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the body fitted to that mind and if the body, then 

 every special adaptation by which that body is 

 adjusted to the forces of the natural world. 



We believe this view is sustained by the Apostle. 

 " For the invisible things of him from the creation 

 of the world are clearly seen, being understood ~by the 

 things that are made, even his eternal power and 

 Godhead, so that they are without excuse" Surely 

 it can not be contended that the Apostle supposed 

 any thing less than a personal God was manifested 

 by creation, when he declared that they were with- 

 out excuse for not worshiping him as God. But on 

 the other hand, he denounces them for likening 

 God to corruptible man, and to birds and four- 

 footed leasts and creeping things, as though they 

 could discern in creation no higher marks of wis- 

 dom than instinct, or the imperfect works of sinful 

 man. 



But let it not for a moment be thought that I 

 offer Nature as a substitute for the Bible, or the 

 love of God as the author of the beautiful as the 

 Bum of that love demanded by Him as a righteous 

 moral Governor. Nature is a revelation, and if 



