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Show Hjil I, I 111 I The whole history is but another evidence of HTl 1 f n I how hard it is to overcome that ignorance which BH i S ill 'I jj , 1 It ' ! men hug to their souls when it is mixed up with H I I i I, i a religious faith, and with but crude ideas cling H ' I I rl i; I to tnem despite the lights of solence and the clear IB!' i II i proofs of mathematics. Even so learned a man Br ! i as Hugh Miller, unable to reconcile some direct HI I I j statements in the Bible with the clear history Hg'i . f JM which nature had printed upon the rocks, commit- H I ' p ted suicide. He did this .too, after he had pub- HM 1 fl. j lished his beautiful explanation that the days re- Kj ; ) Jj j ferred to in the first chapter of Genesis really Hi I if meant periods through which the earth had passed Hh i ! I f Hi in its formation stages. HI j ? i This, too, in the face of the fact that the more Kj I If' science Is explored the easier it is to understand HI I ; I I I much that Is obscure In the Scriptures. The mean-Si mean-Si I"1 I I ing of the last chapter of Eccleslastes is apparent Hs II ! to any one who stops to reflect for a moment and HI 1 t many of the beautiful allegorical figures in Job Hi II tM are Increased fourfold in beauty and power by HI l I ; fj the scientific discoveries of the past century. m II I . I When man first kindled an electric light he made m If , clear "whence the light cometh," and all men in Bj , I If ? the arid belt know "the treasures of the snows." Hj, I '. The more learning a mortal compasses the Hi j II more he Is like the Infinite who knows all things Hiij I j. and it Is but superstition to assume that the Crea-H" Crea-H" 1 I j tor will not welcome any searcher who woulg Hj I II I t pry into Nature's secrets, for the more that Is H I li I I revealed, the more magnificently shines out the Hlli IS I'll Creator's work. |