Scientific Presumption.
By Editor
THIS time it is all the way from England. Some scientific association, which as a matter of course knows all about it, has decided that it is a physical impossibility for Christ ever to come to this earth. We don't pretend to understand the process by which they "demonstrate" this remarkable proposition; but they have settled it to their satisfaction, and have gone to the trouble to inform us that we may now cease to look for so impossible an event. We have heard that when the subject of steamboat navigation was first under discussion, a learned member of Parliament was "demonstrating" that to cross the ocean by steam was and forever would be an impossibility; and even while he was speaking a steamboat came into the harbor. We are inclined to think it will be the same in this case. "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Matt. 24:38, 39. So we shall still continue to look for his coming.