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festation of a mind as powerful as prolific ? an 

 act of intelligence as sublime as provident ? 

 the marks of goodness as infinite as wise ? the 

 most palpable demonstration of the existence 

 of a personal God, author of all this; ruler 

 of the universe, and the dispenser of all good ? 

 This at least is what I read in the works of 

 creation.' And it was what he ever read, and 

 with profound awe and adoration. To this ex- 

 alted faith he was inflexibly loyal. The laws 

 of nature were to him the eternal Word of 

 God. 



" His repugnance to Darwinism grew in 

 great part from his apprehension of its atheis- 

 tical tendency, — an apprehension which I con- 

 fess I cannot share ; for I forget not that these 

 theories, now in the ascendent, are maintained 

 by not a few devout Christian men, and while 

 they appear to me unproved and incapable of 

 demonstration, I could admit them without 

 parting with one iota of my faith in God and 

 Christ. Yet I cannot but sympathize most 

 strongly with him in the spirit in which he 

 resisted what seemed to him lese-majesty 

 against the sovereign of the universe. Nor 

 was his a theoretical faith. His whole life, in 

 its broad philanthropy, in its pervading spirit 



