel evolutionists go wan Cering 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 comi munication to the soul of j the human race appear obsolete and delusive, but I am glad to know that, while some of these scientists have gone i into evolu tion, there are many that do not believe it, among them the man who by most is considered the greatest "scientist we ever had this side of the wkter 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 1 nature such a thing as change among organized beings actually taking place. There is no such thing ion record. It is shifting the ground Of observation from one field of observation to another 1 to make this statement, and when the assertions go sq 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." , ! j With equal vehemence 'against the doctrine of evolution Hugh Miller, JTarraday, 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 Canard 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 Ave all began 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 he jump overboard?" ""'I wonder when he jumped overboard?" "I . wonder if j when he jumped overboard . he would liked to have jumped ba'ck again?" "I wonder if a fish caught him or whether he went clear down to the bottom of the sea?" And for three or four days after-ward we talked about that poor man. I A Glorious Theory. - Here is the glorious and j magnificent theory that God by his omnipotent pow er made man, and by J his i , omnipotent power made the brute creation, and by his omnipotent power made all worlds, and 500 scientists have taken passage on board that magnificent I theory, but 10 or 15 have jumped overboard. They make more talk than all the 500 that did not jump. I am politely asked to jump with them. Thank you, gentle men, I am very much obliged to you. 1 think I shall stick to the old Cunarder. If you -want to jump overboard, jump and test for yourselves whether your hand was really a fish's fin,1 and wheth er youjwere webfooted originally, and whether your lungs are a swim ' blad der. And as in every experiment there must be a division of labor, some who experiment and some who observe, you make the experiment and I will observe. There is one tenet of evolution which, it is demanded we adopt, j that which Darwin calls "natural selection," and that which Wallace called the "survival of the fittest. " By this they mean.that the human race and the brute creation are pll the time improving ( because the weak die and the strong liva Those wh do not die survive because they are the fittest. They say the breed of sheep and cattle and dogs and men is all the 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 the fittest, " and so we go right on up forever. Beautiful I But do the fittest survive? Garfield dead in September Guiteau surviving until the following. Juna "Survival of the fittest?" Ah, nol The martyrs, religious and political, dying for their principles, their bloody perse cutors living on to old aga "Survival cf the fittest?" Five hundred thousand biave northern men marching out to met 500,000 brave southern men and die on the battlefield': for a principla Hundreds of thousands of them went down j into the grave trenches. We stridat home in comfortable quarters. Did they die because they jweranot as fit to live as we who survived? Ah, no, rict the "survival of the fittest " Ellsr worthy and Nathaniel Lyon falling on tho northern side. Albert Sidney John ston and Stonewall Jackson falling on tho southern side. Did they fall be cause they were not as fit to live as the soldiers and the generals j who came back in safety? No. j Bitten with; the frosts of the second death be. the tongue that dares utter it It is not he "sur vival of the fittest." ; j. j Fittest Do Not SnrTiTeJ , 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 of your family that survived? Not "the survival of the fit test.", In all communities some of the noblest, grandest mendying in youth or. in midlife, while some of the meanest and most contemptible live ion to old age. Not "the survival of tie fittest" But to show you that this doctrine is antagonistic to the Bi ple and 'to common sense 1 have only to prove tor you that there i has been no natural, progress. Vast improvement from another source. i i V - . . . i i but mixui you, ho natural progress. Where is tfte 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 pic ture of a horse as he, thousands of years ajgo, heard it paw and heigh and champ ;its bit for the battle? Pigeons of today not so wise as the carrier pigeons or 500 years ago pigeons that carried the mails from army t to army and from city to city, ene of them flung' into the sky at Rome or V enice landing .without ship or! rail train i u i London. Look at the great animals thaltvfalteth the earth in olden times animals compared with which ; In size our elephant is a cat; monsters of olden times that swam the deep, compared withj which our whale is a minnow. Conies have learned noth ing "about climbing I and the hounds nothing about hunting and the ostrich nothing about hatching and the condor nothing about flying and the 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, i It started with men living 200, 400, 800, 900 years, and now. 30 years is more than th6 average of human lifa Mighty progress we have made, haven't we? I went into the cathedral at York,. Eng land, and the best artists in England had just been painting a window in that cathedral, and right beside it was a window Painted 400 rears, beto. and there is not a man on earth but would say that the modern painting of the window by the best artists of England is not worthy of being compared with the painting of 400 years ago right be side it I Vast improvement as I shall show you in a minute or two, but no natural evolution. V 'K I Trend of Evolution. j 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 throuirh the most of the realm not interfered with. What has evolution done for China? Christian civilization goes in and builds a railroad sthey tear, it un. For l,0p0 years the Chinese nation, where it is not invaded by the gospel, has not made one-five-hundred-mill iorith part of an inch of advancement They worship! the same. .gods of .red paint Just as always, they drown tbe female children as anuisanca Just as always, they eat with chopsticks. So in India, so in Arabia so in I Turkey, so every where where the gospel has not made an invasion.-': - j '' : ! 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, ieVil tnougnts, murders, adulteries, fornica tions, thefts, false-; . witness, blasphe mies. " j Tnat is what Christ said of lution. I Give natural evolution s evo- full swing in our world jand. it will evolve J5? into .two hemispheres of crime, j two hemispheres of penitentiary, two hem ispheres of lazaretto, two hemispheres of brothel.