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sectarian creeds are willing enough to compromise the matter 
by admitting only domestic animals have been taken in, and 
possibly the flood was confined to that portion of the globe oc- 
cupied by Palzocosmic men. 
Is not this like throwing the cargo overboard to save a 
sinking ship. The writer has never questioned the belief 
Christian churches entertain that theology is progressive. He 
knows not one which can be found willing, authoritatively, to 
dispute this. ‘Take, for instance, the oldest of all, in England 
before the Reformation. However, we may differ here from 
the great cardinal (Wiseman) in religious matters, we must 
admit that science was deeply indebed to him, when, according 
to the well known Professor St. G. Mivart, he cautioned his 
church against meddling in scientific matters, reminding it of 
‘the regretted result in the case of the famous astronomer. In 
a charge recently delivered by a Presbyterian clergyman in this 
city the same wisdom was displayed when he remarked to a 
minister inducted to Knox church. A pastor should first and 
last and all the time preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and leave 
questions of science and philosophy alone. 
One objection men urge against the church is its own lack 
of faith, says a Baptist minister, the Rev. 5. G. Nelson, Brook- 
lyn, IN Yo Sensationalism, we -adds;more )than valierner 
causes, is responsible for the weakened hold of the church upon 
the respect of men of sense. Unreasoning acceptance of what 
Tebrew, Christian scholars and Jewish Rabbis alike repu- 
diated (the early chapters of Genesis), no doubt is answerable 
also for the marked falling off in attendance on Sunday services. 
It is always the criticism of the day that is a dishonor to God. 
When Jerome began his revision of the text of the Latin ver- 
sion no words were too strong to condemn his presumption 
and arrogance, states Archdeacon Wilson, in the London 
Times, and when Erasmus published his Greek ‘Testament and 
declared the Vulgate was not worthy of unquestioning belief 
(the first step in modern criticism), he was denounced as a 
blasphemer. “ We stone our living prophets and build the 
sepulchres of the dead ones.” Five years ago Professor H. 
