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Title: God in nature and revelation
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Woodman, J. M. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Revelation Natural theology Bible and science Religion and science
Publisher: New York, S(an) F(rancisco, etc.) J.G. Hodge & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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What are the teachings of the laws of
sequence ? What is sequence ?*
Do the laws of sequence reveal a Saviour ?
Is there anything in the foregoing lesson that
vou do not understand ?*

THE BEING AND EXISTENCE OF GOD.
LESSON II.
"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the
world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that
are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.—Rom. 1: 20.

THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN.
1. On opening a gravel bed, you would
observe curious pebble stones, promiscuously
thrown together, of different sizes, shapes, colors
and structures.
2. You would be at an utter loss to trace
marks of design in either of the above particu-
lars.
3. We are not, however, at liberty to deny
design in the aggregate, where even many partic-
ulars seem without order. We only need refer
to the gold bearing quartz lodes, the placer
mines, or the rich deltas of rivers, to make this
apparent.
4. Of this we are all satisfied, that these
deposits were made by some active yet unintelli-
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THE BEING AND EXISTENCE OF GOD. 17
gent agent, but whether one or twenty thousand
years since, appearance saith not.
5. But if instead of a stone, we had unearth-
ed a sewing machine, we should no longer be at a
loss in reading evidences of design, in form, size,
color and structure.
6. All designs must have had a designer.
7. Nor would the conclusion be in the least
weakened, if this had been the first machine ever
seen.
8. Nor the fact that it sometimes went wrong.
9. Or that no one could divine the use of
some of its parts.
10. Neither would the fact that a part of its
wheels were duplicated.
11. Supposing that it could be made to
appear that the machine did not come directly
from the hand of the contriver, but resulted
from elaborate machinery placed within the
sewing machine, so that in its ordinary work it
could produce another similar to itself, the argu-
ment still holds good, the first sewing machine
in the series, however extended, must have had
an intelligent creator, whose designs are still
more apparent in the added machinery for re-
production.

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