moon and filled the harbours of the continents with their refreshing fullness of blessing. The great and small fishes disported themselves in the sea, and many of them went on voyages of adventure up the channels of the great rivers toward their sources in the mountains.

The birds had come to fill their place in this gor-. geous new world-eagle for the rocky cliff, ducks and geese in lake and bay, and the innumerable songsters for the forests and the glades.

It was a wholesome, beautiful world, fresh from the hand of the good God. From mountain top to the depth of the sea, from the deepest canyon to the loftiest constellation of stars in the sky that roofed it in, it was the work of infinite wisdom, power, goodness, and love.

Then God looked over this last achievement and said to the Council of Heaven: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them: Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said: Behold, I have given you

every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all

the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

And this great God, who is love, continued to devise things for man's comfort and pleasure: "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden. *** And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shal not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."

Then this father-hearted God said: "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an helpmeet for him. * * *And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman, and brough her unto the man. And Adam said: This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall b

called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife."

Surely the reader of this story must be dull and insensitive indeed if he does not see the love of God seeking children to wear his own image and reproduce his own character in the world he had created.

Every true father ought to be able to understand the feeling in the heart of our Heavenly Father in the creation of man. When a man with the true spirit of fatherhood looks on the face of his son, his soul is not only filled with infinitely tender compassion and love, but with a great and holy desire that his son may carry all that is noble and good in himself on to the future, and, if possible, realize greater achievement than himself.

Sometimes the skeptic says: "Christ was not the wonderful exception that Christians say he was. He was a great moralist, not unlike Confucius; and, indeed, he was indebted to moralists of the past for his principles. The talk of his originality as a world teacher is unfounded."

But it is easy to see how quickly that criticism falls to the ground under investigation. M. Ellsworth Olsen suggests that the humblest Christian who has an experimental knowledge of Christ feels in his inmost being that the Saviour is unique, divine, unapproached and unapproachable by any mere human teacher. The man whose sins have been forgiven, and who realizes that pardon in his own consciousness, does not need to know the teaching of the world's seers.

He had found the truth which the