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revolutions in majestic silence amidst the vast expanse of 
infinity, with an ancient and scientific king we shall be led 
to exclaim, ‘ How manifold, O God, are all Thy works; in 
wisdom hast Thou made them all.’ 
“Yn all our prying researches after knowledge, it is 
necessary that the mind be firmly established upon two 
great points—the belief in a Divine creative agency, and in 
the Divine authenticity of the Sacred Scriptures; having a 
thorough conviction of the truth of the facts recorded, and 
of the correctness of the principles laid down. Without 
these our minds will be led into a dark mysterious void, 
instead of having our thoughts carried up to the Father of 
hight and of life. 
“With these principles as our ballast, we may launch our 
bark, without any apprehension, upon the broad ocean of 
science, explore its coasts, and fathom its depths; but desti- 
tute of them our vessel will be in perpetual storm amidst 
rocks and shoals, without a rudder, a compass, or a chart. 
«Thus equipped, you may accompany the geologist into 
the bowels of the earth, and examine its wondrous structure ; 
and you will return with an overwhelming conviction that 
the ‘ Eternal God made the earth by his power, that the 
pillars of it are his, and that he has set the world upon 
