duplicates
of one another. They may not all be of the same size; but they are all
composed of protoplasm, and the protoplasm of plants cannot be
distinguished from that of animals by any physical or chemical tests
known to modern science. The protoplasm in the brain of a bird is the
same as that in its toes; and no metaphysical subtilties about heredity
have ever explained why the one does a different work from the other.
The plain fact is that different cells, composed of identical protoplasm
and structurally alike, _act very differently_; and there is no
scientific reason based on innate properties that gives us even a
glimmer of a reason why. We have searched a long time along this road;
but there is no prospect of finding an explanation; we are merely
running up a _cul-de-sac_ with no view beyond. From the materialistic
point of view, nobody knows why protoplasm acts as it does, _least_ _of
all, why some masses of protoplasm act one way, and exact duplicates act
differently_. But if, on the other hand, we look beyond the facts and
methods of physics and chemistry, and even beyond the most plausible
theories of genetics, we can readily explain this remarkable action of
the cells as the result of the will of an ever acting, omniscient,
almighty God. Certainly nothing else is adequate to explain the behavior
of living cells.

In a very similar way we must reason regarding the ultimate units of
matter, call them what we will, electrons, corpuscles, or units of
electricity. If these are mere duplicates of each other, as science now
teaches, they not only indicate by this identity that they are
"manufactured articles," as was long ago pointed out of the atoms and
molecules, but they also indicate with all the force of a demonstration
that nothing but an ever present omniscient Intelligence _could keep
these duplicates from always acting the same_ under similar external
forces. If gold and carbon, iron and oxygen are at bottom composed of
particles that are mere duplicates of each other, as seems to be the
case, how can these elements and the six dozen or more others maintain
their individuality throughout nature as we know they do, even in the
far distant stars, except by the sleepless care of an Intelligence whose
Word is as effective in one part of the universe as in another, and to
whose Word these particles of matter can show no inertia and no
disobedience, because they have no powers or properties except what He
has