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Learned men have not been above pointing out that 
God’s Word (using language not in advance of the date of 
its edition), speaking of the Fixed Star, the Sun, describes 
it as “running about to the end of it” (the world), the 
same men who are professed admirers of what they term 
‘Sunrise’ and ‘ Sunset!” 
If in former times men, who were jealous for the 
Faith, were unwilling to give up anything to them who 
would ¢ake all, and could giwe nothing in its place; 
mindful of how much depends upon the truth of the only 
message from God which man holds in his hands; Man’s 
resurrection depending upon Christ’s: Christ’s advent 
being unintelligible without the Fall: the Fall being 
unintelligible in the ‘life history’ of an ‘organism,’ 
developed from an arboreal ancestor such as Darwin claims, 
(for on what conceivable platform, whether Prototherian, 
or Metatherian, did innocence become guilt, calling for 
the rescue of Christ), where is room for surprise. 
What if these now admit that certain points in the 
Mosaic Record, always obscure, must be conceded before the 
advance of science; still enough remains not only uncon- 
tradicted, but confirmed by modern research, in the eyes 
of all who read aright. 
For we hold the broad statement that, by special acts 
of Creation, a series of Creatures; increasing in beauty, and 
rising in organization, till perfection is reached in man, 
have been successively placed upon the globe by God 
working upon one homogeneous plan. As Professor 
Haughton of Dublin University says “As the Creator 
arranged conditions of life upon the globe physically 
suited to various creatures; He placed 77 succession by 
His own will creatures suitable to those conditions to 
enjoy them.” 
No less a man than Mr. Froude writes “the creed of 
