16 MODERN IDEAS OF EVOLUTION 



need of a divine revelation. Now, all this is precisely 

 what the Bible has given us in a better way. If we 

 look up with adoring wonder to the material universe, 

 the Bible leads us to see in this the power and God 

 head of the Creator, and the Creator as the living 

 God, our Heavenly Father. If we seek for an ideal 

 humanity to worship, the Bible points us to Jesus 

 Christ, the perfect man, and at the same time the 

 manifestation of God, the Good Shepherd giving His 

 life for the sheep, God manifest in the flesh and bring 

 ing life and immortality *to light. Thus the Bible 

 gives us all that these modern ideas desiderate, and 

 infinitely more. Nor should we think little of the 

 older part of revelation, for it shows the historical 

 development of God s plan, and is eminently valuable 

 for its testimony to the unity of nature and of God. 



tfTt is in religion what the older formations are in 



fgeology. Their conditions and their life may have 

 been replaced by newer conditions and living beings, 

 but they form the stable base of the later formations 



( which not only rest upon them, but which without 

 them would be incomplete and unintelligibleT] 



The lesson of these facts is to hold to the old 

 faith, to fear no discussion, and to stand fast for this 

 world and the future on the grand declaration of 

 Jesus God so loved the world that He gave His 

 only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him 



t should not perish, but have everlasting life. 



It is somewhat reassuring that the controversies 



