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ill; EDITOR—From the repeated attacks made
ilptm social order, political, moral, and sacred, I
conceive it to he the duty of every really putrioiic
Christian, however humble his talents, to stand for-
Ward in defence of Dtvitie REVELATION, as the
only sure basis of all our happiness either in this
World or the next.
In aid of this grand cause I am happy to pre-
sent to the well meaning, but perhaps doubting
Christian, as well es to the Infidel, a short but
host irrefragable proof of the Divine origin of
Our Holy Faith, and that in regard' to the very
first objection raised again‘t the First Chapter of
GENESIS—an objection which, I must •acknow-
ledge, has not hitherto been very satisfactori:y
answered ; not even by WAEBU.RTON,, TOWNS-
BENI), or the BISHOP of LANDAFF, because they
could not possibly be acquainted with the facts
that lead to it—but an objection which, if once
Cleared up, must by its downfall give the best
Support to revealed religion.
Now, Sir, math the simple facts of a miracle
Passing before our eves, ;it least when aided by
improved telescopic powers. About thirty years
ago, Dr. lIERSCIfeL 1)1)1)1i-shed to the Astronomical
World his Observations upon the great Nebula,
or bright Spot in OnioN ; since which, by the
fairest analogies, he has given the probable
size of that spot as infinitely larger than
tVcll- the bounds of our Solar System. Tb'ese
observations and analogical calculations have been
before the,
Public for some years, and have not
)net with- any contradiction. In his first observa-

tions of that. Nebula be laid down two bright spots,

'which have since increased very much in size and
-brilliancy, as if cor.centrating a great portion of

the light scattered over that immense space ; and
iu two Papers in the Philosophical Transactions,
within these four years he has shewn, uncontra-
dieted, and indeed supported by the most eon-
, vincing proofs, that other bright spots are
forming, and that the two first seen have
not only acquired a relative motion, but
alto a, rotatory one, and are gradually assum-
ing an oblate spherical shape. In short, Sir,
he has abewn that new worlds are now forming,
Attlll that the act of creation is actually going on
before our eyes, with a regularity of progressipn
40 as to be seen, marked, and measured by 9
Ltlnvsan eye !
Now, Sir, let its suppose some future Moses,
in one of these new woilds, were to be euab:ed
to %.‘ rite a book of Genesis—let us for a moment
conceive, that our Solar Syteut was a great Ne-
L"la, containing all the gases into which matter
12)4Y now be resulted, and irritnately mixed with
an ii„„m„, cpanill of light, like the Nebula in
()lion—in short, a chaos, " without form and
/`"," that is, without express shape or solidity,
"--let Its suppose the SPIRIT of GOD, or his Power,
limiting over the surface of the " waters," or
the fluids of which that Nebula was Cont-
"`e(l. Let us imagine this, and then read
tile First Chapter of GENc.sts !—‘'
.And GCD
. "id/ let !here be light, and there was light."—
. " Aye, but" 'reply the objectors, " Moses does
tiOt tell us, of the creation 'of the Sun and Moon
'for several verses afterwards, nod, therefore, it
Must be false to say that light could exist before
the Sun vcai created, which is the source of light."
Ingenious this is, I will grant ; but What be-
Ines of it, now we have become acquainted with
114ttsettv•L's discoveries ? Even this short sketch,
I trust, Sit, is
Sufficient to that objection ;
to which 1 will add, that if any individual who
4°llhrs it, will only read HERSCHEL'S two, Papers,
t"tPat hug them with time first chapter of GENESIS,
il
mast at once be convinced that anew
crea-
tion t 3 forming precisely in the same Manner as
oven Solar System ; that the account given by
i°sas is strictly agreeable to recently observed
facts; and, finally, that one of these two things
1111't have existed--either that 'Mous was pos-
:els" of Astronomical Telescoprs equal to our
est modern ones,' or that he must. have been
inspired by Gon to write. that_ Which he did
4" himself understand--the ALmtGuTY, as
We See, chusing that our knowledge of Astro.
4ornY, like all other knowledge, should be pro-
gressive.

Mr, Editor, I shan't] not fear to stake the
‘li'ine truth of the New Testament, independent
of the fulfilment of (Yd Testament Prophecies,
upon the Progressive fulfilment of the REVELA.
11" s i and here now we have an indobitahle
11).4)(4 of Old Scripture authenticity—Shall we
till)" be led astray by the trill vagaries of illiterate,
°ugh impudently clever Stay-makers and Tin-
tiacn ?
1‘1°! forbid it heaven—so prays,

Yolll'l,
IGNOTUS.