The Meaning of EvolutionSchmucker, Samuel Christian
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The Meaning of Evolution
Schmucker, Samuel Christian
Evolution
Again we understand that we are made in the image of our Maker. Again
we understand the power of the uplift of this idea. From the conflict
it has emerged in new and glorified form. Hath a God eyes that he may
see? Hath a God ears that he may hear? Hath a God hands that he may
work? These we know to be but human forms of speaking. Eyes, ears, and
hands we may owe to the brute from whom we have sprung; in our eyes
and ears and hands we show the relationship we bear to them. These are
not the image of God. God is a deeper, a finer, a nobler something
than hands, than ears and eyes. The image of God lies within
ourselves: the image of God is that which makes us what we are. In
every noble purpose, in every earnest endeavor to uplift ourselves or
our fellowman, in every thought that turns us from the evil of a
repented past, in every desire with which our hearts yearn to
strengthen, support and sustain our friends and even our enemies,
shines forth the image of Almighty God. This it is that links us with
the Eternal: this it is that makes it worth while that we should be
Eternal. Besides this what are hands and ears and eyes? We are made,
all in us that is noblest and highest, in the image of our Maker.
A word in closing. The time is ripe for a broader conception of
theology and of science on the part of those who are not trained to be
specialists in either. We are becoming more and more inherently
religious. We are becoming more and more enamored of the truth in all
its forms. The times are ripe for us to cease the struggle and to
strive for peace. So long as men insist that the important things in
faith are the things on which men differ there will be eternal strife.
So soon as men endeavor to find the common ground between them and
each tries to state his belief in forms acceptable to himself but
involving no hostility to his neighbor, we shall be working for peace.
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