" CLA YRABIA," AND " CLA YBEALE GRANT.' 



35 



had taken the primitive God-made animal, that all honor and glory- 

 should come to Him, the eternal ruler of the universe. 



Ward's Science Shops, at Rochester, New York, hold a front place 

 before all the scientific world. They are near me, and I often resort 

 to them for study. One old man, Professor Ballay (a Frenchman), has 

 for fifty years been handling bones as an osteologist ; indeed, we may 

 say, he has lived among the skeletons of the animal kingdom since a 

 boy, passing through the first shops and schools in Germany, France, 

 and England to these of Professor Henry A. Ward, of Rochester. 



From him I learned much. His familiarity with the bony anatomy 

 of the animal kingdom was such that at sight he could tell almost any 

 bone handed to him, to what animal or species of animal, and in what 

 part of the frame, it belonged. 



My library took in Darwin, Huxley, Proctor, and Tyndall, all of 

 whom I had studied, but had put to one side as of very highly-cultured 

 imaginations. The facts of life, of death, or creation, they failed to 

 reach. 



Old Ballay was quite profane at times, so I asked him one day if 

 he believed there was a God. " Most certainly !" he replied. " Do you 

 believe in the teachings of the Bible?" I asked him. "Yes, sir; I do," 

 was his answer. I now asked him what he thought of Darwin, Huxley, 

 and Proctor. " Well," he answered, " I think Mr. Darwin fancied he was 

 a great man when he was young, but as he grew older, and found 

 what a fool he had been in much of his writings, he thought he would 

 go on and see how many and how great fools he could make of other 

 men." Of evolution, the old man said, it could never stop. "If animal 

 life owed its varieties to evolution, changes would be continuous ; but 

 here I have been dissecting and mounting skeletons for fifty years, and 

 have seen skeletons that were a thousand years old, and every time the 

 bones were the same in the different animals to which they belonged. 

 The same was the case in the human skeleton. If anything in life was 

 of spontaneous growth, it would continue to change; if the different 

 families were results of crosses out of positive families, sporting back 

 to one or the other of original types would be a necessary result, and 

 the bony anatomy would first detect the started change, if there were 

 any in struchire. On the contrary, it was ever the same over and over 

 again, just as God first made it. Then again, abrupt crosses produced 

 life, but the new life being a violation of God's laws could not repro- 

 duce itself." Ballay's workshop had been with the dead, but his 

 thoughts had been of life. 



