NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



One day I saw in a neighbor's 

 flower-bed a little plant, that, 

 as it pushed its way above the 

 ground, had brought with it the 

 mother seed from which it grew. 

 That was a literal reappearance 

 of the planted seed; but it was 

 not the reappearance, not the res- 

 urrection of the seed, for which a 

 seed grows. 



Christ came the first time into 

 men's vision by coming on the 

 plaoe of their senses; He comes 

 the second time into men's vision 

 by lifting them up to His plane of 

 spiritual comprehension. 



This coming of Christ involves 

 a new birth, a new creation, a 

 new kingdom. It means a new 

 step in the evolution of man. As 

 man has stepped from the mineral 

 kingdom to the vegetable king- 

 dom, and from the vegetable king- 

 dom to the animal kingdom, and 

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