Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

Eifia hurpnae
BY ALEX. MCINNES (London)
¢»}u}n}v$O be a success, each individual must have a
if ii' definite goal in view, and be so filled with
if ii' the determination to achieve that each con-
'P 3' scious action is directed to this one pure`*'q'*¢
pose. Otherwise one's condition in life
will be similar to that of a ship sailing the ocean without
any particular destination, driven before every wind,
harassed by every circumstance without end, except destruction.
But this purpose in life must not only be definite, it
must also accord with the general trend of things; from
lower to higher,
from general to particular, from abstract
to concrete.
It is obvious that a telephone, a locomotive,
a tram car, etc., are all made for a definite use,
or with a purpose in view. Surely it is a fair deduction
that man, who is infinitely more complex in construction
than any of these, must have a definite use or purpose
too in the scheme of things.
With the exception of the Natural Forces, the man in
the street knows nothing definitely that is superior to
man, who is borne on the wings of the wind, carried on
the bosom of the waters over the trackless seas, and
who converses with his friends over hundreds of miles
of space.
By his mental powers
man has asserted his
dominion over the physical to a large and increasing extent,
and has proved himself to be a creator, and in
very truth he is and was intended to be.
In Genesis we