286 THE UNIVERSE 



life and powers of man are an exception, and do not 

 come within the domain of physical creations. They 

 are on a higher plane and as much above the realm 

 of material forms and substances as our sun is 

 above the earth. They belong to the spiritual world, 

 to the realms of Deity, to the kingdom of God and 

 the hosts of heaven. 



They are a part of the great natural forces of the 

 universe. Theologians call them supernatural forces, 

 but they are the natural creative and controlling 

 forces that have sovereignty over all the vast and 

 complicated forms of the visible, material universe. 



Therefore on the physical facts of organic creation 

 I agree generally with the scientists. And if they 

 had been informed in some of the vital and intelli- 

 gent processes of electrical creation, they would never 

 have believed in pantheism, or been pessimistic 

 sceptics or hopeless agnostics. And in my judgment 

 the only thing that will redeem modern science from 

 pantheism is the prevalent belief in and acceptance 

 of the theory of electrical creation. 



This will explain the harmony, intelligence, con- 

 tinuity and perfection of the physical universe, and 

 relieve their minds of all grounds for scepticism. 



There is "an intelligence or selective power" in 

 matter. There is a great "Chemist-Physicist" super- 

 intending nature's operations, sorting out two parts 

 of hydrogen and one of oxygen to compose the rain- 

 drop and the waters of the ocean. It is no "for- 

 tuitous concourse of atoms," which accomplishes 

 these results and preserves the life of the world. It 

 is the omniscient wisdom embraced in the laws and 

 forces of electric energy, which is the right hand of 

 Deity and the word of Creative power. 



