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The matter has been well summarized by a former pupil 

 of my own, now a missionary in India, Bev. A. B. Mac- 

 Duff, B.A. He says in effect : — 



1. The apparent universe is phenomenal. A reality 

 must be behind it. The things which are seen (the phe- 

 nomenal) are necessarily temporal, the unseen is the eternal. 



2. This reality must be persistent, not temporary. God 

 only hath immortality. 



3. This Divine reality must be incomprehensible in its 

 essence and in the extent of its working. " Canst thou by 

 searching find out God ?" 



4. 'But this incomprehensible reality is everywhere pre- 

 sent in the most minute as well as in the grandest pheno- 

 mena, in the fall of a sparrow as in the creation of a 

 planetary system. " Whither shall I go from thy presence ? 

 In Him we live and move and have our being." 



5. This infinite reality is more nearly akin to the spiritual 

 nature of man himself than to any other energy known to 

 us. It is, therefore, living, personal and free. " He that 

 made the eye shall He not see ?" 



So far the teaching of nature may carry any man willing 

 to be guided by his own senses and reason. Beyond this 

 lies the sphere of revelation, or that of direct communication 

 of the Divinity with man. With revelation nature has 

 nothing directly to do, except that it can see its possibility 

 — for juet as the Divine mind can reveal itself in the 

 instincts of an animal, so it must be able to influence and 

 inform the higher nature of man. 



Here, however, we can reach an easy and plain possible 

 solution of all the difficulties which half-informed men 

 heap up around the relations of science and revelation. 

 Given the admission that the phenomena of nature are not 

 merely imaginary but based on a reality, and given the 

 admission that the Divine reality has revealed Him- 

 self to inspired men or through a Divine Man, and suppos- 

 ing that scientific study on the one hand and Divine revela- 

 tion on the other may deal with the same phenomena, 

 certain conclusions as to their relations at once become 



