the wisdom ordained for our glory from the foundation of the World, is foolish- ness. Paul has long ago and explicitly characterized and condemned it in the opening chapters of Corinthians. There is but one fixed vs. Science, science and that is tne Sci-ence of Salvation; " t o know Thee and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast s e n t ." It is not discovered facts but uncovered facts that are cer- tainly real. A very learned man re- cently said: " We know and can know nothing. That is the sole certainty. Honest science has abandoned the pre- tence which it cherished yesterday of ever being able to explain things. Every time that a poor human brain discovers the reason for anything it is as if it had succeeded in forcing an iron door only to rush into a still dark- er and more securely barred corridor. As we advance, the mystery, the dark- ness deepens, the horror increases." Such is the confession of twentieth cen- tury science. Surely we have nothing yet to fear if it presumes to question the explanation of things as found in Holy Scripture. Here the "poor human brain" may find rest. Here the hand of Omniscience sets before the man of faith s '-an open d o o r '' leading into a corridor of light, where " t h e path of tne just groweth more and more unto tne perfect d a y ." " The darkness is past and the true light now siuneth." the University of Death, to learn and un- learn in much of which he was ignor- ant, ana much in which ue erred. He had done what '-he could to move our feet from the Rock of Ages to the shift- ing sand of " s c i e n t i f i c" speculation. He believed in immortality, but on foundations so unstable as to need the proD of ghostly testimony communi- cated tohrugh the ' ' medium'' of spirit- "Science" "What .cools An eminent teach- er and author has just matriculated in these mortals be."
istic seance. Such testimony he, him- self, pledged to supply axter deatn if he could. His message has been re- ceived (?). It is, indeed, hardly worthy of so profound and keen an intellect as the professor's, but the learned gentle- man confesses to being a good deal aazed and befuddled by the new, though pleasant, conditions in whicn he finds himself. He promises, however, to "ma n i f e st more c l e a r l y" when he gets thoroughly settled in the new coun- try. Men will believe anything but the Bible; and seek any source of informa- tion rather than the page of self-evi- dent truthfulness. Holy men of God, moved by the Holy Spirit, have declared unto us the things " e y e hath not seen, and ear hath not h e a r d ." ±$ut proud man, boasting his sanity and profundity prefers to " s e ek unto spirits that peep and mu t t e r "; to " m e d i u m s" a thousand times trapped in grossest irauds; and listen soberly to senseless drivel too absurd to attribute to rational beings in the body or out of it. And on such evidence "¡scholarship" would have us rest our case for life or death! Truth." He who brought life and immor- tality to light through the Gospei spoke not so uncertainly. There were no " i f s " when He said, " I f I go, ± will come a g a i n ." " I will manifest My- s e l f ," Jno. 14:3, 21. He came again; He manifested Himself; not through impure ,and charlatanic montebanks male and female; not with legerdemain and clownish pranks under cover of darkness; but by His hoiy apostles, and the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, confirming their word with equally noly and beneficent " s i g n s " following. Again let us thank God; for " t o be aDsent from the body is to be present with the L o r d ," m the company of just men made perfect, f ar from the horrible seances of aead men in the flesh, or in spirit. firmer ground. " I am the Thank God! We stand on
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