under which it desired to receive expression and under the guidance of inspiration. Thus far, we have considered the reasonableness or the necessity of a finality-crisis and a finality-state purely from the standpoint of creation. But that world is a world of abstraction: such a world in the pure form of an unmodified, uncorrupted product of the creative act of God nowhere exists at the present. Taking the scriptural account as a whole, that state of the world, together with the potentialities or