mond's Natural Law in the Spiritual World has done. Happy would it be if all who profess a love for the Scriptures and the interests of science, could realize what Dr. McCosh has so well said in his Method of the Divine Government. "Science," he observes, "has a foundation, and so has Religion. Let them unite their foundations, and the basis will be broader, and they will be two compartments of one great fabric reared to the glory of God. Let the one be the outer and the other the inner court. In the one, let all look and admire and adore; and in the other, let those who have faith kneel and pray and praise. Let the one be the sanctuary, where human learning may present its richest incense as an offering to God; and the other, the holiest of all, separated from it by a vail now rent in twain, and in which on a bloodsprinkled mercy-seat, we pour out the love of a reconciled heart, and hear the oracles of the living God." In the Although it is certain that never before has real, true, genuine science achi d animals; and that special creation of known forms could not be admitted." Assuming that the dogmas of these two Professors are correctly reported, they appear to be under as complete a delusion, as a certain person, the bearer of one of the most illustrious names in English history, who has made himself very notorious of late years, and got into much trouble thereby, by continually thrusting his hobby before the public-to the effect that the Copernican system is all falsethat Sir Isaac Newton was a great ignoramus, and that the earth we inhabit is as flat as a pancake! He has favoured the author of this book with many letters containing some surprising statements, assuring him that all the clergy of the Church of England are infidels, "save six." Poor man! SHILLINGFORD RECTORY, EXETER, January 1, 1885. |