full blessing of the Lord descends upon the soul, and heaven is won.
Thus, the opening chapter of God's Word to man is an epitome of the regeneration of the soul—a brief history of the passing stages of its upward way. What could possibly be more divinely appropriate? It is not a narrative of the creation of a poor little earth whereon is spent a mere point of human existence in its great eternity of life; but it is a history of that inward creation of a new will and understanding, in the spirit of which the soul shall live forever. How unworthy of any true idea of a message of God to man the one; how incomparably beautiful the other! The Lord's Word was not designed to chain our contemplations to earthly things—all that surrounds us here has power for that but to wing the thought in heavenward ways. It carries us not in the currents of temporal things, but it points to those of true eternal interest. Our allotted destiny is the regeneration of the soul. We were born to that end; we are to live in the light of that thought; we are to pass on with all preparations made. And will God set us down to an imperfect lesson in geology when the eternal welfare of the soul is at stake? Let us arise out of such wretched thoughts concerning his words of love, and reach out for loftier aspirations in respect to the wisdom we would ask from Him
