"SCIENCE FALSELY SO CALLED."
"OTTAWA, August 4.—Professor Ezekiel Wiggins, weather prophet, concurs in the opinion expressed in some quarters that the bright projection of Mars seen by Javelle at the Nice Observatory, July 28, is a signal from the Marsians to the people of the earth. He said to-day: 'There is the best scientific evidence to prove that man is a native of Mars, and has lived there millions of years before he was transplanted to Earth, leaving a greater part of the human family behind. The Marsians regard us as their lost brethren, and have been searching for us for thousands of years. They have been especially hopeful since they saw the electric light in our cities. We will be able to converse with them by signals before another century passes. It is much easier for Marsians to see our signals than for us to see theirs, for the earth appears to wax and wane like the moon, so that they can easily see lights on our dark hemisphere, while their planet always has its light side toward us.'" In these days of scientific research one is deemed decidedly unlearned who does not accept the claims of science. Many "learned divines" have endeavored to make the Bible harmonize with all the conclusions of the scientists, and, failing to do so, have rejected the Bible wherein it fails to agree with such conclusion. It will be in order now to test the Scriptures again by this conclusion of Professor Wiggins'. In this case, however, science is a little behind; some twenty-five or thirty years ago one Denton, a Spiritualist lecturer, said that his sister, who was a medium, had seen the inhabitants on Mars. We do not know whether Mars is inhabited or not; but we do know that the man of our planet was not transplanted from that planet. The word of God says that "the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground" (Gen. 2: 7), and that "the first man is of the earth, earthy" (1 Cor. 15: 47). Professor Wiggins' manifest departure from the truth in this particular, based on "the best scientific evidence," is enough to render his whole position dubious. "To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8: 20. God's people are specially warned to avoid the "oppositions of science, falsely so called." We do not oppose science as such; true science is truth, and therefore must agree with the word of God, which is truth. Whatever is opposed to the word is not truth, and is, therefore, not science, but is "falsely so called."