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 subject of which it treats than as a foil discussion : that would 
 occupy several sermons. It was written in the ordinaiy course of 
 pastoral preparation for the pulpit, having in view many young 
 members of the congr^tion who are paying more or less attention 
 to Natural History, under the happy ingil^se thereto derived from 
 the efficiency of our University, and espebldly of its distinguished 
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 lutak 46, 18 : *< Qbd UmMlf that formed the terth» and mad* it ; lie 
 hath eitabliihed it,he ot«at«dHiiotlnTaiii,h«fi)tWedittobeinhabit«d.'' 
 Vene 13 : « I hare made the earth and created Wan upon It" 
 Pnlm 8 : *' Then madeit him to hare dominion Iprer the works of^thy 
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 ThoM statements of Holy Writ are ckly a speoimen 
 of « large number which are fitted to impress our minds 
 with the facts that the creation of all tMngs is of God, 
 that he made the earth for a human habitation, and that 
 he gave to man dominion over these works of his hands. 
 On these poi^s the Bible is full and explicit^ never 
 ignoring but alwayr maintaining them as among funda- 
 mental truths. While it gives prominence to the plan 
 of salvation for smners and glorifies redeemhig love, it 
 nevertheless keeps before us ihe works of God in creation 
 and Evidence and also our relations to them* Let us 
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 just iuch a deiign as i« itatod in those oncicnt scriptures is 
 api^arent in the construction of our globe. For instance, 
 there have been daring agesof the past, wide-spread and 
 vast vegetable structures, which have been so dealt with 
 as to become our coal measui^es,. essential to us, but of 
 no use to the lower animals. Inhere have been in the 
 same or other ages not only gteat ^riety of animal forma- 
 tions, but some in such inconceivable numbers, and 
 placed in such adapted relations a^ to form gradually 
 masses of rock in ocean's bed, which being afterwards 
 thrown up and brought into contact with the atmosphere 
 and other agencies, form the basis of soikie of our fertile 
 soils, and also the materials for our buildings. There have 
 been also in those far-distant ages of the past a mingling 
 and melting in the earth's vast crucible of various ele- 
 mentary parts of the rocks whence have been produced 
 metallic ores \yhich only man can use. \ 
 
 The arrangement of the earth in its continents, and 
 isFands, and mountain chain*, in its seas and ijceans, and 
 in those T««bndrouB currents by which the vast masses 
 ^northeni ice MP© carried southward ta be melted, and 
 to convey valnabjeinddifications of atmosphere in their 
 voyage, and by which northern climates are softened 
 through the proximity of the waters from the sUnny 
 aonth ; all these, and innumerable other points that might 
 be mentioned, indicate that the earth was designed foi 
 such a being as inan. The natural laws, moteover, undof 
 which the Creator has phiced the works of his handt\ 
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 hii prowrvlng and tuftaining p6w«r, are obvionily for 
 the iwc of man : no other creature on earth can under- 
 •t^d or appreciate them. Truly " Qod hath made th« 
 earth and ettabluihed it, he created it not in vain, he 
 formed it to be inhabited." ^ 
 
