method of investigation and a greater reverence for facts. In truth we might almost say that science has been our "schoolmaster to lead us to Christi.e. to a really thoughtful appreciation of the lofty moral teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.

Science has been kind enough to perform an operation on the eyes of theology, and the happy result is that theology is now able to see whole regions of salutary moral truth which were formerly hidden from it. Theology used to blink facts terribly; and science has, in great measure, cured it of this sad defect. Science is to us something like the law was to St. Paul, excellent in its way, but not quite suited to our present religious needs. Science and Theology—the masculine and the feminine elements-have between them begotten and brought forth a strange precocious child, called liberal Christianity, whose odd ways and eccentric habits make its father and mother both inclined to regard it with indignant amazement, and declare that it cannot possibly be theirs.

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SEEKING FOR LIGHT.

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THE HIGHER AND THE LOWER FAITH.

Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. -John xx. 29.

MOST thoughtful and religious minds amongst us have, I imagine, frequently puzzled themselves over these words of our Lord to Thomas. To a super

ficial student they might suggest the idea that the faith of ignorance is higher than the faith of comprehension, and that our Lord meant deliberately to depreciate the value of honest and searching inquiry on religious subjects; it might seem that Christ praised credulity and condemned suspense of judgment or reasonable doubt: "Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed." What ground

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