ding altogether away from the = laudable course of confessing into his proper spiritual pro-et, after all, it will not retrieve haracter confessedly damaged. ndness and shortsightedness. ue and natural consequences. se be generally accepted. He further controversy, as inconcause he finds himself unequal best case, he is, by his own an infirmity. He has been d how? By a process, let it are inevitable under the same Itive Christian teacher having ientific truth in dealing with 7, or of any merely human selves; no: but darkness of man perceive. With regard the notio Now, on the other such sciences, either as taking the shape cesses current and in movement, or as ta applied to processes past and accomplishe indeed, gives the succession of natural general outline of such a succession will b as geology advances. But as to the tim cessive evolution, it is the idlest of n either have, or could have, condescended awful a prologue to the drama of this more have indulged so mean a passion w rious inauguration of the world, than th to its mysterious close. "Yet the six But is it possible that human folly shoul standing, by the Mosaical day, the myst agency which moulded the heavens and th than the ordinary nychthemeron or cycle of period implied in a day, when used in 1 manifestation of creative power in that vas God to man in the character of a demiurgu indicated one stage amongst six; involving of years. The silliest of nurses in her nu suppose that the mighty process began on ended on Saturday night. If we are seri and scriptural acceptation of scriptural w sume that our first business will be to collat in one part of Scripture, with their use in same spiritual relations. The creation, for i to the earthly or merely historical record records of the Bible; to the same category, t tic sections of the Bible. Now, in those, a do we understand the word day? Is any biblical language as not to know, that (exce cal parts of the Jewish records) every secti and separate acceptation in the Scriptures? Grecian word, bear scripturally (either in 1 pe of histories, applied to pros taking the shape of theories hed. The Mosaic cosmogony, ral births; and probably the 1 be more and more confirmed ime, the duration, of this suc- notions that the Scriptures ed to human curiosity upon so his world. Genesis would no n with respect to the mystethe Apocalypse with respect ix days of Moses!" Days! ould go the length of undermysterious day of that awful d the heavenly host, no more le of twenty-four hours? The in relation to the inaugural vast drama which introduces urgus, or creator of the world, Iving probably many millions nursery babble could hardly non a Monday morning, and seriously to study the value al words and phrases, I preCollate the use of these words in other parts, holding the for instance, does not belong cords, but to the spiritual ry, therefore, as the prophese, and in the Psalms, how any man so little versed in xcept in the merely historisection of time has a secret es? Does an con, though a in Daniel or in St John) the seventy weeks of the prophet mean the Psalms (xc.) sense attached innumerable int days in Daniel, o bility, periods of was as mystical, language, as that The sum of th sublimely describe expression, the sa knoweth the darkı man be more gran Not surely of those himself, but of thos from heaven, must On this prin ness. But essentially the a revealed astronomy such astronomy or ment which I have would counteract oth such astronomy or g none. Consequently subjects between the JOAN OF A IN REFERENCE TO M. MICHELET'S H WHAT is to be thought of her? Wh the poor shepherd girl from the hill raine, that-like the Hebrew shephe and forests of Judea-rose suddenly of the safety, out of the religious deep pastoral solitudes, to a station "Arc:"-Modern France, that should kn myself, insists that the name is not D'ArcNow it happens sometimes, that if a person, his access to the best information, will content matism, striking the table with his fist, and "It is so, and there's an end of it," one bows d But if, unhappily for himself, won by this doc ably into reasons and arguments, probably of against him that may never be crushed; for in skirmish, perhaps, as well as he. Had he confin he would have intrenched his position in darkn own vulnerable points. But, coming down to light, and one sees where to plant the blows reason of modern France for disturbing the old r Jean Hordal, a descendant of La Pucelle's br Darc in 1612. But what of that? It is notorio ter of spelling Providence had thought fit to disb seventeenth century was all monopolised by pr was not a printer ARC.* "S HISTORY OF FRANCE. What is to be thought of hills and forests of Lorpherd boy from the hills -nly out of the quiet, out s inspiration, rooted in ion in the van of armies, know a great deal better than in the fields of logic one can ptorious that what small mat and to the mo was read by tho to the gentle g of weakness-didst and honour from Honours, if they co share thy blood.* titude of thy king s "Those that share thy subsequently ennobled by |