"_The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given
me life._"--JOB xxxiii. 4.
"_In Him we live, and move, and have our being ... for we are also His
offspring._"--ACTS xvii. 28.
"_I will praise Thee: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made._"--PSALM
cxxxix. 14.
"_Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body._"--1 COR.
vi. 20.
Before we speak of the last work of God upon the last of those wonderful
days of which we are told in the first chapter of the Bible, let us read
the verses about it, from the twenty-sixth to the end of that chapter, and
to the tenth verse of the next. And then let us read the eighth Psalm,
unless indeed you can repeat it, as my little scholars once could--and I
hope they have not forgotten it now.
I think the first thing we noticed as we read was, that after the verses
which speak of the beasts and creeping things which God made on the SIXTH
DAY, there is, as it were, a close to the history, and then a fresh
beginning.
We read, "And God saw that it was good." There is a full stop there; and
again we read--now for the eighth time--the three words, "And God said."
But this is not all; a very wonderful expression, which had not been used
in connection with any part of the work of God, is employed to tell us of
the creation of the man who was placed by God as the head of all that He
had made, the one to whom He gave dominion, after He had made the earth,
and brought it all into order.
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