rision, the people mocking him,
and in his passion and weakness he breaks forth in the above language. It
was simply his own mistake, or misunderstanding of God's promise. God had
not promised him that he should not meet with scorn and opposition and
persecution, but simply that they should not prevail against him, as we
may learn from the latter part of the first chapter. The second objection,
that the Lord violated his promise, is also founded in ignorance or
dishonesty; it is based upon the statements found in Joshua 13: 1, and
Judges 2: 20, 21, compared with Genesis 15: 18 and 18: 19, 20. In Joshua
13, it is said that there remained very much land yet unconquered, which
they had not taken possession of, notwithstanding the Lord had promised to
be with them, and to give them all the land remaining yet in the
possession of their enemies.

In Judges 2: 20, it is said that the people did not perform their part of
the covenant, and this is given as the reason why the Lord had not driven
out any more of the nations before them.

The covenant with Abraham was in consideration of his past faith and
obedience; yet it was suspended upon the future obedience of his
posterity. See Deut. 7: 12, 13 and 11: 22 to 24; and Judges 2 to 20. The
Lord gives the following as the reason why he had not given them a
complete fulfillment of the covenant upon his part, "Because that this
people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and
have not harkened to my voice, I also will not henceforth drive out any of
the nations which Joshua left when he died." There are none so blind as
those who will not see. When we find a promise from the Lord, and it is in
the positive form, that is, when its terms are not rested upon an
expressed condition, we are authorized to supply the condition which
involves the moral element in the divine government, viz: obedience upon
the part of man, or men, as the case may be. See Ezekiel 33: 13.

DARWINISM WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES.

Scientists who claim to be followers of Darwin in scientific investigation
are known as evolutionists. The majority of them seem to enjoy themselves
very much in opposing the statements of Moses respecting the creation. It
might be well for them to remember that Darwin himself was compelled by
his better sense to declare that science demands a miracle in order to the
existence of the living unit lying at the base of the series of evolution.
So after al