t ours."

"Well, I'll be ... blessed," said Donald. "It is logical enough, isn't
it? The trouble in this case, at least, was that I never consciously
tried to reconcile what I regarded as the old and new beliefs."

"But, Mr. Talmadge," Smiles' perplexed voice broke in. "If human beings
just developed from a kind of monkey ..."

"The anthropoid ape wasn't exactly a monkey, although he may have looked
and acted like one," laughed Donald.

"Well, but how could the Good Book say that God created man in His own
image?"

"Do you remember what Paul said, in his wonderful epistle to the
Corinthians? He answered your question when he wrote, 'There is a
natural body, and there is a spiritual body ... and as we have borne the
image of the earthly, so shall we also bear the image of the heavenly.'
What does the Bible say that God is, Rose?"

"'God is a spirit,'" whispered Smiles, reverently.

"Exactly. And Dr. MacDonald will tell you that 'spirit' comes from a
Latin word which means 'breath.' When God perceived that some of the
earth creatures had, according to His plan, developed sufficiently in
mind so that they could rule the world, He breathed into them some of
His own spirit, and thus created them in His own image--for of course a
spirit hasn't form and shape like beings of flesh and blood."

"Hasn't He?" gasped the girl. "Why, there is a picture of Him, like a
great big man with long beard, in my Bible."

"Merely symbolic, dear child, and I have always felt that it was a vain
symbolism, in both senses of that word. You look them up in your new
dictionary to-morrow. In trying hard to picture God, men have made Him
in the likeness of the most wonderful things their eyes had ever
seen--themselves--and just increased His size. As for the beard, that is
supposed to be a sign of power and strength.

"Of course, in fact, God isn't a man or even a super-man, but a spirit,
combining the spiritual elements of both male and female."

"I reckon I jest hev ter think of er somebody fer ter worship," broke in
the hitherto silent Jerry. "Jest something like ther wind air er bit too
onsartain fer me."

"And for millions of others," answered the minister quickly. "Of course
there isn't the slightest bit of harm in people thinking of Our Heavenly
Father as a Being with a form which our eyes might see if they were only
given the power to behold heavenly, as well as earthly, things. The
conception of the Omnipotent as a physical emb