"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn upon the horizon's verge."

FOR ages philosophers and scientists have sought to solve the mystery of life - the world's greatest miracle - but the mystery still remains unsolved. The theories of spontaneous generation of life and all other speculations of a like character have ended where they began, in generalizations and indefinite nothingness. Human knowledge is at sea regarding the origin of life itself. Scientific investigations during the more recent years go to prove that animal and vegetable life are one and the same thing. The same Power that upholds Nature in every leaf, flower, grain, bird, insect and animal, is also working in man. The same great laws that control the sun, moon and stars, also control human life. It is the same mighty Power exhibited throughout the entire universe. The Power that converts the little acorn into the great oak is exactly the same Power that creates and is operative in man. Human life is the miracle of miracles, resulting as it does from the development and growth of two cells, the union of the male and female elements, so infinitesimally minute as to be microscopic in size. Truly no greater miracle can be imagined than the growth and development of man from the primitive cell up to and through the process which makes him the ruler of the universe, subject only to the Creative Power. God the Omnipresent is in every atom of creation seen and unseen. He is in the blade of grass and the towering tree; in the starry heavens above and in the sparrow's fall; in the lightning's flash as in the lullaby; in the air we breathe and the thoughts we think. Even the trees as they grow experience a . delight in the process of being, their leaves always upturning towards the light to receive the vitalizing light-life which produces the wonderful transformations necessary for the full development of the plant. Man cannot separate himself from the Omnipresent God, for if but one atom in the universe exist apart from God, the whole of Creation would disintegrate. There can be but one satisfactory explanation of the marvelous phenomena of life, in all its varied manifestations, and that is, it is an Infinite Intelligence, Nature, or God, working out His purposes.

The explanation of Nature is God. If we would understand or appreciate the infinity and immensity of this Power we must go to astronomy. By the aid of the telescope we view the starry heavens with their vast orbs of light, the sun, the worlds and stars untold. One is simply overwhelmed with the immensity of the starlit heavens. Nature speaks to us in the most majestic and awe-inspiring tones: "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork." Ps. xix, 1.

The old division of man's life into three parts - body, soul and spirit - is now largely justified by physiological psychology. Science and Religion are at one in this as in many other respects. The mere body life consists in existing, the soul or animal life in moving and spending the life force; and the highest, or spirit - intelligent, moral and intellectual life - is what really constitutes living to a man.

That wonderful philosopher and writer, Paul, evidently fully understood this when preaching to the Athenians, in his three-fold description of life : "For in Him we live (spirit life) and move (soul or animal life) and have our being (bodily life)."

Many of us have never known life excepting as we have come up with childish ideas. Let us learn to live it now, as men, with ideas in accordance therewith. We must live life as a beautiful possibility. Let us live it long and well, in health, happiness and contentment, and we shall have realized

"What a glorious thing human life is, and how glorious man's destiny."