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IV. 

 CREATION AND CREATIANISM. 



I HAVE called this paper " Creation and Crea- 

 tianism," because, so far as I could see, these were 

 the two points on which Christians cannot affordj, 

 to be hazy and indistinct. Of course, no words can 

 be used which do not carry with them associations 

 other than those which the words imply, and there- 

 fore, at the risk of platitudinizing, I have put 

 down certain propositions which none of us will 

 refuse to accept, and which certainly no terms I 

 use are intended to contradict. 



i. The first is the truth which, in a one-sided 

 way, Pantheism has seized, a principle which is 

 especially important now in the face of the practical 

 Deism of some scientific writers. God's Creative 

 activity is present everywhere. There can be no 

 division of labour between God and Nature, or God 

 and Law. For " if He thunder by law, the thunder 

 is still His voice." The plant which is produced 

 from seed by the natural laws of growth is His 

 creation. The brute which is born of the natural 

 process of generation is His creation. The plant 



