If we are not of necessity moving on to some particular end in life which must be realized; if the measure of our responsibility is only here; if we are not to be concerned about the future-that which is after death; then may we be contented with the conclusions of science. I say not her facts, but her conclusions. The facts of science ever remain, but not so the often unsound conclusions of her advocates.

If what conduces to comfort and success here is the chief aim; if we are not required to arrive at certainties in matters of another scene; if we need not be troubled with doubts of the correctness of many theories and conclusions, then we need not refuse the wisdom of this world:we can enjoy it or not as it suits our pleasure or profit. If there are no eternal realities, we need not be disturbed by fears of evil consequences, lest, peradventure, their conclusions be false. What matters it if the conclusions of the wise men of the earth are false, if we are nothing more than creatures of time ? seeing that neither they nor we are any the worse for the error, since our practical lives are affected neither for the better nor for the worse thereby. Let the nebular hypothesis be true, if it be so that man has no account to render to God. Let evolution be true and the Bible false, if it be that we are not subject to authority. If man does not fear an eternal destiny, and has no account to give of his sins, what matters it what the Bible says, or what the philosophers say ? In that case, it matters little indeed.

But suppose we must know about eternity, about the consequences of our sins, how to get right with God ? Then we feel that it does matter what men say. Then we fear to trust the conclusions of science. Then we have no confidence in the wise men of the earth. When we seek knowledge that will leave us with a sense of having arrived at certainties, we no longer look to science. We need a voice higher than science, a voice from God Himself. If I must rest upon something certain for truth of eternity, of my responsibility to God, I find no resting-place outside of God. Himself has spoken. And there I find all that my mind and soul require for perfect rest and peace. In the Bible I find what carries conviction with it, and leaves me with a feeling of having found that which deals with certainties, and tells me infallibly of God and my responsibility. The conclusions of science leave no convictions on the mind about the very things that are of chief importance to me. But the Bible leaves nothing to be desired. When Paul says he was made "a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth" we are convinced that it is so. The conclusions of science foster distrust and doubt:the Bible produces faith-trust- confidence. Science fosters errors about eternal things-things beyond its ken:the Bible presents truth. I cannot rest in peace on what the wise men say, but I find perfect peace in resting on the truth of Scripture. The Bible tells me I am a sinner in God's sight; but it also tells me that Jesus died for sinners. It tells me that I am lost if left to myself; but it also tells me that by simply trusting in Jesus I am eternally saved. It tells me that I am a child of wrath by nature; it also tells me that by believing on God's beloved Son I am born again and made a child of God, and the Spirit of adoption in me makes me cry, Abba, Father. Let men "rest" in the uncertainties of scientific conclusions if they will; but faith shall go on meanwhile, resting in the precious assurances of Scripture. Let unbelief drift on-it matters not where. Faith knows that we are facing a future of tremendous importance, that we must be prepared for it, and that only the Bible gives us the infallible information required, and hence that we are not free to choose as it may please us, but that it is a matter of being guided by God's word to life and bliss above; or, refusing its light, to spending eternity in darkness and woe. Solemn things, these! F. H. J.