THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE. 375 
Isaiah prophesied: ‘‘ And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the 
Egyptian sea.” Surveyors for the Suez ship canal route learned the fact, un- 
known up to that time, that a bar or slight upheaval had become sufficiently ele- 
vated to cut off a large narrow body of water from the north end of the Red 
Sea, to which they saw evidence that it was originally joined. This elevation, 
which is about ten miles wide, was probably below the surface of the sea at the 
time Israel escaped from the bondage of Egypt; and, from the best evidence ac- 
cessible, it is in the immediate vicinity of the locality in which the Israelites 
crossed, and possibly furnished a highway for them. Thus science throws light 
upon the Bible. 
Christ spoke in parables because the prejudices of most of his hearers would 
not allow them to profit by undisguised truth. But when his disciples wanted to 
understand the parables, he clearly explained them. ‘There are many obscure 
references in the Bible to various points of physical science. If they were ex- 
pressed distinctly the world would not be prepared to receive them. Scientists 
are, through the study of nature, as we have seen, learning to see the force of 
some of them. But many scientists, like the most of Christ’s hearers, do not 
try to understand them, they seem to ignore them. Now, if we should as earn- 
estly desire to comprehend these dark allusions as the disciples did to under- 
stand Christ’s parables, would not the spirit—which Christ promised should teach 
us all things, and which directs us even in the temporal affairs of life—be given 
to enable us to comprehend the truths of science through the teachings of Scrip- 
ture? 
Many conclusions have been reached by students of nature which, if the 
Bible had been accepted as an instructor of science, might probably have been 
reached much earlier. According to the Nebular hypothesis, the earth was once 
in a molten state covered with a thin crust, aud this was so completely covered 
with water that no land appeared. Afterward, as the earth contracted, the crust 
sunk in some places and was thrust up in others, thus making mountains sepa- 
rated by valleys filled with water. This is clearly explained in Psalm CIV, 
where itreads; ‘‘Thou coverest the earth with the deep as with a garment; the 
waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy 
thunder (doubtless the rumbling thunder of an earthquake) they hasted away 
unto the place which thou hast founded for them.” 
It has been known for a brief term of years that there are wind currents from 
the poles to the equator and that counter currents carry the air back to the poles 
again. But not till more recently has it been known that thunder showers, _ 
storms extending across half a continent, and cyclones, are rotary, and that their 
winds move in a whirling, spiral motion toward the center. Both of these facts 
of recent science were, long ago, brought to light by the Preacher in these words: 
The wind goeth toward the south and turneth again unto the north; it whirleth 
about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits. 
In the very next verse we read: ‘‘ All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea 
