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other plain case of clothing. Iron was made 

 for hammers and ploughs, and lead for bullets ; 

 all intended for us. And so of other small hand- 

 fuls of insignificant things. 



But if we should ask these profound ex 

 positors of God s intentions, How about those 

 man-eating animals lions, tigers, alligators 

 which smack their lips over raw man? Or 

 about those myriads of noxious insects that 

 destroy labor and drink his blood? Doubtless 

 man was intended for food and drink for all 

 these? Oh, no! Not at all! These are unresolv- 

 able difficulties connected with Eden s apple and 

 the Devil. Why does water drown its lord? 

 Why do so many minerals poison him? Why 

 are so many plants and fishes deadly enemies? 

 Why is the lord of creation subjected to the 

 same laws of life as his subjects? Oh, all these 

 things are satanic, or in some way connected 

 with the first garden. 



Now, it never seems to occur to these far- 

 seeing teachers that Nature s object in making 

 animals and plants might possibly be first of 

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