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not depict nature as a self-dependent object, glo- 

 rious in its individual beauty, but always as in rela- 

 tion or subjection to a higher spiritual power. Na- 

 ture is to him a work of creation, and order the 

 living expression of the omnipresence of the Divi- 

 nity in the visible world." 



And in reference to the one hundred and fourth 

 Im, he holds this remarkable language: " We are 

 astonished to find in a lyrical poem of such limited 

 compass, the whole universe the heavens and the 

 earth sketched with a few bold touches." This is 

 the testimony of him who had seen more of nature 

 than any other man \. had looked 



upon the h and the earth with a scientific 



hering tl JH! principles which he has 



woven into his great work, the < . And with 



all his kno\vle<: crcd by travel, from books 



and with converse with thr of his age, he 



acknowledges his inability to equal the Hebrew poet 

 in delineating the universe. He is astonished at 

 the accuracy with which the whole subject is set 

 forth by the Hebrew bard in the dark ages of the 

 world's scientific history. After such testimony, it 

 is no unfair claim to make, that those, who flippantly 

 talk of the Bible as being in whole or in part obso- 

 lete and contradictory to the modern revelations of 

 science, shall show us some tangible proof of their 

 assertions that shall at least offset the testimony of 

 the author of the Cosmos. 



The whole Bible being written confessedly for the 

 moral instruction of the race, we expect to find in it 



