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meaning tram a very careless phrase, which, taken strictly, would brine the 
charge ot neglect of duty against the Holy Spirit of God. Confirmatory 
ot the remarks of one speaker, what higher testimony can there be to the 
dignity, truth and authority of all the Old Testament Scriptures, the Law 
und the rophets, than that the Son of God appeals to them as the great 
denning landmarks in the history of mankind? 
Modern science is a growing, thriving infant. But it is merely an infant 
* ' lh ° knowlcd S° ot the works °f nature, in the wisest of its students, is 
nit as a drop to the ocean, compared with His knowledge who is the Word 
and Wisdom of God, Who weighs the mountains in scales and the lulls in a 
balance. It is He who appeals to the words of Gen. ii. 24 as a voice and 
message ot His Heavenly Father, wherein is contained a law and message of 
I ivme authority for every later generation of mankind. Let us not add to 
His words by rash and hasty misinterpretation, lest He reprove us, and we 
be found liars. But neither let us take away from them, by weak and hasty 
concessions to the premature guesses of those who mistake inch-deep know- 
edge o the mysteries of nature, for full and perfect insight, or we may at 
.. fall under IIis sentence of grave rebuke, and be called “least in the 
kingdom of heaven.” 
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