 The MM aa preeentod by •oience may be lllaitrate<l 
 thoi. too are jonmeying through what you luppOieto 
 be an entire wilderneaa, but you suddenly come upon a 
 towering itructure, beautiful to the eye, and exhibiting 
 DO little architectural •kill. You enter and find ita rooms 
 famished with eleg^ce ; ita reposiloriea filled with the 
 uiual domestic te<ittiaitcs, itaarrangementa having an ob- 
 vioui reference to comfort and enjoyment; but there is 
 no «fl^ within it or near it. Have you any diffiulty 
 because of this last fact in arriving at the conclusion that 
 the lecture was created and furnished for the use of 
 man? You would not for a moment suppose that it was 
 dengned as a stable for horses, or a kennel for dogs, or 
 a^Uir for tigers, oW muddy reedy home for alligators, or 
 a den for bears ; on.the contrary, everything within and 
 without, though ho' record existed, would demonstrate 
 ^ that this plaee was for man. Just so the earth. It in- 
 deed hap its plade for animals of every kind, for birds of 
 ' every wing, for reptiles of every species, for insects, for 
 radiates, moluscs, articulates and vertibrates ; but plainly 
 the earth was npt made for these j on the contrary, these 
 ^th the earth were made for man, to be inhabited by man. 
 rie only can till the soil, dig up its minerals and use them, 
 make its rushing waters a mechanical power, navigate its 
 oceans, and eiijoy its best products. He only can under- 
 stand and use ita natural laws— he only has an eye for 
 its beauty and glory— he only has a heart to rejoice and 
 \' be glad in the presence of its Oreatdr and Lord. Yes, 
 *( He made the earth and created man upon it." "He 
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 The charter of dogiioion waa aniioutfoed at the creation. 
 " And Ood nid, let us malte man in our image, after our 
 likeness : and let them have doikioion over the 0sh of the 
 sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and 
 aver ail the eaii^nd over every creeping thing that^reep- 
 ethupmHlhe earth." There was an immediate possisioii 
 givekih that " the Loid God formed eveiy beast of th^eld 
 and tveiy fowl of the air, and brought them to Adam to 
 see what be wouldijall them ; and whatever Admf called 
 every living creature that was the name thereof / Our 
 text from the 8th Psalm expresses distinctly this domi- 
 nion:—" Thou madest him to have dominion over the 
 works of thy h^nds i thou hast put all things under his 
 feet.'* In Messing man at the creation, the Lord enjoined 
 him to subdue the earth, that is, as we understand it, to 
 bring all its natural laws, and all its products, and all ito 
 capabiUticsiinderhisenligbtedijontrol. He was to make 
 the whko^ subaervfiint to his use, that be might therewith 
 glorify Ood.- .-v.- ^: ■:-^-^"~~'~~~~^'~~"'~~~~~-~~^.../a-- > .^ . ^- :■-•. 
 As in otheif eases BO in this, all facts m© in harmony 
 with these early grants and privileges. Man htu domi* 
 nion, the only creature on earth who possesses it We 
 may speak of the lion as the king of the desert, of levia- 
 than as the monarch of the seas, of the eagle as prince 
 among birds, but these terms sunply relate to their supe- 
 rior strength 5 they have no aictual dominion ; they may 
 overpower but they cannot persuade, allure, dr control 
 then: fellovra into a course involving pUm or purpose, for 
 suclf plan they are incapable of forming. Instmct may 
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 nagement, as in the case of bees ; but after all it is not 
 the reason which meets and controls emergencies, and 
 which, in the proper sense of the term, governs. 
 
