10. God is responsible for such a general law of sequence. With perfect freedom to use the good cause, only, man has no right to complain of this order. The sequence mostly occupying the attention of geologists, lies below the line of moral law.

11. The ancients evidently viewed God often through the laws of sequence. This is the key to the interpretation of such passages as couple the actions of wicked men in vice, with God's action. This view of the Maker present in the law He has made, has its good purpose in the Christian education; but if it is all the view we choose to take of God, His moral character will suffer in our minds, unjustly to be sure, but nevertheless real.

12. Such is the study of geology without God. Better never touch it, than to trust to our powers of reasoning, forgetful of his claims upon us. To the true worshiper, this study will be one of great profit, especially if commenced upon the hypothesis according with the leading principles, revealed upon creation. In such case, the study will be emphatically to us the "Foot prints of the Creator.".

QUESTIONS.

1. What is man without the Bible? Where is this especially true?

Which way is the geologist too apt to look?

Of what unmindful?

To what does he confine his researches?

2. How does he classify?

Where does he place the incomprehensible? What do all such finally become?

Does not such a view entirely exclude the idea of God's providence or sovereignty ?* What is this attempt?

Of whom does nature speak?

What does the skeptic do with first causes?

3. What does his mind become?

When does he count himself a scientist?

What has Paul said of them?

4. What harm will result?

What would be better?

5. On the other hand what is true? What should it not prevent?

6. What are we to enter?

By what surrounded?

What does each effect have?

What do we notice?

What motions?

7. To what do we trace the power?

Mention the intermediate steps to the fountain?

8. Have we reached, in the human mind, the first cause of all these effects?

What is the first?

What effect should the laws of sequence have upon us?

What inheres to moral action?
Why?

9. What is said of God?

What of results?

In what sense is it used?
What freedom is given us?
What is the law governing?
10. Who made the law of sequence?

Why has man no right to complain?

What kind of sequence mostly occupies the minds of geologists?

11. How did the ancients often view God and speak of Him?

To what is the above explanation a key?

To whom is the view an essential part of education?

12.

To whom will it be an injury?

What remark is made?

When would we be better off without the

study?

What to the true worshiper?

What will increase it?

What will the study be to such ?

Is this all, or the most we need to know of

God ?*

GOD AS SHOWN IN CHEMICAL

AFFINITIES.

LESSON XVII.

"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things, which are seen, were not made of things which do appear."-Heb. 11: 3.

1. Chemical affinity is the tendency of one ele

ment to unite with another.

would still reign. With the

But for this, chaos

creation of each

primary gas, a law was given, assigning to each one its proportion of some other gas. This is called its equivalent.

2. The mode of uniting was also given. Thus, nitrogen could select its equivalent of oxygen, and, without the intervention of a third agent, become air. But this is not the case with the

union of oxygen and hydrogen. They unite only by the aid of the fiery spark, and water is the result.

3. Four leading gases make the greater part of matter of our globe. These are oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon. The union of the first two, in the proportion of twenty-one to seventy-nine parts, gave us our atmosphere. Though it has been for millions of years depositing itself in consolidated and organized form upon the earth, it still remains to us life-sustaining and invigorating. We miss none of its parts.

4. Our atmosphere had once to contend with carbonic acid gas, in untold quantities. Until these gases were deposited, in an organized form upon the earth, warm blooded animals could not exist. The agent by which all this has been brought about, is called chemical affinity. It is God's minister in the organization of matter.

5. This is the agent, not only by which our atmosphere was combined in its creation, but by which it has been cleared of noxious, deadly elements. The atmosphere emerged from chaos, loaded with the material for the coal measures. Affinity was God's great purifier, in manufacturing coal.

6. By this agent, the element of water has become so universally diffused, as to allow of human habitation on more than four-fifths of the