106 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
Omnipotence could make a stone live, or set conscious creatures 
amidst the cold of interstellar space. True, but let us consider 
a little. Is this a chance world or a world of order? A world 
of order you will say. Quite right. Having once discovered 
any fact, physical, mental, moral or religious, we know that 
always and forever that fact will be truth. Our God is a 
changeless God. We know, too, that having once formulated 
a plan the Creator never departs from it unless except it be- 
comes practically unavoidable. Is there any necessity that 
vertibrate animals should all be built on variations of the one 
pian? None whatever, except that the Creator has apparently 
aimed to work along the simplest lines possible and with the 
greatest possible economy of fundamental ideas. We find, too, 
that a given effect is always the result of the same cause. Mind 
is always a function of brain matter. A tree always takes its 
life from some other tree of the same species. Water is always 
formed by the union of hydrogen and oxygen, and never in any 
other way. 
_ Are we not justified then in supposing the same changeless- 
ness, the same economy, will be exhibited by the Creator in the 
rest of the universe of which we area part? Surely yes. But 
we can prove it in part. Newton believed the law of gravity 
on earth held good in the heavens. He proved it as far as the 
Moon, he proved it as far as the planets, and with faith in God 
we believe it to the uttermostsends of the universe. The laws 
oi light in space are the laws of light on the earth. The laws. 
of God revealed here we believe to be universal laws. 
Our Mr. Millar points his spectroscope at a Nova and says. 
there is hydrogen there. Why? Because he implicitly be- 
lieves that the same effect always has the same cause whether 
the effect be found on earth or on a star. 
Our Mr. Lumsden will tell you the craters on the Moon 
are due to volcanic action, because he sees similar formations 
produced on earth by volcanic action, and he believes the uni- 
verse is a unity. 
Our Mr. Harvey reasons about the Sun’s magnetism be- 
cause he believes electricity and its laws are universally existent. 
