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water winch ID iUU times heavier IMAM
air is held In the sky n the form Of
clouds. What holds the storm. The
snow, the lightning. the gorgeous
colors, etc? The answer is found in
verse Z, land God made the firma.
ment and divided the waters, and
called the armament heaven" There
is nothing more firm than the laws
which hold this body OF water in the
sky for he God set those laws into
motion. And God said" ". 81. The
cries Of geology and the statement
OF Genesis agree perfectly as to the
preparation of this earth for the ap-
pearance of vegetable life. The vege-
table derives directly from the air and
water and soil those elements neces-
sary to maintain life.
Animal life cannot assimilate these
elements unless they are already fixed
In organic vegetable life. How and
where life originated no science has
discovered. Pasteur's dictum that.
ut is nothing but life which gener-
ates life" still stands mistaken. And
so the constant and only satisfactory
answer to the questions. how, where
and why, of all these things of this
material universe is God. God ere
ated. God made. he created. and then
set into being those forces and laws
whereby the earth, the sky, the sun
and the moon have gone on with I'M
broken regularity. He made possible
those processes whereby man devel-
ops, the oak grows, and animal and
vegetable life reproduce each after
its own kind for like begets like"
Infinite order, infinite provision, And
God saw that everything he made
vas very good" None can suggest a
better world than this If all would
obey his laws, If sin had not entered.
The Growing Glory.
But creation was not yet complete.
Man, the last created. was the crown.
ing glory of this earthly creation.
Verses 26-30 will be studied in con-
nection with next weeks lesson and
are referred to here simply to give a
complete account Of creation. 1t
would be well. however. to refer to
the fact that the great God and Gre
ator made provision for the immortal
souls Of mankind by arranging for his
training in the knowledge and charac-
ter Of himself, the father, by the in
stitution of the Sabbath, as soon as
he had prepared a place in which
man was to dwell.
The dignity and majesty Of the Ian.
guage of Genesis Is sublime.
Astrologers tell us that our u and
solar system is only one of perhaps a
million others. A recent writer tells
us that a ray Of light which would
travel the equivalent of nine times
the earth In one second would
take nine years to travel across the
great nebula in the constellation Of
Orion. And God made" all Of this.
The fool hath said in his heart there
is no God" and it Is the man next
door to the fool who tries to stipu.
late what God ought or ought not to
do.
What a beautiful story this is to
tell to children. A mother drew her
three-year-old sons attention to the
Of field and mountain and
added God loves the beautiful and
little boys too" Neither spoke
Tor a moment. Then the son asked
his mother IL she were praying.
Yes" said the mother. Then l
want to say prayers too" said the
boy. 1t is a tremendous responsible.
ty to give to others their first idea
If God. May God keep us all on this
he first Sunday Of the New Year to
earn the meaning Of the first four
words Of our lesson.