force occupies the throne of deity. It is becoming well-nigh impossible for anyone to be a

science teacher to-day who does not subscribe to the theory of evolution in some form.

Finally Rev. 14: 7 suggests that to dare to believe the scriptural doctrine of creation, as

opposed to what a godless science will by theory advance, will be to believe the very

gospel, and to constitute oneself a martyr for the truth. We use the word science in its

modern acceptation. True science we must ever welcome, for it can never contradict the

Word of God. Take for example one feature as an illustration. What room is there in

modern science for the teaching of Gen. 1: 7? Should anyone dare to affirm their belief

that there was sea water above the firmament he would be classed as a fool, yet a modern

scientist has recently said, in connection with the transmission of " wireless" waves, that

there must be somewhere above the atmosphere a kind of sounding board or reflection

whose density is equal to sea water! We all know Psalm 19: and its twofold division,

also Psalm 8::

"The heavens declare the glory of God" (19: 1) . . . . . CREATION.

"The law of the Lord is perfect" (19: 7) . . . . . . SCRIPTURE.

" When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars,

which Thou hast ordained" (8: 3).

Since the creation of the world therefore the eternal power and deity of God have

been abundantly manifested by the works of His hands. So freely, so clearly has God

"shown it unto them" as to leave all "inexcusable." When we hear and see the revolting

idolatry carried on even to-day in such places as India or Africa, our hearts go out in pity

to these demon ridden people, yet on every hand they have these evidences. God has

never left Himself without witness:

"In that He did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and |

gladness" (Acts 14: 16, 17).

It will be observed that the apostle prefaced this statement by speaking of God as:

"The living God. which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things therein" (Acts 14: 15).

Or again on Mar's hill, he said to the men of Athens :

" God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not

in temples made with hands" (Acts 17: 24-31),

and went on to demonstrate the utter folly of idol worship.

The nations of the earth were not so favoured as Israel, for to that nation were given"

the oracles of God" (Rom. 3: 2). None of the nations received the law of Sinai, and

therefore were not held accountable to it (Rom. 3: 19; 4: 15), but to all the world the

witness of creation was given, and made manifest" in them" :

"There is no speech, and there are no words,

Unheard is their voice,

Yet through all the earth has gone their voice,

And to the end of the world their sayings " (Psa. 19: 3, 4).

God was the teacher, " for God hath shown it unto them." Presently we shall hear the

charge reiterated when the apostle turns to the Jew (Rom. 2: I), but for the time our atten-

tion must be fixed upon the condition of the Gentile world. Mankind had a knowledge of