strata, ready to be raised to the surface by the same enormous heat, when necessary.--Hutton.'

'The water was originally divided into lakes, at various elevations, where, having done their work of depositors of layers of shells, they began their descent, as down the steps of an amphitheatre, and finally found their way into the bed of the ocean.'Lamanon, Journal de Physique.

6 All was the work of remarkable tides. Tides of seven or eight hundred fathoms deep having carried off, from time to time, the matter lying at the bottom of the sea, threw it in the forms of mountains and hills, upon the original plains and valleys of the globe.'-Dolomieu.

'The earth is nothing but a heap of meteoric stones, which falling, from time to time, in the course of ages, contrive to agglutinate themselves together, and preserve the fragments of the different animals of the different stars! from which they were projected. And this amply accounts for the fossil remains of unknown animals.'-De Marschall.

The globe is a vast hollow, containing a vast magnet which is moved from pole to pole by the attraction of comets, thus constantly shifting the centre of gravity, and drawing up the waters of the surface after it; a process which perfectly accounts for deluges, tides, and every thing.'—Bertrand.

Such is the science! But the most curious feature of the whole is, that Cuvier, after honestly confessing that, by performances of this nature geology had become ridiculous,' himself adds to the list, by a cosmogony founded on the detection of the bones of lizards in the chalk-pits of Paris, which, as usual, 'perfectly establishes a succession of deluges,' &c.;

and this step being gained, as perfectly accounts, through them, for all deposits, fractures, stratifications, &c. &c.

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The ignorance of religion frequently exhibited by men of science, has long been a subject of astonishment; and the reason has been sought in some natural disability of the scientific mind for moral evidence. But this palliative is infirm. The truer reason is, that the ordinary race of men of science take their full share in the thoughtlessness, vice, and vanity of mankind. If the majority of them are deists, it is simply because the majority of mankind are content with the mere acknowledgment of a something above, which regulates the reason, and keeps the world together.' Christianity stands before the man of science, as it does before all other men, offering a testimony absolutely irresistible by the unprejudiced understanding. But the testimony is thrown away on eyes that will not see, and ears that will not hear; on minds too indolent or too busy to inquire; or too vicious, or too vain to comprehend.

The point of importance is, that the homage paid to the philosopher should not impair the higher homage due to religion; that the world should not be prejudiced against revelation, by folly covered with the cloak of wisdom.

The fact is unquestionable, that even distinguished

'With what a noble combination of philosophy and religion, Newton pronounces against thus degrading the idea of the Godhead. 'Hæc omnia,' &c. 'All those works formed by one Wisdom, belong to the dominion of ONE. He rules all-not as the soul of the world, but as the Lord of all; and from that dominion he is named the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. For God is a relative word, and refers to servants; and the divinity and sovereignty of God are not over his own body, as those think to whom he is but the soul of the world, but over his servants. Schol. Gener. Princep. Nutti. L. 3.

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accomplishment in science is consistent with marked deficiency in some of the noblest powers of the mind. The French philosophers of the last century were at the head of European science; but, from the moment when they left their diagrams, they were helpless in the hand of faction; they were moles bewildered in the sunshine; reversing the old process, they were first deceivers and then dupes; transferring themselves to statesmanship, they vitiated a reform into a revolution, in which the only remaining question is, whether the crimes exceeded the blunders, or the blunders the crimes? They hurried on from folly to folly, until they were rebuked by the scaffold, and perished, leaving to the world the moral of scientific vanity.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHRISTIAN
LADY'S MAGAZINE.

MY DEAR MADAM,

WILL you allow me, (unless the task be undertaken by a more able pen,) to offer a few remarks on the objections urged by your talented correspondent, G. E. M. against the “Memoir of Annie.”

Fully agreeing with her on the momentous and critical aspect of the present times, and the consequent necessity of circumspection on the part of the Lord's people, as to the sentiments they promulgate, -I am yet so convinced that the tendency of the memoir in question is likely to be beneficial, that I do not feel justified in allowing either conscious inferiority, or the persuasion of the purity of her motives, to prevent my attempting to counteract the unfavourable impression which may be produced by your correspondent's remarks upon it. If, in doing so, I allude to the opinions she expresses, it is not, I trust, with the intention of indulging or provoking disputation, but with the simple desire of assigning the reasons which induce me to enter a protest against them.

The simple statement of the fact, that it has pleased God to make this little memoir the means of conveying sweet encouragement and animating motives to prayer to myself, on the behalf of a beloved sister who has just become a mother, and that to her it has proved most strengthening, as a token of the

Lord's faithfulness in answering the believing prayers of his people for their offspring,-will demonstrate that some, at least, have to thank God for its insertion in your magazine. To the church in general, at a period when she is far, far more likely to dishonour her God by expecting too little from him, than to expose herself to disappointment by expecting too much; any record, which displays his ability to do for his people "exceeding abundantly, above all that they can ask or think," must be valuable: and while I admit the impropriety of attaching too much importance to apparent evidences of the power of his grace, especially in children, such evidences, when graciously vouchsafed in an uncommon degree, are to be regarded, not with suspicion or distrust, but rather as incentives to honor our God, by asking, and expecting from him more than our unbelief usually permits us to do. The whole tenor of the word of God, as well as its express declarations, proves that he deals with his people "according to their faith" whatever, therefore, elevates and confirms that faith, is the means of preparing them for the reception of more extended benefits. Evidences of the power of grace are eminently calculated to effect this and their value in this view cannot be lessened by the fact, that they, like every other gift of God, are liable to be abused, which they certainly must be, when their influence is prejudicial, either to parents or children.

I believe there are few christians who will not cordially agree with your correspondent in her convictions of the efficacy of the Saviour's atonement for infants who are removed hence before actual sin has been superadded to the original taint of our fallen