NEXT STEP IN EVOLUTION 



judge God aright in unfolding his- 

 tory. We ever misread his works. 

 We see in the storm-cloud a 

 messenger of His fury, and in the 

 lightning flash His consuming an- 

 ger; but, instead, that cloud is 

 big with mercy and breaks in 

 blessings, and its lightning proves 

 to be but one of God's ways for 

 burning poison out of the air and 

 creating life-giving forces. Time 

 is God's interpreter. The chil- 

 dren of the Southern slaveholders 

 now see that Phillips and Garri- 

 son and Beecher were God's mes- 

 sengers of love. 



We look back all along the con- 

 flict of the ages of evolution ; we 

 now see, in the changing of the 

 dunghill into shrubs and' roses and 

 into food, the prophecy of all, and 

 we marvel at our blindness in not 

 knowing that the most manifest 

 thing in all the world, and at all 

 times, was God the Father work- 

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