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The doctrines of the new gospel — conscience a changing product of evolution 

 — no judgment after death and no judge to sit on a throne of judgment — no heav- 

 en — no immortality of personal existence — are found to be tending rapidly toward 

 the destruction of morality and the extinguishment of civilization. 



At first these results do not so clearly appear because the horrible doctrines 

 do not immediately displace the settled Christian faith; but soon the tree will bear 

 a heavy crop of communists, nihilists, assassins and leprous, lustful robbers, and 

 the people will turn in horror to the sublime old Bible-morality, whose fruit is 

 always wholesome and good. 



5. Still further, the popular mind cannot reject the testimony of Christians to 

 supernatural experiences in their lives. That Luther, Bunyan, Edwards, White- 

 field, Wesley, Spurgeon, Moody and millions upon millions more, all agreeing 

 perfectly in their soul-cheering testimony, are unworthy of belief will not be 

 credited by sane and sober minds. The theory of probabilities makes it absurd. 



IN CONCLUSION, 



Therefore, we boldly predict that the end of this form of infidelity is at hand. 

 Its decline has long since begun. While science advances, scientific infidelity 

 will perish ; and the form of the Almighty Creator, behind the material creation, 

 will appear with ever increasing definiteness, grandeur and glory. Science and 

 revelation (nature and the supernatural) belong together. The truths of science 

 will surround supernaturalism as the cloud on Olivet surrounded the risen and 

 glorified body of the Redeemer, and went heavenward with him. Science is the 

 luminous cloud; the risen body of Christ is the miracle. Both together, they 

 rise toward heaven and carry mankind with them. 



ASTRONOMY. 



COMETS. 



BY W. W. ALEXANDER, KANSAS CITY. 



They derive their name from a Latin word meaning hair, and are a singular 

 ■class of celestial bodies (probably belonging to the solar system) from which long 

 trains of light, called " tails," extend out, similar in appearance to hair streaming 

 in the wind. When they are seen with the naked eye they consist of three parts 

 nucleus, coma and tail; the different parts are not entirely distinct but blend into 

 each other by insensible degrees. 



The nucleus always appears the same, no matter what its position is relative 

 to the earth and and sun /. e., it presents no phases similar to the moon or planets. 

 This prov-es the nucleus to be self-luminous, or of some transparent substance 



