notes of a Sermon Preached in Shanghai by the Rey, Father Robinson "For of Him, and Him be glory for ever, Amen by Hu 'Amen' cand in Him, are all things. To Romans XI, 26.
Th. world, a mere speck in the vast universe, contains so many beautiful and wonderful thin man's intellect, ever striving to niaster thet, only succeeds 4m open ing up new vistas of research, Year by year, aye, day by day, new beauties, new forces, are discovered. There seems to be no'end to. the marvel which science is endeavouring to unravel and control. Books by the thousand have been written on the world's flora and found, on its seas, rivers, mountains, and peoples, Every book we read contains in its preface an apology and a hope; an ha apology for the imperfection of the trentmenteand- a hope that some little thing has been done to. bring home jo others the wonders of ereation, One point alone is not mentioned and that point is fundamental. The world, with all ity beauty, is the work of God. His omnipotence ealled from nothing the mighty suns and planets that are whirling through space, His divine intellect brought into being the laws which govern their motions. It was at his bidding that stars and sky, mountains and plains, rivers and oceans were formed, He, with loving care, painted the petals of the flowers. His hand modelled the tons of thousands of insects, birds, and animals, and He made man, the most wonderful of all God's creatures. Man, in his insensate pride, prefers to a attribute his doing to the vagaries of chance and to evolution from the brute rather than acknowledge God's power.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.