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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the. seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Gen. I: 20-21.

The subject of the regeneration is one of the utmost interest and importance. Our Lord said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Why should it not be so? The new-born babe is ushered on to its this-world existence a weak, unformed thing. Its body is formed, indeed, but not its mind. It has been born into the kingdom of nature; it has yet to be reborn and that into the kingdom of mind. When this takes place, and the once immature babe becomes a knowing, thinking and reasoning being, it has but partially fulfilled its destiny. It can live in this world, and use its knowledge of natural things with decision and skill; it has entered largely on to the realm of this world's