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nal substance was matter out of which has come 

 the orderly universe as we know it, with its high 

 grades of intelligence in animals and man. 



"The world, as the creation of a supreme intelli- 

 gence, is partially comprehensible to finite minds. 

 But to suppose that the thought and purpose and 

 will of man are products of material forces is not 

 only a mystery, but an absurdity which cannot 

 long be entertained by any sane mind. The theory 

 of evolution without a God can lay no claim to 

 scientific support. A theory of evolution, designed, 

 controlled and permeated by divine ideas, may be 

 both scientific and in accord with the highest dic- 

 tates of religious truth." 



As to the life hereafter, which the religious con- 

 cept has always proclaimed, it is a fact demon- 

 strated by history that in all ages, among all peo- 

 ple, under all religious forms, the idea of immor- 

 tality remains fixed and imperishable in the human 

 mind. Every human being in coming into this 

 world brings with him under a form more or less 

 vague this inward belief, desire and hope of immor- 

 tality. This is God's handwriting on the human 

 soul. And the history of man, the reasoning con- 

 science of man, is God's Bible of life written in man's 

 spiritual nature. And whatever is rational, true 

 and good is of God, and whatever is contrary to 

 the enlightened conscience of man is contrary to 

 the divine purpose of God. 



Revelation proclaims God is a spirit and man is 

 a spirit, and after death man in his spiritual being 

 shall live on forever. The latest modern scientific 

 thought fully and powerfully sustains the Bible. 

 It says in substance, in dealing with man we must 



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