THE scientific theory of evolution, from which certain persons have been looking for help to trace the religious development of the race, is becoming a trumpet of uncertain sound. At first we were told that the development from the primordial germ was a constant and uniform process. It was found that this statement is in manifest contradiction of facts, and “saltatory evolution” was then brought forward to adjust the theory to the facts; that is, evolution by sudden leaps. And then, since in the case of certain species of animals there was no advance, these had to constitute a great exception to the supposed universal law. And now there comes another discovery that some things evolve backward, that is, degenerate. What will come next we cannot predict. We do have some sympathy, however, for those men who have labored so diligently to fit into their systems of theology a process of evolution that will enable them to keep abreast with the advance of scientific discovery, or rather scientific conjecture, but must now do their work over again or fall behind the progress of the age. How these Biblical critics who have slowly evolved, to their own satisfaction, the Mosaic ritual from a few rude suggestions of a priest code that Moses made, will wriggle out of their position, now that they are called upon to adjust their critical discussions to the latest utterances of science, we shall not venture to guess. Perhaps they will be constrained to confess that their evolution in Biblical criticism is of a backward or degenerating type, and will be satisfied to let us hold fast to the faith once for all delivered to the saints.—Religious Herald.