o2 KT. HON. Sill K. TEMl'LE, BART.^ ON THE UNITY OE TRUTH. 



with Scripture, and wc find it is so. The more we study 

 tlie more Ave learn on this suhject. 



There is one more point I sliould like to refer to in regard 

 to sanitation. At the time of the Social Science Congress 

 at Huddcrsfield in Yorkshire where 1 was the President, a 

 sermon was preached to them by a reverend gentleman who 

 told them they could not do better, if they Avislied to study 

 the principles of sanitation, than refer to many passages in 

 the IdooIv of Numbers, and more particularly in the book of 

 Leviticus, where the}' would find many principles of sanitation 

 propounded 3,500 years ago, and they have been more (a* 

 less carried into modern practice and impressed upon our 

 felloAv countrymen. I should like to ask any medical man 

 Avho has been engaged in, I will not say the elimination, but 

 in tlie isolation and limitation of the Bubonic Plague at 

 Bombay, whether lie could, on the whole, devise a better 

 system of sanitation than that propounded by Moses for the 

 limitation of leprosy in those days? This is the scientific 

 spirit derived from Scripture and applied in a most practical 

 manner to the most humane of purposes. 



I should like to say one Avord in conclusion on the scien- 

 tific part of the subject. One interesting portion of science 

 surely is natural history. I should Avisli anyone to observe 

 not oidy the number of plants and flowers mentioned in 

 Scripture, but animals, especially in Leviticus, and the 

 description and classification of various kinds of beasts. I 

 consider it a wonderful instance of classification, and 1 doubt 

 whether it would be better done in these days. 



So nmch then for all the points of science, learning and 

 research which verify Scripture. I feel that time is passing 

 and that I have trespassed too much on your patience ; but 

 I had intended to show you how, Avhile on the one hand the 

 Holy Scripture answers all these tests, no other Scriptures do. 

 Apply these tests by Avhich Holy Scripture is confirmed and 

 verified, to any other religion in the world, and the religion 

 in question is scattered to the four winds of Heaven — not a 

 Avord can stand— its geography cannot, nor its philosophy nor 

 its science — notiiing Avill bear the light of modern science, not 

 oven ]\Iohammedanisni. Sir William i\luir, Avho is the greatest 

 living authority on the subject, Avill tell you that of all books 

 the most unintelligible is the Koran oi" IMohanuned. I l)elieve 

 I have secured yoiu- careful attention to this momeiitous 

 matter, but you may take it from me, as one Avho knows 

 Avhat these religions are, that no book on earth Avill stand 



