Suddenly stopping, and looking to the farthest end
of the chapel as into space, he exclaimed, with a
piercing cry of exultation, " A life boat ! a life
boat ! '' Then looking down upon his congregation,
most of whom had sprung to their feet in an ecstasy
of suspense, he said in a deep impressive tone, and
extending his arms, " Christ is that life boat /'*






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VII.
RELIGION AKD SCIENCE.
*'It is true, that science has not made Nature as
expressive of God in the first instance, or to the
beginner in religion, as it was in earlier times.
Science reveals a rigid, immutable order ; and this
to common minds looks much like self-subsistence,
and does not manifest intelligence, which is full of
life, variety, and progressive operation. Men, in
the days of their ignorance, saw an immediate
Divinity accomplishing an immediate purpose, or
expressing an immediate feeling, in every sudden,
striking change of nature — in a storm, the flight of
a bird, &c. ; and Nature, thus interpreted, became
the sign of a present, deeply interested Deity.
