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524 dust, and mind was afterwards put into it by the Creator, why is not this divine order still maintained by

Him in perpetuating the species? Who will say that minerals, vegetables, and animals have a propagating principle of their own? Who dare say, either that God is in matter, or that matter exists without God? Has man sought out other creative inventions, and so changed the method of his Maker?

Which institutes Life, — matter or Mind? Does Life begin with Mind or with matter? Is Life sustained by matter or by Spirit? Certainly not by both, since flesh wars against Spirit, and the corporeal senses can take no cognizance of Spirit. The mythologic theory of material life at no point resembles the Scientifically Christian record of man as created by Mind, in the image and likeness of God, and having dominion over all the earth. Did God at first create one man unaided, — that is, Adam, — but afterward require the union of the two sexes, in order to create the rest of the human family? No! He made and governs all.

All human knowledge and material sense must be gained from the five corporeal senses. Is this knowledge

safe, when eating its first fruits brought death? “If man eat he shall surely die,” was the prediction in the story under consideration. Adam and his progeny were cursed, not blessed; and this indicates that the divine Spirit, or Father, condemns material man and remands him to dust.