42 SPECIAL CREATION 



stream carries silt to its mouth. Her blood has no 

 more intellect, memory nor will-power than the water 

 in a stream. 



If a portion of the silt at the mouth of the Missis- 

 sippi should be deposited at its mouth in the form of a 

 colossal man, showing his head, neck, body, arms, 

 legs, hands, feet, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, etc., it would 

 be considered a great miracle. But the formation of 

 the embryo body in the womb of its mother, with all 

 its organs and parts is far more miraculous than the 

 formation of the silt man of the Mississippi would be. 



The reader may reply that the atoms of which 

 the embryo is built up are not merely deposited but 

 they are absorbed by the fertilized ovum and its 

 daughter cells, and converted into new cells; that 

 these cells are chemically combined and differentiated 

 and mechanically arranged in such a manner as to 

 form the embryo body, etc. True ; but force and 

 motion are necessary to produce new cells, to make 

 the necessary chemical combinations and mechanical 

 arrangements ; and these forces and motions must be 

 generated, guided and controlled by a Being possessed 

 of a conscious intellect, memory, will-power and cre- 

 ative force. 



