Was the Resurrection a Fact?; And Other Essays (Paperback)

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: A PURPOSE IN LIFE THE origin of life is an age-long question, and a complete answer to it has yet to be given. We are cognizant of the fact of a mysterious force which produces daily, in the spheres of animal and plant life, incontradictable results. This force we call life. What is life? That is the question. The Holy Bible states: And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Henry Drum- mond in Natural Law in the Spiritual World informs us that the scientific world has been rent with discussions upon the origin of Life for two hundred years. Two great schools have defended exactly opposite views?one that matter can spontaneously generate life, the other that life can only come from pre-existing life Experiments were made?glass vessels were filled with organic matter, and boiled to kill germs of life. Though the vessels were securely sealed, life appeared in great quantity. The result was the an- nouncement that life was 'capable of springing into being of itself.' What about the possibility of undestroyed germs being in the air inside the flasks? Were there not forms of life bearing the most surprising and indestructible vitality? Professor Tyn- dall showed that the germless air never yielded life. Dr. Dallinger showed that many animals could survive much higher temperatures than Dr. Bastian had applied to annihilate them. Some germs almost refused to be annihilated?they were all but fireproof The attempt to get the living out of the dead has failed. Out of all known forms of existence, man only, we understand, can intelligently perceive a design in the Universe and properly appreciate a Designer. Bearing a moral likeness to the Creator, man, as a part of ...