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to be simply an illimitable universe. I do not suppose it was 

 so well understood when I was young, but it is beginning- 

 to be understood more and more now. We Avere told that 

 3,500 years ago in Scripture. If you look in Genesis you 

 will see an expression used to set forth a great nation. It 

 says they shall be as numerous as what? As the grains of 

 the sand on the sea shore and as the stars in the heavens. 

 That is the shadow of scientific fact which science is showing 

 us day by day to be true. Then take certain passages in the 

 book of Job ; look at the 2()th chapter, in which it says that 

 " God hangeth the earth upon nothing." I think if that 

 could be referred to Sir Isaac Newton he would say that it 

 was a distinct foreshadowing of the theory of gravitation 

 3,500 years before it was demonstrated scientifically in 

 modern Europe. Now take tlie verse following that, 

 which states, " He bindeth up the waters in his thick 

 clouds." There are several professors here who know 

 the meteorological system of nature, and I ask them 

 whether that does not perfectly describe what happens 

 in the case of a monsoon in India when there is a mighty 

 evaporation from the Indian Ocean which is caught up into 

 the mighty clouds, and these vapours are wafted hundreds 

 and hundreds of miles from the ocean for the service of 

 man ? 



Now take the 28th chapter, and amongst others it is a 

 wonderful chapter containing astounding statements — most 

 of them of a geological or mineralogical character, and no 

 doubt every one of them will be more and more verified as 

 science increases ; but it says : " As for the earth out of it 

 Cometh bread : and under it is turned up as it were fire." I 

 believe that is one of the theories of geology, that inside the 

 earth there is fire. We were told that 3,500 years ago in the 

 Bible. I ask you to look at your Bibles and refer to the oStli 

 chapter of Job, where God spoke out of the whirlwind, and 

 see whether there is not there a marvellous description of 

 the physical phenomena of nature, but which have been 

 described with a sublimity more than human and an eloquence 

 more than mortal. That is what I call an inculcation of the 

 scientific spirit in mankind by divine authority. Now I ask 

 you to compare this scientific spirit inculcated by Holy 

 Writ with the defective knowledge in Christian times, at 

 the time of Galileo and Christopher Columbus. It is that 

 scientific spirit which false religions ignore Avhile modern 

 science ascertains truth, and if science is true it must agree 



