THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
The Perspective Of Life. The author of the Psalm and the writer of the Epistle were wiser perhaps than they knew—and than we were even a century ago—in ascribing to Him by whom “the heavens were of old” so may eyes of existence that a thousand years to Him were as one day Mr Roy Chapman Andrews returns from an Asiatic desert, once inhabited to saturation by human beings, bringing the bones of a colossal creature that lived (1,000,000 years ago. And the earth was a thousand, two thousand million years old when He made his behemoth—whose hones have turned to stone It is a long, long way hack to the first verses of Genesis. Such finds help to give proper perspective tortile life of a single generation and to the history of the whole human race, which is.still in its early chapters, for it is estimated that the future of the earth has in its calendar a million million years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1928, Page 4
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165THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1928, Page 4
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