This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...will soon pass away; and man is also in the same unhappy state. The conception is in this direction; let mankind suffer the birth pangs and live; or become an untimely dead thing in the womb of time and never emerge into the world of life to see the light and the day. Another position from which men may with benefit ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...will soon pass away; and man is also in the same unhappy state. The conception is in this direction; let mankind suffer the birth pangs and live; or become an untimely dead thing in the womb of time and never emerge into the world of life to see the light and the day. Another position from which men may with benefit study this subject is that of development as found in the evident purpose, design and general tendency of nature, man and the Bible. The heavens have not brought forth their generations by accident, and it is not chance that reigns in the universe, in man, in providence and in the work of the redemption of the world. The chronicles of time cannot be considered as purposeless, and it is not unreasonable to accept the thought that God has revealed His Will to men; that Christ has in very truth come into the world's history; and that the Spirit of God has been carrying on this great work that makes manifest before men the power, wisdom, goodness and grace of God. Wise men of this world may try to doubt and deny that there is any design in creation, seeing that there are, what they think, blood-stains and cruel deeds that deserve to be condemned in nature, and in the history of mankind; even the Bible to such men is hardly credible seeing it contains stories that, in their opinion, ought not to be there. The suggestion of science at the present time to such men would be that they ought not to be quite so ready to bring all things to a consummation before their throne of judgment; but to study the whole matter more thoroughly; to consider what the results have been in the past; and that the ablest scientific thinkers are quite unable to conclude that a creation so conditioned, adjusted, related and correlated, is not only purposeful, it is living des...
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