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the First Person of the Trinity is constantly being carried on 
throughout the centuries until the coming of the Son of God 
upon earth, and until the day when the Son of God uttered these 
words. It is a manifestation of the ceaseless activity of the ever- 
lasting ‘I Am” with whom is no past, and with whom equally 
there is no future. It is, in fact, to speak with the utmost 
reverence, the absolute realization, in fact, of the end which 
Aristotle would have all votaries of true wisdom seek after, an 
EVEpyela Ev Wh TapoVtt. 
There have not been wanting those who contended that as 
Revelation in the historical period covered by Holy Writ was 
essentially progressive from Moriah to Sinai, from Sinai to Tabor, 
from Tabor to Calvary, so there was a Revelation in after centuries 
progressive also. That as from each successive mountain peak 
an ever-widening vista was disclosed to view of the glory of our 
God, and at the same time of the Divine counsel and purpose of 
redemption as its fulfilment drew nigh, so the men of a later age 
were in their turn in a position to add to the things written in this 
book. 
There have not been wanting those who contended that as 
creation may possibly have taken ceons of years to accomplish 
with all its right marvellous works, its manifold manifestations, 
and its elaborate organization, so also the creation of new organic 
forms of life is continued during the comparatively recent period 
of man’s existence on earth. Now if this assertion cannot be 
disproved, it is, believe me, equally hard, and probably a great 
deal more difficult to substantiate. We are all agreed as to the 
truth of our Lord’s own declaration, “My Father worketh 
hitherto.” The point at issue is that we maintain that the passage 
refers to another work entirely distinct from that of Creation, and 
that the upholders of “subsequent creation” claim that the 
coming into being of hitherto unknown forms of life has been 
going on since, and is even continued now. 
Let it be granted that an interval of unknown duration, and it 
may be too vast for finite minds to grasp, took place between that 
beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, and the 
day when the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the 
host of them. That in the light of one primeval morn there was 
‘a little rift within the lute,” and that henceforward from a 
tiny cavity in the tide-washed boulders the musical echo of the far- 
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