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of the air, the fish of the sea, and whatsoever pass- 

 eth through the paths of the seas." Monkeys and 

 apes were not, in his opinion, thus created; and 

 they formed no part of his anthropological collec- 

 tions. 



While he saw the power and goodness of God dis- 

 played in the outward works of Creation, in the 

 heavens the work of His fingers, and the moon and 

 the stars which He had ordained, he also saw with 

 equal clearness the same power and goodness dis- 

 played in God's Most Holy Word, revealed to man 

 through inspired prophets, evangelists, and apostles. 

 This he regarded as the great Moral Creation, and 

 he received it with reverence and unfaltering trust, 

 taking it from Genesis to Revelation as the man of 

 his counsel and the guide of his life. At the last 

 meeting of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, held in Brooklyn only five 

 weeks before his decease, he was present, and took 

 a prominent part in a prayer and conference meeting 

 held Sunday afternoon by some sixty of the mem- 

 bers. Remarking that he was the oldest member 

 present, having attended the meetings of the Asso- 

 ciation from the beginning, he gave this testimony, 

 as reported in the columns of the New York World: 

 " In all his travels," he remarked, " in the wilds, in 

 the jungle, and on the sea, he had always found a 

 church in his Bible. If Science had sometimes trav- 

 elled from the Bible truths, he had not. It was the 

 Inspired Word, and he had been led on by that 