 The fact that God gave to man dommion -appears in 
 bis ability to cultivate the soil so as to obtain from seed 
 which he »6wdhe pr6cious products of the earth. Not 
 only does he*iboripusly search for and obtain its mine- 
 ' ral ores, but he puts into requisition natural laws dis- 
 covered by himiielf in order to smeltmg and combining 
 the material, and then puts forth his skill in construct- 
 ing the ponderous machine, or tha beautiful ornament. 
 He gathers electrical force and sends it along tlwusanda 
 of mUes of wire to convey his messages ta im Mows. 
 He .generates vapour from water and heat,, whose explo- 
 sive force he uses as a motive pjjwer to dri^e the most 
 complicated and the mightiest machinerjT, and to propel 
 with rapidity through ocean's waves, as a thing of life, 
 the great steamship vnth its freightage of men and mer- 
 chandise. He navigates the pathless ocean witii unerr- 
 ing precision without land marks, using it as freely as 
 the traveller thjB highway under his feet. By prolonged 
 and associate observation he becomes so much a master 
 of the earth's crust as to know where to look for Its 
 coal though far beneath the surface, and where its other 
 mineral treasures are to be found, and how they are to 
 beobtained. In fine, the facts of the case augmenting 
 in number every year, strikingly illustrate and confirm 
 the glorious charter which the Creator gave to man of > 
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 TheOratttoir !iidicat«id ffaS fact immediately '* after i^e 
 fallofoxirfiiiitp^araiits.'* ** Caned is the ground for thy 
 Bake ; in sorrow shalt tlion est of it all the days of thy 
 life. Thorjn^aboaiidthiBtlesBhallitbring forth nnto thee; 
 and thott ^halt eat the ]|ieH> of the field. In the sweat of 
 thy face shalt thon eat bread, till thou retam nnto the 
 ground." Afterwards the*i»to^JJfoah w}» given to the , 
 ieCond hdad of the race by his father whi said :— «« This 
 Bftkne shall comfort ns concerning the work and toil of 
 onr lumdi, because of tho ground which the Lord hath 
 cnncd.** dolomon referring to the existing^ts on this 
 inbjeCt exclaimed, <* What profit hath a man of all his 
 labour which he taketh under the sun. This sore travail 
 hath^od given to the sons of men to be exercised there-; 
 witlk ^ have seen all the works that aredone nnderthe 
 iii^ and, behold, all is van% and vexation of spirit.'' 
 l%e Apostle Paul also declares that << The creative waa 
 HikAa • sQl)j0ct to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of 
 him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the 
 <ireatnr0 itself also shall l|ye delivered from the bondage 
 of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of 
 0od ; for we know that the whole creation groaneth and 
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 These scriptures teach that man's sin hais beCn the 
 occasion of physical evils having rektion to th# earth 
 itsel£ It is of little eonseqoence whether there was ^ 
 inflicted, at the period' of man's sin the curse of a disas- 
 trous change on the substance of the earth, so that it 
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 whether it wM, ai a whole l>tilt tip 111 view of thii for** 
 known event amid the va«t aget of the pwt, the ooea- 
 sioning sin foreknown* and thua being retroactive in ita 
 inflnehce, juat as the atonement Of Christ was retroactive 
 in its benefits— the Garden of Eden being ttie exclnaive 
 spot of earth destined and fitted for a perfect creature* j 
 we say, no matter which of these views ii taken, the 
 ouree of man's sin rests npon the earth. Such labour as 
 Eden demanded was a potent good, it was a continual 
 pleasure— but there m now, and ever has been "a sore 
 travail" which is a vexation of spirit, and often cornea 
 with crushing weight upon the sons of toil- ' v ' 
 ^Another disturbance of ft fiir more serious kind hai 
 been prodttced by sin, namely, on man Atmie^. Hk 
 qualifications for dominion h»vebeen grievously injured. 
 This is the great causeof his gradual deterioration from 
 the high intellectual and moral position of the early ages. 
 
