, 1889-11-21

billions of years if you will, still this "in
the beginning" covers II ALL In Gods
great eternity there was no occasion for
haste; he used his own methods, and
took his own time in hanging tho planets
In the heavens, scooping out old ocean 5
bed, and arranging organic matter, un-
| I'll he had lifted 1t for man as a parent
would fit home for son or daughter.
Angelic life may have been previously
created by him to people spirit world;
Doubtless the angels were created with
minds of similar order as man has
been endowed with; with wills, plans
and loves, and worshiping as we worship.
Still they may not be able to understand
or appreciate what he has created here.
| We see the beauty of flower and scenery
| through our human eye; the angels be-
ing spiritual, might not see them in this
way were they here. Angels might not
| be able to gather in the fragrance of the
rose, as we do through our natural oil
| factory, or hear the charming music
which so delights our earthly ear. As
they have no mortal body, they can not
conceive, as do we, the wonderful gifts
with which we are surrounded.
God has created two distinct forms of
life, angelic and humane. When all was
ready, God said let us make man OF the
dust, from which every form OF life
arises, and combine with it q divine
spirit; and thus he married them to-
gether, forming an eternal union. Made
u little lower than the angels, not that
he Is TO remain so, but clothed him with
glory, honor and power. "Ihou hast
| put all things under his feet" says the
psalmis!, and DR.. Adams continued:
| Thou hast hung out the moon for him,
given the sun its glory for him, and man
is TO have dominion over them all"
INFANCY.
What is more beautiful than babe,
resting in its tiny cradle2, He often
wonders what they are thinking, aud
would like to know what was his own
first thought, When he remembers his
angelic mother, lie thinks his first
thought was of her, and that generally
the first baby thought is and should be
Of her who nearly gave her life for the
child More helpless than anything in
life, for beast and bird are better fitted
TO care for themselves than is the baby.
How low down in the scale of power we
begin. But the soul is there,
reach out and feel that there
Is something outside itself. 1t opens its
eyes and finds there are other things
than itself. And how much science is
evinced in learning to walk; we balance
ourselves, clinging to mothers hand, and
what long time ere we could stand on
one foot and dare to lift the other for our
first step. How intently we watch the
motion of lips and tongue, and listen to
the different sounds, and what long
hours OF thought ere we can clothe our
ideas in intelligent language.
He piles up dictionary, gathering
his forces, and preparing to launch out
in the battle of life. Soon the eye is
too weak and he brings the microscope
and telescope to his aid and delves into
mystery. He Is a man now. He reaches
out to grasp Gods thoughts, TO learn
Gods ways. Weighing the planet in
balance, he learns the science of Gods
| handiwork. Created little lower than
the angels, he is not so now.
Only little while ago the Spokane
was singing along to the deer on its
banks waiting for man to come. Man
came, and now its great power is under
dominion, and it is drawing manhood
toward IL from all the world. The hard,
sour crab apple cultivated by man has
become the delicious fruit The wild
rose, through cultivation, has become
intensified in fragrance and developed
into its present wonderful beauty. Man
is to have dominion over all things.
The winds are in his power God says,
| I'll do the pushing If you'll give me
something to push against; the vessel is
built and plies old oceans breast.
God says there are black diamonds in
the earth; dig them from their cellar
II is done, they are burned, steam is
generated, pulling trains of commerce,
and driving the wheels of manufactures
for mans service. This is what he has
eaped to from his cradle where he was
so destitute of power.
| "Oh," says some one, 1--WE came
from the monkey and orang outang."
lie never disputes on this subject; he
leaves to every man the privilege of de-
Gliding what was his origin; for himself,
he prefers to feel that he was created by
the hand Of an allwise God to fulfill
His holy will. The sciences teach God s
way of WORKING out the object of our
destiny. There's not thing on earth
but was created by God for man and
ond woman.
There ought to be time for every
man to die; a time when the soul out
grows the body, when the soul feels
confined in its earthly tabernacle, and
hungry to go out into the full light of
God, to be fed by Him, to receive a
resurrected body which can appreciate
Gods throne and footstool equally well.
When He shall say, "It is enough, come
up higher"
After melting man to make the most Of
mind, body and intellect, he continued,
| "And we shall be like Him"--like Chris<
that was the highest possible plane OF
life. He met a man at the Philadelphia
centennial of '76 who took him by the
hand and said, 81 haven't seen you since
you were child, but If had never seen
you ] should have recognized you, you
look so like your mother"
The man could have paid him no
higher compliment; but II IN thousands
OF years from now some OF those pres
ent could take him by the hand and say
you look like Christ, II would be the
highest of all glory for him.
There never lived person so good
that we could not weigh him in our
mind and find some fault in him. Abra-
ham Lincoln, George Washington, Knox,
| Wesley, Calvin, not one was perfect; but
when we stand before the life of Christ,
we are dumb, we find II faultless.
DIR. ADAMS OPINION OF SPOKANE.
The doctor said he had never spent a
more delightful week than this one in
Spokane had been, among the very
| pleasant people he had found here. He