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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GAKDEN. 



I am come to bid you mark that now as in the first day 



man 



the garden in the cool of the day. I am come to bid you 



mark that, however or whenever man 

 by the direct fiat of the Almi 



deep 



sea slime; whether immediately from the dust of the 



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ment from 



somewh 



came a day in which the Lord God did breathe into his 



g soul, 



3f Him 



of His 



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mountain 



and fruit. 



man is man 



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of God from 



world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things 



Though no cloudy pavilion had ever rested 



made 



summit, though no voice had ever thundered 



e>'"e> 



commandment, the adamantine 



had ever cried aloud unto man : " I am the Lord thy God, 

 unchangeable, everlasting. " "The stars in their courses ' ' 



had - -*-- -* 



compelled the confession of the only God. " The fruitful 

 trees and all cedars ' ' had still forbidden that man should fall 

 down and worship an idol made from the stock of a tree. 

 The babbling brook and the rushing river had alike pro- 

 claimed that there is a river of life, even God Himself, the 

 Creator who alone can satisfy the thirsty soul of His child. 

 The whole earth is full of His glory ; the whole creation 



man 



God 



" The glory of God is God's character shining 



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admiration." 



But I am limited by the conditions of the foundation 

 whereon I stand to-day, to the consideration of the par- 

 ticular elements of the character of God which are made 



