NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



" We all, with open face beholding 

 as in a glass the glory of the Lord, 

 are changed into the same image 

 from glory to glory" (2 Cor. iii. 

 18). We shall be "conformed to 

 the image of his Son " (Rom. viii. 

 29) . " As we have borne the image 

 of the earthy, we shall also bear 

 the image of the heavenly " (1 Cor. 

 xv. 49). After the night is over 

 we shall awake in His likeness. 



Newton said that he made a 

 splendid guess at the universal 

 law of gravitation when he saw 

 the apple fall. Why may it not 

 be permissible for us to guess, 

 from the law of conformity to 

 type, that in every kingdom the 

 new creature carries with it the 

 pattern of its type-life, and that 

 after this pattern, in the lower 

 kingdoms, the accompanying cells 

 strive to weave a nature corre- 

 sponding with its kingdom, and 

 in the kingdom of the spiritual 

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