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If God wanted to make Himself known to men, how could He do it in any other way than by appearing before them as a limited human being? As God is in Himself, it is perfectly obvious that we cannot understand Him. We do not know what an Infinite, Uncreated, Eternal, Self-existent Being is in any comprehensible way, except that the facts of the case in connection with creation and other manifestations of a similar nature require a Supreme Being who shall be all of these things. We know, for example, that no human being, limited as we are, could possibly create one little earth; nay, one little animal, or vegetable, or mineral upon it. Therefore, the necessities require the existence of God.

While we cannot comprehend God, yet we admit that such a being created the universe and governs it according to a perfect order; we realize that He created our little earth with all things upon it, including ourselves. And we perceive that we are the highest order of creation; but nevertheless painfully limited in many ways.

If this earth be created for man, as we perceive it to be; if we are created in the image and likeness of God, as the Bible tells us we are, and,