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time nor opportunity for examination. Then it is 

 pressed for all that it is worth — and a great deal more. 

 The opponents of revelation advance like an army with 

 banners, in strange contrast with the silence with which 

 they accept defeat. 



A brief review will suffice to show that in none of these 

 instances said to be so damaging, has any harm come to our 

 faith in revelation. The Bible nowhere says the earth 

 is flat, hence it is not contradicted by its being round. 



Man's place in the universe is one of solitary grandeur, 

 and the Bible does not overrate his relative importance, 

 for science has at last discovered that neither sun nor 

 planet can be inhabited on account of their intense heat, 

 unless the little planet Mars be an exception, and there 

 the lack of color changes, as its spring comes on, renders 

 improbable the presence of vegetation, and therefore, of 

 animals. As to the moon, it is known that it possesses 

 neither air nor water, and this, together with the ex- 

 tremes of heat and cold coming every two weeks, forbids 

 its being inhabited. 



As to the age of the world, the Bible says nothing 

 about it, and hence cannot be contradicted by the geol- 

 ogists. Spontaneous generation has been disproved by 

 Prof. Tyndall's exhaustive experiments. Nothing more 

 is heard about it. The claims made for the Chaldean 

 records have wonderfully dwindled. It is now admitted 

 by Prof. Sayce and other Assyriologists, that the tablets 

 say nothing as to the temptation and fall, or the tree of 

 life, or the expulsion from the garden, or the cherubim 

 with flaming sword. There is indeed the story of a flood 

 whicti agrees in important particulars with the Noachian 

 — and no wonder, for it was written so near the deluge 

 that tradition could easily preserve an account of it. In 

 fact, the story of an universal deluge has survived in 

 some of its most important particulars, among nearly all 

 nations to the present day, 



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