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confess with David, “ Such knowledge is too wonderful for 
me • it is high, I cannot attain unto it ” ? “ The darkness hideth 
not from Thee ; hut the night shineth as the day : the darkness 
and the light are both alike to Thee. For Thou hast possessed 
my reins : Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 1 
will praise Thee ; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : 
marvellous are thy works ; and that my soul knoweth rig 
well. My substance was not hid from Thee when I was 
made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts ot 
the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being un- 
perfect; and in Thy book all my members were written, which 
in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none ot 
The assertion “ that the gradual reduction of all phenomena 
within the sphere of established law carries with it as a con- 
sequence the rejection of the miraculous/' upon which asser- 
tion modern rationalism has invaded the domain of theology 
and natural philosophy, has only to be brought face to tace 
with the highest inductions of modern science to meet its own 
refutation. We are not required to banish God, to banish a 
Creator from the physical world, to cultivate with freedom the 
revelations of modem science. The assumed laws which re- 
place design by rigid fate, crumble before a calm, dispassionate 
investigation. As men of science, we can say that we believe 
not only that God created us and all things ; we can confess 
even with heathen poets of old, - that in Him we live and move 
and have our being." That no disbelief in the miraculous, no 
knowledge of correlation of forces, no conservation of vis 
vitce compels us to deny that “ He left not Himself without 
witness in that He did good, and gave us ram from heaven, 
filling our hearts with food and gladness.” Our philosophy 
still allows us with simple hearts to pray, “ Give us this day 
our daily bread.” We can still believe that no sparrow can 
fall from heaven without our Heavenly Father s knowledge 
and will. Nay, the more we know, the more deeply we in- 
vestigate the phenomena of nature, the more are we compelled 
to admit our own ignorance. “ Hardly do we guess arig a 
things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the 
things that are before us.” Laws of nature we confess with 
Hooker, have in them “ more than men have as yet attained 
to know, or perhaps ever shall attain, seeing the travail o 
wading herein is given of God to the sons of men, that per- 
ceiving bow much tbe least thing hi tbe world bath in 1 n * ( /\ e 
tban tbe wisest are able to reach unto, they mig J lS 
means learn with humility." Humbly we confess, wit is op 
Butler, “ other orders of creatures may perhaps be let into tne 
