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Title: God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Price, George McCready, 1870-1963
Subjects: Religion and science Evolution
Publisher: Washington, Review and Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ter ofthe Creator! Century after century dragged its slow length along, untilit really seemed that the world would never awake to anunderstanding of Gods great book of nature. Spontaneousgeneration continued to be taught and believed in until wellalong in the nineteenth century. Not until the time of thepious Pasteur, who said that he always prayed when abouthis work in the laboratory, was it settled once for all thatlife can not arise from the not living except by direct crea-tion. Life comes now only from antecedent life. And thesame law holds good in the spiritual realm. This wasChrists word to Nicodemus: Ye must be born fromabove. We are Hke the dead, inorganic matter all aroundus. We have no real life in ourselves; and only by lifecoming down and taking possession of us and imparting itslife to us can we truly live. We are just as helpless toevolve spiritual life in and of ourselves as is the clod of thevalley unable to produce life by chemical and physical ac- 174 GODS TWO BOOKS
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LOUIS PASTEUR His great work was in disproving the doctrine of spontaneousgeneration, and in demonstrating that life can come only fromantecedent life. GODS TWO BOOKS 175 tion alone. Science to-day acknowledges that life can comefrom the not living only by a direct creation, and thusvindicates the Biblical record, which says that Hfe came intoexistence on our world at the express command of God.But long before this much of a vindication of Genesishad been worked out, the spirit of evil had laid the foun-dation for a more subtle deception than any that he hadyet sprung upon the world. Early in the nineteenth cen-tury, or even before, he began to teach that life had beenon the globe for countless ages, that it began with the very Posterity will one da)) laugh at the foolishnessof the modern materialistic philosophers. Themore I stud)) nature, the more I stand amazed atthe works of the Creator, I pray while I amengaged in my work at the laboratory.—Pasteur. lowest forms of life, and, g

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