44 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



I was made in secret, and curiously wrought (or 

 embroidered) in the lower parts of the earth. 

 Thine eyes did see my substance yet being im- 

 perfect ; and in thy book all my members were 

 written, which in continuance were fashioned, 

 when as yet there were none of them." " He 

 who fashioned the eye, shall not He see ? He 

 that formed the ear shall not He hear?" " God 

 makes the grass to grow, and herbs for the 

 children of men." He sends rain, frost, and 

 snow. He controls the winds and the waves. 

 He determines the casting of the lot, the flight 

 of an arrow, and the falling of a sparrow. This 

 universal and constant control of God is not 

 only one of the most patent and pervading doc- 

 trines of the Bible, but it is one of the funda- 

 mental principles of even natural religion. 



The second method of accounting for contri- 

 vances in nature admits that they were fore- 

 seen and purposed by God, and that He en- 

 dowed matter with forces which He foresaw and 

 intended should produce such results. But here 

 his agency stops. He never interferes to guide 

 the operation of physical causes. He does 

 nothing to control the course of nature, or the 

 events of history. On this theory it may be 

 said, (1.) That it is utterly inconsistent with the 



