The Wisdom of this World 41 eye; while the telescope sweeps the silent skies, and stars by the thousands and tens of thousands are discovered, and numbered, and catalogued. The electric spark sends thought, in printed words, with lightning speed around the globe. The microphone magnifies sound until the spider’s walk across a window echoes as the tread of an armed man. The phono graph receives upon its shining metallic disc the words and tones of the living speaker, and is able to reproduce them after a thousand years. All tongues, and tribes, and nations are brought into daily and direct intercourse and fellowship. Time and space are no longer barriers between men, races, and empires. Even the Dark Continent, unexplored equatorial Africa, has been penetrated by the heroic and dauntless Stan ley, from Zanzibar to Bomma; and the cannibal tribes of the Upper Livingstone are no longer unknown to the civilized world. And still men run to and fro, restless and dissatis fied, crying for more light and more knowledge. NO REAL CONFLICT BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND SCIENCE The Christian does not look with dismay upon these re searches into Nature, these discoveries of Science; on the con trary, he hails with joy each new discovery as affording ad ditional evidence of the wisdom, power, and goodness of God. Full well does he know that the facts written on the rock- leaves beneath, the star depths above, and the pages of Inspira tion, when properly understood and interpreted, will be found to be in exact and perfect accord, showing forth the glory of the Infinite Writer of them all. There is no controversy between the man of faith and the man of wisdom, provided each one acts in his proper sphere. There is not, and never has been, any real conflict between Religion and Science. There may be conflicts between interpretations of Scripture and interpretations of the facts of Nature; but what God has written in His Word never conflicts with what God has written in His creation.
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