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The Clergy of our own Reformed Church are 
certainly not bigoted: what different treatment at their 
hands Galileo, and Darwin received at the last. Yet not 
the noble sczences, Astronomy and Geology, but the base- 
less theory ‘Evolution,’ it is that that has sapped the 
faith of thousands. Alas that the fair study of Natural 
History, should have become involved in so base a web, 
web spun from its own entrails. 
Does this liberalism warrant one (writing up the 
Roman Church) in saying ‘‘ Unless a man ts a Catholic (i.e. 
Romanist) his notion of God, the Bible, may be such as would 
appal the Saints, the Fathers: ... such is the fact : 
“Ave we Christians ?” was the challenge flung out to Liberal 
Protestants, to the Stanleys, the Fowetts, the Arnolds, by 
Friedrich Strauss, in his disquieting ‘Confessions.’” Is it true, 
as further stated, an “ enlightened” Protestant (the force 
being in the suggestion that it is only a Protestant that 
is thus “enlightened”) takes his views from the world 
of science around him, nor can tell the meaning of 
Scriptural texts until he has enquired, not of Church 
Councils, but of the Royal Society, and Herbert Spencer. 
Dr. Bastian, writing upon ‘Spontaneous Generation,’ 
held that this also was Darwin’s view; that it was the 
view of Darwin, Huxley, and Spencer, that ‘‘ /zving matter 
came into being independently,” (Nineteenth century, Feb- 
ruary, 1878); if this be so are the Clergy clear upon these 
points. The Rev.R.St.I. Tyrwhitt, who says, amusingly 
enough, ‘‘ There is a provoking simplicity im the now popular 
A theistic endeavour to assevt E-volutionism as a creed: tt 1s ltke 
sliding in an unknown Creator, into an Atheistis system, as tf 
he weve a surreptitious King at Ecarte;”’ 
also says, ‘‘ what 1s 
theve, after all, which is contrary to any form of the Christian 
Faith in Mr. Darwin’s hypothesis itself?” Yet Dr. Bastian 
brands it as Atheism, which evolution, however Unchris- 
tian, is not always. 
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