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revelations cannot be antagonistic, for if so, we should have 
God in the Bible denying himself in nature. Antagonism, 
where it exists, must arise from insufficient knowledge, or 
from too hasty generalizations on the part of men, and by no 
means from contradictions in the revelations which God has 
given of himself. The revelation of God in Nature is cer- 
tainly not at all so full as the revelation of God in the Bible. 
Nature tells us that there is a God, and she tells us not a little 
also, of his wisdom, power, and goodness ; but toward the 
solution of such questions as the nature of Deity, the creation 
of the universe, the origin of evil, the possibility and the 
plan of pardon, Nature gives us no assistance. For satisfac- 
tory information upon such momentous questions as these, we 
must turn to that Book, one of the most striking evidences of 
the divine authority of which is, that it concerns itself almost 
entirely with the solution of enigmas, which humanity, in all 
ages, has attempted, but attempted in vain, to solve. Still, 
while Nature propounds many questions which she cannot 
answer, we are not on that account to ignore the information 
which she supplies regarding the works and ways of the 
Great Creator. Her revelations are not so extensive as those 
which the Bible contains ; but they are quite as authoritative, 
and quite as sacred. Once let the facts and the principles of 
Natural Science be firmly established, and they are revelations 
from God, as sacred as those commands which with his own 
finger Jehovah wrote on Sinai, or as that royal manifesto 
which Immanuel proclaimed from the Mount of Beatitudes. 
Hence the frequency with which the Biblical writers appeal to 
the revelation of God in Nature, and make that revelation the 
basis of the majestic superstructure which they were inspired 
to rear. Does Isaiah wish to strengthen the faith of the 
Lord's people in Jehovah's power ? He points them to the 
stars ; bids them remember who created, and who upholds 
them; and thus enforces, with resistless power, the lesson, 
that the Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends 
of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary, that there is no 
searching of his understanding. Does our Lord wish to 
animate his followers with confidence in the special providence 
of God ? He points them to the lilies, to the sparrows, and 
bids them trust in Him, without whose permission the lily 
fades not, and the sparrow falls not to the ground. And what 
we plead for now is, that Christ's followers should imitate 
prophets, apostles, and the Master himself, in recognizing 
God's revelation in Nature, and in using it in the interpreta- 
tion of his higher revelation in the Bible ; that they should 
thankfully accept of all the light which Geology can cast upon 
