Man Improving God’s Work
By Editor
THE following sentiments are reported to have been used by Dr. Stebbins in a recent sermon in San Francisco:— "God made the world in the rough and left it to man to finish. The railroad overcame the mountains, and was greater than the mountains. With all his shortcomings and weaknesses, man had vastly improved, beautified, and adorned the world. Art was superior to nature. A work of God that could not be improved was no work at all." It has been said that Unitarianism is the half-way house to Spiritualism. Such utterances as the above lead us to conclude that it is about the stopping place of infidelity. When men get so puffed up in their own minds as to imagine that they can improve upon God's handiwork, their destruction cannot be far off. We are reminded of Nebuchadnezzar, who, imagining himself to be a god, exclaimed, "Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?" And even while the words were on his tongue, God showed him that there was a greater than he. So now when man is getting to think that he has no use for God, we are admonished that soon the Lord will arise "to shake terribly the earth," and that then "the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day." Isa. 2: 17.