heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth His handiwork" (Psa. 19:1), how vastly more to the as- tronomer and mathematician, who sees ten thousand wonders where the other sees one, and more wonderful wonders, too, by far. And this order of nature tells the story of God's all-glorious B,eing, not so much in its details as in its infinite order and unity, and this is seen only when the-facts are reduced to, and set down in, order, in a systematic statement, that is a scientific statement, which is science. Such a statement of divine things is the science of ; God. There is much false science respecting all things as well as God, but when the facts are allowed to do all the talking, whether about the Word or the World, it is then that we get true science, that is reality. Now nothing so detects and gffl eliminates error, either in creed or syl- labus as a logical, systematic, compre- -»I hensive exhibition of the argument. The truths dovetail into each other, the ^ errors are round pegs in square holes. The, reason why the historic faith still stands, and will stand, is because it fits the facts and the facts fit. The reason theories of unbelief have fallen in pieces, and will continue to fall, is that they can not bring the facts, all the facts, into a harmonious whole. Do not stop with a haphazard assortment of doctrines. God gives you the pieces. Put them together. So you shall .say, "This is the finger of God." 4 a the future (whither we are going). Be- lieve the Bible as long as you can, but when you get where I am you can believe it no longer." H. S. H. C. AN The report IMPOSITION, that a guest entering, his room at a hotel, and finding a Bible there, rang up the bell boy and ordered it removed. ' The boy reported to the proprietor, who sent him back to tell the guest his. room was better than his company. He wanted no guest who wanted no Bible. Yet he did not profess to be a believer! The foe of the good Book is not to be trusted, and in school is a menace to the purity of boys and to the virtue of girls. Gideon's ^ t l )e Way i f . s .
in His World, His Word, and His Image, which is. man, and especially that Man Who is "the brightness of His Glory and the express Image of His Person" (Heb. 1:3). One who will follow step by step and fix in his mind the main and minor points as they are' brought out should become able easily to recall and repeat the whole outline, and so "be able to give" (in a way worthy of the great theme) to every man a reason for the hope that is in him" (1 Pet. 3:15); and no one needs such a reason more than one's self. One is not ready to do this, however sound his faith may be, who knows truths, or doctrines, merely in a disconnected way. The flowers are beautiful to the peasant. They teach him that God will "much more clothe him," since He clothes the flowers of the field more gloriously than regal- robed Solomon; but how much beside they say of His wisdom, and glory, and grace to the devout botanist who sees not only the symmetry, beauty, and or- der of a single bloom, or variety, but the wisdom, and harmony in diversity of the world of vegetation, the genuses, families, and orders, so unlike, and yet so like that they become to him a uni- verse of flora. If the peasant has rea- son to believe in a God and beneficent Author of mankind and Giver of all good, the botanist has immeasureably more. If to the untaught mind "the
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HIGH SCHOOL They were reading HIGHER CRITICS, the mythologies of Greece and Rome, in the St. Paul "High." "But we don't believe these stories, do we?" said an embryonic higher critic. "No, certainly not," replied his high cultured instruc- tress, "no more than we do those of the Bible."
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one direction, saying, "We know noth- ing about the past (whence we came)"; and the other in the opposite direction, saying, "and we know nothing about
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