GOD IN MAN 



stake for saying that such things could possibly 

 be done. 



Science to-day, grown wiser, does not use the 

 word " impossible " : least of all in connection 

 with the working of a force of which it knows 

 nothing and can only recognize its vehicles and its 

 results. 



And if science cannot say that man, grown 

 Godlike in power and purity, may not in the future 

 achieve what would be regarded as miracles to-day 

 seeing that the commonplaces of to-day would 

 have been miracles in the past who can presume 

 to say that the spirit of God did not, on one great 

 occasion in the history of the human race, act 

 directly to produce pure offspring of God in 

 human form? 



It is not my business to enlarge upon this theme, 

 any more than it falls within my province to do 

 more than briefly indicate that the gradual evolu- 

 tion of man to God does not conflict with the 

 Biblical account of the Creation and salvation of 

 man. 



If, in following the gradual rise of man, we can 

 recognize the point at which God endowed him with 

 a living soul, i. e., with the self-conscious sense of 

 duty, which is conscience : it does not detract from 

 the marvel of the fact, that it came as the natural 

 crown of work which had been going on from the 

 beginning of the world. 



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