42 SCIENTIFIC EESEARCH AND BIBLICAL STUDY. 



COMMUNICATION RECEIVED. 



Mr. Hastings C. Dent, F.L.S., writes : — 



Referring to the author's remark, " Every human being is on the 

 border of two worlds," I would say, or as has been said, " Man has 

 a body, but is a spirit." 



Referring to the author's words, " The Bible is a living book," I 

 would say : — all will perhaps agree that this is one of the most 

 valuable remarks in this very important paper. It is perhaps this 

 fact — that the Bible is a living book, with its daily influences on 

 the lives of hundreds of millions of people, which perhaps more 

 than anything else proves its inspiration. Its natural evidence is 

 perhaps its surest apologia. There is no other religion of which 

 this can be said as to its saci^ed books. 



In conclusion there is only one item in the paper I regret, the 

 latter half of its first paragraph. The author would appear to 



refer to such as Professor " who threw over his faith to 



worship a scientific fetich."* 



* Or perhaps to such as, e.g., regard the word "day" (in Genesis) as 

 meaniiig a day of 24 hours. 



NOTE. 



There are many in the j^resent day who seek to square every passing 

 phase of scientific research with Revelation, and are alarmed if they are 

 luisuccessful, quite forgetful of the fact that Science is ever advancing 

 and therefore ever changing in its aspects ; as was ably and most 

 opiaortunely illustrated by Lord Kelvin (in his 1897 Annual Address 

 before the Victoria Institute), when he showed that the Science of 40 

 years ago is not the Science of to-day. — Ed. 



