there is of beauty and of use in the
world. Did it ever occur to them that a cancer is as beautiful in its
development as is the reddest rose? That what they are pleased to call
the adaptation of means to ends, is as apparent in the cancer as in the
April rain? How beautiful the process of digestion! By what ingenious
methods the blood is poisoned so that the cancer shall have food! By
what wonderful contrivances the entire system of man is made to pay
tribute to this divine and charming cancer! See by what admirable
instrumentalities it feeds itself from the surrounding, quivering,
dainty flesh! See how it gradually but surely expands and grows! By
what marvelous mechanism it is supplied with long and slender roots
that reach out to the most secret nerves of pain for sustenance and
life! What beautiful colors it presents! Seen through the microscope
it is a miracle of order and beauty. All the ingenuity of man cannot
stop its growth. Think of the amount of thought it must have required
to invent a way by which the life of one man might be given to produce
one cancer? Is it possible to look upon it and doubt that there is
design in the universe, and that the inventor of this wonderful cancer
must be infinitely powerful, ingenious and good?

We are told that the universe was designed and created, and that it is
absurd to suppose that matter has existed from eternity, but that it is
perfectly self-evident that a god has.

If a god created the universe, then there must have been a time when he
commenced to create. Back of that time there must have been an
eternity, during which there had existed nothing--absolutely
nothing--except this supposed god. According to this theory, this god
spent an eternity, so to speak, in an infinite vacuum, and in perfect
idleness.

Admitting that a god did create the universe, the question then arises,
of what did he create it? It certainly was not made of nothing.
Nothing, considered in the light of a raw material, is a most decided
failure. It follows, then, that a god must have made the universe out
of himself, he being the only existence. The universe is material, and
if it was made of god, the god must have been material. With this very
thought in his mind, Anaximander of Miletus said: "Creation is the
decomposition of the infinite."

It has been demonstrated that the earth would fall to the sun, only for
the fact that it is attracted by other worlds, and those wo