LECTURE.

Evening Star, Issue 4147, 12 June 1876, Page 2

LECTURE.

The Rev. Mr preached test even*. Trinity Wesleyan Church on V* Evolution, a Method of Creation.’’ .... Jffe, topkas his text Psalm cxxxix. 15,. 16 r-Xr’XMy substance was not hid from Thee when JwaS: made in secret and Curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet bemg imperfect j and in Thy all my members 'written,. which in continuance were fashioned when! as yet there. was none of them.’’ Ile said; th|| his reason foie [touching the subject of ; Emhitipnwasthegpnpral one, that the ; public mind was just now interested iftifc and.) .that he must .'not she Understood as referring, directly •or indirCctly^'to l thc- -discussion- which—had -lately—takenplace irf the ‘’"pubEo,,. pphts. T)f The scientific evidences' nop6h* ’ Which the doctrine of “Evolution 'was , rapposed to rest he intended to say nothing, but wished to show for . what. reasoDs - elieveri-f in the ought to be predisposed to'acceptEvdlution andjSr etpect that it would-be proved. Theologians had been opposed to it, but that was their manner with every new- development of science whioh'i seemed .itO -confliot with the current nterpretation ofthe Bible. Saving illustrated at length the progress of Bible in•terpretation, thepreapher ssid that he would confine his points { fimtj" that Evolution wasjGpji’s method of Creation now;. and, that Eyolntion many remarkable, poiate Scrtptufo! teeing. . The ear& 19 renewed from age to age. By Evolution the plant produced from the seed, the: bird tromi the egg, the man from -the childv Whatever ‘moral objection*- could be Urged against creation by Evolution in thC pasF would equally Re against 'the Evolutionwe[ going r oh'n6w. ; ' With respect- tb thexog incidence between Scripture and hej said that the oraer^bfCMfesis—the pfont, the fish, the reptile, the buff, the the J man—vms the order asserted by modem science. If Evolution Were true there ; masthavh'bheh‘a period in thb past when man did not know the difforehtobetwtongood, and ’eyilj tnoial being; when he with the covering that nature protided, add lacked the of physical* ahd #hen his; wants did, not go beyond rtfse spontaneous productions of the earth. . In all these points Evolution’ coincided with the' account' of primitive man given in Genesis. Finally, Evolution harmonised with the grand Christian hbfte tof immortality. Humanity had only reached a stage in 4 profession yetincomplete. When they considered the distance. between man and thel zoophyte they would not think' impassable the gaff between man and the angel. In no would guard, himself against saying that Evolution was. true, but he 'thought that believers |n the Bible should to pre-dlsposed to itccept it. . An Evolutionist wad not necessarily an infidel. To ascend the last gradations in ihe long Series Pf pW>gretjaion the help of a Divine Saviour’ ahd Teacher was necessary,'and he' would’ Urge, his hearers to aceept Jesus GhristastheiF guide. ~, . . >- ,