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 rests upon such an understanding of God that His relation to creation is comprehended. This makes nature herself a revelation of God. Law, order, intelligence, power, beauty, grandeur, and use, that are seen in nature, then speak of His beneficence; they tell of His character, for then "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork."

Man created in the image and likeness of God is the special field of the revelation of Him. Animal forms increased in completeness until man, who is a form adopted to receive from God the divine nature and character that we call human, was produced. The word human is not used in the sense that "it is human to err," but as meaning that in man which distinguishes him from the beasts, and makes possible in him the image and likeness of God. The understanding is fashioned to receive wisdom from God, and the