it to appear. Like Jonah, to maintain their own pride of standing, they would have Him forget some part of the range of the covenant he is committed to.

Could some sceptic have discovered the centrifugal power of science, and have dovetailed it in his theology, what a carnival of the enemies of truth we should have had; what a fortune of abundant patronage and support would the world have accorded him ere this. "The world loveth its own."

The degradation of the race which continued after the flood, and was early marked in the sensualities of those who escaped it, rapidly worked, and had its only check in one silver stream of light to Melchizedek-when God took up Abraham, but only in promise, for its more especial earthly feature claims in the law. Melchizedek and his city of peace, under true priestly and civil rule, is a proof the serious judgment of the flood had stamped its results on saint-like minds, although no earthly tabernacle stood between man and the heavenly seat, whence the higher order and perfect call abides. Thus the heavenly calling was initiated before the day of its more finished power, the great hinge of time administrations, the going forth of Jesus after the descent of the Holy Ghost on Him at his baptism.* Nor did the higher branches of the prophetic call ever go to the "voice" within

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* Many errors have arisen from a false view of the time when God developed the highest administration, by supposing it at Pentecost to the church instead of by Jesus in his mission of grace and truth. Hence the error of Roman claims to alter by the church's authority the commands of Jesus. Here also arises the error of the Society of Friends . about the Spirit above the Word Jesus; so that they treat his commands in the sacraments with contempt. The church was baptised by the Spirit to occupy his place as the Cross bearer, for truth, as secondaries of the height only.

the veil, during the Jewish day. Then, only the Aaronic order, as the lower and national, received their instructions from Jehovah, but the rainbow arch of Isaiah's and Ezekiel's line ever came from, and were ministered to, as of the wilderness, direct from God over all. Their voice was God's thunder from the highest against priest and king of the throne and temple. This double aspect in Jesus is sustained as immutable throughout. How Moses obtained the creation synopsis is not important, its elements are so full, and yet so concise that on that alone, he can attest his absolute verbal inspiration. The very conception of such a thing, as giving a full key to all natural physics in so few sentences, is Almighty. It is thus cast before us on its own basis. On this ground sceptics madly attacked it. God will make it, certianly a brand of fire against them. A mene, mene,

tekel of science over them.

The spread of intellectual studies among the nations ere "Ichabod" became impressed on the Jewish forehead, may fully account for the state of things among the Greeks which, developed Hipparchus, a Ptolemy, or a Plato. They mark, not the rise, but the low-water-line of the tide of natural science by Gentile dilution. To see this point more fully, we shall return to the work of Professor Mitchell.

In the previous extract, this statement is included. "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" &c.

The reader of history has only to call to mind the past glory of Thebes, Tentyra, Palmyra, and On, as the remains existing to this day shew the traveller, and it will be evident, that if this was a correct

hypothesis on astronomical knowledge, it would be in contradiction to other labours in art and science. That there has been the retrogression of a "fallen estate" the evidence from Mr. Mitchell's own examinations and readings assert, and it is only one proof of how lamentably blinding prejudice is, even on able minds, that he did not see his own contradictions, or read it from a comparison of the records of ages. "There must have been a mightier age than that of Greece or Rome long ago."

Under the head of "The discoveries of the primitive ages 2nd chap., where we might have expected to find wondrous revelations based on clear records of fact, to prove his above assertions respecting astronomy, he says," When I reflect on the recent triumphs of genius,

When I stand on the shore of that mighty stream of discovery, which has grown broader and deeper as successive centuries rolled away, gathering in strength and intensity, until it has embraced the whole universe of God. I am carried backward through thousands of years, following the stream, as it contracts its course, till finally its silver thread is lost in the clouds and mists of antiquity.

NOTE.-A transcribed notice, from the London Illustrated News, March 21st, 1863, is interesting respecting the spread of science, from the time of the flood, and through Moses, and again in other countries, marks the age of low water mark in decline.

"At a general meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society held on Monday, the Right Hon. Lord Strangford, president, in the chair, a paper, by Dr. Kern, "On fragments of Aryabhatta, the celebrated Hindu mathematician," was read. These fragments prove conclusively that the sphericity and diurnal rotation of the earth had been correctly apprehended by that early Indian writer, who flourished at an epoch variously estimated by different investigators, but which must have been prior to A.D. 600, and has been placed as far back as B. C. 100."-(where acquired ?)

Here we find, at least, the believer in the Bible is best off, as the silver thread is not to him lost in clouds, but is an effulgent stream, on Moses' pen, shewing foundation beams about the first citation of atoms of superior opacity and inertia, gathered for a solid sphere, with and amid a refined measure in a heaven, medium, or womb for a scale stamp by chemical divergence, and the means of vital circulating variety of harmonious elements in light.

Moses, in his day, was at least correct, that the duplicate associations of mass in matter produced darkness, stillness, and opposition to the force of formative change, as well as on the place and end of the light weight in fire and flow to force motion.

Again our American friend wrote:

"I would fain stand at the very source of discovery, and commune with that unknown God-like mind which first conceived the grand thought, that even these mysterious stars might be read; and that the bright page which was nightly unfolded to the vision of man, needed no interpreter of its solemn beauties, but human genius." The energetic professor, who has passed now from this scene in another office, goes on further in his work than we need quote, with his beau-ideal of a first discoverer with no aid from revelation and says, "Thus resolved the unknown founder of science of the stars, his name and his country lost for ever." Surely we might expect he left some book, so anonymous; but no, the writer quotes no fact, on which to prove the man himself ever existed. He had no thought of Moses. Now Professor Mitchell was, I believe, no sceptic, his view is simply the crude imagination common to those who are orthodox on other points of scripture, and we only use his testimony to shew the real distinction, history demonstrates, between the gifts by the full

light of revelation, and the darkness, as usual, of tradition, from the voice of an enquirer who for his capacity, in astronomic thesis, has a ground of popular note.

Our mental optics are, however, confessedly, not equal to perceive, how, by the aid of an acknowledged mythic first discoverer, the onward and upward of astronomy with constant progression from the beginning is proved at all, however sweet the idea to the great besetting passion of our age, the pride of uninspired human genius.

Again he says:-"It is only when we remember, that from the very cradle of our race, strong and powerful minds have, in rapid and continuous succession, bent their energies upon the solution of this great problem, that we can comprehend how it is. that light now breaks upon us from the confines of the universe, dimly revealing the mysterious forms which lie yet half concealed in the unfathomable gulfs of space, &c."

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What sort of cradle these wondrous babes were rocked in we will not suggest, but as the marks left in time were "lost as a silver thread amid the clouds," it is scarcely likely they were human at all, but of the Mercury breed with Minerva for the nurse and Pluto for their grave digger-Charon attending the funeral obsequies as undertaker. The solidity of the impression made on the mind of the writer certainly gives us a good idea how the whole mythology of the ancients, Grecian or Hindoo, found their first existence among mankind. † This ideality, of a clever

"Planetary and Stellar Worlds," by Professor Mitchell of America.

+See a masterly chapter on the "Way of the Heathen" in Dr. Morrison's Religious History of Man.