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Both the scientific and theological world remained silent ; there 

 was nothing more to be said. 



This being the case, Mr. Gladstone's wonderful fabric of coinci- 

 dences between the "great fourfold division" in Genesis and the 

 facts ascertained by geology fell of themselves. Professor Huxley's 

 blow had shattered the central proposition — the key-stone of the sup- 

 porting arch — and the last great fortress of the opponents of unfettered 

 scientific investigation was in ruins. 



But, in opposition to this attempt by a layman, we may put a 

 noble utterance by a clergyman who has probably done more to save 

 what is essential in Christianity among English-speaking people than 

 any other ecclesiastic of his time. The late Dean of Westminster, Dr. 

 Arthur Stanley, was widely known and beloved on both continents. 

 In his memorial sermon after the funeral of Sir Charles Lyell he said: 

 " It is now clear to diligent students of the Bible that the first and 

 second chapters of Genesis contain two narratives of the creation side 

 by side, differing from each other in almost every particular of time 

 and place and order. It is well known that, when the science of 

 geology first arose, it was involved in endless schemes of attempted 

 reconciliation with the letter of' Scripture. There was, there 

 are perhaps still, two modes of reconciliation of Scripture and 

 science, which have been each in their day attempted, and each has 

 totally and deservedly failed. One is the endeavor to wrest 

 the words of the Bible from their natural meaning and force it to 

 speaJc the language of science.'''' And again, speaking of the earliest 

 known example, which was the interpolation of the word " not " in 

 Leviticus xi, 6, he continues : " This is the earliest instance of the 

 falsification of Scripture to meet the demands of science ; and it 

 has been followed in later times by the various efforts which have 

 been made to twist the earlier chapters of the book of Genesis into 

 apparent agreement with the last results of geology — representing 

 days not to be days, morning and evening not to be morning and 

 evening, the Deluge not to be the Deluge, and the ark not to be 

 the ark." 



After a statement like this we may fitly ask : "Which is the more 

 likely to strengthen Christianity for its work in the twentieth century 

 which we are now about to enter — a large, manly, honest, fearless 

 utterance like this of Arthur Stanley, or hair-splitting efforts, bearing 

 in their every line the germs of failure, like that made by Mr. 

 Gladstone ? 



The world is finding that the scientific revelation of creation is 

 ever more and more in accordance with worthy conceptions of that 

 great Power working in and through the universe. More and more it 

 is seen that inspiration has never ceased, and that its prophets and 

 priests are not those who work to fit the letter of its older litera- 

 ture to the needs of dogmas and sects, but those who patiently, 

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