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reconciled ; nor do we care for that. They move 

 on in the same direction both declaring a personal 

 God, both declaring his miraculous interposition, 

 both declaring his continued care. The intelligent 

 theologian would be hard to find who does not 

 understand that the Bible would lose its force if 

 shown to conflict with science, and who does not 

 know that the Natural History of the earth has 

 destroyed infidel arguments which metaphysics 

 could meet only by words. 



Special adaptations and evidences of a divine 

 interposition in distinct acts of creation, are suffi- 

 cient perhaps for the intellect, but they are hardly 

 of more importance than the adaptation of Nature 

 to the emotions. " Blessed are the pure in heart, for 

 they shall see God." In a lower sense this has its 

 application, for the pure in heart are most ready to 

 see the proof for the existence and attributes of 

 God. If, then, nature is fitted to develop in man a 

 true taste, giving him the types of the beautiful, it 

 must purify and elevate the feelings, and prepare 

 him for communion with the Author of Nature. 

 Such can not fail to be its tendency. 



