THE RELIGION OF NATURE 



fulfill his high destiny; as a man, with self-con- 

 sciousness in the likeness of God, he is still far 

 from fit to leave the world and meet the God who 

 made him. 



But our present pace of progress is so swift. 

 The miracles of yesterday X-rays, wireless teleg- 

 raphy, etc. are the commonplaces of to-day ; and 

 there will be new, undreamt of miracles to-morrow. 



In a .very few generations all mankind will be 

 t civilized and educated. 



Savages will have ceased to exist. 



All humanity will realize, from the study of 



nature, its kinship with God and its destiny to 



return to God. It will not be long, then, before 



^"man shall be fit and ready to leave this old world 



'and go to meet his Father. 



If I adhered strictly to the declaration in my 

 preface I should stop here ; because I have reached 

 the limit of my subject so far as it can be dealt 

 with by means of argument. But so many readers 

 have begged for more light upon the connection 

 between this scientific argument and the truths of 

 Christianity, that I will write a few words here. 



The point of difficulty, of course, is how to 

 reconcile the gradual evolution of God in man with 

 the Scriptural creation of man in the likeness of 

 God. Yet it is not a real difficulty. Everything 

 that has happened in this world since time began 



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