In His Image
In His Image
This book is an event of importance. The author is spokesman for a large segment of the people, for the most part unheard, and his work is a frank, vigorous, often eloquent, appeal to revelation--to the Bible literally accepted as the supreme teacher. Mr. Bryan has the courage of his convictions and realizes that world religion must rest squarely upon the validity of its revelation.
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sometimes find a delicate pink or red. Whose hand caught the hues of a
summer sunset and wrapped them around the radish's root down there in
the darkness in the ground? I cannot understand a radish; can you? If
one refused to eat anything until he could understand the mystery of its
growth, he would die of starvation; but mystery does not bother us in
the dining-room,--it is only in the church that mystery seems to give us
trouble.
In travelling around the world I found that the egg is a universal form of food. When we reached Asia the cooking was so different from ours that the boiled egg was sometimes the only home-like thing we could find on the table. I became so attached to the egg, that, when I returned to the United States, for weeks I felt like taking my hat off to every hen I met. What is more mysterious than an egg? Take a fresh egg; it is not only good food, but an important article of merchandise. But loan a fresh egg to a hen, after the hen has developed a well-settled tendency to sit,
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