every other; Mankind brothered in the one mould of the Creative Word. Yes, profound is that word, "Mankind." It means two things: first, men are kind-ed, kinned, in the creative, common Die of the Sixth Day; and secondly, all life, whether vegetal, animal, or human, yields after its kind; and, therefore, Man, created in the Image of God, yields men after his kind; i. e., Man-kind. May it ever be ours to recognize lovingly every human being, whether Caucasian or Mongolian, as a member of Mankind, and so our Kinsman! When all men do this, Mankind will not only be the same as Humanity; Mankind will also have Humanity.

4.-Imageship the Basis of Triumph.

Fourthly: we see the secret of Man's Coming Triumph: it is Imageship. "We will make Man in Our Image, after Our Likeness: and they shall rule over the fish of the seas, and over the bird of the heavens, and over the cattle of the lands, and over all the earth." Jesus Christ is the Image of God; as such, He is the Lord of all. Mankind is Christ's Image lost. The Church is Christ's Image restored as such, she, like her Image, is Lord of all. All things are hers; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come: all are hers; and she is Christ's; and Christ is God's (1 Cor. iii. 21-23). Even now, this universe of God, these atoms and skies and seas and lands and plants and stars and beasts and men, are pouring forth their treasures at the feet of the Bride and Queen-Consort of the King of kings. The Church of the living God is the real power administering behind Earth's thrones and Nature's royalties. The vision of the Exile of Patmos is being fulfilled: The earth is helping the Woman (Rev. xii. 16), Christ's Lady Elect. For her the sun rises and the rains fall; the winds waft and the waves bear; the soils fruit and the mines

yield; chemical agencies loose and gravitation binds; civilization, science, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, arts, wealth, brawn, brain-all Nature, from Alcyone to atom, are harnessed as swift-footed steeds to her chariot, bearing her on from conquering to conquer, until Righteousness finds her Paradise in the new earth domed by the new heavens (2 Peter iii. 13). Go forth, then, my countrymen, and all ye sons of Adam, go forth in right of Eden's Image Charter, and subdue the earth. Yea, go on with your gigantic enterprises, capturing and marshaling the forces of Nature, changing her very face, leveling her mountains, raising her valleys, spanning her continents with your railways, mingling her oceans through your canals: go on; for in so doing you are really obeying a power mightier than your own, and are preparing in the wilderness the way of the Lord, and casting up in the desert a highway for our returning God (Is. xl. 5). Ay, that will be the true Triumphal Entry when, amid the kneeling ranks of the nations waving their palm-branches, and shouting hosannas to the Son of David (Matt. xxi. 1-10), the Jerusalem of a restored earth shall lift up her gates, even her everlasting doors, and let the King of Glory in (Psalm xxiv. 7-10). Oh, friend, would you be a sharer in that coming Entry and Triumph? Then be joined, even this moment, by a personal, living union with Jesus Christ, the Image of God, and therefore the Heir of all the ages and all the worlds (Heb. i. 3). And then, when He does return, as return most surely He will, to make His true Triumphal Entry, before thee also shall the animal creation kneel, the stars dip, the forests stoop, the mountains bow, the skies bend, the molecules crouch, the atoms file, all powers of Nature salaam. And they will bow before thee because on thy brow sparkles the twofold crown, even the

diadem and the mitre, of one who, as created in the Image and recreated in the Likeness of God's Incarnate Son, is anointed King and Priest to the Father Eternal (Rev. i. 6).

Satisfaction.

Lastly would you know how to be 5.-The Coming restored in the Image of God? Then gaze on the character of Him Who is the Brightness from His Father's glory, and the express Image of His Person. Enter into the fellowship of that Character. Be everlastingly closeted with Him in the kinships and intimacies of a perfect friendship. Lovingly study every feature of that beaming Image. Beholding thus, as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, even that light of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord which is given back in the face of Jesus Christ, Who is the Image of God (2 Cor. iv. 6)—gazing thus on the mirror of Christ's Face, and discerning in it the glory of Jehovah, thou shalt be changed into the same Image, from glory to glory, even as by the Lord, the Spirit (2 Cor. iii. 18). Thus gazing, and thus changed, it matters little what our earthly fate be, whether renown or obscurity, wealth or poverty, long life or early death. Enough that on the Resurrection Morn we shall perceive that as we had borne the image of the earthly, even of the first man Adam, so henceforth we shall bear the Image of the Heavenly, even of the Second Man, the Lord from heaven (1 Cor. xv. 47-49). God forbid that on that Resurrection Morn any one of us shall bear an Image which He shall despise (Psalm 1xxiii. 20). God grant that on that Resurrection Morn all of us shall bear the Image of His Eternal Son. Ay, satisfied shall we be when we awake, O Image of God, with Thy Likeness (Psalm xvii. 15).

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

LECTURE XI.

GENESIS OF EDEN.

"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 the Lord God made 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 from thence it was parted and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden, to dress it and to 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 shalt not eat of it; for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. And the Lord God said: It is not good that the Man should be alone: I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." -GENESIS ii. 8-20.

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"EDEN! What a thrilling name!

I. - The Topo- How deliciously it awakens memories graphical Problem. of all that is most exquisite in scenery, most sacred in purity, most blissful in joy! And yet where was Eden? No question in geography, secular or sacred, has been debated oftener, or with results more various. Men have sought for Eden in Armenia, in Babylonia, along the Caspian Sea, in Bactria, in Syria, in Arabia, in India -in short, all along between the Ganges in Asia and the Nile in Africa. And to-day the battle is as undecided as True, the Creation Archive gives us two landmarks which we can identify the river Hiddekel, or Tigris, and the river Euphrates. But the trouble is to identify the other two rivers the river Pison, which, we are told, traversed the whole land of Havilah, wherein were bdellium, and gold, and onyx-and the river Gihon, which traversed the whole land of Ethiopia, or Cush. All that we can determine at present is this: Eden lay to the east of the venerable witness of Creation's Panorama, somewhere in the neighborhood of the Tigris and the Euphrates. And history strikingly confirms the chronicle of the hoary witness. Those confessedly competent to discuss such questions agree that the cradle of mankind is to be looked for somewhere in the country of the Euphrates. Civilization has generally, with comparatively unimportant exceptions, moved from east to west. It was sober prose as well as poetic measure, when the Erin-born Bishop Berkeley, in his verses on the "Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America," sang:

"Westward the course of empire takes its way."

The oft-quoted line is truer to-day than ever. Not only is Europe coming westward toward us, we ourselves are