290 THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION 



side of the cloud comes a mighty hand meeting with 

 power the force of Assyria. From the other side, a 

 Hthe and sinewy hand thwarts the subtlety of Egypt. 

 But Jehovah is behind the cloud. 



Again we understand that we are made in the 

 image of our Maker, Again we understand the 

 power of the uplift of this idea. From the conflict 

 it has emerged in new and glorified form. Hath a 

 God eyes that he may see? Hath a God ears that he 

 may hear? Hath a God hands that he may work? 

 These we know to be but human forms of speaking. 

 Eyes, ears, and hands we may owe to the brute from 

 whom we have sprung; in our eyes and ears and 

 hands we show the relationship we bear to them. 

 These are not the image of God. God is a deeper, a 

 finer, a nobler something than hands, than ears and 

 eyes. The image of God lies within ourselves: the 

 image of God is that which makes us what we are. 

 (In every noble purpose, in every earnest endeavor to 

 uplift ourselves or our fellowman, in every thought 

 that turns us from the evil of a repented past, in every 

 desire with which our hearts yearn to strengthen, 

 support and sustain our friends and even our ene- 

 mies, shines forth the image of Almighty God.^ This 

 it is that links us with the Eternal : this it is that 

 makes it worth while that we should be Eternal. Be- 

 sides this what are hands and ears and eyes? We 