 •The theoryhftrt hinted Ii one of niirfcihinteTeft. «eir.t>r.Hltchcodt . 
 iMOtght it out in ft aUeonm dtottogufahed by great pewplcoity ftftd 
 beftttty, preached In tWe phlurch Augwt, W6T, If It «« be eatiibf 
 Uehed, it accQunte Mtia&ctorUj for the preyalence of death among the 
 Tarious orders of animals for ages anterior to the creation of man, to 
 bannony with the doctrine of soHptnre, thai «br afn cttw death » It l» 
 not meant to idlege that the thootjr l« nioettary to h^mtoniio ecriptore 
 tfith fiwt, becaose death as a towor and a con* may be the result of iln, 
 whUe the mere diBsolutlon of life, painless and without4Jva character, may^ 
 be a process of nature apart from moral considerations. Bni if thif 
 , MHh irw buflti np by its Oreaier forttan iniriew of his sinftll eottdttioii, 
 and M SLDlace of discipline fo« him as well aa«f existmiee, and alsoi« 
 ▼6w M« mediatorial wo* of Ohrist, and of hit suiMngS and deatlk . 
 upon^^^rface, then all death occnrring in the processV buUding np 
 the earth, may be, with as mnch propriety, regatded as a mark of jndi- 
 etad displMWWe as Ml death alterwitfdtf oe««nlng. This also happily 
 •cconntsfof theipeeialiHyof theOarden of »d»n,fitt^for and90«ltpl^ 
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 othen among the antediluvians, and Abraham, Joh^ 
 ^laf^ J^cob, Moaet, and their oontemporariea afterwardi, 
 iol&e g^flg ignorance and corruption of paganism, and 
 to the grievoui darkneai of such a period as the middle 
 agn. Sin haa brought man under the oon1;rol of hi% 
 animal nature, immeraed him in sensuality, stultified his 
 intellect, sunk him in ignorance and snpentitioni and 
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 which the earth ii governed, orfor exercising his appointed 
 dominion. We shall have to speak presently of ius re- 
 covery from this diBqualification, but now we look simply 
 at the effect of sin. It obviously degrades him from his 
 dignity, ensllives him to lust, and deafens him to thd 
 many voices of nature that call him to study,, to work 
 and to enjoyment. True it has not been permitted t9 
 disqualify him totally. The great principles of his nature 
 are not destroyed. Though in ruin, he is a noble ruin, 
 the materials being around with which he may be rebuilt 
 and made glorious. But tJ^e injury done to him in thia 
 dejpartment by sin is immense, and in proportion as it has 
 doininion over him does he lose his control of nature uad 
 becomes a slave instead of a monarch..^, vi^. . v f. 
 There is further disturbance most sad in its influence, 
 ^ withal disastrous. Sin robs the dominion which 
 man cbntinues to exercise of that one element by which 
 it ia dignified and purifiecjy namely, th»t aJj. AmM be 
 ^Mw^' then^hry tf God, He who "made the earth to be 
 inhabited, created man upon it, and gave him dominion,^ 
 vftoted throughouiforthe highest object,— His own gl<ny. 
 This was his own great purpose, and this he establish^ 
 •■ t|^ true purpose ^ the domini<m which he granted tb 
 4?Qto. In its ex^cise, man wdl^re^phred in all things to 
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 and a oonwe baaed upon it, are ennobling tO the hamaa 
 ruler, Inrertlng his dominion with the grandeur of aa 
 intelligent consecration to Him. But alas! sin ha^tui^ 
 him entirely aside from this counie, — ^nstead-^jTihe 
 g^of^odJt^^g^iiaediorHls glory, they are actually 
 -p^i^^^t^dinto weapons to oppose His authority. Men 
 under the influence of sin, pervert the dominion they 
 gain to pervert the Divine goodness, and to set at defi- 
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 THE LOST X>blIINJON 18 BEOAIHED BY THiB lNFt»UBNCE OF « 
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 "When a man receives Christ he becomes a new. creature 
 in him. Restless, dissatisfied with the palst, convinced of 
 his guilt and persuaded of his helpless condition, he has 
 cast himself at the feet of Jesus, and seeking pardon and 
 life there, has obtained the infinite boon. Hencefij^ward ' 
 he hates sin itself— abandons it, repents of it, and soeto 
 to be conformed tp God's image. Feeling his imperfe<^ 
 tion8,he yet desir^ in all things to please God. Con- 
 scious of defective Measures of love, he yet ad» under 
 its guidance and impulse as a contrellbg principle. He 
 is set free from the slavery of sin. His mind and heart 
 ascend to higher good than what is sensual. He desires 
 to know more of God whom he loves and serves, and 
 hence His works become his delight. He opens the 
 volume of nature as well as that of revelation, and reads 
 with delight therein. He becomes gradually qualified 
 fully for that dominion which it was originally intended 
 he should vrield. The CairisHan is the highest siyl« of 
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 iwiy in th^ geseral commanity, are the chaini of ignor- 
 Mipe and tuperatition broken, and the reins of dominioa 
 •ver the creation again put into the bands of men.' 
 i« Vbat 10 it should be is the*teaehing of the paesage 
 •Iready quoted frona the Epistle to the Bonians (8 : 30). 
 *' The ereatura" or creation ** itself also shall be delivered 
 fipomi the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty 
 of the children of GK>d." They to whom this glorious 
 liberty bdongs through grace, have free access to crea- 
 tion, and exercise in it a legitimate dominion* It has 
 beOn well remarked that the Scriptures we have quoted 
 teach " that man's hard-fought and hard>won triumphs 
 over nature on the land and on the sea, — those triumphs 
 of material civilization which nations and cuntinents 
 celebrate with an enthusiasm that the triumphs of war 
 ioould never kindle,*^those bloodkss victoneis over earth, 
 and air, and sea, and space, and time, which assert this 
 dominion of the spiritual over the material,-^instead of 
 marking man's lelf-improxement upon his original, as ia 
 IwmetimeB boastingly said, do bitt mufrkkk appr&xmatum 
 pwird» that original which Jehovah crovmedjffith glory and 
 hiomnar^ and vwetud vnth dominion over the woiria ofhu hattdt, 
 Tbey teach us that this material progress, which man 
 boasts as the fruit of his invention and the perfectibility 
 of. his nature, if. not of his present and absolute indo^ 
 pendenee -—this material prc^ess, which is to man 
 ]nrealtb, and power, and i^ry,^-ii^, after all, but an inci- 
 dental result of the appearinf in human flesh of Jesus 
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 of dominion by tlie spiritual over the material ; teaching 
 US that the religion of Jesus Christ is the grand restorer 
 of man to his original dignity and glory ; yea more, that 
 it is putting into his hand powers for hi|;her and nobler 
 than belonged to Adam in his primeval innocence. If 
 iin has degraded and ruined man— if it has bereft him of 
 dominion and made him a sla^e— the salvation of the 
 gospel not only rescues him from the dreaV thraldom* 
 but raises him to a higher position of dignity, and crowns 
 him with surpassing glory and honour. t 
 
