INTRODUCTION. i 
them.’ With the astronomer you may ascend the skies, 
contemplate with ecstasy the movements of the heavenly 
bodies, and with the scientific Psalmist you will exclaim, 
‘The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament 
showeth his handiwork.’ With the voyager you may visit 
distant climes, and viewing man in all his multiplied and 
varied characters, you will be convinced that ‘God hath 
made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the 
earth.’ Thus it is that in every age the evidences of re- 
vealed religion have advanced with the progress of sound 
knowledge. Indeed, it cannot be otherwise; for the God 
of Nature, whose operations it is the province of science to 
explore, is the God of the Bible; and, as the God of truth, 
he cannot set forth in his word principles at variance with 
those which, as the God of Nature, he has established in 
the material world. Both systems of knowledge, thus ema- 
nating from the same source, must harmonize with each 
other; for the Bible is something like a new edition of the 
book of nature, with a splendid appendix, which makes 
known the wonderful scheme of human redemption. If 
there is any apparent discrepancy in these editions of this 
same great work, it arises from our inability nghtly to de- 
cipher the characters employed.” 
