CHAPTER XII. 



HUMAN REASON AND THE UNIVERSE ARE BOOKS OF 

 GOD, AS WELL AS THE BIBLE. 



IT is a mistake to consider the Bible as the only 

 book of God and its revelations the only revela- 

 tions of Deity. The natural universe and human 

 reason are also books of God. They are books He 

 has been writing all along through the varied his- 

 tory of man and the universe, from the dawn of 

 creation until now. Man is God's handiwork, His 

 most perfect and finished product, a machine he 

 has been developing and improving through all the 

 ages, a book that He has bound and rebound, and 

 stamped upon it His name and title a million times. 



The Bible teaches this when it says, "Ye are His 

 epistles known and read of all men." He has named 

 this book, this living epistle written by His own 

 hands, "The Sons of God," "Children of the Most 

 High," "Heirs of Eternal Life." And man's body, the 

 binding which He has furnished for this book, He 

 has designated "the temple of the living God the 

 tabernacle of flesh." The Bible is not only a book 

 of religious and ethical teaching, but also a history 

 of the reason, conscience and experience of men for 

 a thousand generations. 



The Bible is the revelation of God's mind and will, 

 and so is man, who was "made in His image." 



