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any more; 1t won't do, because you
unlock 1t again when that rap comes
but IL is some comfort to feel that you
are shut In. And then you read over
your little outline, Just to kindle your
thoughts again and get some little idea
OF the track youywere on, and then
you take up your manuscript as far
as you nave written, and read 1t over
aloud and In halfway get up little
motion to jump the bridge and go on.
70 cnange hedlgure, you have tied the
| thread that was broken, and that is
enough. You takei it UP ten years af-
forwards and 1t slips through your
fingers and you feel that knot and you
say: BAD luck to- Bro. Jonesw Now
that sets out a little what I mean by
unity in the book
Now, here isoa book that begins with
the creation Of being by another
being, and hes creates exactly such
being as the almighty and all-wise
and Infinitely loving God could be sup
posed to create; and this being, with
out experience, plunges into the ex-
pertinent of sin, plunges on in his dis
advantage, is followed, encouraged,
held up, checked, admonished, given
premises and instructions, by prophets
and patriarchs and 1aw-givers, and
lines of service. age after age, unfold
ing, developing, maturing, giving to
him the best possible outgrowth, by
mouth and spiritual instruction, until
you come to the Son Of God, and the
planting Of the church, and the out
pouring Of the Holy Ghost, and the
revelation of the church triumphant,
and the opening of the endless ages,
and the throne of Judgment of AL
mighty God poised yonder, and the
salvation of human destiny with
heaven and the consequences Of trans
gression beyond. Tell me, whence this
unity? BY one man, set down in his
quiet study, with the heat at n and
digestible food within reach and no.
body to interrupt him. and at the top
of his condition, and the inspiration Of
the greatest genius, guided on and on
until he made this book and this plan?
Yes, that is exactly what was done; but
1t was not the little man that held the
pen that did It, It was written by
more than forty different writers, scat
tered through 1900 years of time, every
writer under every possible condition
of life, the king on his throne, the beg
gar by the wayside, the tramp, the
wanderer, the lawyer, the Judge, the
doctor, the priest, men, women, chill
dren, prisoners, freemen, rulers, every
kind, scattered through fifteen centur-
les, and yet this unity. You can't help
but believe that up above all these
ing mind, guiding all the pens and
working out this marvellous book. Sure
ly this tower will stand forever and
forever
1 will put another tower over on this
other corner. You may call it, If you
please, the contents OF the book. And
1 do not mean it's miracles and it's
prophecies, but I mean some Of the
things that it touches and unfolds, up
to which we have struggled in later
years Take one little item, some Of
the unfoldings of Genesis. I remember
when began the work Of the ministry,
back in the days when we had the
first strifes about geology, and l
thought if they had only left out those
statements of Genesis about the order
of creation, it would have been all
right. that we could have f1oated the
book on it's moral power, and we could
have defended Christianity against all
comers but by the putting in Of those
statements about geology we were
brought into conflict with scholars in
that great field of investigation and
thought, and put at disadvantage, and
I was sorry there was anything In the
book about the order of creation. The
short Of it is, that I thought If God
had only known as much as l did about
1t, it would have been a good, easy
thing to have gotten along with 1T.
That Is exactly what it comes to- But
have learned "a more excellent way"
and I think can construct out OF the
elements of this, very old objection and
the very difficulties that confronted us
a generation ago a. raft on which / am
perfectly willing to go; ito sea for eter-
nifty. Let me- briefly put the two cases,
and I will make 1t just as short as i
can and get theidea. Science
HOW SCIENCE GOES AT 1T.
I mean by that, the teachings of the
scholars on this subject, and am very
far from wanting to give the slightest
ft-handed stroke at science-it has as
good g. right to think as we have to
breathe or to pray. and 1t is part OF
our business, and God wants to save
us, not to brighten u.s. and He wants
us to think all we can, and He amt
afraid of our thinking. We have got
a big farm that we are trying to keep;
God told US to keep it, but we have
gotten each other by the ears and we
haven't kept it very well. We have let
1t grow up to thistles and thorns. There
is a company out yonder stumping and
pulling out snags and digging bitches
and draining them. so 1t will be arabic
and of value; they will not come near
enough to the mansion to hear any of
the music or come to the feast, and
am sorry l wish they would come into
! the mansion and know how much the
King has for themI but they are stump
ing the place, and when they have got
ten the stumps pulled up, If we have
got any kind of spirit we will out
| and scatter the good seed of the king
dom and raise arcrop for the King; we
will not club them off, let us not be
/ afraid of them Now, science tells us
! this. that in the beginning, the first
| thing in the order of making the uni
verse, was diffused light; and that this
| cooled, under the'flaws now existing,
and as it cooled 1T condensed; as it con-
densed it broke foff into great masses
! that those masses folded in and rolled
| together. under the law of gravitation,
and got down into globes and spheres
and condensed until by and by 1t was
cooled down to vast stretches Of mist
vast stretches of shoreless sea; and
still later, cooling under the crust, as
| well as above created vacuums, be-
cause it broke in; threw up the mount
! ain ranges, threw up the continents;
that the crust of this earth wrinkled as
It shriveled-just like an orange which
YOU put away in the bureau and left
where the children would not get it and
| forgot 1t yourself, until dried up and
sbriveled, and as it shrinks 1t wrinkles;
! and this orange OF the earth wrinkled
| and the wrinkles are mountain ranges
| And then they had vegetable life In the
sea and on the land, and then they had
successive types of life, and last of all
| they had man. That Is science.
rather think that Is about It, And
think so because it comedies SO nearly
| with what Moses said about 1t. Now
let us run a parallel between the two
| and YOU will see whether they are
about the same things or not. The
Book says. lin the beginning God Gre
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