It is true that infidels have often brought forward some branch of Science in confutation of Scripture, but it is also a fact that in nearly every such case, the very arguments that have been used by these men, have at last become the strongest arguments on the other side. Geology was at first adduced as a proof that the world had existed from all eternity, instead of having been created by an Omnipotent God, and the question had often been asked, "Can you produce one proof of the creation of anything?" Now this was a difficult question to answer, until Geology made manifest the fact that Man was created, by producing a clear and unimpeachable proof that up to a certain time, he did _not_ exist on the earth, and that at a period of time, a little later, he _did_ exist; the space between these epochs is not known, but it has nothing to do with the argument, for within that period (whatever it may have been) Man _was_ created, and created as perfect in his physical organisation as he is at present--no long series of developments from the higher animals by fortuitous circumstances, as some pretend--no gradual addition of parts to suit the physical changes of the earth's surface. There is undoubted proof from the oldest records, in the form of Sculptures, that Man's appearance has always been the same, and the records of the Bible (the _antiquity_ of which, at all events, cannot be disputed) show that the constitution of his mind was at that time just as it is now--every passion, every desire the same--the only advance he has made, is in the knowledge of God's works; the application of that knowledge to his own benefit, and the glorification of his Maker. THE SKY. [Illustration: FIG. 11. TELESCOPIC APPEARANCE OF THE MOON.]