mind for the body it dwelt in, and was practically proved in some wondrous act of fellowship with God the Father acting in all, that he became manifest to his disciples, at last, as the same "Word" by whom all things are made from the eternal Spirit's creative energy. Of course this brought out, and only increased the enmity of the jealous, the mean, the selfish, the inveterately time-serving and worldly, until the intensity of the animosity, having no hindrance, put forth by his miraculous power, (or God's, as his faithful protector,) brought Him to that mock character of trial the age was prolific in among the governments of the day, and his atoning blood streamed over the earth He had blessed, with the voice of One commanding the resurrection of the dead. But here was the finish to the grandeur of the plan for sovereignty in moral glory, sealed. (DEUT. xxxiii. 21.) It fulfilled the Scriptures as to God's own abstract claims on just law for the guilty in substitution. This was made plain by his resurrection and teaching after it, and in that light, his history and its purpose was to be proclaimed over all the earth. Hence, love to God's word was secured in restorative relations to numbers over that surface; and thus gradually the conflict of the constantly arising, Christ-hating, opponents of truth, to undermine this "love-kinged" influence and its spread, has only added to the active force of all the means of grace, simple and direct in his followers, to search out all the treasuries of truth therein revealed. The geological, phrenological, arithmetical, political, and statistical labours of sceptics are therefore only the infallible sin-slave's free agencies, (so called,) which, by the law of moral action and reaction, raise the triumphs of the eternal Word of God, which, whether it be to enlighten intellectually

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on God's wondrous creative power of simplicity and wisdom, or other line, "has gone out from his mouth," and the termination of the age will not come, until it has, as appointed for it, under the commands to "Search the Scriptures," and "Blessed is he who hath not seen, yet hath believed," accomplished the work whereunto it is sent. It is of no use therefore for Christians to shrink from studies of difficulty. The prayer of Jesus, and that of Paul, are both yet on the boards of the heavenly altar before God for the Church's attainment. (JOHN xvii. 17., EPH. iii. 14, 19.) It is for her glory and honour the wicked are allowed their character of freedom to work the works of hell.-ROм. v. 3. There must be heresies as trial tests (MATT. xviii. 7.) on faith and grace.

The earth's log-book ought to be kept correctly, because God is seen in all history. The discoveries connected with the magnificent fleet of coursers which form part of, or are steered by the "milky way," with all the laws of the material heaven, are points worthy of this. God works in all. He is there in every speck, speaking about Christ to man. On the ennobling platform of thought, in which the elevating influences of this study are ever held, Professor Mitchell of America said, "No one science perhaps, so perfectly illustrates the gradual growth, and development of the powers of human genius; the movement of the mind has been constantly onward: its highest energies have ever been called into requisition, and there never has been a time when astronomy did not present problems, not only equal to all man could do, but passing beyond the limits of his greatest intellectual vigour. Hence, in all ages and countries, the absolute strength of human genius, may be measured by its reach to unfold the mysteries of the stars."

As to the sublimity of the science we agree with this report, and it must be self-apparent what the mischief must be, if in our schools, all the instruction be an effort to inculcate the idea, that these successes, such as they may really have been from the first start and rise, had their rich foundations of enquiry laid by the heathen, instead of the Almighty Revealer, and his servants the Prophets.

The enormous mischief of what pertains by such idea, is proved in the practical result, that the names of heathen devils are always chosen to designate the stars, let a modern discoverer and his Mæcenas use what influence they may to alter the custom. Yet we have already shewn, despite this prejudice in favour of the lower order of classics, that what the Egyptians and Greeks knew not, Job, David, and others did, as well as Moses, so as to engraft their views for the correct, scientific illustrations of their spiritual songs and poems for which object true views of nature are required. Solomon, the man of fullest attainment in such studies, has had but a small part of his writings preserved: a sufficient proof of what constancy there was for progress in these topics alone, by the measure of fitness in his successors to be the librarians.

Let us conduct prince or peasant, lady-philosopher seeking pure instruction for her young pupils, or acknowledged savant into a small part of this fretted tomb of the past youth of science, filled with the sweet scent of almond flowers, and the dried leaves of Sharon's ever fragrant rose, the bloom of the pomegranate, with its vegetable rubies of Eden, enclosed in a hanging golden casket, studded also with the finest faceted jewels of creation's testimony to love and thought, and in a few of the driest sentences of these sage spirits, we shall find, notwithstanding

their failures in practice, some serious principles about astronomic resources, with those of general physics. The sublime simplicity, and unique cooperative power in the vapour-rising and condensing forces of light, with gravitation particularly developed as the law of the solid, are distinctly recorded in the following passage, shewing how certainly the centrifugal force, used by God over all, was known to the wisest king of the East, to be the same, we proved, by the laws of certain thermal ratios according to mass-draft and chemical associations, in the first parts of this work, and the law of calorific discharge, according to the mass pressure of the body, ever demanding an equal supply from without. Our first essays on Thermal Dynamics of 1860 and 1861, Solomon says, "What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about toward the north, it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again to its circuits; all the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full, unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.”

NOTE. It must be ever useless for Christian writers to enter the lists against sceptics, if they allow themselves to be outdone by them, in keeping truthfully to the simple grammatical necessities of the text, or to own a principle which they give up when it suits their own difficulty. For instance, if we own, as has been done by one writer for the faith, that when a numeral order of enclosed measures, or fences, is used, that order is to be kept; of course, it is as absolute for the first, whether a day of Genesis, a horse, or a seal of the Apocalypse, as of the following. Otherwise the first is not first, and the second cannot therefore be second, &c.,

Simple as these facts appear (as was necessary for their purpose to illustrate a book of popular proverbs,) yet the grand law of evolution by efflux and afflux, in the universally sustained return of the hydrostatic level in the winds, waves, and currents of fresh water, in one constant circle of the diurnal and annual period, shews how fully the writer grasped the creation system of gravitating impulses under the chemical solutions of light for constant restorations; that only sweetener of the old in nature; only sustainer of motion against gravitation settlement to equilibrium. But here comes the struggle for wisdom with modern men of science. Did this teacher only imagine a recurring action and draft in all tide-law? (as they have hitherto, of nature performing a giration of circles by her own attained measures,) or the truth of eternal supply and support in the new for its need?

This point is settled when we notice one corrected part of the translation, found in the marginal rendering. Then shines forth in a rich ray of light, the mental power of the Sage of the olden East, as it streams out in one significant phrase, proving his easy grasp of the true means to all this force, for the circle of nature in her changes, by the one centrifugal force. Increase in mass, and of fire by it. I once heard it said of some old woman, that on her first trip by train, she exclaimed of the steam locomotive, "See how the poor thing puffeth and bloweth!" and if the first whole is not that one whole, apart and complete, there can be no rule for the others. Hence, also, if full value for the ellipsis is not admitted, that God saw extant, and good, to the state for the age or day, as a cosmogony, all before the evening and morning of that first day, all statements are untrue on the numerals for every part of each day, so as to place it in the comparative parts the whole time enclosed. The two parts of the third for

instance.