THE DAY OF THE ECLIPSE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We have lately read in the papers how the ship Psyche,. carrying a burden of science and scientific instruments intended for the watching of the eclipse, struck on a sunken rock and was - wrecked.
Do let me affectionately entreat you, and those followers of so-- called science who think as you do, to give heed to the obvious - warning conveyed by this providential fact.
Only think of the circumstances. The Soul (Psyche), full of yearning after the Invisible, and longing for wider knowledge, goes forth on a voyage of discovery, guided by presumptuous and. irreverent Science. What ensues? She strikes on a hidden rock (evidently Scepticism, or at least Rationalism), and over her all but close the waters of Despair ; a little time passes, and then the- very sunlight in which she used to trust deserts her, and over her• broods the darkness of a total eclipse.
To draw inferences is scarcely necessary, when they are obvious - to the meanest understanding. Hoping that yours may be en--
lightened, I am, Sir, &c., S. S. P.8.—I regret to say that one whom men call a seholar has. suggested that the sunken rock may be theology, with which. science has before now come into contact I
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