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harmony between science and revelation, was a Kepler, 
who was led by meditations on the harmony of theology 
with mathematics to follow those laborious calculations by 
which he first established the orbit of Mars and then of 
other planets; among them was a Newton, called by 
Justus Liebig “the most sublime genius in a thousand 
years,’ who asserted that his entire system of mechanics 
was untenable without the supposition of divine Power; 
a Davy, prince of chemists, who “saw in all the forces of 
matter the tools of Divinity; a Linné, called by Prof. 
Fraas the “greatest naturalist of all times,’ who com- 
mences his “System of Nature” thus: “Awakening I saw 
God, the Eternal, the Infinite, the Omniscient, the Omni- 
potent, and I was amazed. I read some of His traces in 
creation. What unspeakable perfection!” We find in 
the roster of scientists who believed in an inspired Bible 
and a divine Savior, such men as Hans Christian Oerstedt, 
the great discoverer of electro-magnetism and the father 
of all modern. electrical science, who declared that he 
“had but a desire to lead men to God by his books ;” La- 
voisier, father of modern chemistry, a Christian ; Maedler, 
who reached the front rank of modern astronomers with- 
out relinquishing his childhood faith and who said: “A 
real scientist cannot be an infidel; Ritter, greatest of 
geographers, who said: “All the world is replete with the 
glory of the Creator ;” Virchow, the surgeon of world- 
wide fame, who all his life was an outspoken opponent of 
the evolutionary theory and whose last prayer, uttered in 
the presence of his fellow-scientists, was: “Christi Blut 
und Gerechtigkeit . fs 
Speaking of the triumphant Redeemer the Lord says 
Isa. 53: “I will divide Him a portion with the great and 
He shall divide the spoil with the strong. The kings of 
the earth shall serve Him.” The prophecy was fulfilled 
when kings not only on material thrones but kings in the 
