GOD IN MAN 



within bursts its bounds, and the live bird comes 

 forth to join its parent, leaving behind only the 

 empty eggshell, whose dead substance will be used 

 again in the evolution of other life. Here we have 

 a clear parallel of the completed evolution of life 

 in the world. When the spark of eternal spirit 

 which God the Father gave to the world shall 

 have completed its evolution, it will leave the L 

 world and join its parent, leaving the dead matter 

 of the earth to be used again in the evolution of fan/fry, 

 other life. 



We see another completed evolution, and an- 

 other parallel, in the history of any common gall 

 created by a parent insect upon a plant. Very 

 wonderful in its complicated structure, and often 

 very beautiful, is the gall; but it only serves its 

 purpose as a wonderful and beautiful " little 

 world " in which a germ of life placed there by a 

 parent-fly completes its evolution. And from it at 

 last a perfect fly comes forth, in the likeness of its 

 parent, and leaves behind it the dead " little 

 world," the substance of which will be used again 

 in the evolution of other creatures. 



In these and other instances which leap to the 

 mind from every survey of nature, we can surely 

 trace, in a blurred and imperfect way, the natural 

 parallel of our own evolution, the great truth of 

 science which religion has always taught that in 

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