- New York Tombs. Mova mensing ' prison, Philadelphia, Seven Dials, London and Cowgate, Edinburgh, only festering 'carbuncles on- the! face and neck of natural evolution. I See what the Bible says about the peart and. then what evolution says about the heart j Evolution says "better and bet ter and better gets the heart by natural improvement." The Bible says: j' The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.' Who can knoVSr it?" When you can evolve fragrance from malodor, and can evolve an oratorio from a buzzsaw, and can evolve fall pippins from a basket of decayed-crab applesj then you can by natural evolu tion from the human heart develop goodness. Ah, my friends, natural evo lution is always downward ; it is never upward. j ! A Galvanized Corpse." What is remarkable about this thing is it isi all the time developing its dis honesty. In our day it is ascribing this evolution to Herbert Spencer and Charlei Darwin, l It is a dishonesty Evolution was known and "advocated hundred's of years before these gentle men began to be evolved. The Phoeni cians thousands of years ago declared that the human race wabbled out of the mud. Democritus, who lived 460 years before Christ remember that knew this doctrine of evolution when ho said: "Everything is composed of atomsi or infinitely small, elements, each with a definite quality; form and movement, whose inevitable union and separation shape jail different things and forms, laws and efforjts j and dissolve j them again for new combinations. The gods themselves and (the human mind orig inated fro r such atoms. There are no casualties Everything is necessary and determined by the! nature of the atoms which I havv certain mutual affinities, attractions and .repulsions." : noxi mander ccxitniea ago declared thttt the human rate started at the place where the sea saturated the earth. Lucretius developed long centuries ago in his poems the doctrine Jf evolution, f 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 3,000 years around the earth, boasting that it is 'their originality, and so! won derful is the infatuation that at the Delmonico dinner given in Jhpnor of Herbert Spencer some 15 years ago 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 turkey and roast pigi which according' to their doctrine of evolution, made; them eatiDg their own relations. Slicing up their own cousins 1 Driving carving fork into their beloved j kin dred 1 Dashing: Worcestershire sauce, 'bedaubing mustard over their uncles nd aunts I And while Herbert Spencer read a patronizing lecture to Americans j Ura. banqueters sat around the table . with their hands up, saying, "Dear rao, it is the voice of a cod and not of a man. " - A Glorious Doetrlno. There is only one thing; worse than English snobbery, and that is Ameri. can snobbery. I like democracy and I like aristocracy, but there is one kind of ocracy in this country that excites my contempt1 and that Is what Charles Kingsley. after he had witnc&svd it himself, called wiobocracy.; Now, I say it is a gigantic dishonesty i when they ascribe this old heathen doctrine of evolution to any modern gentleman. I am not a pessimist but an optimist I do not believe everything is going to destruction; t believe everything is go ing on to redemption. But it will not be through tho Infidel doctrine of evolu tion, but through our glorious Chris-, tianity which .has effected all tho good that has ever been wrought and which I is.yet to reconstruct all tho nations, j What is that in tho offing? A ship gone on the rocks at Capo Hatteraa. The hulk is breaking up, crew and pas sengers are drowning.- Tho storm li in full blast and the barometer is still sinking. 'What dors that ship want? . Development Develop' her bn ken masts. Develop her broken redder. Do , velop her drowning crow. Develop her freezing passengers. Develop the whole snip., unas is an it wants. . Ltvei op- m mi a . m men t Oh, I make a mistake. What that ship wants -is ' a lifeboat from the shora Leap into it you men of the life station 1 Pull a way to the wreck I 8teady there! Bring the women and children first to the shore 1 Now the ' stout mon ! Wrap them up iii flannels, and between their chattering teeth y6u can pour res-, toration. ., L Well, my friends, our world is 011 the ! rocks. God launched it well enough, i but' through mispilotago and the storms of 6.000 years it hi8 goner 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 the ship out tof the j breakers. Development? Ah; no, my friends, what this old shipwreck of n world j wants is a lifeboat from then bora And it is coming. Cheer, my lads, cheer.- It is coming from the shining shpro of heaven, taking tho crests of ten wave with one sweep of tho shining paddles.' Christ is in the lifeboat. Many wounds on hands and feet and side and brow, showing he has been long engaged ia 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 the lifeboat I Away with your rot ten deceptive, infidel and blasphemou evolution and give us tho Bible, salva tion through Jesus Christ our Lord. Salvation! Let tho echo fly ) The spacious earth around, i While al! tbe armies of the sky Ccnscire to raise the wound. I Yucatan is a compound Indian name meaning, "What;do, you say?" which was the only answer the Spaniards could obtain from the ratives to their fn- quiries concerning a description of thr country . : , n Give m So the falling of the hair tells of the approach of age and declining power. j ! No matter how barren the tree nor how leafless 'it may seem, you confidently expect leavea again. And why? I . Because there is life at the roots." I So you need not worry about the falling of your hair, the threatened departure of; youth b and beauty. And wbyr Because ir there is a spars 01 life remaining in the roots of the bair . . lift will arouse it into healthy activ ity. The hair ceases to : tome out: it begins to grow: and tbe glory of your youth is restored to you. 1 j we have a book on the Hair and its Diseases. 'It is free, j Thm tlmmi Advlc Frm , ' If yea de not obtain all the benefits yon expected from tbo oe of th Vlcor, write tbe doctor about It. Probably there Is some difficulty with your g-en. oral system which may -be eaUy removed. Addrt, ! DE. 3. C. ATR. Lowell, Mats, j , Wood for Sa(9. Aside from my regular dray business I arn prepared to" furnish stove wood from tbe mills delivered in any part ot tbe citv at $1.50 per cord. All orders receive prompt attention. Soliciting your orders, I am 1 Verv Respectfully. W. D. WILLIAMS a I 11 1 n 1 1 m
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Aug. 26, 1898, edition 1
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