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there be light and there wa
The nebulous mass instant,v
shape and form and create, sa
ed in the natural order Of seo,' >ss
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Studying the fauna and A..
the deep subterranean ton,hs -
pre-Adamic past and the w..
records craven with the stylus
passing centuries upon tbs
rocks all bear testimony as to y.
of the order Of creation as rsco.s
the Hebrew author. More and .s-'
the mysteries of creation are rsr.
and the hidden secrets locked =
the womb of nature are laid h..'
the cosmical details as given Z,
ses the more firmly establishes
Then what differentiates mi.
terious thing we call life In ma, !.
life in animals and all other CO.
things?
If we burrow into the ear,h
find worms instinct with life: II
cend into the air We there Ana
sects instinct with life; if we ern,.s
the forests we find huge anIma,s !.
stinct with life; If we dive to tia 49,
depths of the sea we yet find IN.
What, I ask differentiates the IN. !.
these million myriad created ,h,,~
from the life possessed by man,
1t is because man has a distinct ~.
ton, separate and apart A..
all other created things.
Moses tells Us that God created 4.
fowls of the air, the beasts Of \.
fields and the fishes of the sea =.
he does not tell us that he brea,b.,
into them a part of his own life.
When in the process of the -,
days" God came to man see how 4,
tirely different and supremely gIorIm.
was his creation.
And God said: LET US make man /.
our own image after our likeness &
God created man in his own imam
in the image or God created he him
male and female created he them
And the Lord formed man OF the dux
of the ground, and breathed into h
nostrels the breath of life, and man De.
came a living soul.-Gen. 1:26, q: Ill
So man stands forth as the person.
ality of God in the world. Man h
the very manner of his creation B,
the necessity and nearness d
his llinship TO God reflect
the divine character. He stand,
erect in the image and very Likeness
of God, yet while possessing the 6.
sence and spirit of God he is also d
the earth earthly" and it Is the dutI
of the editors along with all othe
moral and uplifting forces to remoy
from man the accumulated weight an
dross of the passing centuries.
Progress towards perfection mark
the career Of man as it does Of y
erything in the divine economy.
1t is an axiom to say that an ap
Proclamation from lower to highs
conditions characterizes the move
ments of the physical, the mental an
the moral as well as the spiritual uni
verse.
Scientists tell US that the Law
physical progression is traceable
its action from the elementary alo
up to the highest combinations In q
inorganic worlds-from the misoscr
pic cellule, which nurses the germ
vegetable and animal life, up to 7
gorgeous organizations of planets al
suns to the profoundest distance
space.
The late DR.. Means. of Georgi
gives the following beautiful mag
Of this eternal law of progression:
"Thes gray dawn and the rosy TN
of twilight must gently train the q
lcate retina to meet the holder bla
of the rising sun and the meridl'
brightness of the perfect day y
swelling bud and the opening now
must be evoked from the torpid sic
of winter; the genial breath Of sprl
must start once more the boundl
pulse of forest life; and then, and 2
till then. will earth's green glories a
her golden harvest vindicate the pe
lection of the vegetable kingdom.
Mans progress has not been in lea
and bounds but in the early centurl
was slower than the snail's pace.
lay dormant, like the plants OF VIM
for centuries and his history Is a o.
NAL story and as black as Egypu
darkness, but, like the buds. that Dnl
forth in the spring time, he IS n
almost fully emancipated and
marching towards better and oris
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