that the world is grown too wise to believe in the old doctrines.
One cannot blame them, cannot even be surprised at them. So many
wonderful truths (for truths they are), of which our fathers never
dreamed, are discovered every year, that none can foretell where the
movement will stop; what we shall hear next; what we shall have to
believe next.

Only, let us take refuge in the text--'In the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth.' All that we see around us, however
wonderful; all that has been found out of late, however wonderful;
all that will be ever found out, however still more wonderful it may
be, is the work of God; of that God who revealed himself to Moses; of
that God who led the children of Israel out of their slavery in
Egypt; of that God who taught David, in all his trouble and
wanderings, to trust in him as his guide and friend; of that God who
revealed to the old Prophets the fate of nations, and the laws by
which he governs all the kingdoms and people of the earth; of that
God, above all, who so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that the world by him might be saved.

This material world which we do see, is as much God's world as the
spiritual world we do not see. And, therefore, the one cannot
contradict the other; and the true understanding of the one will
never hurt our true understanding of the other.

But many good people have another fear, and that, I think, a far more
serious one. They are afraid, in consequence of all these wonderful
discoveries of science, that people will begin to trust in science,
and not in God. And that fear is but too well founded. It is
certain that if sinful man can find anything to trust in, instead of