METHOD OF CREATION 53 



The Creator has made the universe. Its laws are 

 his laws. Its present condition is due to him. We 

 may say that he created nature and left it to its own 

 workings, or, on the other hand, that the workings of 

 nature are due to his immediate presence and the per- 

 petual exercise of his power. 



That the Creator would make the universe and then 

 separate himself from it, as if he had no interest in it, 

 seems to my mind wholly improbable. "In him we 

 live and move and have our being," expresses, I be- 

 lieve, a scientific truth. He is a universal presence 

 and power in and through nature at all times. All 

 power is his power, and all the workings of nature 

 are due to him. 



" For of him, and through him, and unto him are 

 all things." "For your Father knoweth what things 

 ye have need of, before ye ask him." 



" Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and 

 not one of them shall fall on the ground without 

 your Father; but the very hairs of your head are all 

 numbered." 



"The glory of the Lord shall endure forever: the 

 Lord shall rejoice in his works. He looketh on the 

 earth and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills and 

 they smoke." 



" The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice." "His 

 lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and 

 trembled. The hills melted like wax at the presence 

 of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the 

 whole earth." 



The Bible represents the Creator as a present, liv- 

 ing, intelligent God, who is interested in his works, 

 and who is ever working in and through nature. The 

 forces of nature are the power of God, and the results 

 produced by these forces are due to his will. 



We are not to look on the Universe as a complex 



