In the view of the Christian Theist, Revelation was the sun which shed its cheering rays on the first fathers of mankind, and which, after having been obscured, for a time, by the clouds and darkness of Superstition, shines out again, clear and strong, under the dispensation of the Gospel; in the view of M.Comte, Science is the only sun that is destined to enlighten the world,--a sun which has not yet fully risen, but which has sent before, as the harbingers of its speedy advent, a few scattered rays to gild the lofty mountain peaks, while all beneath is still buried in Cimmerian darkness.

The Christian Theist anticipates the time when the true light which now shineth shall cover the whole earth; M.Comte predicts its utter and final extinction, when Positive Science shall have risen into the ascendant.

His theory is contradicted by the history of the past; let us hope that the events of the future will equally belie his prediction.

For Christianity is the only hope of the world.

The prospects of man would be dark indeed on the supposition of its being abolished.