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Through tho creatures Thou host mode 



Show the brightness of Thy glory, 

 Be eternal truth displayed 



In their substance transitory, 

 Till green earth and ocean hoary, 



Massy rock and tender blade, 

 Tell the same unending story, 



" Wo are Truth in form arrayed." 



Teach mo so Thy works to read 



That my faith, now strength accruing, 

 May from world to world proceed, 



Wisdom's fruitful search pursuing, 

 Till Thy breath my mind imbuing, 



I proclaim tho eternal creed, 

 Oft tho glorious theme renewing, 



(Jod our Lord is Cod indeed. 



His views on tho relation of Science to Faith are 

 given in his letter* to Bishop Ellicott already referred 

 to 



" But I should bo very sorry if an interpretation founded 

 on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fas- 

 tened to the text in Genesis, even if by so doing it got rid of 

 tho old statement of the commentators which has long ceased 

 to be intelligible. The rate of change of scientific hypothesis 

 is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpre- 

 tations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an 

 hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground 

 long after it ought to be buried and forgotten. 



" At the same time I think that each individual man should 

 do all he can to impress his own mind with the extent, the 

 order, and the unity of the universe, and should carry these 

 ideas with him as he reads such passages as the 1st chapter of 

 the Epistle to Colossians (see ' Lightfoot on Colossians/ p. 182), 

 just as enlarged conceptions of the extent and unity of the 

 world of life may be of service to us in reading Psalm viii.t 



Heb. il C, etc." 



* Life of J. C. Maxwell," p. 394. 



