the believer is born not of corrupti ble seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God. By new birth, there is implanted within him a divine, and therefore a sinless life, and that life can never do anything but produce that which is holy and sinless. There fore a born-again soul cannot sin. What confuses men is that at present the believer has the two seeds (Adam’s and God’s) in the one body. He has a divine, sinless, and a hu man, sinful life in the same body. Sometimes, alas, he permits the evil to show itself forth, and then again the divine life is active. James speaks of this, and tells his hearers that it is not right to let blessing and curs ing come out of the same mouth. He shows them that no fountain yields salt water and fresh at the same time. Therefore, since it is evi dent that no fountain can produce two kinds of water, it is also clear that no fountain, no spring of life in the human body, can produce both evil and good. This proves therefore that there are two springs of life in the Christian, and since we have only one body they manifest them selves through that same body. Bless ing and cursing at times come out of the same spot, out of the same mouth. It is with the believer somewhat as with our present modem plumbing; lavatories furnish hot and cold wa ter, yet they both flow often out of the same spigot. Yet we all know they do not come out of the same pipe, but out of two pipes. A believer has two springs of life within; he has a sinful heart and a new heart. The wise man tells us that a fool’s heart is at his left, and a wise man’s heart is at his right—Ecclesiastes 10:2. Yet the thoughts originated in those two hearts are expressed by the same pair of lips, and they come out of the same mouth. It ought not to be so, of course. The saint of God should keep his body under, and bring it into subjection, so that only that which is of God shall be seen and
explains the statement that a believ er cannot sin by reminding us that His seed (God’s seed), remains in the believer. It is an inexorable law that every seed produces after its own kind, and produces nothing else. Evolution is absolutely out of touch with all known natural laws. A peach seed will never produce apples, or a BUILDING THE BRIDGE An old man, traveling a lone high way, Came at the evening cold and grey, To a chasm deep and wide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim, For the sullen stream held no fears for him, But he turned when he reached the other side, And builded a bridge to span the tide. "Old man,” cried a fellow pilgrim near, "You're wasting your strength with building here: Your journey will cease with the end ing day, And you never again will pass this way, “You have crossed the chasm deep and wide, Why build you a bridge at even tide?” And the pilgrim raised his old grey head: "Good friend, on the path I have come,” he cried, “There followeth after me today A youth whose feet will pass this way.” "This stream, which has been as naught to me To that fair-haired boy may a pitfall be; He, too, must cross in the twilight dim . . . Good friend, I am building this bridge for him.” plum seed potatoes. As James says, “Can a fig tree bear olive berries, or a vine figs?” Of course not. So
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