of light and darkness alternate until the conditions of our planet are so
changed that the light of the heavenly bodies becomes the light of this
world; and the great work of the Spirit having accomplished its purposes,
is classified with the extraordinary efforts of God in bringing into
existence this beautiful planetary system of ours. It is, consequently, a
work of the past. But the work of the Spirit is not over.

There must be a moral and spiritual system, as well as a physical. As the
material system would be unworthy of its creator, were it not for the fact
that it is governed by law, which is equivalent to saying, it is a system,
so the moral and spiritual must be under law, in order to the
accomplishment of the ends of its creation, which is equal to saying, it
is God's moral government. But how is this system to be brought into
existence? And how is it to be perpetuated? In answering these questions
let us remember the law of analogy, based upon the simple axiom that God
is a God of order. In the use of the analogy about to be instituted we
simply pass through the outer court of the temple of God in order to
behold the beauties of the inner. Then, as the world of matter existed as
an inactive, confused mass, surrounded by an envelope of darkness which
shut out the light of the heavens, so the human family, without the
knowledge of God, without the light of knowledge, left to its own mental
and moral wanderings, without law or system or order, would present all
the horrors of pagan darkness and woe. Then the Spirit of God must move
again in obedience to the mandate of the Most High. And as the object to
be accomplished is now connected with mind, the Spirit now moves upon the
face of the great deep of the human heart or mind. But shall he move upon
all hearts throughout all time in order to dispel moral darkness, and so
the extraordinary become the ordinary? Or shall he move in an
extraordinary manner and cause the light of revelation to flash across the
world and dispel the darkness consequent upon the mental and moral
condition of the children of men, and give us a glorious lamp of light,
along with law, order and system? And has the extraordinary given place to
the ordinary? And what is the use of the ordinary if we have the
extraordinary, or the use of the extraordinary if we have the ordinary?

As the operation of the Spirit upon the face of the great deep was to
dispel the surrounding darkness and reveal