Excerpt from God and His World, Sermons on Evolution
To those who desire to know the order of development of the thoughts contained in this volume, I would say that my first public utterance on Evolution, outside of my own church, was given in June, 1871, to the graduating class of the Harvard Divinity School. To them I said, in a sermon on "The Preacher's Office": "I discharge a brothers duty to you when I declare my deliberate conviction that science will be able to maintain against all comers her own account of the advent and development of organic life on the planet. I believe that she will eventually be able to prove that life has been developed out of life from the lowest round of the ladder of being to the highest; that not only has reptile sprung from fish, bird and mammal from reptile, but that our own bodies have been developed as the head of the same grand series... You will, then, I believe, live to see the doctrine of evolution victorious all along the line; and, if this be so, your business as preachers will be to fill that idea full of God."
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