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second place, I have no reason to deny God 

 to-day because I misunderstood him yesterday. 

 The means and methods of creation are not 

 a part of revelation. The Scriptures have quite 

 another theme. Only the general course and 

 sequence of the creation are outlined ; and it is 

 marvelous that the most advanced teaching of 

 evolution should so fully confirm the sequence 

 of Genesis. I find nothing in Scripture to 

 make me disbelieve evolution. Man has in- 

 terjected his own conceptions of the means of 

 creation into the Mosaic symbolism, and has 

 thrown them into his creed ; and if that creed 

 must now be overthrown, the fault is man's, 

 not God's. 



The search for God. 



But where is God, in all this great and 

 evolving scheme of creation ? I answer that he 

 is where he always was. Nothing that man 

 can do can make the creation any the less true 

 or untrue ; and what a man thinks he saw in 

 a strawberry plant need not lessen his faith in 

 a creator any more than it shakes his faith in a 



