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that one ray of human intelligence by which men 

 see the necessity of admitting a Supreme Being 

 other than world-matter. Even this ray does not 

 penetrate the dense night of materialistic evolu- 

 tion. Its head is plunged deep into the mire of 

 cosmic matter where it can neither see the bril- 

 liant light of God's great verities nor hear the 

 eternal thunders that are sounding His praise 

 through the rolling spheres. For the heavens pro- 

 claim His glory and the earth is the work of His 

 hands. Well did old Carlyle drive home this 

 truth when in 1876 he wrote to the London Daily 

 Tribune: 



Ah! it is a sad and terrible thing to see nigh a whole gen- 

 eration of men and women professing to be cultivated, looking 

 around in purblind fashion and rinding no God in this uni- 

 verse. I suppose it is a reaction from the reign of cant and 

 hollow pretense, professing to believe what in fact they do 

 not, and this is what we have got; all things from frog 

 spawn; the gospel of dirt the order of the day. The older 

 I grow and I now stand on the brink of eternity the more 

 comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism which I learned 

 when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes: 



"What is the great end of man? To glorify God and 

 enjoy Him forever!" No gospel of dirt, teaching that men 

 have descended from frogs through monkeys can ever set 

 that aside. 1 



There is the pith of the matter, and Carlyle 

 has Windle to agree with him when in his "Theo- 

 phobia : Its Cause," the latter attributes this nine- 



1 "Twenty-eighth Annual Archaeological Report" of the On- 

 tario Provincial Museum, pp. 61, 62. 



