There could be no more sure way to undermine the Gospel, and rob it of
its power, than the substitution of the teachings of "Science falsely so
called" for the simple word of God. God has been relegated to the rear,
and is regarded as afar off. So, although many did accept that Gospel which
is preached to them, and do sincerely wish salvation from sin, evolution,
even though they have no conscious belief in it, has so taken the edge off
of faith that they are not able to come close to the Lord, to walk and talk
with Him, and to make Him an active Factor in every affair of life.
But let us note
some simple facts that will justify one, even in this scientific age, in
believing that the word of the Lord, which in the beginning said, "Let the
earth bring forth grass," is still causing the earth to bring forth grass.
Who has not watched the springing forth
of the tender blade of grass or corn? Have you not at times passed along
by the field of corn, and noticed a tiny blade pushing its way to the surface,
in spite of heavy clods of earth? Have you not seen a portion of the baked
earth heaved up, and, looking beneath, have seen that a tiny spire held it up,
so tender that it could not support its own weight if released from its
position? The blade had as yet scarcely any color, and was but little more than
water, for if you had crushed it in your fingers there would have been scarcely
anything but moisture on your hand. Yet this tiny thing was pushing away from
before it a clod of earth ten thousand times its own weight.
Whence comes this power? Is it something that is inherent in
the grass? Try it, and see. Take that blade of grass that is full grown. Select
a small clod of earth, not half the size of the one that was pushed away from
before it when it was crowding its way to the surface of the ground, and put it
upon the grass. What is the result? Anybody can tell you. The grass is crushed
to the ground. It has no power in itself. Test it again. Take that blade
that is pushing its way to the surface from beneath that clod, and remove it
from the ground. You take it in your fingers, and it lops down over the side of
your hand. It cannot stand upright.
Scarcely anything can be thought of that is weaker, and yet but a few moments before it was standing erect, and bearing a burden infinitely heavier than
itself. Here is a miracle that is wrought hundreds of millions of times
every year, and yet there are those who say that the age of miracles is past.
Will any scientist tell what is the source of the marvelous power
exhibited in the grass, or in the bursting of the hard shell of the peach stone
by the little germ within? There is something there that no
microscope can discover, and no chemical analysis can detect. We can see the
manifestation of Power, but cannot see the power it self. Skeptics may sneer
if they please, but we are content to believe that the power is nothing else
than the power of God's word. The
word of the Lord said in the beginning, "Let the earth bring forth
grass," and the power of that word causes the grass to spring forth in
spite of all the clods of earth. There is no power in the grass, but
that most feeble instrument is used to exhibit to man the mighty power of God.
In that every man may learn a lesson - if he will.
Did I say that we were content to believe that
it is the power of the word of God that is manifested in the blade of grass?
Nay, not content merely, but glad that we can recognize God's power in small
things. In that we see the assurance that God is able to do for us "exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh
in us." Ephesians 3.20. For the same power that worked in the grass
of the field also worked in the man who puts his trust in the lord. "All
flesh is grass." Isaiah 40.6. Man
is as weak and frail as the grass, having absolutely no power in himself; yet
he is able to do all things through Christ, who strengthens him.
The Gospel in
Creation, by E. J. Waggoner, p. 38 – 40: From Chapter
Six: The Sixth Day: What is Man?
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