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student, who takes into consideration 
the power of the Omnipotent. When 
the inlidel evolutionist has to stop for 
want of evidence; where after^ going 
hack to the origin of life, he has to con¬ 
fess himself balked in his attempt to 
account for that origin, or tell how life 
originated, there the Christian student 
finds renewed grounds for the strength¬ 
ening of his faith. There the Bible 
steps in with the assertion that God 
created life, and clears up the whole 
nn sterv like a ra}' of light let into a 
darkened room. 
]t is a well-known fact that man can 
so combine two diflerent species, either 
plant or animal, that the product of 
the combination is an entirely different 
sort of organism. He can. for exam¬ 
ple, so combine the seeds of two kinds 
of fruit as to produce something so vast¬ 
ly different as to defy recognition. The 
difference inaA' often times be so great 
as to not only place the new production 
in a new species but in a new genus as 
well. Now it must l)e evident that 
this new plant, this new species we 
will call it, is an evolution; that is, it 
is a development, the result of the com¬ 
bination of the two i>arent species. 
Had those species not l)een forced to 
combine, in all probability the new 
species would never have originated. 
But, though it is an evolution or devel¬ 
opment, there is one agency that we 
have omitted; an agency, too, that has 
a most important bearing upon the sub¬ 
ject in consideration. Those two plants, 
or seeds, did not combine of themselves; 
left to themselves they probalily never 
would have united. But an agency 
having power over them made them 
combine, and that agency was man\ u\ 
other words, man created X\\ei new s[)ecies, 
and the plant so devel()[)ed is no less an 
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evolution than a creation. And has 
the Creator of the universe less power 
over his created beings than man has 
over these plants V Nay, has he not 
far more power over his creatures, for 
we must acknowledge that what little 
influence or powerman may exhibit, is 
given him by his all-pow'ei‘ful Creator. 
Now' then, evolutionists tell you that 
they can go so far, but still they lack 
some links in their chain of evidence. 
Studying both the living and fossil cre¬ 
ation, they find many links,many facts, 
that seem to indicate that a series of 
developments has characterized the 
grow'th of the animated creation touts 
present condition,but what lias puzzled 
and distracted the brains of the sup- 
l)orters of the hypothesis has been to 
bring about natural conditions under 
w hich there shall be a spontaneous out¬ 
burst of life, and from that a gradual 
ascending scale of organism. To this 
end many a laboratory has vvitnessed 
experiment after experiment, all kinds 
of gases, all degrees of heat, all degrees 
of pressure from an absolute vacuum, 
have been used, and all of no avail. Ig¬ 
noring entirel}^ the existence of an Al¬ 
mighty, poor human intellect and in¬ 
genuity has attempted to accomplish 
those things possilile only to God hini- 
self,and the result has been doubt, con¬ 
fusion, failure. It must be plain to all 
thatGod has it in his pow'er to so change 
and combine sijecies as to produce 
something entirely new', even as man 
did in the case referred to. It must 
also be plain that though the outcome, 
of the combination would be an evolu¬ 
tion, it would be no less a creation; and 
when the Bible declares that the Lord 
God created all things, it does not nec¬ 
essarily demaiul the rejection of the 
theorv of Evolution. Although the 
