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REV. G. P WHIDBOENE, M.A., F.G.S., ON 



Kow it is true that we have already argued from the consistency 

 seen in actual Nature to the unity of its Creator ; but our 

 present thesis is quite independent of that. We are not now 

 dealing with actual nature. We start from the Unity of God, 

 definitely revealed to us in Scripture, alone and apart from 

 anything else; and, therefore, from that we may argue de novo 

 to the converse of our former proposition, and from the Unity 

 of the Creator, as declared by revelation alone, premise that con- 

 sistency must be expected to appear all through in His creation. 



(2) As God is iintiring, His creation would be expected to 

 be instinct with ceaseless motion. Movement would be every- 

 where. Wave after wave of divine impulse would well up 

 over the ocean-face of nature, commingling, dividing, expanding, 

 divaricating, conveying motion to its tiniest particles, surging 

 up into exuberant spray, stirring its molecules, moving its 

 mountains, effecting one universal state of movement, latent, 

 slow, or fast, in all created things. Its very rest would be the 

 rest of unexhausted activity. 



(3) As God is eternal, His creation would be expected to be 

 a?onial — age-long. Time, that by our measure seems vast, is 

 of no account in the measure of the Eternal. Whether the 

 age of the earth were, as supposed ot old, 6,000 years, or, as 

 supposed now, hundreds of millions of years, it would be 

 equally an episode in the vastness of eternity. And it is 

 only to be supposed that the likelihood of length of work by 

 the Eternal would be vast ; and that, as the earth is small 

 compared with the stars, so the age of the earth, whatever it 

 be, would be small compared with the age of the stars. From 

 the point of view of eternity, time is of no account whatever 

 in creation. 



(4) As God is infinite, His creation would be expected to be 

 vast in extent. As of time, so of space the work of the 

 limitlessly Great may be expected to be immeasurably great. 

 As we attempt to image the distance of the farthest star, we 

 discover that its magnitude is below the scope of the measure 

 of the infinite. The Infinity of the Creator suggests the 

 presumption of magnitude in His creation — magnitude, perhaps, 

 as yet unimagined by man. 



(5) As God is omnipotent. His creatioii would be expected 

 to be majestic. The forces brought into action may be 

 stupendously enormous ; the results produced may be un- 

 utterably grand. The voice of power thrilling through the 

 universe must find an answer most magnifical. 



(6) As God is omniscient, His cieation would be expected 



