BACON'S CHAIN OF SECOND CAUSES.

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While the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.-Essays, Chapter xvi., p. 106.

BEECHER-EVOLUTION NOT REVOLUTION.

A vague notion exists that Science is infidel, and that evolution in particular is revolutionary of the doctrines of the church. The theory of the evolution of the human race from an inferior race, not proved and yet provable, throws light upon many obscure points of doctrine and of theology that have most sadly needed light and solution.-Sermon," The Two Revelations."

BEECHER'S EULOGY OF SPENCER.

The ablest thinker of them all, and the ablest man that has appeared for centuries, Herbert Spencer, seems to have passed the winter solstice, and to be in a dawning spring and summer. Should his life be spared, I should not wonder at finding him the ablest defender of the essential elements of a rightly interpreted Christianity that has arisen. Not that I regard every part of his system with like favor, not that I should regard every station which he has established, and every position which he maintains, as true and safe. Not that. And yet, when by and by the bounds of knowledge are widened, and the interior more perfectly surveyed and settled, I think that Herbert Spencer will be found to have given to the world more truth in one lifetime than any other man that has lived in the schools of philosophy in the world. -Evolution and Religion, p. 126.

BEECHER'S JOHN THE BAPTISTS.

They (orthodoxists) think that the Goths and Vandals are upon us in the shape of Huxley and Spencer and Tyndall. These men are in the hand of God, and, though they know it

not, they are evangelizers, John the Baptists, clearing the path for the Messiah, who is to bring in a more glorious development of the nature of God to men; and yet thousands of persons are up in arms against them.-Sermon, "The True Test."-The Christian Union, September, 19, 1877.

BEECHER'S LIST OF CHRISTIAN EVOLUTIONISTS.

Dana, Le Conte, McCosh, Asa Gray, Mivart, the Duke of Argyle, the Bishop of London, et al.

BETHUNE ON BEING AN INFIDEL.

God forbid that I should for a moment hold true science to be in a quarrel with religion; that can never be. The God who made nature wrote the Bible; and I am not prepared to be an infidel as regards the one any more than the other.

BICKERSTETH SEES GOD MOLDING ADAM'S BODY.

He took some handfuls of dust and molded it

Within His plastic hands, until it grew

Into an image like His own, like ours,

Of perfect symmetry, divinely fair

But lifeless, till He stooped and breathed therein

The breath of life, and by His Spirit infused

A spirit endowed with immortality.

BOARDMAN DESCRIBES THE MAKING OF EVE.

I believe that this record of the genesis of woman is a Divine parable. Of course God could have performed on Adam a surgical operation, administering to him an anæsthetic. Nevertheless, I cannot help feeling that to take the story thus literally is . . . to degrade a solemn, profound parable into a grotesque, ridiculous affair, worthy to take its place . . . with . . . heathen legends, e.g., the birth of . . . Athena from the brow of Zeus. No, . . . the story .. Wearied with . . naming the animal creation, he (Adam) . . . falls into a profound slumber. It is the golden hour for Divine instruction; for it is in openeth their (men's) ear, and Wrapped in his deep slumber,

is a Divine parable.

. . visions . . . that God sealeth up their instruction.

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Eden's dreamer beholds the vision of his second self. He sees his Maker taking . . . out . . . one of his ribs, forming it into a woman, and presenting her in all her . . beauty to him. . . . Nor is it altogether a dream. Awaking, he beholds still standing by him the fair, blissful vision. -Geo. Dana Boardman, The Creative Week, 222 ff.

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BOARDMAN ON THE HYPOTHESISTS' SHIbboleth. Evolutionists use their shibboleth-" evolution "-very hazily, confounding it with transmutation, which is an utterly different thing. Evolution-if we use the word intelligently, not playing fast and loose with it—means unrolling. But you cannot unroll what has not been inrolled; you cannot evolve what has not been involved.-Ibid., p. 160.

BROWNING (MRS.) ON THE CLAY-EATERS.

For everywhere

We're too materialistic, eating clay

(Like men of the West) instead of Adam's corn

And Noah's wine; clay by handfuls, clay in lumps,

Until we're filled up to the throat with clay,

And grow the grimy color of the ground
On which we're feeding. Aye, Materialist
The age's name is, God Himself with some
Is apprehended as the bare result

Of what His hand materially has made.

BRYANT ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

There is an attempt to make science, or a knowledge of the laws of the material universe, an ally of the school that denies a separate spiritual existence, etc.; in short, to borrow of science weapons to be used against Christianity. The friends of religion, therefore, confident that one truth never contradicts another, are doing wisely when they seek to accustom the people to think and weigh evidence, as well as to believe. Wm. Cullen Bryant to Bishop Vincent concerning C. L. S. C.

BURR ON A THOROUGHGOING-FOE.

Founded by, claimed by

supported by, used exclusively in the interest of Atheism; suppressing every jot of evidence of the Divine existence, and so making a positive rational faith in God impossible; the doctrine of evolution may well be set down as not only a foe to Theism, but a foe of the most thoroughgoing sort.-E. F. Burr, Pater Mundi.

BUSH'S EXEGESIS OF GENESIS II., 7.

We are not to suppose that any such process was actually performed by him as breathing into the nostrils of the inanimate clay which he had molded into the human form. This is evidently spoken after the manner of men; and we are merely to understand by it a special act of Omnipotence imparting the power of breathing or respiration to the animal fabric that he had formed, in consequence of which it became quickened and converted into "a living soul," i.e., a living and sentient creature.

Suppose that it were implied in the natural immortality of brutes that they must arrive at great attainments, and become rational and moral agents; this would be no difficulty, since we know not what latent powers and capacities they may be endowed with. If pride causes us to deem it an indignity that our race should have proceeded by propagation from an ascending scale of inferior organism, why should it be a more repulsive idea to have sprung immediately from something less than man in brain and body, than to have been fashioned, according to the expression in Genesis, "out of the dust of the ground "?-Bishop Butler.

CARLYLE SIZES UP THE DARWINS.

A good sort of man is this Darwin, and well meaning, but with very little intellect. I have known three generations of Darwins, grandfather, father and son-atheists all.

CARLYLE ON DARWIN'S CLAM-SHELL.

The brother of the famous naturalist, a quiet man who lives not far from here, told me that among his grandfather's effects he found a seal engraven with this legend: "Omnia ex conchis" (" Everything from a clam-shell.")

CARLYLE ON DARWIN'S MONKEY ENGLISHMEN.

I saw the naturalist not many months ago; I told him that I had read his " Origin of Species," and other books, and that he had by no means satisfied me that men were descended from monkeys, but that he had gone far toward persuading me that he and his so-called scientific brethren had brought the present generation of Englishmen very near to monkeys.

CARLYLE ON A PURBLIND GENERATION.

So-called literary and scientific classes in England now proudly give themselves to protoplasm, origin of species, and the like, to prove that God did not build the universe. Ah! it is a sad and terrible thing to see nigh a whole generation of men and women, professing to be cultivated, looking around in a purblind fashion, and finding no God in this. universe. I suppose that it is a reaction from the reign of cant and hollow pretense.

CARLYLE ON THE GOSPEL OF DIRT.

And this is what we have got; all things from frog-spawn; the gospel of dirt is the order of the day. The older I grow, and I now stand on the brink of eternity, the more comes back to me the sentence in the Catechism, which I learned when a child: "What is the great end of man? To glorify God, and enjoy Him forever." No gospel of dirt, teaching that men have descended from frogs, through monkeys, can ever set that aside.-New York Tribune, November 4, 1876. Extract from conversation with Carlyle, quoted in London Times.