minds. The meanings it conveys are on the surface,

minds. The meanings it conveys are on the surface, 01 so near it that the simplest readers can see them. The Earth Is Man's Home From the second story of crea tion which we' find in Genesis, in chapter 2, the story which concen trates on man himself, we can select some outstanding impres sions which the story makes, and no doubt was intended to make. First of all, this earth is the home of man That is its principal use Man came late to the planet; God made us last We did not make our appearance here till all was ready fur us. Some thinkers have thought of man as a sort of homeless crea ture, dropped into this earth al most by accident, fitting in no where. Quite the ei nt might be lonely and restless on some far galaxy, but not on this green earth Man. furthermore, being at the top of the ladder of creation, is master of this planet. This does not n can he is master of the universe It may be dis covered some day, as the scieufre fiction boys have already sug gested, that men may some day find themselves on another planet, hut as intruders, only to be thrown out or destroyed But on this earth man has a right to live, and to achieve mastery. In Genesis I iwhere the horizon is wider than in Gen. 2> man is told- Replenish the earth and a.ibduc it Man, in short, is to work together with God in bringing order and com pleteness to the planet which is his rightful home. Top of Creation Let us pursue that thought about the top of creation a little furthe: This story in Genesis presents man as made from dust and all other living things, both plants and beasts and birds, are likewise sprung from the dust by the power of God Man has a kind of kinship with all of life, and therefore, as Albert Schweitzer has said must have a reverence for life Man cannot give life to himself nor to any other creature; and should be very slow about taking life of any sort. Nevertheless it is much nearer the truth to say that the creation is made for man, than that man is made for the rest, of creation. Not that God intends everything in the world to be used. It is an interesting point that the trees of Eden are not all good for food; some of them are simply beautiful to see. "Tie beauty of the world, sometimes its useless beauty (like a sunset) is for man alone, just as its usefulness- -some times its unbeautiful usefulness — is appreciated best by man alone. Only man can heat the arctic and cool the tropics, only man can bring his foods from the ends of. the earth.