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consistent with personality, would ex-

COuSlSIeHL WIFI personally, WOULD ex-
tend our knowledge of law and order
in nature through time, as the discov-
cry of the law of gravitation extended
it through space"
Surely the progressive revelation Of
God necessitates the progression of
the race to anticipate and receive it.
This law gives rational reason for
the advancement of the individual and
| of society without interference with
free-will or choice. Materialistic ev-
olution has it's perplexities and diff
cult problems, but scientific evolution
is perfectly in accord with both hui
man and divine personality, and is,
| therefore, bringing clearer light to
illuminate "the riddle of the universe
Every law interprets humanity and
reveals God So evolution cannot pos
isbly exclude the Infinite Absolute
nor set aside the man made in His
image and likeness. These include
the whole circle of the law, and Law
any kinds but the systematic pro-
cedure, or the methods by which God
Himself actually governs the uni
verse.
The law of evolution is not the law
of causation and, therefore, has no
explanation of consciousness. Con-
seriousness, however, as unfolded and
matured in human life, appears to be
under the law of evolution. Evolu-
tionary phenomena indicate an ener-
giving Reaon at work in the universe
Lotze regards "the world-process as
a gradual unfolding of creative spir-
itual principle and recognizes in evo-
luton both a mechanical and teteo-
logical process, implying both an en-
ergizing and directing agency" God
is 1.-THE Reason that orders and directs
and the efficiency that energizes" So
we may safely admit that the omn;-
presence and the omnipotence of su.
pernatural and hypermaterial intelli..
gence is clearly represented by scien-
tific evolution in it's assertion that the
Absolute Reason energies all that is
| In this energization the Supreme
Being individuates the orders, of being
in such manner as to reveal the
fact of Theistic Evolution.
In reference to the human species,
DR.. Sears in his Fourth Gospel" very
aptly puts it thus: Its origin abuts on
the matrices of lower life in it's Sc
lected forms on the natural side, and
on the paternal side on nothing less
than the brooding spirit of God"
Scientific Evolution has no neces-
sity for rejecting Theism In fact ev-
cry concession of the evolutionist is
favorable to the ideas of "a cosmic Gre
ator and of divine interposition. Back
of thought manifested at every step
in the Cosmos there must be a think
err. Evolution raises theology and
design to the nth power. There is q,
continuous manifestation of God in
evolution characterized by certain mi
mute specifications which require for
their production a Perfect Specialist,
and that specialist is God.
LaPlaces system requires a divine
Absolute and a completed evolution
airy essentially method of devel-
opment and not theory of origin"
Holding this view we shall obtain
a finer conception of nature and Il
deeper appreciation of natures God
Indeed it is as Prof. Bavinck says
He who. names development (evolu-
tom names God, who laid the 'cidos'
in the 'hyle,' the completed organism
in the germ, the future in the pres
ent, so little does development (evo-
lution stand over against creation
that there is scarcely any choice left
between creation with the richest de
velopment on the one side and me-
chanical combination by the accident
of host of similar atoms on the 9TH
er Development (evolution) stands
between origin and end; under Gods
providence it leads from the first to
the last and unfolds all the riches of
being and of life to which in creation
God gave existence"
i Therefore we must affirm that evo-
luton is the "how7 law and not the
why" cause of universal phenomena,
and SO is forever on this side of Tel
ology.
| Concerning the Bible then we can
only say that evolution, as the mode
of progress of the species, is in no
way discordant with it. Prof. Fisher
makes a very lucid statement along
this line: i. e. Without the loss OF
its substantial being, matter will ex-
change its darkness, hardness, weight
inertia and impenatrability for clear