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court as not only devoid of positive evidence in its favor but as thoroughly disproved
and discredited by an oratorio of voices of all created things. That was a time,
however, in which the human mind has not degenerated to its present state of senility

and men in general were still capable of a logical course of reasoning. Furthermore,
they were nearer in chronology to a time when there had been great Divine
interpositions in the course of “nature,” as admitted by all reputable historians, which
rendered utterly untenable any Doctrine of Uniformity, the geological and historical

counterpart of biological evolutionism. We have no disposition to disparage the
amazing mechanical genius of our age. It would be folly and blindness to do so.
But we would observe that the age is mechanical and not philosophically logical, and
the dazzling toys and utilities which modern invention affords are but the fruitions and

effects derived from causes and principles wrought out by men of past generations
whose basic philosophy of life differed vastly from the shallow tinkerers who enter
into the fruits of their labors.

We stood in Westminster Abbey looking down at three slabs in the floor marking
the resting place of three great scientists, lying side by side. In the center was Sir
Isaac Newton, and on the right Sir Michael Faraday, and on the left Lord Kelvin (Sir
William Thompson ); the first, the father of modern physics and astronomy, whose

towering genius has never been equalled by mortal man, and whose findings today
stand as firmly as on the day they were discovered; the second, the father of modern
chemistry; and the third, the father of modern electrical engineering. We raised our
eyes to the ceiling of that imposing structure and uttered a prayer of thanksgiving for

the lives of these great men, who before their findings in science, had found Him of
Whom “Moses in the law and the prophets did write,” Whom to know is life eternal,
whose fear is the beginning of wisdom, in Whom, indeed, are hid all the treasures of
wisdom and knowledge. They believed implicitly in the written Word of God‟s

revelation and in the Incarnate Word of Whom it testifies.

The supply of and the demand for this type of wisdom and stability is very low in
our age, lower than it has ever been in the history of the world, unless it be that age

immediately preceding the deluge, to which Christ likened it. It is significant to note
that that age had also attained a high degree of mechanical efficiency. Superficial
cleverness, disingenuousness, subtlety, adroit flattery, and vitriolic slurs on everything

that pertains to the past are the stock in trade of the successful worldling. Dictators
and hierarchies in government, education and religion by an assiduous use of
mendacious propaganda, bombasticism and ridicule, foist their hell-begotten
philosophies, principles, and purposes upon a dumb-driven public. In the name of
liberty and liberality, Satan, the god of this world, through his puppets who control

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