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NOS. 5 & 6 . 
To 
a Brown Thrush. 
statement, and that I 
was AAolling to 
“As rich as iieck-chaiiis of wiiite pearls, 
Thy wonderful chants unto me !” 
Thus, pout applauded dance-girls; 
Weird singer, such praise befits thee. 
Sing blithely, where blossoming rows, 
Sweet-scented, embower endeared place, 
Where, hushing the neighborhood, flows 
Thy river of musical grace. 
Could language embalm thy rare arts, 
Could print voice thy singing, this page 
Would thrill nature-worshiping hearts 
Till time felt the palsy of age. 
Enthroned on yon tall, wind-harp tree, 
Thou warblest thy various tunes, 
Re-echoing songs heard by thee 
In days of lost Mays and lost Junes. 
Apollo let thee sip the wine 
Of fabled fount, music’s own source :— 
Thou’rt thrilled by the gift most divine— 
Of singing—and curbless its force. 
—Inter-Ocean. 
EVOLUTION ; 
Its Phases, Theories, and Relation to 
Religion and Modern Science. 
BY “FRANCIS.” 
Continued from JYo. 4. 
TNCE I made the statement that 
the question of Evolution, now so 
earnestly agitated, might be con¬ 
clusively argued and settled without 
the least reference to the Scriptures, I 
have beeii met by several scientists 
who have rather laughed at the idea. 
But you will remember that I said I 
was about to make a somewhat ])old 
abide ^the consequences; so, when I 
have been questioned about my belief 
in this matter, I have stated m 3 ^ belief, 
and liave as yet found none to tell me 
that it is groundless. 
Suppose, for the time being, that 
science has sufficiently ratified the the- 
oiy to warrant its acceptance; that the 
onlv opposing element is the inspiring 
word of the Creator. Were I to sajq 
as too mnny men have said, that Ave 
must throw aside this Bible of ours, 
and take the scientific hypothesis as 
truth; were I to sav, as it has been 
said to me, that the Bible is a very su¬ 
perstitious book, written in a super¬ 
stitious age, and by a superstitious peo¬ 
ple; and that in this enlightened age 
it is not wortlpy of belief; were I to tell 
you this I should expect that you 
would be utterL disgusted with me, but 
I should expect to be more disgusted 
with myself No! Rather than assert 
that we must believe science in contra¬ 
diction to the Bible; rather than to say 
that we must even believe either one, 
to the contradiction of the other, I say 
most emphaticallv believe both. Sci¬ 
ence has never yet brought forward 
any grand theorv and substantiated it, 
but that theory has proven a still 
stronger corrobation of the Bible. 
Wh}^ it is only to the sceptical student 
that creation is a mj^steiy; what to his 
mind is a most unsolvable Avonder, is 
made perfecth^ clear to the Christian 
