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                          V.
                    EVOLUTION.
        GOD'S METHOD OF WORK IN HIS WORLD.
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  And the
earth was without form and void."

                SO THE sacred record begins. Now
                  there are those who would have been
                  just as happy had the order been re-
                  versed so as to read, "In the begin-
                  ning God created the earth and the
                  heavens. And the heavens were without
                  form and void."  There are others
                  who would have been rendered quite
unhappy by even so slight a change in the wording of
the Sacred Writ. Not that they are strict verballist
(they use the R. V.) but they have reason to believe
that the earth is much younger than the sun and stars,
and that it was "without form and void" while the
"morning stars sang together" in all their perfection and
glory.
  I say these others (may we call them the Unhappy?)
have reason so to believe. The telescope shows us the
planet, Saturn, one of the Earth's brothers in the flesh,
as having eight moons swinging through his sky about
him,  and as having, beside, three continuous belts
swinging in like fashion about him.  Unfinished moons
the astronomer interprets these to be, and looks back-
ward to the period in the life history of the planet when
all his moons were belts and the eleven swung about
him, as our one moon (or two) must likewise have done
about our world. Moreover, between the planets, Mars
and Jupiter, just outside the earth's path, lies a belt of




			

African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, Vol. 15, Num. 3

Evolution

A.

Volume:  15
Issue Number:  03
Page Number:  729
Date:  01/1899