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have tumbled into ruin. Even Il
!, evolutionist cannot resist the concluse
6 that higher forms must succeed foreve
) so that when this temporal shall ceas
something grander must follow-the d
order only clothed more gloriousl,
Tennyson sang like a god of one ia
off divine event, to which the who
creation moves. That mighty see
John, declared: And | saw ne
heaven and new earth To beliey
that the present order of universal ez
istences shall end, only to lie in chao
and darkness forever, is to take an un
scientific, unphilosophic and unchristial
view of the trend of the whole creation
and prove that one is looking backward
rather than forward And to believ,
that the allwise Creator desires, and
therefore, wills, that this beauty O
earth, this slender and magnifcence O
the heavens, this glory of humanity
his highest earthly work, shall all fall
into endless and black ruin, is a kind OIL
absurd atheism; it seems to impugn the
magnanimity of God himself, who,
being almighty and allwise, we should
suppose is always looking to something
greater But to believ shat he will al
low the dissolution of the world, only
that he may renew it in glory more
brilliant, and in appearance more i'm
posing and delightful that he suffers
the passing of man from the earth, only
that he may restore him in form more
godlike, and in a state more endurngly
happy, is only to think worthily of the
aims and motives of the Creator, and
entirely within the bounds OF normal
and rational conclusions about the final
destiny of the present order.
Matter, in its last analysis, is indie
and some scientists believe
that the atom is only negative and posi-
tive electricity And if that be true,
the universe, even though it should be
reduced to indivisible elements, would
still seem to be possessed of marvellous
And spiritual forces and |
beings, of course, are immortal and |
those laws which we call natural laws
are evidently only spiritual laws, APP
piled to natural things-laws of the
spiritual world extended into the natural
world. So all the fundamental require
nents for new creation must remain,
t seems, after the dissolution of this
one; and to believe that the almighty
Arbter and Disposer will utilize them
n the construction of new world and
mother cycle of being, is only reason
Ible. And it must be remembered that
he residue of this creation, after the
destruction of the cosmos, including the
atlonal souls of the redeemed and, we
nay add, even the angels and Heaven
or God created all, and they are closely
residue will be an excess
bove what he possessed in the begin :
ing of the present order; so, with that '
dvantage, it seems highly probable,
rom human standpoint, that the l
reator will bring the new creation up '
} much higher state of perfection 6
ldeed, we may believe that it shall be I
bsolutely perpect, therefore free, from
Il destructive agencies. Hence, John {
eclared, And there shall be no more
cath. " Only the material, which is :
nperfect, is destructible; and Heaven,
eing spiritual place, and, therefore,
erfect, we, maybe, shall not share in
he disintegration of the material world,
ut shall somehow be transplanted
odily into the new creation. But the
eer on Patmos doubtless did not con-
der this at all when he declared, And
John, saw the holy city, the new
erusalem, coming down from God out
heaven. Therefore, that God will
ring about new world after this one
asses, and that it shall be more heaven
:, must appear entirely possible, very
'obable and very easonable-indeed T.
ould it not seem unreasonable to sup V
use otherwise?
Ii another creation would be a stu h
'ndous miracle, we must remember t.
at this present creation, beginning
th nothing, is even a greater miracle. =,
we believe that God made this cosmos. b,
tn all its worlds and suns, and peogII
ed the earth as it is, we should hayuIII
difficulty in believing that he couldYII
Eat more perfect world, or universe.
d people it with Eobler and immortal ht
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