Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-11
Pattern, Position, Process.

The selection of the image and the like.
ness OF God as the pattern for the mas
terpiece Of creation is another indica tior
of the revelation that marks the history
Of creation, as recorded in Genesis, from
the narratives of the heather. The lat
ter always seeks to make God more hu-
man, while revelation unfolds the truth
that man was created in the likeness OF
God. We cannot press the distinction be.
tween image and likeness. but it is evil
dent that both words refer to a spiritual
resemblance that gives man the pre-
eminence over all creation, that he trans
mitS from generation to generation and
that is distinct from his material nature
Man, the browning conception and climax
of creation. is a spiritual being who has
received from God. the originator of man.
kind, vast powers, giving him authority
over the resources of the sea, air and
earth.
Civilization is the evidence that man
has entered upon the great commission
committed to him by the charter of crea-
ton. Each day marks an enlargement of
his control. The sea, seed and soil all
contribute to his table. The cotton and
flax from the plants and the wool from
the sheep furnish him clothing The
wood of the forest. the clay of the field
and the granite Of the earth he has con-
verified into homes that furnish him
shelter. He has mastered the ocean by
Holland and united the seas by canals
that have severed continents. He has
tunneled beneath the lofty mountains
and mighty rivers that he might shorten
the routes of commerce and remove the
barriers Of nature to his commercial
progress.
He has stored up the waters i'm NAM
moth reservoirs that have given him con-
troll of the flow of the rivers and the
depths of lakes SO that he could turn
hot NO ta,r hui vr;sr
ert and make it blossom as the rose The
sand beneath his feet he has converted
into lenses that have brought the heavens
within his sight and caught upon pho
tographic plates stars that the eve could
not see in the field of the telescope He
has forced water to run his factories He
makes heat from coal, oil and gas that
transforms water into steam TO move his
engines. He has harnessed electricity
until 1t has almost annihilated time by
the rapioity with which it carries the
messages of men. He has conquered the
AR SO that he sails his aeroplane through
It's atmosphere and uses it to drive his
ships over the sea-
From the first verses Of the lesson We
learned Gods choice of the pattern for
the crown of creation and the power that
he gave to man. The section following
SHOWS the completed provision for sus-
tanning mans physical life and the APP
pointhent OF rest day to meet the re-
require at least one day in seven to re-
store the wasted energies expended in
Toll as Well as to worship the Creator
or heaven and earth. life and man. The
process by which man was created is
then given us with the simple statement
That the Lord God formed man of the
dust OF the ground and brea he'd into his
nostrifs the breath of life; and man be-
came a living SOUL
The manner. means or method by
I'D i- not ON
There is nothing in the brief record that
Will not harmonic with the answer that
anthropology and its kindred sciences
give to the question of the origin of the
human race. We are not told whether
man was, as Crannell puts it. shaped
like clay image, and then vitalized: or
spoken into being by direct divine fiat:
Or prepared through the long ages as
God wrought out the successfully higher
animal forms, until this body was ready
TO receive by a direct divine act of power
The indwelling spirit, and in that act man
was created" The twofold origin of man
making him allied in his physical origin
TO the dust of the ground and in his
spiritual origin with the breath of lives