Xll INTRODUCTION. 



ultimately he may be enabled by diligent perusal of the 

 great Book of Nature, to add his quota to the store of 

 knowledge already formed and recorded. 



It is true that infidels have often brought forward 

 some branch of Science in confutation of Scripture, but it 

 is also a fact that in nearly every such case, the very 

 arguments that have been used by these men, have at last 

 become the strongest arguments on the other side. G-eo- 

 logy was at first adduced as a proof that the world had 

 existed from all eternity, instead of having been created 

 by an Omnipotent G-od, and the question had often been 

 asked, " Can you produce one proof of the creation of any- 

 thing?" Now this was a difficult question to answer, 

 until G-eology made manifest the fact that Man was created, 

 by producing a clear and unimpeachable proof that up to a 

 certain time, he did not exist on the earth, and that at 

 a period of time, a little later, he did exist ; the space 

 between these epochs is not known, but it has nothing to 

 do with the argument, for within that period (whatever it 

 may have been) Man was created, and created as perfect 

 in his physical organisation as he is at present no long 

 series of developments from the higher animals by for- 

 tuitous circumstances, as some pretend no gradual addition 

 of parts to suit the physical changes of the earth's sur- 

 face. There is undoubted proof from the oldest records, in 

 the form of Sculptures, that Man's appearance has always 

 been the same, and the records of the Bible (the antiquity 

 of which, at all events, cannot be disputed) show that the 

 constitution of his mind was at that time just as it is now 

 every passion, every desire the same the only advance 

 he has made, is in the knowledge of God's works ; the 

 application of that knowledge to his own benefit, and the 

 glorification of his Maker. 



