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an individual." Or that the Creative Power, after 

 destroying our earth, "will await with sublime 

 patience the evolution of a new earth and a new 

 order of animated nature." 



The Creative Power has surely as much sense as 

 an ordinary man, and no man builds and perfects 

 a fine piece of machinery, or a magnificent mansion 

 to tear it down, that he may "wait in sublime 

 patience" the building of another to take its place. 

 We should give God credit for ordinary business 

 sense in the construction and preservation of the 

 universe, which generally seems to be denied Him 

 by His thinking creatures. 



If Creative Wisdom has the power to build worlds, 

 He has also the power to preserve them; and, hav- 

 ing that power, to allow them to go to decay or 

 be destroyed would be the perverse folly of a malig- 

 nant demon, not a beneficent Creator. The same is 

 true of the destruction of a race. To create, build 

 up, enlighten and perfect a human race, and then 

 destroy them and their perfected world, would be 

 a greater crime than it is possible for man or devils 

 to perpetrate. I have a better opinion of Deity, 

 a nobler conception of His justice and goodness 

 than that. I believe in a God who cares, not the 

 modern God of the atheistic majority, as Mr. Walker 

 says, "who does not care." A God who does not 

 care means anarchy and chaos. It means the 

 obliteration of all law, all moral forces, all religious 

 conceptions, all stability and consistency in the 

 government of the universe. Why, the very air we 

 breathe, the sunshine that gives life, the regular and 

 constant return of day and night, of seasons, years 

 and months, proclaim a God who cares. Every 

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