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514 causing man to till the ground, but making him superior to it. Knowledge of this lifts man above the sod, above earth and its environments, to conscious harmony and eternal Being.

Here the inspired record closes its narrative of creation. “It is finished.” All that is made is the work of

God, and Good has created all, and all is Good. We leave this brief, glorious history of spiritual creation (as reported in the first chapter of Genesis) in the hands of God, not of man, — acknowledging His supremacy, omnipotence, and omnipresence, to-day and forever.

The harmony and immortality of man are intact. We should look away from the opposite supposition, that

man is created materially, and turn our gaze to the spiritual record of creation; for that should be engraven on the understanding and heart, with the point of a diamond and the hand of an angel.

The reader will naturally ask if there is nothing more about creation in the Book of Genesis. Indeed there is, but the continued account is mortal and material.

The Science and Truth of the divine creation have been presented in the verses already considered; and

now the opposite error, a material view of creation, is to be set forth. The second chapter of Genesis contains a statement of this material view of God and the universe, which is the exact opposite of Scientific Truth. The history of error, or matter, if