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In regard to that crust of conservatism of ours 
which he says is so thick and hard that the 
truth cannot percolate through it—I, for one, 
would rather have a defensive armor so tough 
that lightning could not ‘faze’ it than be so 
spongy as to absorb every ism I came in con¬ 
tact with.” 
Is it a reflection upon the power, the glory, 
and the dignity of the Almighty to say that 
the creative act was by the operation of nat¬ 
ural law—a slaw, gradual, long-continued act 
—rather than a short, quick, mechanical, or su¬ 
pernatural, process? Before the dawn of sci¬ 
ence even the brightest minds, knowing little 
or nothing of the law of cause and effect, could 
not conceive of God as performing his mighty 
works save in some manlike manner. It seems 
that they had the idea—and a great many still 
have it—that during those six days of twenty- 
four hours each the Creator went about his 
work at his little old mud-mill, mixing and 
grinding the material, and shaping and mould¬ 
ing it into all sorts of animal forms on his 
potter wheel. It is time for the world to rid 
itself of the primitive idea that man originated 
as a sort of hand-made, table-turned piece of 
pottery. 
Others say that God merely “spoke” all 
things into existence. If that view be correct, 
then according to the rest of the Genesis story 
of creation God became so tired from this 
lingual feat of six days’ duration that he was 
compelled to take a rest at the week’s end. 
Is it possible that a God of infinite power and 
endurance should become so weary with a 
