GOD IN MAN 



has been the working of God in the world ; and the 

 day came when the world being already full of 

 varied animal life man was created, as a crea- 

 ture, differing from all other animals by the con- 

 scious possession of an immortal soul, which will 

 rejoin God, its maker. 



If we believe that this creation of man as a 

 superior creature, by his endowment with a con- 

 science, in the likeness of God, was achieved by a 

 continuation of the same process which had pre- 

 viously created all other animals, we do not begin 

 to doubt the Biblical narrative. We merely begin 

 to understand it. 



We do not detract anything from the working 

 of God in the world, by comprehending that the 

 creation of man came as the harmonious climax 

 to an ordered, predestined series of progressive 

 changes. We merely become competent to realize 

 and wonder at the marvel of it. 



Even if we regard our evolution as incomplete 

 now, there is no need to suppose that our bodily 

 form, dignified forever in the Bible narrative in 

 its assumption by the Son of God, will be changed 

 before the end of the world comes for us. 



Although I have been accused of " attempting 

 to bolster up the effete creed of Christianity," I 

 know that many good Christians must have found 

 that my argument, tracing the evolution of man 



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