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and inscrutable as His relation to the construction of 

 the starry universe itself. 



It is plainly shown by recent controversies, as, 

 for example, those which have appeared in the Nine 

 teenth Century for 1889, that the agnostic evolution 

 and the acceptance of the results of German criticism 

 in disintegrating the earlier books of the Bible, are at 

 the moment combining their forces in the attack on 

 Evangelical Christianity. They present a very 

 formidable front, but if met in a spirit at once fair 

 and firm, and with an intelligent knowledge of 

 nature and revelation, the evil which they may do 

 will be only temporary, and may lead in the future 

 to a more robust and enlightened faith. 



