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 the letter of the Word are provided all the truths fundamental to science, into which interior truths are to be insinuated. As one is provided with genuine truths from the Word, and has faith in them, spiritual light flows into the natural mind, and illuminates it, enabling the investigator to see scientific truths and facts not merely as they fallaciously appear, but as they really are, and to give them their place in true philosophy. Without such light it can not be concluded otherwise than that creation originated in the fortuitous concourse of atoms, and that life is due to the complexity of structure formed by such concourse.

The necessity of revelation, by which is meant a Divine dispensation of truth that imparts to man in the first instance true thought concerning nature and things superior to it, is emphatically illustrated by our present conditions. The modern development of civilization emanates specifically from the revelation made through Christ. Though our Scripture, the Word, is doubted, materialized, literalized, and misunderstood, the vast amount of moral good and moral law revealed to the world through it is the certain and only basis