Bough on Dr. Talmage.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 75, 22 September 1894, Page 3

Bough on Dr. Talmage.

In Sydney the Presbyterian has fallen foul of the sensational Ameri can preacher mnd belabours him in the | following fashion :— " The next time Dr Talmage lectures on ' Big Blunders ' he should note tbe blunders of the man who talks on something he knows nothine about It may be safely affirmed that the good Doctor known as much about evolution aa evolution knows about him. The subject of evolution requires for its inventisation thought, reason, logic, scientific accumen, but these are just the elements that have not yet been de» veloped in the cranium of the Yankee orator. The doctor is a rhetorician, pure and simple, with an abnormally exuberant verbosity, plenty of go and gas, but reasoning power is as yet a latent faculty When we want a hat we go to a hatter. We consult our tailor when sartorialiv disposed. The undertaker usually g«"ta oar order for our coffin ; the Chinaman for a pumpkin. We don't go to the b 'Otmaker when we want to net cured of the measles, nor do we trouble our chemist to mend the shafts of our bucgy. When we want law we go to a lawyer, and when we want to know all about evolution we go to a scientist, and not to Dr Tatmage, who is as capable of supplying us with the information as an oyster is of telling vi about thehahitsof a kangaroo."