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performed, in obedience to which all forms of life maintain themselves. Such unbreakable laws are sup posed to be not only the perpetuators of life and process but also the source. This does not give credit where credit is due. T h is Is N o t B l in d L a w N o law originated itself: no law ever found by man creates life, for life comes only from life, each after its kind: no law working blindly, apart from intelligence controlling and directing it, has produced a new thing from an old and kept it going thereafter. “Variations daily we witness, but no new species,” said Professor Bateson, whose authority is chief in genetics. The point is that law is not a creator but a creation; plans do not happen, they are made by intelligence; designs and contrivances do not come from universal impersonal automatic forces that eliminate ruthlessly all but “the fit.” If-tha t -were true all tubed flowers should have the same methods of fertilization, but they don’t. A thousand means contribute to that end in a thousand instances. A blind god of law would strike to the ground every budding device but the one that produced results with regularity,; yet in nature there are not only variously devised tubed flowers, but myriads of types in other styles, and with them a special means in each case to accomplish a common end. No one method of cross-fertilization is the best. God has a thousand ways to do one job. Logic and machine precision would demand one best way ; yet by lavish and glorious profusion He makes a myriad where one device, one plan, one means, would do. The machine-loving materialists used to say that if one organism couid be found that was dependent upon some other living thing for the completion or-carrying on of its life processes, then naturalism would fall before creation—blind force, cold matter, eternal law would not suffice to account for this world and its life. They don’t say this now; they even disclaim its belief in the past. There are too many of us dependent these days;-; too many examples of interdependence. When Australia had to import bumble-bees to cause its clover to produce seed, a proof of interdependence was demonstrated—without bumble-bees red clover cannot reproduce itselft The same is true of the yucca in regard to the pronuba moth; the same is true of fruit trees and bees apart from wind. Flies, bees, beetles, moths, birds, mammals, plants; all are in the scheme of things, and when one departs, the “bal ance” is destroyed and changes ensue. Avoid it as one will, there is no thought consonant with things as they are, with facts, except it recognize the Hand behind the power, the Skill that wrought the plan, the Mind in which was law. “In the beginning—God.” As it was, so it is now and shall be evermore. “Known unto God are all His works, even from the creation of the world.” —Copyright 1927. ¿Sr m Broadcasting th e Good Seed Answering preachers who have been afraid of the radio as a means of broadcasting sermons, Zion’s Herald says: “A free and untrammeled pulpit has nothing to fear from any invention that broadcasts the Word of the Lord. ‘Speak the word only,’ said the believing centurion, ‘and my son shall be healed.’ Our trust in the Gospel should be so confident that we may commit it to the wave lengths and send it out to invisible audiences in the faith that it shall not return void but shall accomplish that whereunto it is sent by the God of all wonders.”
Can God Trust Us? T HE Christian, London, has editorially reminded us of the truth that there is a mutual trust between God and His children. “ ‘Trust in the Lord.’ Truly all our hopes for life on earth, and for eternity hereafter, aré there, and there alone. We depend upon Him,, in our utter helplessness and need. Yet how marvelous, how inspiring, is the recol lection that the same Lord trusts His servants! We, in our weakness, depend upon Him. But, in another sense of the word, He depends upon us, in all the infinite re sources of HJs almighty power!.. “He has committed His Cause to our-hands. Upon our faithfulness to His charge depends its accomplishment. It is true that the power is His, and that apart from that ‘power from on high’ His servants could not have fulfilled the charge. But He does not compel the will of man. He neither compels the rebellious and neglectful to accept His salvation, nor does He compel the slothful and inconsistent believer to be true to His commission. He leaves it to us. It is a sobering as well as an inspiring thought. But inspi ration is its prominent note for those whose humble desire is for utter faithfulness and devotion to Him, conscious as they are of their many shortcomings.” :
‘‘The Zig-Zag Pa th” We climbed the height by the ziz-zag path And wondered why—until We understood it wa's made zig-zag To break the “force of the hill.” . A road straight up would prove too .steep For the traveler’s feet to tread: The thought was kind in its wise design Of a ziz-zag path instead. It is: often so in our daily life; We fail to understand That the twisting way our feet must tread By love alone was planned. Then murmur not at the winding way, It is our Father’s will To lead us Home by the ziz-zag path, To break the “force of the hill.”
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