life in the beginning, He did not stop with a few specks of protoplasm
here and there over the earth. The ability to create life from the
not-living implies the ability to make full-grown trees or birds or
beasts in twenty-four hours, instead of waiting for months or years, as
is usual at the present time.

As we have already found regarding matter and energy, so of life. The
record in Genesis is confirmed, for modern science compels us to believe
in Creation as the only possible origin of life,--a Creation entirely
different from anything now going on, and one that can never be made to
fit into any scheme of uniformitarian evolution.



IV

THE CELL AND THE LESSONS IT TEACHES


I

With his usual vigor and expressiveness Henry Drummond has given us a
picture of the remarkable fact that the cells of all plants and animals
are strikingly alike, especially the single cells from which all
originate. It is easy for any one to distinguish between an oak, a palm
tree, and a lichen, while a botanist will have elaborate scientific
distinctions which he can discern between them. "But if the first young
germs of these three plants are placed before him," says Drummond, and
the botanist is called upon to define the difference, "he finds it
impossible. He cannot even say which is which. Examined under the