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more will He clothe you, ye of little faith." 

 " And seek ye not what ye shall eat, or what 

 ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. 

 For all these things do the nations of the world 

 seek after ; and your Father knoweth that ye 

 have need of these things." It may be said 

 that Christ did not teach science. True, but 

 He taught truth ; and science, so called, when 

 it comes in conflict with truth, is what man is 

 when he comes in conflict with God. 



The advocates of these extreme opinions pro- 

 test against being considered irreligious. Her- 

 bert Spencer says, that his doctrine of an in- 

 scrutable, unintelligent, unknown force, as the 

 cause of all things, is a much more religious 

 doctrine than that of a personal, intelligent, 

 and voluntary Being of infinite power and 

 goodness. Matthew Arnold holds that an un- 

 conscious " power which makes for right," is a 

 higher idea of God than the Jehovah of the 

 Bible. Christ says, God is a Spirit. Holbach 

 thought that he made a great advance on that 

 definition, when he said, God is motion. 



The third method of accounting for the con- 

 trivances manifested in the organs of plants 

 and animals, is that which refers them to the 

 blind operation of natural causes. They are 



