64 THE ORIGIlSr OF MAK 



upon the stage, the cHmax of Jehovah's plan. He is 

 superior to the beasts of the field, greater than any 

 other created thing — but a little lower than the angels. 

 God made him for a purpose, placed before him in- 

 finite possibilities and revealed to him responsibilities 

 commensurate with the possibilities. God beckons 

 man upward and the Bible points the way; man can 

 obey and travel toward perfection by the path that 

 Christ revealed, or man can disobey and fall to a level 

 lower, in some respects, than that of the brutes about 

 him. Looking heavenward man can find inspiration 

 in his lineage; looking about him he is impelled to 

 kindness by a sense of kinship w^hich binds him to 

 his brothers. Mighty problems demand his attention ; 

 a world's destiny is to be determined by him. What 

 time has he to waste in hunting for " missing links " 

 or in searching for resemblances between his forefa- 

 thers and the ape? In His Image — in this sign we 

 conquer. 



We are not progeny of the brute; we have not been 

 forced upward by a blind pushing-power ; neither have 

 we tumbled upward by chance. It is a drawing- 

 power — ^not a pushing-power — that rules the world — 

 a power which finds its highest expression in Christ 

 who promised: "I, if I be lifted up from the earth, 

 will draw all men unto me." 



