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its place. The machine never wears out, but run- 

 ning a certain round, finishes the work for which it 



And this is the machine some would have us be- 

 lieve to be the work of chance, or a sort of accumu- 

 lation of improvement* like the steam-engine, with 

 this important difference, that while the steam-engine 

 is the result of all the mechanical skill the greatest 

 men of the world have been able to bring to bear 

 upon it, the human body, thousands of years 

 jus; is become what it is with- 



out a personal architect. If one can believe this, 

 we have no controversy with him. \Ye frankly ac- 

 knowledge that we have no proof that we believe 

 will satisfy him. We do not expect him to believe 

 in a God, and of cour.se not in a Bible. We say 

 that his mind runs in such a channel, and his 

 standard of proof is such, that we can have no- 

 thing in common in science, and nothing in reli- 

 gBkn. Hut if, on the other hand, when we know 

 that there was an era in the history of this globe 

 when man came to exist for the first time ; when 

 we consider all the adaptations of this body to 

 our use, without any contrivance or thought on 

 our part ; when we find this machine kept in con- 

 stant working order, domg its own repairs, complet- 

 ing a given round of labor, if the conditions only 

 are observed ; when we see all this, if compelled by 

 the very law of our being to believe that these bodies 

 are the contrivance of a personal Creator, then we 

 have a starting-point. Then we are prepared to 



