1 am afraid, that I have left but little time to enforce the lessons to be learnt from all this. But they are clear ard worth the attention of many who mistakenly imagine that modern thought and facts have diminished the author ity of revelation and its daira on our faith. First, does it not look from all this, that Bible and Gospel have a great deal to say for themselves in the sublime importance they attach to man? It looks as if they are right. To have such dominion given him, man must be of vast faculty and weight in the sight of God—a son of God so great in importance that there may well be "joy in the pre sence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."" j Again, is the Bible and Christiar doctrine of sin so exaggerated as the modern world thinks? We have a power in us to thwart the will Gf God as to the world. What is the much derided doctrine of "original sin" but this, that there is a terrible and mysterious power within us that can and does deity the Eternal himself. May it not be as the Gospel teaches, that men uses his dominion over himself to thwart God's purposes regarding him as he has used it in regard to so many of God's creatures.
Thirdly, all that we have coz sidered bears out the Bible statement, that man's fall is very great. An animal cannot sin. has not the responsibility cast on it-that man has had. The higher the nature the greater the fall.
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