 It may be objected to these views that men hav^ all 
 through their histoiy exercised dominion over the earth, 
 a fact which has not been dependent on their moral con- 
 dition. The r«ply is that this proves nothing against the 
 disturbance of dominion alleged. Just as in morals man 
 is not wholly and irreclaimably bad, but is susceptible 
 of the highest improvement > sO in the matter of his do- 
 minion over the creature, aU was not lost. He retained 
 his humanity and did not becoqae a mere ieast. But of 
 most serious disturbance of his dominion there can be no 
 doubt And just in proportion as he has lived in ignor- 
 ance of God andamidthegrovellings of his lower nature 
 has his incapacity increased. 
 
 It may be furiiher objected that there have been greater 
 a^d lesser lights in science and in such knowledge as fits 
 mah to govern nature, throughout the darkness of past 
 ages V tiiat Socrates, PUto, and Aristotle lived in Oreec© 
 fromfour and ahalf to three and a half centuries before 
 Christ; and that in the middle ages there was light in 
 Arabia while darkness oterspread European Christen- 
 dom. But 1st, it will be found on examination that the 
 meeulataons of these sages were iftther proofs of thelt 
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 lodge. They did little indeed in aid of man*a triumph! 
 OTor material exiateooei — ^little to help him to exeroiai 
 ^'wiie dominion over the earth. Then Snd, there ia 
 infieleiit ground to believe that theae men were indebted 
 fbr their moat iMoable thoughta to Divine revelation. 
 The Jewiah nation, aa the repository of the Sacred 
 Oraolea, had not lived in vain. They had already been 
 brought into contact with lurrouiidingnationi, and there 
 can be no doubt that the facta <>f t^ Pentateuch, th<si 
 Pialmody of David, the Pro]^trbt# Solomon, and the 
 Propheciea of Imiah and Jewe^fSkt had sent fotth at 
 leaat some rays of light — ^perhaps many — ^into regions in 
 which the manuaoripts had no entrance. These great 
 tiioughts could be conveyed and carried afiur without the 
 aii| of the written roll. drd. The book of Job is obvi- 
 ously an exhibition of patriarchiim, whei^ we see great 
 enli^tenment on many points of science, regarding 
 which^ in after and darker agea, there waa much confu* 
 rion and gloom. Traditionary rays from this source 
 would shine for ages firom one superior mind to another, 
 while the maasea, being aunk in ignorance, would lose 
 idl trace of theaii. It Will be understood that when we 
 apeak of Christianity as the great restorer, the- whole of 
 Divine Revelation and the several economies of religion 
 ;||tt,inoluded. ■.J:M::-\:::\;^^^^^ -','-':■,:'■-'' o::^: 
 
