Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE HUMILITY OF THE TRULY GREAT. WE can well afford to pause here a little while and scan a bit further the almost startling development of the thought of our discovery in Christ's life and conduct the pattern of our own since, like Him we, too, are from God. It is surely not a travesty on science, (true science) to say that here we get a glimpse of the true theory of evolution. Oh how large that word has bulked in modern literature, and what unwarranted things have been said and written touching man's origin! Waiving more than this passing allusion, in view of the fact that materialistic science has thus far failed in its efforts to furnish a single incontestable evidence in demonstrated fact of the correctness of its theory, let us "hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering," that we are of God, and conforming our lives to His will shall find our destiny with Him in the kingdom eternal. Subjected as we are, in this world, to many unkindly influences, it may easily be that, slipping this cable and separated from this anchorage, we grow dejected and entertain unworthy views of ourselves and others. In such circumstances we may look down upon ourselves, upon others; deplore our humble ancestry and resent our obscure origin, and in the presence of the boastful scions of nobility, not to say royalty, cringe in despicable subservience, seeming more like dogs who lick the hands of their masters than men and women of higher than noble or royal birth. So it is not mere tautology to reiterate "We are from God!" That high conception will serve to keep us from thinking meanly of ourselves or of others, and will invest with blessed meaning the words of Paul, "Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called." Let us sing often to ourselves : "Children of God! Oh gloriou...