330 Fourth day—Sun, moon and stars. Fifth day—Fishes and fowls. Sixth day—Animals and man. We know that this account of the cre ation has been in circulation among men for nineteen hundred years; we believe it has been in circulation over three thousand years. Even taking the shorter period, will some one explain intelligently how, whoever wrote it, antedated the discoveries of modern science, which admits that this rough, and simple, order of events is substan tially correct according to present day knowledge? That the universe is not eternal was not an accepted fact by the scientists of old; but it is now. The Bible is thus seen to be more scientific than science, and to have been in advance of science in the past, as we believe it is in advance of the science of today. Prof. Lyell, our great American geologist, said that the French Institute in 1806 enumerated 80 geological' theories hostile to the Bible, not one of which is held today. Had the Bible agreed with science in 1806 where would it be in 1919? 2. His wisdom. Every real discovery of science dem onstrates the wisdom as well as the power of God. Science tells us of atoms and molecules, marvellous in their inherent properties, the “bricks” of which the universe is builded, so true to their constitution that man cannot combine them as he pleases but must follow their own law. Said Sir John Hershall: “They act and re-act on each other according to the rigorous, exact, mathematical, determinate rela tions laid down for them from the begin ning.” Science marvels, but cannot explain. The Bible alone satisfactorily solves the problem. Study how wonderful is the balanc ing of the proportions of water and dry land, the marvel of the tiny seed in which is enfolded the giant oak, the perfect fitness of the fish ror the waters and of the fowl for the air, and last of
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S all—man himself, designed to be lord of all creation. 3. His love. God’s power and wisdom in the crea tion were directed by His love. Not for its own sake was the universe formed, nor were fishes, fowls and animals given existence. All were for man’s pleasure, and man’s comfort. And man himself was for God’s pleasure and God’s com fort. Eternal love must have an object on which to lavish His love. God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, all associated in it. The climax is reached in that statement—-“Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.” II. The Father Providing. Matt. 6 : 2 4 - 34. What a tragedy in the history of the human race is that which lies between the account of the Creator’s power, wis dom, and love working for man, and the account of the coming into the world in human form of the second Person of that glorious Trinity who said: “Let Us make man!” How different were the earth, and the race, as Jesus looked around on the mountain side in Galilee, from that other day when He had looked “and, behold, it was very good.” Sin, the sin of doubting the Creator’s love, and disobeying His plain command, had opened a great chasm between man and God. Man conscious of his sin, had tried to hide from God’s presence, had tried to run away from God. And God, down through the centuries, had pa tiently, lovingly, followed the culprit, ever trying to reach him and win him back to a life of fellowship and loving rectitude. Sometimes the runaway had to be dealt with severely, but judgment was aye tempered with mercy. Yet the runaway was still headstrong, still un repentant, and farther away from un derstanding God’s loving heart than ever. Then, in the fulness of time, God— the sinned against One,—-came after the runaway, in form like his own.
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