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.4ccuraey of he Bible.-An astounding feature of the Word of God is, that notwith- standing the time at which its compositions were written, and the multitude of topics to which it alludes, there is not one physical error, not one assertion or allusion disap- proved by the progress of modern science- None of those mistakes which the science of each succeeding age discovered ill the books of the preceding; above all, none of those absurdities which modern astronomy indi- cates ln such great numbers in the writings of the ancients-in their sacred codes-;n their philosophy-and even in the finest pa per of the fathers of the Church-not one of those errors is to be found in any one of the sacred books.

 Nothmg will there ever contradict that which, after so many ages, the investigation of the learned world has been able to reveal to us on the state of ourglobe, or on that of the heavens. Peruse with care our Scrip lures, from one end to the other, to find there such spots. And while you apply yourself to this examination, remember 1t Is a book that speaks of every thing, which describes nature, which recites it's creation, which tells of the water, of the atmosphere, of the noun

 

 book which teaches us the first revolutions of the world, and which also foretells its last :: 1t recounts them in the circumstaniial lan- guage of history, it eXtols them in the sub Iimest strains of poetry, and 1t chants them in the charms of glowing song. It IS book which Is full of oriental rapture, elevation, variety, and boldness. IL is book which speaks of the heavenly and invisible world, while it also speaks of the earth and things visible.

 It is a book which nearly fifty writers, of every degree of cultivation, and of every state, of every condition, and living through the course of fifteen hundred years, have con cured to make. It is a book which was written in the centre of Asia, in the sands of Arabia, in the deserts of Judea, in the courts of the temple of the Jews, in the music-school of the prophets of Bethel and Jericho, in the sumptuous palaces of Babylon, and on the idolatrous banks of Chebar; and finally, in the centre of western civilization, in the midst of the Jews and in their ignorance, in the midst of Polytheism and its idols, as also ill the bosom of Pantheism and of its sad phi- losophy. It is book whose first wFIer frad been forty years a pupil of the magicians of ESy Pi, III NlioSe oPiiiioi tiie suii, tiie Sidie and the elements, were endowed with intel- lgence, reacted on the elements, and govern ed the world by a perpetual alluyium.

 It is book whose first writer preceded by more than nine hundred years the most an cient philosopeers of ancient Greece and Asia --the Thaleses and the Pythagorases, the Zalcuses, the Xenophons, and the Confucius- es. It is book which carries its narrations even to the hierarchies of angels; even to the most distant epoch of the future, and the glo- rious scenes of the last day. Well, searel among it's fifty authors, search among it's six ty-six books, its l,lS9 chapters, and it's 3l, l73 verses; search for only one of thos' thousand errors that the aucients and the mo ? derns committed when they spoke of tht heavens or the earth, of their revolutions, o { the eements-search, but you will find none