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IN ANY a boy
with an investigating turn of mind has
taken his toys, or perhaps the family
clock, apart to see what made them run.
In our day mature men are diligently
searching for the secret of the life that
animates the human body.
In six thousand years of search man
has made no progress in discovering
how creation was accomplished. In his
search he has taken the atom apart into
its several constituents. He has found
that electricity is more closely con-
nected with life than even air, yet
electricity is not life, as it is often found
disconnected from living things. Man
has discovered nothing regarding the
technique of creation, nor could he be
expected to understand it. Obviously
its process is as much higher than his
understanding as the making of a clock
or automobile is above the machine's
own comprehension.
But strangely enough, though man
cannot in the least sense how creation
was done, he does not hesitate to
criticize the Creator's account of it.
He uses his judgment regarding the
time it took to make the world, as
recorded in the Bible.
Not only does man use his own judg-
ment about the time it takes for the
Creator to bring things into existence,
but he has decided that the original
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The
HUMAN
MACHINE
and the bower
that makes
low little,
and yet how
vast, a dif-
ference be-
fween life and
death.
law which God made to govern society
1s not workable or practicable. God
made one law to govern all relations
of mankind with one another and with
Himself. This rule of love would, if
followed in society, make all other laws
and regulations unnecessary, and as
God made mankind for the express
purpose of exercising the joy of love,
He regards material things as wholly
secondary in importance. The Bible
throughout stresses this idea. Nowhere
does God represent that it is hard or dif-
ficult for Him to create such things as we
need for our happiness and comfort.
Everywhere throughout the Book it is
represented that, if mankind would
accept the law of love into their very
hearts, material wealth would be a
natural consequence. Even their health
would “spring forth speedily.” (See
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But man has exactly reversed the
above philosophy of the secret of life.
He attaches the major importance to
material wealth. He uses his own
judgment as to what course to take to
secure the most of life and its good
things. Through a strange obsession of
mind, he believes his wisdom superior
to that of the One who created him. He
even goes so far as to regard the in-
struction given him by his Maker as
childish fancy and foolishness. (See
1 Corinthians 2: 14. ) But 1 Corinthians
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W.S. RITCHIE
1:25 says that the foolishness of God is
wiser than men.
It should be no wonder, then, that
confusion reigns in the world, when man,
a created thing, has decided that he
knows more of the true philosophy of
life than the One who created him. He
would count it a preposterous thing for
a plece of machinery to try to run on a
different plan from what its maker in-
tended; yet he sees no inconsistency
in discarding the law of love, on which
his Creator made him to operate, and
trying to run on an entirely different
plan. It would appear that mankind
today has almost wholly lost the con-
ception that they are created beings
and therefore do not realize that there
must be a Power somewhere as far
above them in every respect as the
maker of anything must necessarily be
in order to create it. Here is the root
of the trouble. Mankind does not sense
the reality of God’s existence. A
strange and weird philosophy has ap-
peared that tries to account for the
presence of all we see and, even man
himself, without any particular being
or intelligence being connected with it.
One would think that man, being un-
able to account for his own and the
world’s origin in any way, would
intuitively conclude that there must
necessarily be an intelligent Creator
high above him. How can the strange
situation that he so generally does not
be accounted for? The Bible is the only
source of a lucid explanation of this
strange obsession. In the Genesis ac-
count of man’s fall it is told how the
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