 ""' There ia further confirmation of the general course of 
 thou^t before us in the &ct that man'a triumpha and 
 dominion are most striking in those communities wherein 
 there is an open Bible, ao unsuperstitious Evangelisn;, 
 90^ tk robuat, manly piety. Precisely where Christianity 
 l^^eaia in her true simplicity and purity, not aa an 
 a^^dage to a hierarchy^ or a name for semi-infideli^^ 
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 vation of men, baT6 we the great benefit of an increaaing 
 dominion of the tpiritual over the material. It it not 
 meant that every scientific man is a devout believer, nor 
 that the men who apply the diaooveriet of icienoe to the 
 l«rioot arts of life are all new creatures in Christ Jeaus; 
 bat it ia meant that there is a mighty pervading infill- 1 
 enoe emanating from any large amount of thia character 
 in the community, which proves a great stirrer-up of 
 Ikculties, an awakening of dormant aspirations, a release 
 from the dominion of the flesh, and, in fine, a restorer of 
 
 man's government over the earth. . ■ .. ■ 
 
 In conclusion, we note three pohitt that nay* oe inftiv 
 red from this discussion : 
 
 1. Owr indebtednm to Qodfir salviUum i$vntpeakahle. 
 
 It is for both worlds — the present and the foture. 
 Hovtr gieaUy it blesses man on earth ! ^^jot only does it 
 ooMolehim in trouble and strengthen his moral weak- 
 ne«i but it also elevatea and emiobles him. This domi- 
 tdoa. over the ereaturs wlueh it restores ever greatens 
 hitt, placing in his hands inatruments vnth which to 
 ^kwify Qod and to promote the weal of hia feUow-men. 
 lloreover tiiereai acquisitions of mind apd heart undor 
 Divine teaebing en earth, are for eternity. Tli^ey are 
 ■etetr ttever loat ! They are the atart-point of a pro- 
 gtesi irhieh is endless. How can men refuse to avail 
 themselvea of this ipreat aalvation ! How greatly are 
 iAaey their e^ enemies who so neglect! and how un- 
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 Lung p»y.r. It i. f.vo«mblo to .11 hon«t .nv»h- 
 ntioTj it ■mil«. on ..fforU to obtwn knowledge, it 
 ngulate. the .ppUction of .uoh knowledge ,«.d. in 
 fiM. ie • pet praotieal good, ip h«nnony with .U our 
 inteniti for time and for eternity. „ 
 
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 itli^wi not merely . me-«ge of God'. loTolo iin- 
 nere exhibited in the .toning .«>rifioe of our Lord Jeeu. 
 Chriit, wd . comnumd to repent, bebev^ Mid live } but 
 it meddle, with every reUtion of life.-it mU upon .11 
 the interert. of m«i.-it deJ. with every V^*^"^^ 
 which tho.einte.«to«e«»ctod; '^}^«!f^f^ 
 abnnduitW ahow. M trmaform. commumtie. ftom laaf. 
 aithy ■afcgea, into induitriou. ud enlightened oommii- 
 moL It i. wellthrt the IHimwutty diould bo . well- 
 Informed m^ of «.terp,i«. »d .km. It^^l^P^ 
 ■th«t in th. evangeliation of Centad Aftfe..the n.«v« 
 iho^d b. induced to cultiv«te the «>«»n-plant, «^ 
 «ther vdmOile Mticle. of opmmerce. Behgion point, to 
 thi. coufM. B«t thby will Mver do «ui to my pmT«« 
 Kthen i «.e ««th'i p^K^e m^h^e th. Go,- » 
 ^ to • «»toi«ti<m < their .uthonty over it In 
 J^„ to their..v«ng*U«.l enBghtonmentwiH tt|^ 
 be & "M'^'g «.oe«th «nd e,erci«B« ow rt the* 
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